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Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia

Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0325 | RG Number: RG-06.027

Contains photocopies of selected interrogation transcripts, decrees, biographical data sheets, witness statements, photographs, and miscellaneous court and trial documents from the Latvian State Archives Fond 1986 relating to the arrest, investigation, prosecution, sentencing, and in some cases, execution of war criminals accused of atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in Latvia during World War II.

Date
1941-1995
bulk:  1944-1966
Language
Russian
Latvian
German
Extent
8 boxes
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

System of Arrangement
The Latvian State Archives of the Former Latvian KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crimes investigations and trials in Latvia are arranged as a single series numerically by case number. Arrangement of documents within each case is primarily chronological.
Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Latvijas Valsts Arhivs
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The Federalnaia sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii (KGB / State Security Committee) compiled the records for the purposes of war crime investigations and prosecution from ca. 1944 to 1995. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives acquired and received photocopies of the cases in November 1997.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
 
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