Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records

Identifier
irn514464
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1989.1024
  • RG-22.013
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1961
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514464

Extent and Medium

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Archival History

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the State Archives of Film, Video & Photo Records in Russia(Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov, RGAKFD). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection in 1989.

Scope and Content

Contains 57 photographs and 11 film negatives depicting Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe, war crimes, liberation of concentration camps by the Red Army, corpses of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in two series: 1. Photographs relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe; 2. Film negatives relating to Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. Organization is chronological.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotodokumentov

People

  • Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Tallin (Estonia)
  • Lysychansʹk (Ukraine)
  • Judicial proceedings--Estonia--Tallinn--1960-1970.
  • Riga (Latvia)
  • Petrozavodsk (Russia)
  • War crimes trials.
  • Kingissepa rajoon (Estonia)
  • Orsha (Belarus)
  • Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship)
  • Vitsebskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ (Belarus)
  • Lidice (Czech Republic)
  • Orel (Orlovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
  • Smolenskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Soviet Union.
  • Kaunas (Lithuania)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Borisov (Belarus)
  • Grachevo (Russia)
  • Babica (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
  • Judicial proceedings--Latvia--1940-1950.
  • Budapest (Hungary).
  • War criminals--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Europe.
  • Mass burials--1940-1950.
  • Concentration camps--Europe.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Borisovka (Belgorodskaia oblast', Russia)
  • Military personnel--Soviet--1940-1950.
  • Concentration camps--Soviet Union.
  • Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
  • Orlov (Russia)--History.
  • Klooga (Estonia)
  • Soviet Union--History--1939-1945.

Genre

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