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  1. Documentation from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office [RSHA]), 1939-1945

    Documentation from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office [RSHA]), 1939-1945

  2. M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region

    M.52.DAChrvO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Chernovtsy Region was established in November 1907, but it was closed in early 1918 along with other government institutions following the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The northern area of Bukovina and the Khotin district in the Bessarabia region were included in the Kingdom of Romania. By order of the Romanian Ministry of Education and the General State Directorate of the Archives of Romania, the State Archives of Bukovina in Chernovtsy was established in ...

  3. Державна надзвичайна комісія СРСР по встановленню і розслідуванню нанесених злодіянь німецькими загарбниками Полтавській області, м. Полтава Полтавської обл

    • State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of the German Crimes in Poltava Region, city of Poltava, Poltava region
    • Derzhavna nadzvychaina komisiia SRSR po vstanovlenniu i rozsliduvanniu nanesenykh zlodiian nimetskymy zaharbnykamy Poltavskii oblasti, m. Poltava Poltavskoi obl

    Most of the files contain information about the material damage caused to various towns and villages of the region. Files 1618, 1623-1625, 1627, 1634-1646 contain statements of the Commission about civilians killed by the ‘German-fascist invaders’ in various localities of the region.

  4. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region, 1943-1945 Reports of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region; survey reports regarding the murder of Jews in the region and the damage caused to the economy; documentation regarding the murder of Jews in Zolotonosha along with Jews of the cities of Kharkov, Korosten and Slavuta, and villages; mention of individual names and sentences that people who perished had engraved on walls before their death; mention of the dates of the murder, the circumstances, and the number of p...

  5. Полтавський обком Компартії України, м. Полтава Полтавської області

    • Poltava Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, city of Poltava
    • Poltavskii obkom Kompartii Ukrainy, m. Poltava Poltavskoi oblasti

    Opys 2 contains information on 242 files. Selected files containing data on the occupation and local administration, Nazi population politics, population losses, and the Holocaust: File 110 - Activities of the department to execute orders of the Central Committee (of the Communist Party of Ukraine) and of the Council of the People’s Commissars. Budennyi’s address to the population. Notes, memos, reports by the Oblast Party Committee, city committees, and district committees about the railway cars needed for evacuation. File 123 – Information items, memos by the Oblast Party Committee about ...

  6. Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969

    Documentation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party regarding the partisans and underground activities in the Poltava region, 1962-1969 Included in the collection: Documentation regarding the participation of several Jews in the partisans movement and the anti-fascist underground, submitted by the certification committee of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region; confirmations of the receipt of partisans cards and lists of partisans; list of partisans brigades and detachments and underground organizations active in the district; documentation regarding the murder of Jews w...

  7. Колекція документів по партійному та комсомольському підпіллю, партизанському руху.

    • Collection of documents on the Party and Komsomol underground and partisan movement
    • Kolektsiia dokumentiv po partiinomu ta komsomolskomu pidpilliu, partyzanskomu rukhu

    Some files contain information on German occupation and local administration, population policies and the Holocaust. Some files contain information on German occupation and local administration, population policies, and the Holocaust. Opys 1 (Inventory 1) File 28 - Statement of the Oblast ChGK. List of crimes and those guilty in these crimes, data about persons killed and deported to Germany, and about material damages, 1944-46, 205 pages. File 29 - Lists of district (raion) and town commissions for collecting materials on the Great Patriotic War, 1946, 33 pages. File 30 – List of localitie...

  8. Полицейские и административные учреждения Германии и временно оккупированных ею территорий

    • Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten; German Police and Administrative Offices in the Temporarily Occupied Territories
    • Politseiskie i administrativnye uchrezhdeniia Germanii i vremenno okkupirovannykh eiu territorii

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories, which are arranged by structure. Within the structural divisions, files are catalogued for the most part by document type. The collection is a consolidated archival collection. It consists of heterogeneous documentary materials of police offices in Germany and the German-occupied territories of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and the Soviet Union. The collection also includes documents of German police services in the occupied territory of the Soviet Union, including the Ukraine and Belorussia. The collection contains minutes of...

  9. Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German Police headquarters in the occupied countries, 1938-1945 The documentation on microfilm JM/29064 includes files of the gendarmerie and the police in the occupied areas of Poland dealing with various subjects, as well as a file from the Breslau police from 1933-1935, dealing with anti-Nazi propaganda.

