Overview
- Description
- Contains 57 photographs and 11 film negatives depicting Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe, war crimes, liberation of concentration camps by the Red Army, corpses of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1942-1961
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Film negatives.
- Extent
-
1 box
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in two series: 1. Photographs relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe; 2. Film negatives relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. Organization is chronological.
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
- No copies for third parties or publication without permission of the source archive.
- Copyright Holder
- Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Europe. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Concentration camps--Soviet Union. Concentration camps--Europe. Military personnel--Soviet--1940-1950. Mass burials--1940-1950. War criminals--Germany--History--20th century. War crimes trials. Judicial proceedings--Latvia--1940-1950. Judicial proceedings--Estonia--Tallinn--1960-1970. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
- Geographic Name
- Babica (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) Berlin (Germany) Borisov (Belarus) Borisovka (Belgorodskaia oblast', Russia) Budapest (Hungary). Grachevo (Russia) Kaunas (Lithuania)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. Kingissepa rajoon (Estonia) Klooga (Estonia) Lʹviv (Ukraine) Lidice (Czech Republic) Lysychansʹk (Ukraine) Orel (Orlovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Orlov (Russia)--History. Orsha (Belarus) Petrozavodsk (Russia) PoznanÌ (Poland : Voivodeship) Riga (Latvia) Smolenskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) Soviet Union--History--1939-1945. Tallin (Estonia) Vitsebskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ (Belarus)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the State Archives of Film, Video & Photo Records in Russia(Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov, RGAKFD). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection in 1989.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 13:18:49
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514464
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