Selected records from the State Archives of the Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
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
- Qaraghandy (Kazakhstan)
- Kazakhstan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Kazakhstan--Politics and government--20th century.
- Qaraghandy oblysy (Kazakhstan)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Kazakhstan.
- Communists--Kazakhstan--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Kazakhstan--20th century--Registers.
- Refugees--Kazakhstan--History--20th century--Registers.
- Pavlodar Region (Kazakhstan)
- Polish people--Kazakhstan--History--20th century--Registers.
- Population transfers--Polish people--History--20th century.
- Forced migration--Kazakhstan--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Kazakhstan--History.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Document
- Reports.
- Registers.
- Statistics.