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  1. Josef Mengele collection

    Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was born on March 16, 1911 in Günzburg. He studied medicine and anthropology in Munich and Bonn. Mengele was deployed as camp physician (Lagerarzt) in Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp from May 1943 onwards. He was tasked with the selections and conducted medical experiments on prisoners. He left Auschwitz in January 1945 just before the Red Army liberated the camp. After several months on the run, he decided to escape to South America in 1948. He fled using one of the so-called rat lines (Rattenlinien) via Italy to Argentina. In 1960, he settled perma...

  2. Боярщинская волостная управа

    • Boyarshchina district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  3. Вяземская городская управа

    • Viazma town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city- and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificates of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943...

  4. Ершичская районная управа

    • Yershichchi district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  5. Издешковская районная управа

    • Isdeshkovo district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  6. Демидовская городская управа

    • Demidov town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city- and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificates of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943...

  7. Типография издательства газеты "Новый путь"

    • Printing office of the publishing house of the newspaper “New way” (“Novyi Put”)

  8. Владимирская волостная управа

    • Vladimirovka district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  9. Юшковская волостная управа

    • Yushkovo district

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  10. Рославльская городская управа

    • Roslavl town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city- and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificates of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943...

  11. Батуринская районная управа

    • Baturino district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  12. Духовщинская городская управа

    • Dukhovshchina town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city- and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificates of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943...

  13. Андреевская районная управа

    • Andreevo district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  14. Глинковская районная управа

    • Glinka district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  15. Ельнинская городская управа

    • Yelnya town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificates of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943 ...

  16. Стодолищенская районная управа

    • Starodolishche district council

    Orders, commands and warrants of heads of districts. Warrants for heads of districts and prefects on residents' forced labor, on recruitment of the labor force in Germany. Prefects' reports about residents that are leaving the forestry without an authorization. Passports, issued by occupational authorities; report and accounting books of passports and certificates.

  17. Смоленская городская управа

    • Smolensk town council

    Orders, commands and warrants of a city mayors: on registration of population and on issue of uniform identity cards as a supplement to passport; on introduction of labor service; on taxes and duties; on establishment of city- and and volost' police; on mobilization of an unemployed people for railway tracks cleaning; on necessity of communist literature collection. Orders on households registration in Smolensk city and suburban areas; on rename of streets, lanes, squares and parks. Acts of seizure of city residents' property. Birth and death certificats of Smolensk residents for 1942-1943 ...

  18. Главное планово-экономическое управление смоленского областного Совета Народных Депутатов

    • Planning Commission of the Committee of the Smolensk Oblast Council

    Descriptions of 3 collections copied by USHMM: Statements and copies of statements of Nazi’s misdeeds against peaceful citizens and prizoners of war, acts of registers and summary tables of damage to the economy of Smolensk oblast. 1943-1944 Information about the locations of the following Jewish ghettos and camps for the Soviet POW: - 2 camps named “Ward-1” and “Ward- 2” in the city of Dorogobuzh - POW camp #112 on Shua station in Ekimovichskyi district (currently Roslavlskyi district) - Ghetto in the villages of Tatarsk and Monastyrschina in Monastyrschenskyi district - POW camp in the vi...

  19. Партизанское движение Ставропольского края (1942−1945 гг.)

    • The partisan movement of the Stavropol Kray (1942−1945)

    Постановление бюро Ставропольского крайкома ВКП(б) «О представлении к награждению медалью «Партизану Отечественной войны», Правительства Ставропольского края «О подпольных антифашистских организациях в городах Минеральные Воды и Пятигорске в период их оккупации немецкими войсками», главы г. Пятигорска. Распоряжение Правительства Ставропольского края о создании комиссии по исследованию и анализу архивных документов о деятельности подпольных молодежных организаций в период немецкой оккупации территории районов и городов Кавказских Минеральных Вод. Приказы командующего войсками 44 армии, начал...

  20. Железноводский городской комитет (горком) КПСС (1934−1991 гг.)

    • Zheleznovodsk City Committee (City Committee) of the CPSU (1934−1991)

    Протоколы партийных конференций, пленумов, заседаний бюро горкома, собраний актива городской парторганизации, красногвардейцев, красных партизан и участников Гражданской войны города (1941). Информации, справки о выполнении решений вышестоящих партийных органов и собственных решений по вопросам организационно-партийной и идеологической работы; работе шефской, сети партпросвещения, промышленных предприятий, городской больницы, санаториев, художественной самодеятельности, состоянии борьбы с преступностью, сборе теплых вещей для Красной Армии (1943)