Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia

Identifier
irn506414
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0325
  • RG-06.027
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1995, 1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Latvian
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506414

Extent and Medium

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8

Archival History

Latvijas Valsts Arhivs

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The Federalnaia sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossii (KGB / State Security Committee) compiled the records for the purposes of war crime investigations and prosecution from ca. 1944 to 1995. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives acquired and received photocopies of the cases in November 1997.

Scope and Content

Contains photocopies of selected interrogation transcripts, decrees, biographical data sheets, witness statements, photographs, and miscellaneous court and trial documents from the Latvian State Archives Fond 1986 relating to the arrest, investigation, prosecution, sentencing, and in some cases, execution of war criminals accused of atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in Latvia during World War II.

System of Arrangement

The Latvian State Archives of the Former Latvian KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crimes investigations and trials in Latvia are arranged as a single series numerically by case number. Arrangement of documents within each case is primarily chronological.

Subjects

  • Executions and executioners--Latvia.
  • Sentences (Criminal procedure)--Latvia.
  • War criminals--Latvia--Biography.
  • War crime trials--Latvia.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Latvia.
  • Preliminary examinations (Criminal procedure)--Latvia.
  • War crimes--Latvia.
  • Prosecution--Latvia.
  • War criminals--Latvia--Photographs.

Genre

  • Document
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