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Language of Description: English
Country: Russia

  1. Dokumental'nye materialy razlichnykh lits (kollektsiia)

    • Documentary Materials of Various Individuals (consolidated collection)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories, which are arranged by document type in order of the collection originators' surnames. The collection constitutes an accumulation of various individuals' documents united only by authorship or by the documents' belonging to a particular individual. This collection of documents was compiled by archival staff from unsystematized files. The collection includes notes (author unknown) on the situation of Jews in Austria; correspondence of S. Barber with Jewish émigrés from Czechoslovakia on helping them obtain residency rights in countr...

  2. Ministerstvo vnutrennykh del Rumynii (g. Bukharest)

    • Ministerul de Interne (Bucure0); Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania (Bucharest)

    The collection is described in one inventory. Materials are catalogued chronologically. The file was transferred to the archive from the archival administration of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The collection contains applications received by the Bucharest prefecture from cultural, youth, religious, and other societies for licenses to engage in activities stipulated in the societies' charters. There are charter and other documents on Jewish religious, cultural, philanthropic, and other organizations active on Romanian territory: the Intaitarea society to help poor students with clot...

  3. Velikie lozhi evreiskogo ordena "Bnei-Brit" v lugoslavii i Gretsii i ikh dochernie lozhi

    • The Grand Lodges of B'nai B'rith in Yugoslavia and Greece and their Affiliated Lodges (consolidated collection)

    The collection includes documents reflecting the activities of the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith in Yugoslavia and its affiliated lodges "Serbia," "Sarajevo," and "Zagreb." These include circulars from leaders of the Grand Lodge to affiliated lodges; a register of proceedings of the "Serbia" lodge, and a list of its board members; brief biographical information oThe collection includes documents reflecting the activities of the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith in Yugoslavia and its affiliated lodges "Serbia," "Sarajevo," and "Zagreb." These include circulars from leaders of the Grand Lodge to affi...

  4. Чрезвычайная государственная комиссия по установлению и расследованию злодеяний немецко-фашистских захватчиков и их сообщников и причиненного ими ущерба гражданам, коллективным хозяйствам (колхозам), общественным организациям, государственным предприятиям и учреждениям СССР (ЧГК).

    • Extraordinary State Commision to Investigate the Crimes of the German Fascist Occupiers and their Accomplices and to Determine Resulting Casualties to Citizens, Collective Farms, Organizations, State Enterprises, and Institutions of the USRR

    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.

  5. Dokumenty politicheskogo, ekonomicheskogo i voennogo kharaktera uchrezhdenii i organizatsii Frantsii, Bel'gii, i dr stran (kollektsiia)

    • Political, Economic, and Military Documents of Government Offices and other Organizations in France, Belgium, and other Countries (consolidated collection)

    The collection constitutes an accumulation of documents of various institutions and organizations, often of undetermined collection provenance, compiled at the Central State Special Archive. These are documents of a political, economic, and military nature of various institutions and organizations in France, Belgium, and other countries. The collection includes materials on history, philosophy, politics, and economics, as well as information on the armed forces, police, intelligence activities, political Parties and organizations in various countries. The collection's contents are described...

  6. Гроссман Василий Семенович (1905-1964) - писатель

    • Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (1905-1964) - writer

    244 files, 4 opisi Manuscrips, drafts, and notebooks of the writer, correspondence with editors and colleagues. Opis 2: 1949 - 1963 Manuscripts of "Life and Fate" (1960). Notebooks, diaries, interviews with red army soldiers (1943-1945) Opis 3: Notebooks (1941-1950)

  7. Международный военный трибунал для главных немецких преступников (Нюрнбергский процесс). Нюрнберг.

    • International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (The Nuremberg trials)

    Opis 1, 2916 files, 1945-1947 Agreement, rules and regulations of the tribunal, notifications, orders, reports, decoding of sound records of the open sessions, and reports from the close sessions. Letter of indictment, materials from Commonwealth counsel and counsel for the defence. Speeches of the accusers and defending counsels. statutory declaration (mascot); Affidavits of the sides. Interrogation reports of the defendance and accuisation. Sentence of the Nuremberg trial, opinions of the court members. Opis 2, 431 files, 1938-1946 The main specifics of the Opis 2 is the precise discripti...

  9. Бабий Яр

    • Babi Yar

    Kiev suburbs, December of 1943. German prisoners are digging the ditch, where tortured Soviet people were buried. One of the former camp prisoners tells about fascist crimes during the Kiev occupation.

  10. Злодеяния немцев в Виннице

    • The crimes of Germans in Vinnitsa

    Ukraine. Vinnitza, April 29, 1944. Psychiatric hospital. Disinterment of the corpses of murdered patients.

