Overview
- Description
- Contains interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, evidence documents, copy prints, sketches, diagrams, photographs and other trial documents relating to the arrests and investigations of suspected war criminals for war crimes trials held in Riga, Kiev, Minsk, Babruisk (Bobruysk), Sevastopol, Kishinev (Chisinau), Chernihiv (Chernigov), Pskov, Velikie Luki, Stalino, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Nikolaev, Novogrod, Leningrad, and Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Also includes trial documents for trials of several individuals suspected of war crimes and several Sachsenhausen concentration camp officials as Otto Enoch, Ion Antonescu, Mihai Antonescu, Fritz Ziegel, Reiner Schtangel, Hans Foss, Maximillian Angelis, Ferdinal Scherner, Erich Hansen, Fritz Panziggier, Bruno Henrich, Wilhelm Mohnke, Alfred Gerstenberg, Sachsenhausen guards: Willy Busse, Oscar Burchhardt, Erich Prengemann, August Jansen, Ludwig Erasam, and guard in Ravensbrűck, Gerta Wiedemann and other war criminals.
- Date
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1939-1992
bulk: 1945-1947
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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55 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
digital images.
- Extent
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22 boxes
- System of Arrangement
- Organized by place of trial and cases of individuals and groups suspected of war crimes.
Arrangement is primarily chronological within the files.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, there are no known copyright restrictions on the material(s) in this collection, or the material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. War criminals. Concentration camp guards. Questioning--Soviet Union. War crime trials--Soviet Union. War crime trials--Latvia--Rīga. War crime trials--Belarus--Minsk. War crime trials--Ukraine--Kyïv. War crime trials--Belarus--Babruĭsk. War crime trials--Ukraine--Sevastopolʹ. War crime trials--Moldova--Chișinău. War crime trials--Ukraine--Chernihiv. War crime trials--Ukraine--Pskov. War crime trials--Ukraine--Velikie Luki. War crime trials--Ukraine--Stalino. War crime trials--Ukraine--Krasodar. War crime trials--Ukraine--Bryansk. War crime trials--Ukraine--Nikolaev. War crime trials--Ukraine--Novogrod. War crime trials--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg. War crime trials--Russia (Federation)--Smolensk.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Central Archives of the Russian Federal Security Services
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Federal Security Services of the Russian Federation (Federalnaia sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii, the former KGB) compiled the evidence documents and recorded the interrogations during preparations for the prosecution of several suspected war criminals from 1945 to 1947. The Central Archives of the Federal Security Services of the Russian Federation photocopied the records and presented them as a gift to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1996. The Museum received additional parts of records in 2001 and 2005.
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- 2023-06-02 08:46:27
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