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Official documentation regarding religious support of Wlassow troops by the Russian Orthodox Church, (undated)

Official documentation regarding religious support of Wlassow troops by the Russian Orthodox Church, (undated) - Letter from Gergius of the Metropolit of Lithuania and Exarch of Latvia and Estonia, sent to the Propaganda-Abteilung beim Kommandierenden General der Sicherungstruppen und Befehlshaber im Heeresgebiet Nord (part of the Wehrmacht propaganda department of the Supreme Command of the Army Group North); request to recognize the head of the Russian Orthodox Church as the sole representative of the Russian Orthodox POWs and the Orthodox Christians residing under German occupation, (undated).

File Number : 830

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Memoirs of Alla (Fomkin) Zaydman, born in Gorki, Belorussia, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Gorki Ghetto, using a false identity in the villages in the area, in the Dora camp, and on a private farm in Germany Life before the war; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; draft of her father to the Red Army; occupation of the area by the Germans; finding a hiding place in the nearby villages with her mother, Yelena Feyn; betrayal; arrest of her mother by the Gestapo; rescue of her mother by a local priest; her mother joins the partisans; Establishment of the Gorki...

File Number : 9428

Type of Material : Postcard, Letter, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian