Overview
- Description
- Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German decrees, tax documents for different Jewish businesses and individuals, names lists, and documents regarding Jewish passports and visas. Includes passports issued to Jewish residents of Brest (Belarus) in 1941 (organized alphabetically). There is also a small amount of material regarding Dutch Jews in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1960
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Passports. Registers.
- Extent
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77,304 digital images : JPEG ; 353 GB .
33 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Most files have a Yad Vashem number beginning with M-37/, M-41/ or M-16/ listed first, followed by a Soviet fond/opis/delo number. Some files have two Yad Vashem numbers, a few only have a Soviet number and some have only a Yad Vashem number. Reels 14-24 include Brest passport information. Arranged by source archive
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
- Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Yad Vashem. Researchers may not publish any records on Internet or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from Yad Vashem.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements. Jewish councils. Communism--Ukraine. War crimes--German--1940-1950. Antisemitism--Ukraine. Jews--Netherlands. Jews, Dutch--Switzerland. Communism--Belarus. Antisemitism--Belarus. Jews--Belarus. Jews--Belarus--Brest. Jews--Ukraine. Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Sokalʹ. Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Braslaŭ. Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Ukraine. Prisoners of war--Russian--Germany--1940-1950. Communist parties.
- Geographic Name
- Kyïv (Ukraine) Odesa (Ukraine) Brest (Belarus) Pinsk (Belarus) Evreĭskai︠a︡ avtonomnai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Rivnensʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Kirovohradsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Sumsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Ukraine Belarus
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives recieved the collection from the Yad Vashem, Israel, in 1996.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 15:23:40
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