Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History records relating to Jewish partisan resistance in the Soviet Union
Extent and Medium
5 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives acquired microfilm reproductions of select files in 1995.
Scope and Content
Contains name lists, case files, photographs, interrogations, reports, memoranda, and various other documents relating to both Jewish and non-Jewish partisan resistance movements in all areas of the occupied Soviet Union during World War II; biographical information on individual partisans, their promotions, awards, and activities; persecutions of Soviet Jews during the German occupation; atrocities committed against Soviet Jews during the German occupation; the establishment of ghettos in the Soviet Union; counter-intelligence by the Gestapo to combat partisan activity; and the role of the NKVD in partisan activity.
System of Arrangement
Organized: Reel 1 contains records from Fond 69, Opis 4, Fond 69, Opis 1, Fond 69, Opis 9,and Fond 17, Opis 88; Reel 2 contains records from Fond 69, Opis 1 and Fond 69, Opis 4; Reel 3contains records from Fond 69, Opis 1; Reel 4 contains records from Fond 69, Opis 4 and Fond 69,Opis 1; and Reel 5 contains records from Fond 69, Opis 4 Arrangement of the records on the basisof fond and opis is haphazard. Arrangement of files (dela) within each fond and opis is numerical
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniiai izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union.
- Jewish ghettos--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Soviet Union.
- Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union.
- Questioning.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Soviet Union.
- Intelligence service--Germany.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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