Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the State Archives of Film, Video & Photo Records in Russia(Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov, RGAKFD). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection in 1989.
Scope and Content
Contains 57 photographs and 11 film negatives depicting Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe, war crimes, liberation of concentration camps by the Red Army, corpses of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in two series: 1. Photographs relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe; 2. Film negatives relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. Organization is chronological.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov
People
- Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
Corporate Bodies
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Klooga (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Stalag 344
- Osnabrück (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
- Łambinowice (Prisoner of war camp)
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Klooga (Estonia)
- Mass burials--1940-1950.
- Borisovka (Belgorodskaia oblast', Russia)
- War crimes trials.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Concentration camps--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- PoznanÌ (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Judicial proceedings--Estonia--Tallinn--1960-1970.
- War criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- Orsha (Belarus)
- Soviet Union--History--1939-1945.
- Lidice (Czech Republic)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Riga (Latvia)
- Smolenskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia)
- Judicial proceedings--Latvia--1940-1950.
- Military personnel--Soviet--1940-1950.
- Petrozavodsk (Russia)
- Kingissepa rajoon (Estonia)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
- Orel (Orlovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
- Tallin (Estonia)
- Concentration camps--Europe.
- Orlov (Russia)--History.
- Budapest (Hungary).
- Lysychansʹk (Ukraine)
- Vitsebskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
- Kaunas (Lithuania)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Babica (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union.
- Borisov (Belarus)
- Grachevo (Russia)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Film negatives.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov