Overview
- Description
- Criminal investigation files and records of trials of residents of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic accused of wartime crimes. It includes interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, sketches, diagrams, photographs, and other evidentiary documents related to suspected war criminals.
- Alternate Title
- Trials of the German collaborators conducted after WWII on the territory of the Georgia SSR kept by the ex-KGB Archives
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1953
- 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
- Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti - Biography
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The Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD) formed in 1934 as was a law enforcement agency of the Soviet Union, contained the regular, public police force of the USSR, including traffic police, firefighting, border guards and archives. It is best known for the activities of the Gulag and the Main Directorate for State Security (GUGB), the predecessor of the KGB). The NKVD conducted mass extrajudicial executions, ran the Gulag system of forced labor camps and suppressed underground resistance, and was also responsible for mass deportations of entire nationalities and Kulaks to unpopulated regions of the country. It was also tasked with protection of Soviet borders and espionage, which included political assassinations abroad, influencing foreign governments and enforcing Stalinist policy within communist movements in other countries.
Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (MGB) (Ministry of State Security) was the intelligence agency from 1946 to 1953. The MGB was one of many incarnations of the Soviet State Security apparatus.
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The KGB was formed in 1954 and attached to the Council of Ministers, the committee was a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, and MGB. It was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", acting as internal security, intelligence, and secret police.
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Genre/Form
- Sketches. Diagrams. Transcripts. Photographs. Registers.
- Extent
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756,449 digital images : JPEG ; 4.78 TB .
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by a case files of individuals and groups suspected of war crimes.
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
- Fair use only. Duplication and publication of documents/microfilm reels/ digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia.
- Copyright Holder
- Georgia (Republic). Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Georgia (Republic). Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro.
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Šinagan sakʻmetʻa saministro (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia), Fond 6. Records collected by the NKVD/MGB and KGB Archives of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, and later by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Georgia. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in Jan. 2013, accretion in Dec. 2014, Feb.,and Sept. 2015, Feb. 2017, and Sept. 2019.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:22:38
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