Selected records of the Russian State Military Archives (Former Osobyi Archives Collections) from the Yad Vashem
Extent and Medium
8 microfilm reel, 16 mm
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Yad Vashem, Israel. The Yad Vashem reproduced the records at the Russian State Military Archives (Former Osobyi Archives Collections), Moscow, and provided the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with copies. There is no reference to the Osobyi archival signatures and therefore the collections cannot be identified.
Scope and Content
Contains fragmentary excerpts from captured German documents, including directives, decrees, name lists relating to the emigration of Jews from Germany, reports, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the administration of the SD and Gestapo, Zionist organizations; RSHA and Gestapo personnel; religious conversions of Jews and Christians; the Vienna Jewish community; activities of various Jewish organizations; anti-Jewish laws; Jewish emigration; activities of the German Labor Front; activities of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei in Auschwitz; liquidation of Jewish schools and financial firms; activities of the SD and the SIPO in the occupied territories of the Baltic States; and activities of Polish, Lithuanian and Jewish partisans.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Corporate Bodies
- Yad Vashem (Jerusalem)
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv