Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central State Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk
Extent and Medium
500 pages (photocopies),
11 photographs (photocopies).,
13 microfiche,
Archival History
Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo oborony. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ arkhiv
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.
Source of acquisition is the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (Ministerstvo oborony. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ arkhiv) at Podolsk. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in July 2001.
Scope and Content
Contains commission reports on the following: mass graves, disposition of elements of the Polish population towards the Red Army, damage inflicted on Polish towns by the Germans, the construction and running of a concentration camp in Lublin, the killing of populations at Sobibor and Odessa, and atrocities in the Minsk area. It also includes photographs of camp victims and executed people; descriptions of concentration camps at Auschwitz, Brzezinka, and Jaworzno; a declaration describing atrocities committed by the Romanian Army against the Jews; and a declaration by a captured German soldier concerning the execution of Jews in Baranowice.
System of Arrangement
The collection is organized into the following five series:1.First Belorussian Front; 2.First Ukrainian Front; 3.Second Ukrainian Front; 4.Third Belorussian Front; 5.Documents on mass killings of Jews
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo oborony. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ arkhiv
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Prisoners of war.
- Smolenskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Baranavichy (Belarus)
- Jaworzno (Poland)
- Voroshilov oblastʹ.
- Dnipropetrovsʹk (Ukraine)
- Odesa (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Sobibór (Poland)
- Stanislavsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo oborony. T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ arkhiv