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Selected records from the Estonian State Archive

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.38 | RG Number: RG-13.001M

Overview

Description: Contains selected records of Baltöl, the German petroleum company in Estonia; arrest and interrogation records of Jews (R-64); and other miscellaneous records concerning the Holocaust in Estonia.
Date: inclusive: 1942-1944
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.
Reference: Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder without hatred : Estonians and the Holocaust, Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.

James T. McHugh, [et al.], History of the Jews in Estonia, [Mauritius] : Alphascript, 2009.

Vello, Salo, Population losses 1940-1941 : citizens of Jewish nationality, Tallinn : Estonian State Commission on Examination of the Policies of Repression, 2002.

Physical Details

Language: German Estonian
Extent: 8 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
15,029 digital images.

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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

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Estonia. Jews--Persecutions--Estonia--History--20th century. Forced labor--Estonia--Tallin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Estonia.
Geographic Name: Estonia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Estonia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century. Tallin (Estonia)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: 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 collection from the Estonian State Archive via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2010.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-05-22 15:17:50
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