Selected records from the State Archive of South Kazakhstan Region in Shymkent, related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

Selected records related to evacuation of the civilian population to Shimkent region in Kazakhstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, provision of food supplies and medical assistance to the evacuees by the local Soviet and Communist Party authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees who arrived in Shimkent region in 1941-1942 as well as statistical reports and correspondence files.

Arranged by name of cities in Shimkent region (South Kazakhstan), and in several subject groups: 1. Protocols and minutes of the Bureau of the South Kazakhstan Regional Committee, 2. Reports on the placement and employment of the evacuated population: Polish people; 3. Minutes of meetings on the medical care of the evacuated population; 4.Top secret reports of the South Kazakhstan regional prosecutor's office to the regional committee; 5. Lists of evacuated communists; 6. Memorandums and correspondence; 7. Letters from front-line soldiers; 8. Statements, complaints of evacuated citizens on household issues; 9. Correspondence of the military department about living conditions of evacuated families; 10. Minutes of meetings of the commission working on applications for withdrawal of citizens of Poles and Jews from the Soviet citizenship, lists of Polish citizens, estimates, correspondence, etc.; 11. Lists of Jewish workers; 12. Lists of evacuated children; 13. Jews in Kazakhstan: history, religion, culture (various name lists, references and other documents, 1946)