Overview
- Description
- The collection contains records acquired by members of the field medical units of the Red Army that provide information on the persecution and killing of Jews and others in Eastern Europe by the Nazis. Documents include reports regarding concentration camp conditions; treatment of Russian prisoners; and reports and eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1945
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 box
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as one series. The collection contains copies of select documents from several record groups and series, and folders within those series. The titles reflect what record group (fond), series (opis), and folders the documents are pulled from.
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.
- Copyright Holder
- Voenno-medit︠s︡inskiĭ muzeĭ (Russia)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Europe--Pogroms. Jews--Persecutions--Eastern Europe. Prisoners of war. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. Concentration camps. Mass burials.
- Geographic Name
- Eastern Europe--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945. Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1945. Żagań (Poland) Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast, Russia) Tarnopol (Poland) Janowska (Concentration camp) Nikopol' (Ukraine)
- Corporate Name
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Voenno-medit︠s︡inskiĭ muzeĭ (Russia)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The records were collected by members of the field medical units of the Red Army. Source of acquisition is the Russian Military Medical Museum, St. Petersburg. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1996.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-20 07:38:27
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