Selected records from the Belarus Central State Archives, Minsk

Identifier
irn507368
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0082
  • RG-53.002M
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507368

Extent and Medium

23 microfilm reels, 16 mm

Creator(s)

  • Haupteisenbahndirektion Mitte

Archival History

Nat︠s︡ionalʹnyĭ arkhiv Respubliki Belarus΄

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by a donation in honor of Sara Ross Rosjanski.

The documents were created by the Haupteisenbahndirektion (HBD) Mitte, the Reichsverkehrsdirektion (RVD) Mitte, and other German occupation agencies in Belarus from ca. 1941 to ca. 1944. The records were captured by the Red Army and placed in the Belarus Central State Archive (formerly the Archive of the October Revolution) in Minsk after World War II. Records relating to the investigation of atrocities in various Belarus oblasts and districts were created from ca. 1945 to ca. 1949. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm of the records in 1990. Acquisition made possible by a gift in honor of Sara Ross Rosjanski.

Scope and Content

Contains orders, lists, reports, correspondence, and various other records relating to activities of the Haupteisenbahndirektion (HBD) Mitte; activities of the Reichsverkehrsdirektion(RVD) Mitte; railroad construction in occupied areas; railroad personnel; activities of partisans; combating partisans; use of labor in the railroad system; persecution of Jews and Roma; killing of Jews; transports to Minsk, Belarus; activities of the Organization Todt; activities of Einsatzgruppen; and activities of German police while fighting partisans. Also included are materials relating to investigations of atrocities conducted from 1945 to 1949 by authorities in various Belarussian oblasts and districts.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Corporate Bodies

  • Organisation Todt (Germany)
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei
  • Germany. Heer
  • United States. Army. Army, 7th

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Belarus.
  • Railroads--Belarus.
  • Minsk (Belarus)
  • Romani Genocide, 1939-1945--Belarus.
  • Sabotage--Belarus.
  • Police--Belarus.
  • Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belarus.
  • Germany
  • Executive departments
  • Guerrillas--Belarus.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Belarus.
  • War crimes--Belarus.
  • Railroads--Russia.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belarus.
  • Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Genre

  • Document
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