Selected records from the State Archives of the Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan

Identifier
irn50017
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.7
  • RG-74.003
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

21,237 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Qaraghandy oblasti

Acquisition

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.

Source of acquisition is the Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Qaraghandy oblasti (State Archive of Karaganda Region). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2013. This is a joint project of the USHMM and Yad Vashem.

Scope and Content

Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan during World War II. Includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection contains various lists of evacuees arriving to Karaganda from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Karaganda Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Karaganda Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the settlement, education of the orphan children, and assistance given to Polish refugees, etc.

System of Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.