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Selected records from the war trial cases of the Nazi collaborators tried in the Kazakh SSR

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.456 | RG Number: RG-74.001

Overview

Description: Contains material from trials conducted in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) from 1943 to 1950. The material includes documents from pretrial investigations by the "SMERSH" ("Death to Spies"-Soviet military counter-intelligence units)) and Kazakh NKVD (MGB and KGB), as well as protocols of interrogations, indictments, verdicts and sentences. For each trial, the principal defendant, the geographic area where the defendant committed his/her crimes, the rank/occupation, and the year of trial are listed.
Date: inclusive: 1943-1950
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.

Physical Details

Language: Russian
Extent: 1,500 pages of photocopies.
23 microfiche.
System of Arrangement: Organized in the following order by defendant name : RG-74.001*001-RG-74.001*49
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.
Copyright Holder: Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: War crime trials--Soviet Union--Sources. War crime trials--Kazakhstan--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
Geographic Name: Kazakhstan--History.
Corporate Name: Soviet Union. Military counter-intelligence (SMERSh) Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Archives of the National Security Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan (former KGB Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Mar. 2004.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2023-06-07 10:53:55
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