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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
1944-1966  (bulk)
Language
Russian
Latvian
German
Extent
211 microfiche..
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.
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About This Document

System of Arrangement
Organized: Box 1, Case 182-Case 1261; Box 2, Case 1297/1-14817; Box 3, Case 15420-Case 30614; Box 4, Case 30628-Case 39933; Box 5, Case 40558/tom 1-Case 42500; Box 6, Case 42604-Case 44899/4; Box 7, Case 44934/1-Case 45100/3, and Box 8, Case 45100/4-Case 45285
Arrangement of the cases is numerical. 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 in Latvia) compiled the records for the purposes of war crime investigation and prosecution from ca. 1944 to 1995. The original cases are located in Fond 1986 of the Latvian State Archives (Latvijas Valsts Arhivs). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives purchased and received the photocopies of the cases in Nov. 1997.
 
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