Grodno Oblast Archive records, 1940-1944

Description:

This collection contains files relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in Grodno and environs during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), racial policies, and investigations of persons suspected of communist activities.

subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  Sources,  Jews,  Persecutions,  History

Places: Belarus,  Hrodzenskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ

Times: German occupation, 1941-1944