Grodno Oblast Archive records
Extent and Medium
15,878 digital images, JPEG
7 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Creator(s)
- Grodno Commissar (Amtskommissar) for Civil Administration of Belostok Region
Archival History
Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Grodnenskoĭ oblasti
Acquisition
The records were created by the office of the Grodno Commissar for the Civil Administration of Białystok Region and various other German occupation agencies during World War II. The records were captured by the Red Army and later deposited in the Grodno Oblast Archive. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum microfilmed selected files from the Grodno Oblast Archive during the fall of 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and investigations of persons suspected of communist activities.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Synagogues.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus.
- Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Hrodna.
- Guerrillas--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Romanies.
- Census.
- Jews--Russia.
- Physicians.
- Hrodna (Belarus)--Mayor's office.
- Economic policy--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Catholics--Poland.
- Propaganda.
- Transports.
- Crime--Poland.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Grodnenskoĭ oblasti