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Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.94 | RG Number: RG-22.020

Overview

Description: Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.
Date: 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.

Physical Details

Language: Russian
Genre/Form: Registers.
Extent: 81,323 digital images : JPEG ; 86.5 GB.

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 third party transfer. No publication, including partial without archives permission.
Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ arkhiv Chuvashskoĭ Respubliki

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Russia (Federation) Jews--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Chuvashia (Russia) World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
Geographic Name: Chuvashia (Russia)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ arkhiv Chuvashskoĭ Respubliki
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the State Historical Archives of the Chuvash Republic (Gosudarstvennyĭ istoricheskiĭ arkhiv Chuvashskoĭ Respubliki). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Historical Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2009.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 17:50:17
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