  11. Концентрационный лагерь "Саласпилс"

    • Salaspils concentration camp

    October, 1944 г. Former concentration camp "Salaspils" in 15 km from Riga. Observation of the camp by City and Military Investigation Commissions. Disinterment.

  12. Освенцим

    • Auschwitz

    Prisoners of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Oswiecim were freed by Ukranian Front of Soviet Army. Corpses of tortured prisoners could be found in camps among crematories and gas chambers and on the nearby territory. Some of them were killed during the Nazi retreat. Prisoners who were killed in camps were buried in Oswiecim, and those who were able to survive underwent the physical checkup: they were found to be extremely exhausted during incarceration. Some of the former camp prisoners were taking part in technical and forensic expertise together with Soviet scientists and me...

  13. Комиссия по истории Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг. Академии наук СССР

    • Commission on the Great Patriotic War's history. Academy of science.

    Section I - “History of military units and divisions” 259 inventories, including 1802 units of storage. The section contains a variety of materials on the activities of the armies, divisions, regiments participating in the battles: the history of military units, operational documents (orders, orders, reports, reports, reports and logs of military operations, combat operations schemes), transcripts of conversations with commanders and ordinary soldiers which reflects their immediate impressions and experiences, memories of the war participants, letters, literary works of soldiers, folklore m...

  14. Орловский плацдарм

    • Orel Beachhead

    Views of destroyed Oryol. Military entry of Soviet Army in Oryol, mine clearance of the bridge, cemetery of Soviet and German soldiers, concentration camp — prisoners release; captured German vehicles; funerals of deceased Soviet soldiers. Work of the commission for investigation of fascist crimes. Group of Soviet commanders. Residents return home. Medical help for injured Soviet pilot.

  15. В освобожденных районах

    • In the liberated areas

    Members od Extraordinary State Committee headed by N.M. Shvernik observe destroyed buildings in Gzhatsk, Vyazma, Sychevka, Rzhev. Member of the commission Nikolay, metropolian of Kiev and Halych observes schools, ornaments from churches. N.M.Shvernik talks to the citizens of Gzhatsk. Views of the destroyed churches, schools, and other buildings. Members of the Commission on the site of murder of Citizens of Vyazma. Members of the Commission on the German cemetery in Sychevka. View of the barracks where Soviet POW lived. N.M.Shvernik in orphanage in Sychevka.

  16. В городской чрезвычайной комиссии г. Ленинграда

    • In the city Extraordinary Comission of Leningrad

    January of 1944. The meeting of Extraordinary State Commission for investigation of fascist invaders crimes in the presence of members of expertise bureau. Among them: engineers Bronnitsky, Kuprianova, professors Farmakovsky, Fomin and corresponding member of the Academy of Architecture Fedorova.

  17. Трагедия двух городов

    • The tragedy of the two cities

    June, 1944.Июль, 1944 г. Extraordinary State Commission is observing destructions of Kremenets and Vyshnevets in Tarnopol Region. Disinternment.

  18. Ламсдорф - лагерь русских военнопленных

    • Lamsdorf - the Soviet POW camp

    View on the territory of the camp, buildings, barracks, ditches-graves of Soviet prisoners of war, cemetery of Russian prisoners of war - participants of First World War; gas chambers, cemetery of English prisoners of war; corpses of Soviet prisoners of war. Work on the camp territory of Soviet-Polish commission for investigations of German crimes.

  19. Киевский процесс

    • Kiev trial

    Kiev. The trial of fascist invaders, who committed crimes on the temporary occupied territory of Ukranian SSR, held in Kiev from 17 until 28 of January 1946. Court hearings of Military Tribunal. Interrogations of the accused, testimonies of witnesses. Speech of the accused. Announcement of the sentence. Execution of criminals. City residents in court, on square during the execution. Destroyed buildings. Babi Yar. Khreshchatyk during the execution.

  20. Советское информационное бюро (Совинформбюро) при Государственном Комитете по культурным связям с зарубежными странами при Совете министров СССР

    • Soviet Information Bureau

    Materials related to the Holocaust could be found mostly in Opis 1 and 2. There is a card index of personalities for Opis 1. Schorthands reports of the workers of meetings with Losovsky made by workers of the Sovinformbureau, reports about the work of the Sovinformbureau and its branches (1941-1946, 1948-1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961), Orders (1946, 1947-1954, 1959, 1960). Correspondence between Soviet Anti-Fascist committees and international organizations, report about the activity of the Soviet women committee (1942-1943), (1943-1944), Kewish Anti-Fascist Committee (1941-1943), and with A...