Overview
- Description
- Contains selected records that include personal prison files of Estonian Jews who were later transported out of Estonia; records of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei und der SD in Tallinn (Reval) and in the towns of Paide, Haapsalu, Parnu (Pernau), Valga, Narva, Tartu (Dorpat), Viljandi, and Petseri; records of der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Estland; court decisions of the town of Viljandi; and information about Parnu jail, Baltische-Öl Gesellschaft, and the Polizeikommissar of Türi station.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1944
- 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.
Physical Details
- Extent
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4 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The order of arrangement from the source archive has been preserved. Contains files from 17 series: R52, Estonian Sipo/SD in Paide, 1941-1944, 6 files and 23 damaged files; R56, Estonian Sipo/SD in Haapsalu, 1941-1944, 4 files and 69 damaged files; R57, Estonian Sipo/SD in Parnu (Pernau), 41 files; R58, Estonian Sipo/SD in Valga, 33 files; R59, Estonian Sipo/SD in Narva, 200 files; R60, Estonian Sipo/SD in Tartu (Dorpat), 503 files; R62, Estonian Sipo/SD in Viljandi, 1027 files, 37 files; R63, Estonian Sipo/SD in Petseri, 803 files; R64, Estonian Sipo/SD in Tallinn (Reval), 2118 files; R65, Der Generalkommissar in Reval, 1941-1944, 2313 files (German); R89, Inspector of Police of Türi station (Politseikomissar); R93, Parnu jail; R187, Baltisch- Öel Gesellschaft, 1941-1944, 73 files; R358; R819, Der Koommandeur der Sipo und des SD Estland, 1941-1944, 71 files (German); R2121, Town of Viljandi, court decisions, 1170; R4365, Amalgamated fund of miscellaneous small German-language collections, 1941-1944.
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.
- Copyright Holder
- Eesti Riigiarhiiv
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Eesti Riigiarhiiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Esti Riigiarhiiv (Estonian States Archives), formerly the EstTsGaor (Estonian Central State Archive of the October Revolution), in Tallinn. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm via the Museum's International Programs Division on Aug. 4, 1999.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:26:49
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