Harry Boonin collection

Identifier
irn504394
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.0096
  • RG-31.012
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504394

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Acquisition

The government of East Germany collected and used the depositions for war crime trials in Halle, East Germany, in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, and 1988. Harry Boonin acquired copies from the Bundesarchiv Potsdam, Germany. He donated the copies to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Apr. 1994.

Scope and Content

Contains the photocopies of six depositions and relating to mass killings of Soviet civilian Jews and Soviet Jewish prisoners of war from Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv, Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ Gaysin, and Uman in Ukraine. The killings took place in Kirovohrad, Ukraine, around September 1941, and were carried out by Police Battalion 304. The depositions were used by the German Democratic Republic as prosecution evidence in war crimes trials held in Halle, circa 1970 to 1988.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Subjects

  • War crime trials--Halle--Germany.
  • Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (Ukraine)
  • Umanʹ (Ukraine)
  • Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv (Ukraine)
  • Jews--Ukraine--Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv--Ukraine.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Gaysin.
  • War crimes--Ukraine.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine--Kirovohrad.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡.
  • Gaysin (Ukraine)
  • Prisoners of war--Ukraine--Kirovohrad.
  • Kirovohrad (Ukraine)

Genre

  • Document
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Copies

  • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Bundesarchiv (Germany)