Overview
- Description
- Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan during World War II. Includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection contains various lists of evacuees arriving to Karaganda from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Karaganda Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Karaganda Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the settlement, education of the orphan children, and assistance given to Polish refugees, etc.
- Date
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inclusive:
1936-1991
- 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
- Correspondence. Statistics. Reports. Registers.
- Extent
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21,237 digital images : JPEG ; 55.3 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
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
- For publications or commercial use researchers must obtain the consent from the State Archive of the Karganda Region and the Archive may require payment of a license fee.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Kazakhstan. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Kazakhstan--20th century--Registers. Polish people--Kazakhstan--History--20th century--Registers. Refugees--Kazakhstan--History--20th century--Registers. Communists--Kazakhstan--History--20th century. Population transfers--Polish people--History--20th century. Forced migration--Kazakhstan--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Kazakhstan--History.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Qaraghandy oblasti
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Qaraghandy oblasti (State Archive of Karaganda Region). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2013. This is a joint project of the USHMM and Yad Vashem.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:51
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn50017
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- Terms of Use
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