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Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1987.012 | RG Number: RG-22.001

Overview

Description: Contains public notices, maps, testimonies, letters, and reports relating to killing in Lithuania during Nazi occupation; killing in retaliation for sabotage; activities of Einsatzgruppe A from October 1941 to January 1942; mass shootings of Soviet citizens; Soviet POWs; creation of ghettos; operation “Hornung“; the annihilation of Jews in Slutsk (Minsk Oblast); killing of Soviet citizens in retaliation for partisan activities; interrogation of Kiev inhabitants concerning the massacre at Babi Yar; operation “Swamp Fever“ near Minsk; operation “Magic Flute“ in Minsk; operation “Kottbus“ in Byelorussia; and operation “Herman“ conducted in the occupied territory of Grodno and Minsk.
Date: inclusive: 1941-1945

Physical Details

Language: Russian German English
Extent: 4 microfiche.
Extent: 3 folders

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Atrocities--Soviet Union. Executions and executioners--Soviet Union. Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941. Jews--Soviet Union. Concentration camps. Fascism. Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940. Guerrillas. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union. Sabotage--Soviet Union. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.
Geographic Name: Kyïv (Ukraine) Minsk (Belarus) Tilsit (Germany) Lithuania. Belarus. Hrodna (Belarus) Katynʹ (Russia) Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Corporate Name: Germany. Gestapo Einsatzgruppen Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel SS (Organization)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council received the documents in Feb. 1987 from the Main Archival Administration of the USSR, Council of Ministers in Moscow.

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