Metadata: Criminal Cases against German POWs Convicted of Crimes Committed in the Temporarily Occupied Territory during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 and in the Postwar Period
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный архив Республики Беларусь
- Postal address:
- 220114, Nezavisimosti Ave. 116, Minsk, Belarus
- Phone number:
- +375 (17) 351-05-12
- Web address:
- https://narb.by/be
- Email:
- narb@narb.by
- Reference number:
- F. 1363
- Title:
- Criminal Cases against German POWs Convicted of Crimes Committed in the Temporarily Occupied Territory during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 and in the Postwar Period
- Title (official language):
- УГОЛОВНЫЕ ДЕЛА НА НЕМЕЦКИХ ВОЕННОПЛЕННЫХ, ОСУЖДЕННЫХ ЗА ПРЕСТУПЛЕНИЯ, СОВЕРШЕННЫЕ НА ВРЕМЕННО ОККУПИРОВАННОЙ ТЕРРИТОРИИ В ГОДЫ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ 1941–1945 гг. И В ПОСЛЕВОЕННЫЙ ПЕРИОД (ОБЪЕДИНЕННЫЙ АРХИВНЫЙ ФОНД)
- Creator/accumulator:
- BSSR People’s Commissariat of State Security (NKGB) and Ministry of State Security
- Date(s):
- 1939/1968
- Language:
- Russian
- German
- Extent:
- 245 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in each of the fond’s inventories that pertain to Jewish history include minutes of interrogations of POWs – Wehrmacht officers and servicemen, and SS and SD personnel, including: Oswald Lind, Heinz Guericke, Wilhelm Janitske, Erich Grundman, and Erich Stoll, on the extermination of prisoners of the Minsk and Bialystok ghettos in 1942-43 (1945, 1947, 1949); Karl Buchner, on the extermination of the Jewish population of Minsk and of Jews brought there from Austria, Germany, Poland, and France in 1942, and on the mass pogroms against Jews in Minsk in 1942-43 (1945); Ulrich Spengler, on the mass shooting of Jews in the city of Novogrudok in 1941 (1946); Reinhold Zwetzing, on the mass shootings of Jews in the cities of Vileika, Vitebsk, Nevel’, Velizh, and Gorodok in 1941-43 (1945); Vincent Respondeck and Johann Hoffmann on the extermination of Jews in the village of Uruch’e/Uručča (Slutsk district) in 1942 (1946, 1947); Richard Zimosek, on the organizing of the Jewish ghetto in the city of Slonim in 1941 (1946-47); Otto Englert, on the extermination of prisoners of the Slutsk ghetto in 1943 (1946, 1948); David Ehoff, on the mass shootings of Jews in the villages of Zembin and Begoml’ and the city of Borisov in 1943, and on efforts to destroy evidence of these crimes (1947); Max Plesner, on the extermination of Jews in the village of Lel’chitsy in 1942 (1947); Lorenz Lerner, on the mass shooting of Jews in the village of Vorontsovo in 1942 (1947); Erich Zaro, on the extermination of the Jewish population of the village of Beshenkovichi in 1941 (1948); Karl Mast, on the mass shooting of Jews in the city of Baranovichi (1948); Friedrich Wolf, on the use of Jewish forced labor in workshops of the Minsk SD, and the mass shooting of Jews in 1942 (1948); Karl Schilke, on the destruction of the Glubokoe ghetto in 1943 (1948); Alfred Beckman, on the mass shooting of Jews in Brest in 1942 (1949); Herman Broekman, on the destruction of the Jewish population of Bialystok and Mogilev in 1941 (1949); Erwin Pulzac, on the mass shooting of Jews in the city of Bereza in 1942 (1949); Erich Thomas, on the extermination of prisoners of the Vitebsk ghetto in 1943 (1949); Wilhelm Keller, on the mass shooting of Jews in the city of Osipovichi in November 1941 (1949); etc. The fond also contains photographs of the victims of mass shootings of Jews at the Novogrudok prison and in the city of Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi) in 1941, and of the exhumation of victims’ bodies in 1944.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The fond consists of files pertaining to criminal cases brought by investigators of the BSSR People’s Commissariat of State Security (NKGB) and Ministry of State Security; these include minutes of interrogations and testimony of German military personnel held in Soviet POW camps after the end of World War II.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond contains two inventories systematized by document type and according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary