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Language of Description: English
Country: Russia

  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории Европы"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of Europe"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii Evropy"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Europe: photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (ID, CV, certificates and etc.), the memories of the extermination of Jews, various correspondence. The collection includes the documents of the Sobibor extermination camp (the plan of the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943, compiled by A. Pecherskiy in 1944. A. Pecherskiy was a leader of the uprising in the Sobibor extermination camp and in 1972 he wrote a book "Revolt in Sobibor"). A letter in Polish of M...

  5. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории СССР"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of the USSR"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii SSSR"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine, Moldavia, Byelarussia, Baltic States (with borders until June 22, 1941): photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (ID, CV, certificates and etc., also documents about the fate of Jewish families), the memories about the extermination of Jews, various correspondence, the copies of the photos of the mass exterminations in the territory of the USSR, the copies of the Nazi propaganda, the copies of the documents about Babi Yar and card index about periodical ne...

  6. Коллекция документов "Холокост на территории России"

    • Collection of documents "Holocaust in the Territory of Russia"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Holokost na teritorii Rossiyi"

    The collection consists of the documents on the history of the Holocaust in Russian Federation from 1941 to 1944: memories compiled after the war (mostly by relatives), correspondence between relatives and these who later were killed, photos (pre-war family and personal photos of victims of the Holocaust), personal documents (mostly various certificates), the memories of the extermination of Jews, various correspondence. The collection includes the archival certificates about mass extermination of Jews in the Rostov district, a list of the killed Jews in Klintzy (Bryansk district). Collecte...

  7. Коллекция документов "Праведники Народов Мира"

    • Collection of documents "Righteous Among the Nations"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Pravedniki Narodov Mira"

    The collection stores the material about rescuing of Jews during the Holocaust in the territory of the Russian Federation, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia. The material consists of memories of the rescuers and interviews with them, photos of the rescuers and rescued people. Also there are documents (medals and diplomas also) and correspondence concerning Righteous Among the Nation award; articles and publications with the personal stories of the rescue.

  8. Коллекция документов "Евреи – участники Великой Отечественной войны"

    • Collection of documents "Jews-participants of the Great Patriotic War"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Jevreji uchastniki Velikoj Otechestvennoj Vojny"

    The collection consists of various correspondence, personal documents (certificates, confirmations, diplomas); periodical press (1941-1945); photos and CV of the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, their memories about everyday life and fightings in the army; memories about the war; personal belongings and military awards of the soldiers and officers of the Soviet Red Army.

  9. Коллекция документов "Евреи СССР в тылу и эвакуации"

    • Collection of documents "USSR Jews in Evacuation"
    • Kollektsiya dokumentov "Jevreji SSSR v tylu i evakuacii"

    The collection consists of the material concerning personal stories of the Jewish families who were able to escape country to the East in the first days of the war. There are various correspondence between soldiers of the Soviet Red Army and family members in evacuation, also personal photos and photos taken in evacuation; personal documents; memories about life in evacuation, diaries and notebooks with memories.

  10. Белгородчина в период Великой Отечественной войны Советского Союза 1941-1945 гг.

    • Belgorod Oblast during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

    Fond contains materials related to the patriotic activity of partisans in Belgorod Oblast, to the fascist atrocities, economical and cultural loss. Materials are also related to the combat activity in the region, reconstruction of national economics, to the Belgorod citizens who participated in the War.

  11. Коллекция документов по Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг.

    • Collection of documents related to the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

    Documents related to the period of occupation of Belgorod Oblast, Nazi atrocities, materials related to the liberation of the occupied territory; original letters of soldiers, memories of the participants of the war from Belgorod; award sheets (copies from TsAMO), memories of hospital staff.

  12. Komitet pomoshchi evreiskim bezhentsam (g. Zagreb)

    • Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam (Zagreb); Committee for Aid to Jewish Refugees (Zagreb)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, which is arranged by structure and chronology. Deposited in the collection are documents connected with the activities of the Zagreb HICEM Committee regarding the reception, settling, and transport to third countries of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. It includes correspondence with HICEM committees in Austria, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries, and with the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the German Jewish Aid Society, the Jewish religious community of Brody, the JDC, the ...

