Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR

Identifier
irn501971
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1265
  • RG-22.002M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • German
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

699,417 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

Archival History

Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The records were created, by the Extraordinary Commission’s National-, Republic-, Oblast-, and Raion-level elements, during and after World War II. Source of acquisition is the State Archive of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 1995, three accretions in 2015, and one accretion in 2016. The reproduction project is complete. Original Russian finding aid can be found at: http://www.statearchive.ru/383 http://opisi.garf.su/default.asp?base=garf&menu=2&v=1&node=139

Scope and Content

This collection contains selected material about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators, and excludes information about crimes against property. Documents include victim name lists, protocols of interrogating eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, and signed depositions summarizing the commission’s findings. Also included are photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities and graves.

System of Arrangement

Selected files arranged in eight series by geographical locations and subjects: Series 1: Ukraine regions; 2: Belarus regions; 3: Russia regions; 4. Lithuania regions; 5. Latvia regions; 6. Estonia regions. 7. Records relating to the Soviet Charges at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1941-1945; 8. Miscellaneous files related to investigation of German crimes against the civilian population. Organized mainly by regions and concentration camps [Accretion of materials in 2015]. Note: Microfilm reel #17 contains material from Fond 8114, Jewish Antifascist Committee; Microfilm #27 contains material from Fond 7445, International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Corporate Bodies

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Genre

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