Selected criminal cases of the Jewish residents of the Lviv region and Jewish refugees from Eastern and Central Europe arrested by the Soviet Security Services of USSR (NKVD) [Fond R-3258]
Extent and Medium
99,620 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Lʹvivsʹkoï oblasti
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Lʹvivsʹkoï oblasti (State Archives of the Lviv Region). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in July 2018.
Scope and Content
This collection contains investigative records (interrogations, verdicts, court hearings, appeals, personal documentation of defendants etc) related to the arrest, interrogation, and subsequent trials of Jews, residents of the Lviv region arrested by the Soviet Security Services (NKVD) after the occupation and annexation of Eastern Poland (present day Western Ukraine) and accused for the Zionist, religious, and political activities as well as for belonging to the category of people who were considered by the Soviet authorities to be "dangerous to the Soviet society." In addition, this collection also includes a large number of criminal cases of refugees from East and Central Europe who were arrested and interrogated by the Soviet State Security Services (NKVD) for the illegal crossing of the Soviet state border, while escaping from the Nazi persecution in territories of the Nazi-occupied Poland.
System of Arrangement
Arranged by personal names of defendants and subject of cases.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Lʹvivsʹkoï oblasti
Corporate Bodies
- Soviet Union. People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
Subjects
- Ukraine--History--German occupation (1941-1944)
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- L’viv (Ukraine)
- Nationalism--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- Zionists--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- Investigations--Law and legislation--Ukraine--20th century.
- Ukraine--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Registers.
- Document
- Protocols.
- Case files.
- Fingerprints.
- Court records.