Overview
- Description
- Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Armenia during World War II that includes information about resettlement, employment, financial aid, food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities to evacuees and refugees. Includes lists of evacuees arriving to Armenia from various regions of the former USSR, lists of Polish refugees repatriated to Poland and Jews evacuated from various locations, correspondence of the local authorities pertaining to settlement and employment of evacuees and refugees, statistics, reports, lists of communists, etc.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1946
Physical Details
- Language
- Russian
- Genre/Form
- Bulletins. Correspondence. Memorandums. Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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831 digital images : JPEG ; 904 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in six series: 1. Correspondence, minutes of meetings, and orders related to allocation of funds for food and the financial assistance to evacuees; 2. Lists of foreigners, lists of persons of Polish and Jewish nationalities; 3. Records documenting living conditions of the evacuated people; 4. Orders, instructions of the People's Commissar of State Control in Armenia; 5. Lists of Jews evacuated from various locations; 6. Memos, information bulletins, orders and correspondence of the District Committee of Armenia and People's Commissars of the USSR, military and defense activities.
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 restrictions on use
- Copyright Holder
- Hayastani Azgayin Arkhiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Armenia. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Armenia. Emigration and immigration--Armenia--Registers. Refugees--Armenia--History--20th century--Registers. Polish people--Armenia--History--20th century--Registers. Communists--Armenia--History--20th century. Evacuation of civilians--(1939-1945 :--World War) Population transfers--Polish people--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Armenia--History.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Hayastani Azgayin Arkhiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the National Archives of Armenia (Hayastani Azgayin Arkhiv). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 2013, and accretion in 2015.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:20:06
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