Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation

Identifier
irn503657
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1987.012
  • RG-22.001
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503657

Extent and Medium

folders

3

4 microfiche,

Archival History

Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Acquisition

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council received the documents in Feb. 1987 from the Main Archival Administration of the USSR, Council of Ministers in Moscow.

Scope and Content

Contains public notices, maps, testimonies, letters, and reports relating to killing in Lithuania during Nazi occupation; killing in retaliation for sabotage; activities of Einsatzgruppe A from October 1941 to January 1942; mass shootings of Soviet citizens; Soviet POWs; creation of ghettos; operation “Hornung“; the annihilation of Jews in Slutsk (Minsk Oblast); killing of Soviet citizens in retaliation for partisan activities; interrogation of Kiev inhabitants concerning the massacre at Babi Yar; operation “Swamp Fever“ near Minsk; operation “Magic Flute“ in Minsk; operation “Kottbus“ in Byelorussia; and operation “Herman“ conducted in the occupied territory of Grodno and Minsk.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii

Corporate Bodies

  • Einsatzgruppen
  • SS (Organization)
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
  • Germany. Gestapo

Subjects

  • Sabotage--Soviet Union.
  • Atrocities--Soviet Union.
  • Fascism.
  • Executions and executioners--Soviet Union.
  • Jews--Soviet Union.
  • Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940.
  • Concentration camps.
  • Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
  • Kyïv (Ukraine)
  • Belarus.
  • Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941.
  • Katynʹ (Russia)
  • Tilsit (Germany)
  • Guerrillas.
  • Hrodna (Belarus)
  • Minsk (Belarus)
  • Lithuania.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union.
  • Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Minsk.

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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