Overview
- Description
- Miscellaneous records of the German administrative and judicial agencies in the occupied territories of Poland and Soviet Union as well as edicts and orders of the occupied authorities on the structure of administrative services and degrees of jurisdiction, on economic and food issues, on establishing local institutions, on operating railroads, setting price controls, it also includes minutes of court sessions and investigative files. Consists of circular letters on evacuating Poles and Jews from the eastern territories of Germany and relocate them to the General Government, reports on execution of Jews in Grodno, correspondence on status of foreigners living in Mińsk Mazowiecki, a list of the Jewish foreigners registered in the city Rzeszów, Poland (German: Reichshof), documents on resettlement of Jews from Germany to Poland, establishment of the ghetto in Warsaw (Poland) and Lʹviv (Ukraine), and special zones for Jews in the number of regions in Poland and Galicia.
Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records. - Alternate Title
- German Administrative and Juridical Organs in the Occupied Territories
- Date
-
inclusive:
1935-1945
- 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
- Fishman, D. E., Kupovetsky, M., Kuzelenkov, V. (ed.), Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive. Scranton, 2010
http://www.sonderarchiv.de/fondverzeichnis.htm
Browder, G. C. Captured German and other Nation's Documents in the Osobyi (Special) Archive, Moscow. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association. Internet access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546224
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Registers. Reports. Maps.
- Extent
-
2 microfilm reels (partial) ; 16 mm.
648 digital images : JPEG.
- System of Arrangement
- Fond 1447 (1935-1945). Opis 1; Dela 444. Selected records arranged in four series: 1. Official German publications regarding various administrative matters; 2. Directive from General Government (Warsaw) concerning evacuation of Poles and Jews; 3. Various directives on transportations, price controls, taxes, agriculture and other matters; 4. Lists of confiscated IDs from foreign Jews, and other list of Jews, prepared by German authorities.
Note. Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels: #91, 425;
Reel 91: Image #1734-1990;
Reel 425: Image #1839-Reel end.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction and publication only with written permission of the Russian State Military Archives
- Copyright Holder
- Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland--History--Sources. Railroads--Germany--History--20th century. Administrative responsibility--Germany--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Europe--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1447. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993, and accretion in 2004.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:17:38
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn599809
Additional Resources
Download & Licensing
- See Rights and Restrictions
- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
In-Person Research
- Requires Research Visit
- Plan a Research Visit
-
Request in Shapell Center Reading Room
Bowie, MD
