Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1945
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Soviet Union. Chrezvychai?nai?a? gosudarstvennai?a? komissii?a? po ustanovlenii?u? i rassledovanii?u? zlodei?a?nii? nemet?s?ko-fashistskikh zakhvatchikov i ikh soobshchnikov. Orlovskai?a? oblast?.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Diagrams. Maps. Photographs. Registers. Reports. Protocols.
- Extent
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699,417 digital images : JPEG ; 1.95 TB .
- System of Arrangement
- Selected files arranged in eight series by geographical locations and subjects: Series 1: Ukraine regions; 2: Belarus regions; 3: Russia regions; 4. Lithuania regions; 5. Latvia regions; 6. Estonia regions. 7. Records relating to the Soviet Charges at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1941-1945; 8. Miscellaneous files related to investigation of German crimes against the civilian population. Organized mainly by regions and concentration camps [Accretion of materials in 2015]. Note: Microfilm reel #17 contains material from Fond 8114, Jewish Antifascist Committee; Microfilm #27 contains material from Fond 7445, International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No copies or publication for third parties without permission of the source archive
- Copyright Holder
- Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Soviet Union. Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. War criminals--Soviet Union. War crimes--Soviet Union. Jews--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union. Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Geographic Name
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Soviet Union--Ethnic relations. Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Estonia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Russia
- Corporate Name
- International Military Tribunal
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The records were created, by the Extraordinary Commission’s National-, Republic-, Oblast-, and Raion-level elements, during and after World War II. Source of acquisition is the State Archive of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 1995, three accretions in 2015, and one accretion in 2016. The reproduction project is complete. Original Russian finding aid can be found at: http://www.statearchive.ru/383
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:51:01
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