Russian Military Medical Museum Archives records

Identifier
irn501425
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.A.0297
  • RG-22.035
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501425

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

Voenno-medit︠s︡inskiĭ muzeĭ (Russia)

Acquisition

The records were collected by members of the field medical units of the Red Army. Source of acquisition is the Russian Military Medical Museum, St. Petersburg. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1996.

Scope and Content

The collection contains records acquired by members of the field medical units of the Red Army that provide information on the persecution and killing of Jews and others in Eastern Europe by the Nazis. Documents include reports regarding concentration camp conditions; treatment of Russian prisoners; and reports and eyewitness accounts of Nazi atrocities in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as one series. The collection contains copies of select documents from several record groups and series, and folders within those series. The titles reflect what record group (fond), series (opis), and folders the documents are pulled from.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Voenno-medit︠s︡inskiĭ muzeĭ (Russia)

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camps.
  • Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaia oblast, Russia)
  • Janowska (Concentration camp)
  • Jews--Europe--Pogroms.
  • Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Eastern Europe--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Nikopol' (Ukraine)
  • Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
  • Mass burials.
  • Prisoners of war.
  • Żagań (Poland)
  • Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Tarnopol (Poland)
  • Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Eastern Europe.
  • Lithuania--History--German occupation, 1941-1945.

Genre

  • Document
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.

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