  13. Evreiskaia obshchina (g. Zagreb)

    • lsraeliticka bogoštovna op ina (Zagreb); Jewish Community of Zagreb

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory. The collection's documents consist primarily of correspondence: internal community correspondence (on public events, the execution of intracommunity administrative duties, educational issues, religious issues, the distribution of Zagreb synagogue positions, and so on); correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations, including the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the Ashkenazi community of Belgrade, the Sephardic community of Sarajevo, the Hochschule for Jewish Studies in Berlin, the Dr. Bernard Singer Jewis...

  14. Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)

    • Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
    • Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other...

  15. Американская объединенная восстановительная организация. Управление делами

    • American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
    • Amerikanskaia ob"edinennaia vosstanovitelnaia organizatsiia. Upravlenie delami

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. Each of these contains three sections: secretariat documents, documents of the finance department, and printed materials. The collection contains the JDC charter of 1924; the JDC's assignment of legal rights to the newly created American Joint Reconstruction Foundation; listings of transferred bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other securities (1924); and accounts of the Reconstruction Foundation's activities for 1924-26 and 1937-39. The collection also contains correspondence of JDC administrative council members ...

  16. Комитет по делам еврейской эмиграции (ГИЦЕМ) (г. Париж)

    • Emigration Association (HICEM)
    • Komitet po delam evreiskoi emigratsii GITsEM HIAS JCA

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged according to structure. The collection contains the HICEM charter (January 1935); accounts of HICEM activities for 1926-39; circulars to HICEM branch offices (1933-40) on rules for filling out a central card file of émigrés; on conditions of emigration to Uruguay, Ecuador, Haiti, and other countries, and on procedures for statistical calculation of émigré data; minutes of sessions of the HICEM administrative council for 1930, 1934-39, as well as of the HICEM commission on émigré doctors for 1934-35, ...

  17. Американский еврейский объединенный комитет по распределению фондов (Джойнт). Европейское исполнительное бюро

    • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, European Executive Bureau
    • Amerikanskii evreiskii ob"edinennyi komitet po raspredeleniiu fondov (Dzhoint). Evropeiskoe ispolnitel'noe biuro

    For the most part, the collection reflects the activities of the JDC European Executive Bureau in Paris during the period 1933-40. The collection includes the JDC charter (1931); accounts of JDC activities (1932-38); minutes of sessions of the presidium of the JDC executive committee in New York (1929-33, and 1938), of the JDC managing committee in New York (1937-38), and the JDC presidium and executive committee (1938); reports by members of its managing committee and board of directors (1938-39); minutes of the meeting of subsections of the European Executive Bureau in Paris (April 1935)....

  18. Всемирная организация борьбы против расовой ненависти и нужды (г. Вена)

    • Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass and Menschcnnot (Wien); World Organization Against Racial Hatred and Poverty (Vienna)
    • Vsemirnaia organizatsiia bor 'by protiv rasovoi nenavisti i nuzhdy (g. Vena)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are arranged by document type. The collection contains bylaws, memoranda, platforms, minutes, instructions, and appeals of the World Organization; biographical information on the organization's leader, Irene Harand; applications to join the organization; correspondence with subscribers to the newspaper Gerechtigkeit (by country); lists of subscribers to the newspaper Gerechtigkeit; correspondence on providing aid to the Jewish population of Vienna; letters of invitation to Harand; proposals for publication in the n...

  19. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Wien); Jewish Religious Communit), of Vienna
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Vena)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged by structure and document type. The collection has charters of the Jewish religious community of Vienna — and of affiliated organizations: the Union to Aid Jewish Students, the Union for the Care of Orphans, Jewish Literary Association, the Mendelssohn Jewish Literary Union, and others. It contains the minutes of meetings of the community board for 1891-1938 as well as community financial documents — statements, estimates, summaries, income statements, cashbooks for 1928-37, and tax tables. The colle...

  20. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Грац)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Graz); Jewish Religious Community of Graz
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Grats)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are arranged by document type. The collection features documents of the Jewish Religious Community of Graz, the community's committee for the social security of Jewish émigrés, the Graz chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, and other Jewish organizations of Graz; community circulars for 1933; minutes of community meetings for 1922-38; correspondence with the Vienna taxation and revenue board, Jewish charitable organizations, community members, and lawyers regarding the election of board members and officers of the community...