Gomel Oblast Archive records
Extent and Medium
2 microfilm reels, 16 mm
Creator(s)
- Dobrush City and District Administration
Archival History
Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Gomelskoĭ oblasti
Acquisition
The records were created by various oblast government offices in the vicinity of Gomel during and after World War II. The records were captured by the Red Army and later deposited in the Gomel Oblast Archive. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives microfilmed selected files from the Gomel Oblast Archive during Nov. and Dec. 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various oblast government offices in the vicinity of Gomel. Included is information concerning reprisal actions by Germans against partisan activity, the liquidation of the ghetto at Monastyrek, the confiscation of Jewish property and livestock, and arrests of Roma.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Subjects
- Romanies--Soviet Union.
- War crimes--Belarus.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus.
- Executions and executioners.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Romanies.
- Confiscations.
- Rėchytsa (Belarus)
- Mazyr (Belarus)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Monastyrok.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Dobrush (Belarus)
- Homelʹ (Belarus)
- Prisoners of war.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Gomelskoĭ oblasti