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Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR

Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1265 | RG Number: RG-22.002M

This collection contains selected material about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators, and excludes information about crimes against property. Documents include victim name lists, protocols of interrogating eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, and signed depositions summarizing the commission’s findings. Also included are photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities and graves.

Date
inclusive:  1941-1945
Language
Russian
German
Yiddish
English
Genre/Form
Diagrams.
Maps.
Photographs.
Registers.
Reports.
Protocols.
Extent
699,417 digital images : JPEG ; 1.95 TB .
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.

About This Document

Document Creator
Soviet Union. Chrezvychai?nai?a? gosudarstvennai?a? komissii?a? po ustanovlenii?u? i rassledovanii?u? zlodei?a?nii? nemet?s?ko-fashistskikh zakhvatchikov i ikh soobshchnikov. Orlovskai?a? oblast?.
System of Arrangement
Selected files arranged in eight series by geographical locations and subjects: Series 1: Ukraine regions; 2: Belarus regions; 3: Russia regions; 4. Lithuania regions; 5. Latvia regions; 6. Estonia regions. 7. Records relating to the Soviet Charges at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1941-1945; 8. Miscellaneous files related to investigation of German crimes against the civilian population. Organized mainly by regions and concentration camps [Accretion of materials in 2015]. Note: Microfilm reel #17 contains material from Fond 8114, Jewish Antifascist Committee; Microfilm #27 contains material from Fond 7445, International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The records were created, by the Extraordinary Commission’s National-, Republic-, Oblast-, and Raion-level elements, during and after World War II. Source of acquisition is the State Archive of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 1995, three accretions in 2015, and one accretion in 2016. The reproduction project is complete. Original Russian finding aid can be found at: http://www.statearchive.ru/383
http://opisi.garf.su/default.asp?base=garf&menu=2&v=1&node=139

Rights and 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
No copies or publication for third parties without permission of the source archive

Copyright Holder
Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
 
Record last modified: 2023-08-25 09:51:01
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