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Registration cards of Jewish refugees in Tashkent, Uzbekistan during WWII

Document | Accession Number: 2007.133 | RG Number: RG-75.002M

The collection contains 156,000 registration cards of Jewish refugees who arrived in Tashkent and were registered in February 1942. These registration cards list only those who came directly to Tashkent and then went to different localities in Uzbekistan. The card catalogue does not include those who arrived at other localities within the Uzbek Republic as well as significant number of Jews and non-Jews who came to Tashkent after February 1942 - including people joining their family in Uzbekistan from other parts of Soviet Union.

Date
inclusive:  1941-1942
Language
Russian
Genre/Form
Registers.
Extent
152,646 digital images : JPEG ; 30.8 GB.
76 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
15 DVD-ROM ; 4 3/4 in..
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.

About This Document

System of Arrangement
The collection is organized in an alphabetical order by last names of refugees.
Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Respubliki Uzbekistan
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
From the Central State Archives of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent (RG- P-864, Registration and Reference bureau of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of the Uzbek SSR). The original card catalogue consists of more than 250,000 cards stored in 193 catalogue boxes with a total number of ca. 339,250 evacuees who were registered by the Soviet authorities in February 1942. In 2004-2006 a group of local researchers of the Central Asia Research Project led by Professor Saidjon Kurbanov selected and digitized 156, 000 registration cards of Jewish evacuees and refugees available within this collection. With the funding provided by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Professor Saidjn Kurbanov and his colleagues in Tashkent compiled database consisting of 156, 000 names of Jewish evacuees along with digital images of their registration cards. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in June 2007.

Rights and 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
Fair use only.

Copyright Holder
T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Respubliki Uzbekistan
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:12:10
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