Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (RGVA)

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi, RGVA), 1939-1944 years. Archive was established in 1920 as the Archive of the Red Army (from 1933 Central Archive of the Red Army, from 1941 Central State Archive of the Red Army, and from 1958 Central State Archive of the Soviet Army). In 1946 Institution had been supplied with separate subarchive, so called 'Separate Archive' that included documents collected by the Soviet Army during World War II in the other states and transferred here in 1946. In 1992, Special was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary Collections (TSKhDK), and in 1999 the Russian Archival Committee merged the TsKhDK with the neighboring Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). Archive contains documents from the whole territory of the former Soviet Union, as well as documents of various people from Poland, Germany, and former Czechoslovakia. Over the years Soviet security officials transferred some of the files to governments in the Warsaw Pact nations. https://portal.ehri-project.eu/institutions/ru-003203 In the Yad Vashem Archives there are the collections of photographs and documents created by the German occupation agencies, including the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the Central Office of the SS building management and Police in Auschwitz, captured by the Red Army at the end of World War II. Auschwitz prisoners' cards, work certificates for foreign prisoners, photographs and diagrams of the construction sites in the camp. Alphabetical index to the books of registration of the death of prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Lists of prisoners with last name, first name, religion, camp number, last place of residence. Among the prisoners there are people of different nationalities, confessions, countries and cities: such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig,and Freiburg from Germany, Den Haag and Amsterdam from Holland, Antwerpen and Brussels from Belgium; Paris, Lille, Nice and Grenoble from France; Warsaw and Tomaszow from Poland, Kaunas and Memel from Lithuania, Riga and Libau from Latvia;Skidel from Belarus; Budapest from Hungary; from Spain and others countries. Cards of prisoners were prepared on the first computers in the form of punch cards. Original signatures and titles of collections: 502K Центральное строительное управление войск "СС" и полиции в Освенциме, 1939-1944 K-30 Заключенные советские граждане.