Overview
- Description
- Contains materials from trials conducted in the Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) during and after World War II. The material includes documents from pre-trial investigations by the Ukrainian NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del), as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, verdicts and sentences, and post-sentencing histories. For each trial, the case number, the regional office, and principal defendant are listed. The collection also contains investigation and trial records of refugees from East and Central Europe who were arrested and interrogated by the Soviet State Security Services (NKVD) for the illegal crossing of the Soviet state border, while escaping from the Nazi persecution in territories of Nazi-occupied Poland. Also includes several thousand criminal cases from the prewar period ( 1939-1941) related to the arrest and persecution of East European Jews who crossed into the territory of the Soviet Union following the German occupation of Poland. Most of the Jews who were arrested had been accused of illegal border crossing. After a short investigation and trial the majority of the arrested were sent to Soviet labor camps.
Note: See also the collection, RG-31.129, Selected criminal cases of the Jewish residents of the Lviv region and Jewish refugees from Eastern and Central Europe arrested by the Soviet Security Services of USSR (NKVD). - Date
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inclusive:
1939-1991
- 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.
- Reference
- Related materials: RG-31.129, Selected criminal cases of the Jewish residents of the Lviv region and Jewish refugees from Eastern and Central Europe arrested by the Soviet Security Services of USSR (NKVD).
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Minutes. Indictments.
- Extent
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260,912 digital images : JPEG.
100 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
61,813 .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged by individual criminal cases.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Mandatory citation of source archives as well as United States Holocaust Memorial Musem. Fair use only. No use for commercial purposes.
- Copyright Holder
- Sluz︠h︡ba bezpeky Ukraïny. Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Law and legislation--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--History--20th century. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Ukraine. War criminals--Ukraine. War crimes--Ukraine. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Registers. Nationalist -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Geographic Name
- Ukraine--Politics and government--1945-1991. Kyïv (Ukraine) Ukraine
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Sluz︠h︡ba bezpeky Ukraïny. Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Sluz︠h︡ba bezpeky Ukraïny. Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv ( Departmental State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in July 2002, Mar. 2004, Sept. 2014, March 2019, May 2019, Dec. 2019, and July 2021.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-30 13:25:12
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