Overview
- Description
- Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and investigations of persons suspected of communist activities.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-1944
- Collection Creator
- Grodno Commissar (Amtskommissar) for Civil Administration of Belostok Region
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Registers.
- Extent
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15,878 digital images : JPEG ; 50.2 GB.
7 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Catholics--Poland. Census. Crime--Poland. Economic policy--Poland. Forced labor--Poland. Guerrillas--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus. Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Hrodna. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jews--Russia. Physicians. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Propaganda. Romani Genocide, 1939-1945. Romanies. Synagogues. Transports. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Geographic Name
- Hrodna (Belarus)--Mayor's office.
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Germany. Gestapo
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Grodnenskoĭ oblasti
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The records were created by the office of the Grodno Commissar for the Civil Administration of Białystok Region and various other German occupation agencies during World War II. The records were captured by the Red Army and later deposited in the Grodno Oblast Archive. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum microfilmed selected files from the Grodno Oblast Archive during the fall of 1991.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:12:49
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