  10. M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region

    M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region History of the Archives: The Central Historical Archives in Poltava was established in 1918. Afterwards, the archival authority of the Poltava sub-division was established in 1922 when the Historical Archives became subordinate to it and its name was changed to the Historical Archives of the Polatava sub-division. In 1925 it became the Historical Archives affiliated with the regional archival authority. In June 1925 its name was changed to the Regional Historical Archives of Poltava. In 1930, following the re-organization...

  11. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  12. Станіславська надзвичайна державна комісія по встановленню і розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників і їх спільників на території Станіславської області.

    • Stanislav Special State Comission on the investigation of the atrocities concluded by Nazi occupiers and their associates in the Stanislav area

    The copies of the documents from this collection are described by USHMM as follows: 1. Reports and regulations of the Stanislav Regional Special State Committee on the results of the investigation on the atrocities committed by the fascist aggressors, including damage caused to the industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as to the individuals. 16 June– 22 August 1945. 64 pp. 1а. Acts on the damages caused by the German-Fascist occupiers in town of Stanislavow. 1 October 1944- 1 January 1945. 374 pp. 1B. Same. 1 of January- 16 of February 1945. 185 pp. 2. Reports from interrogations, ...

  13. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of the Jewish population in the Stanislawow region during the German occupation, from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region, 1941-1945

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of the Jewish population in the Stanislawow region during the German occupation, from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region, 1941-1945 Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, including data regarding the overall number of people who perished in the cities and districts of the Stanislawow region, and announcements by representatives of the Jewish community regarding the abuse and murder of Jews in the Stanislawow Ghetto and in Bolszowce, Halicz, Kosow, Rohatyn and Gorodenka during ...

  14. M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region

    M.52.DAIFO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankovsk Region History of the Archives: The Archives was established in December 1939 and was called the Regional Historical Archives of Stanislawow until 1941. Before its establishment, all of the documentation was kept in institutions of the authorities and in public institutions. This documentation began to be collected by the Stanislawow UNKVD as of November 1939 in the new regional Archives after the same institutions and organizations were cancelled by the Soviet authorities. The name of the Archives was changed during ...

  15. Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office)

    Materials from the Reichssippenamt (Reich Genealogy Certification Office) Included in the collection, among other documentation, are security photographs of the Registration Books (Matrikel und Personenstandsregister) of Jewish communities in Germany, prepared in winter 1944 by the Gatermann company in Duisburg-Hamborn - Part A of the materials, which includes a variety of personal documents of communities to the east of the Oder-Neisse Line (reels JM/22659 - JM/22668). In addition to these materials, the Record-Group also includes a collection of personal data of Jewish families that was c...

  16. Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydów w Getcie Łódzkim

    • Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt-Getto
    • Head of the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto

    The collection documents all aspects of the fate of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto, because the administration of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) was very highly developed (it employed over 10,000 people) and generated vast quantities of documents, which, fortunately, have survived. The inventory to the Rumkowski Archive comprises an extensive preface that offers good insight into the ghetto offices, and a body of archives categorized by department and section. These materials will be described in greater detail in Part II of this Guide. Among them is a large collection of original contact sheet...

  17. Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

    Lists of transports from Lodz to annihilation camps and concentration camps, 1942-1944

  18. M.41.GAOOGr - Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region

    Documentation of the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region A History of the Archives The Communist Party regional archive was established in Grodno in March 1940; in February 1992 it became the Union and Public Organizations Department of the State Archives of the Grodno Region. In June 1992, a branch of the State Archives of the Grodno Region was established in the city of Grodno based on the regional archive department of the Communist Party. In 1996, it became the State Archives of the Public Unions in the Grodno region. From July 2012 it underwent further changes, and...

  19. M.41.GAGr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Grodno Region

    M.41.GAGr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Grodno Region History of the State Archive of the Grodno Region Following the handing over of most of the area of the Belostok region to Poland and the establishment of the Grodno region inside the Belorussian Republic, the Archive of the Grodno Region was established as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Affairs (NKVD) in September 1944. In 2007, the Archive acted under the head administration of the Ministry of Justice in the regional Executive committee. Included in the collection: Soviet documentation from...

  20. M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk

    M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September 1996, the Archive changed its definition again, and it became the Local State Archive of Pinsk. As of 30 June 2001 and following, the Archive has been known as the "Scientific-Methodological Institution ...