United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding Aid RG-22 Russian Federation

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding Aid RG-22 Russian Federation Acc. 2007.457 Title: Selected Records from the State Archives of the Modern History of the Smolensk Region, Russian Federation, Related to the Nazi Occupation, Partisan and Underground Activities, and Jewish Life Before WWII Extent: 32 microfilm reels Provenance: Records from the State Archives of the Modern History of the Smolensk Region (Former Smolensk Region Communist Party Archives). Excerpts from the following Fonds: 3, 5, 6, 8, 50, 142, 1597, 1666, 1719, 1721, 1724, 1737. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives purchased the filmed collection in 2007. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms in Dec. 2007. Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access Restrictions on use: No reproduction of microfilms for third parties, or publication of documents without a written consent by the source archives. Organization and arrangement: Arrangement is thematic. Excerpts from the following Fonds: 3, 5, 6, 8, 50, 142, 1597, 666, 1719, 1721, 1724, 1737. Language: Russian, Yiddish, and German Preferred citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Division, Archives Branch. Scope and Content: This collection includes various records related to the Nazi occupation of the Smolensk region during WWII such as correspondence files of the regional administration regarding evacuation of civilians; statistical information about population; records (orders) of the partisan detachments active on the occupied territory; a list of partisan detachments; personal records of partisans; Nazi propaganda and anti- Nazi Soviet propaganda (posters and flyers); captured German documents (mostly German soldier s letters home); and memoirs of the former partisans and members of the Communist underground written after WWII ( mid 1950-1960s).The small part of this WWII 1

collection also includes pre-war records related to the Jewish community of the region, activities of the Jewish parties, Jewish sections of the regional Communist party (Evsektsii), and statistical information about national minorities of the region, including the Jewish population. Inventory: Reel 1: Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 741: Correspondence with ЦK ВKП (б) about the question of partisan activities and partyorganization works in the occupied territory, about evacuation population and valuables from the region. L.L. 1-8 Document note s by the secretary of Smolensk region in цk ВKП (б) from 24.11.41 about results of the evacuation of population and factory(?) from the region. L.L. 73-87. Secretary of Smolensk s document-notes in ЦK A. Andreev and G. Melenkov about the state partisan movement in the region in March 1942 and its activity. 1941-1946. 216 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 745: Directory letter by the regional committee district committee ВKП (б) according to question of work in written war time, about the evacuation and dr. August-October 1941. 60 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 748: Information, document notes about the activities partisans units, about work in occupied territory, about mood of the population. List of participants units in 1 April 1942. 1941-1943. 368 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 759: Information region s statistical management, presented in regional committee ВKП (б) about natural movements population from 1940 according to Smolensk regions. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 770: Committee s report, of cities and district committees ВKП (б) about party-organization according to party seniority, education, age, nationality, stay in different parties. 1941. 62 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 940: Information about performance decision by the bureau regional committee and about evacuation of the population from the frontal zones. 1942. 30 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 941: Information about atrocities of the fascists in occupied territory, about preparatory work in repeated happenings in the occupation. 1942. 45 l. WWII 2

Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 1055: Soviet leaflets to population of occupied territory. Act about atrocities HФ3 in by Duhovshinsk Region. 1942-1943. 69 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 1534: Statistical report from the district committee and regional committee about the composition of the party-organization, members according to nationality, 1 April 1945. January 1945. 45 l. Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 1544: Information of workers state-established and collective, died in battle with HФ3, shot and killed in partisan units. Reel 2: Fond 6, Inventory 2, File number 90: Information and document notes of the district committee and cities about preparation party-organization to underground work in period of occupation, considering the case of communism, living in occupied territory. 1946. 46 l. Fond 6, Inventory 2, File number 109: Statistical report by the regional committee and district committee, cities about party organization, members according to nationality. July. 1946. 45 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 1: Orders by central office of partisan actions (ЦШПД) and ПШПД about actions of the partisan units, operational summery, transferred and accepted coded telegram. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 15: Reports about war actions. Instructions about sending off in rear enemies special group. Reports underground district committee ВКП (б). 1942. 200 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 25: Reports about war actions. Instructions about sending off in rear enemies special group. Reports underground regional committee ВКП (б). 1942. 185 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 26: Results of war actions of partisan units in Smolnsk. Lists of partisan units, brigade. 1943. 129 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 30: Characters in partisan units. Smolensk region. 1942. 125 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 252: Economics in occupied region of Smolensk. 1943. 28 l. WWII 3

Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 298: Diary of collective farm of the Znamensko region Yakushev in the period of occupation. 1941-1942. 30 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 426: Report by Finkelshtein about war actions, his partisan unit and about destroyed Jews in Vitebsk and Rudna.(Statistical data). March 1942. 5 l. Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 478: Diary notes of a leader of the underground group in Monastoirshen Region. German orders and dr. 1942. 144 l. Reel 3: Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 80: translated documents and scripts by German team. 1941-1942. 223 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 83: Letter by German soldier. Document about the environment in rear enemies and dr. 1941-1942. 126 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 84: Smolensk woman in Great Patriotic War. 1941-1942. 201 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number119: Department rooms collaborations newspaper, unreleased in Smolensk: Newspaper New life number 43 from 5 December 1942. Number 47 from 9 January 1943. Newspaper Voice of the people (POA) number 8 from 8 April 1943. Newspaper From Home number 2 from 9 October 1942. Newspaper New from the Week: number 4 from 2 February 1943. Number 19 (without date), number 31 (without date). Journal for children Schoolboy number 4 from October 1942. (contains anti-semitism) 1942. 18 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File numbers 120-121: Soviet leaflets and newspapers underground district committee for population of occupied territories, leaders and politicians. 1942-1943. 143 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File numbers 129-141: Soviet leaflets and newspapers underground district committee for population of occupied territories, leaders and politicians. 1942-1943. 462 l. Reel 4: WWII 4

Fond 8, Inventory 2, File numbers 122-123: Soviet leaflets and newspapers underground regional committee for population of occupied territories, leaders and politicians. 1942-1943. 283 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File numbers 127, 128, 142-149: Soviet leaflets and newspapers underground regional committee for population of occupied territories, leaders and politicians. 1942-1943. 462 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File numbers 150-152: Materials about atrocities by НФЗ in occupied territory regions. D 150 l 36. Statistical data and different information about the destruction of Jews in Monastoirshin, Gusino, Red; l 40 same in Rudna. D 151 l 8. Destruction of Jewish population in Kasnli; l 34- Roslavya; l 52- detailed information about ghettos in Smolensk; l 60-61- information about Karacheva s ghettos. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 162: Instructions for city voices, town leaders and region chiefs. Instructions and orders with the mayor (including about the Jews). 1941-1943. 58 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 168: History of the break of the partisan movement in Smolensk in 1941. 1943. 35 l. Reel 5: Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 163: Leaflets Vlasovski Russian Committee and Liberation of the Army. 1943. 48 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 164: Leaflets by German team to the population of occupied regions. l 19. Anti-Semetic leaflet. L 24. German order to the population, clarifying, among other, the rules for Jews. 1943. 97 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 156: The same to partisans. 1943. 41 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 166: The same to fighters in the Red Army. 1943. 64 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 167: Posters, produced by the German team. 1942. 16 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 169: History of the break of the partisan movement in Smolensk in 1941. 1943. 35 l. WWII 5

Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 170: Peasant Smolensk citizens under the oppressive occupation. 1942. 29 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 171: Half year of fighting with НФЗ in Smolensk. 1942. 68 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 172: Smolensk woman in the Great Patriotic War. 1942. 34 l. Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 2, 3, 5, 15: Department of Personnel: Reel 6: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 20: Department of Personnel: Reel 7: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 21, 22, 25, 27, 31, 38 (through page 187): Department of Personnel: Lists partisan, accounting cards of the partisan units, lists of the partisan units, personal Reel 8: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 36, 38 (cont), 39, 40, 45, 46: Department of Personnel: Reel 9: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 42, 43, 44, 47: Department of Personnel: Lists partisan, accounting cards of the partisan units, lists of the partisan units, personal cases, questionnaire, personal correspondence. 14443 l. Reel 10: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 48, 49, 50 (through page 177): Department of Personnel: Lists partisan, accounting cards of the partisan units, lists of the partisan units, personal Reel 11: WWII 6

Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 50 (cont), 51, 53, 89, 90: Department of Personnel: Reel 12: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 52, 97, 99, 172: Department of Personnel: Lists partisan, accounting cards of the partisan units, lists of the partisan units, personal cases, questionnaire, personal correspondence. 14443 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 367: Leaflets from Smolensk regional committee. 1941-1943. 34 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 388: Translation of a German document about the environment in the region- group army Center. 1972. 41 l. Reel 13: Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 109: Statistical report by the district committee, and by the regional committee of city about party organization, members according to nationality. July 1946. 45 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 116: Reports and statement about German politics in regions. 1942. 132 l. Fond 8, Inventory 2, File number 160: Exerts from German letter, diary and fascist newspaper. 1942-1943. 47 l. Fond 8, Inventory 3, File number 98: Lists of members and sympathetic to the Hukovska organization ЕСДРП Poalei Zion. 1919-1920. 28 l. Fond 1666, Inventory 1, File number 1: Report and political work. Fond 1724, Inventory 1: Elninski underground district committee ВКП(б). Inventory 1-4 case from 1942-1957 (149 l) Contents: Reports and letters by the secretary of the underground district committee, including about the occupied regime and atrocities of the occupiers. Memories of the members underground. Reel 14: WWII 7

Fond 5, Inventory 1, File numbers 303, 306, 307: Materials according to work including minorities in Zapad region, section minorities for regional committee: plans, protocol of the rooms, correspondence, information and document letters. 1929-1930. 796 l. Fond 50, Inventory 1, File number 101: Protocols of Jewish section (of living) (more Jewish) ЦК ВЛКСМ and Jewish bureau regional committee ВЛКСМ. Correspondence with committee YSL about work, including young minorities. 1928-1930. 55 l. Fond 1719: Rudnyan underground district committee ВКП(б). Inventory 1-4 cases from 1942-1943 (56 l). Contents: Letters and political works from the secretary of the district committee. Fond 1721: Smolensk underground city committee ВКП(б). Inventory 1-5, 7-9, 13, 16, 18, 20 caes from 1942-1951 (271 l). Contents: Memories about the underground people about their activities, about the occupying regime, about the activities of German punitive organs. File number 12: Memories of Emily Freiman (apparently Jewish) about her work in the underground. 5 l. Fond 1724: Elninski underground district committee ВКП(б). Inventory 5, 6 cases from 1942-1957 (149 l). Contents: Reports and letters by the secretary of the underground district committee, including about the occupying regime and atrocities of the occupiers. Memories of the members of the underground. Fond 1737: Partisan regiment 13 Grishina. Composition of the regiment were Jews. Fond 1737, Inventory 8, 11, File number 106: Newspapers of the regiment 13 Death of Enemies and fights leaflets battalion and mouth. 1943-1944. 97 l. Fond 1737, Inventory 8, 11, File number 107: Photocopy of the article Hunting in Grishin (about activities of German war against partisan regiment 13 in 1942-1943 in the rear regional ground army Center ) from West German journal Wehrkunole number 1 from 1956. 1956. 13 l. WWII 8

Fond 1737, Inventory 8, 11, File number 108: Translation of an article from West German journal about German lieutenant colonel Kraidel about regiment 13. 12 March 1971. 31 l. Reel 15: Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 213: Materials of Jewish party Poalei-Zion. 1919-1920. 26 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 2259: Correspondence of the Jewish Bureau with County Committee, district committee and cells РКП(б) about the state of work among the Jewish population. 1923-1924. 424 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File numbers 2381-2384: Materials of Jewish (protocols, room, reports, help and information about work among the Jewish population in the province). 1927-1928. 424 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 2610: Questionnaire for members of minority for Smolensk province. 1924-1925. 14 l. Fond 5, Inventory 1, File numbers 304, 308: Materials about work among minorities in Western regions, section minorities according to region: plans, protocols for room, correspondence, information and document letters. 1929-1930. 796 l. Fond 5, Inventory 1, File number 640: Statistical information about the district committee ВКП(б) about the status of the district committee organization according to nationality, age, socialist status. 1930. 238 l. Reel 16: Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 603: Correspondence between provincial committee and national sections. 1920. 12 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 2599: Protocols about meetings and correspondence about work among minorities. 1924-1928. 194 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File numbers 2613-2614: Protocols about Jewish rooms by the provincial committee and material by the commissions about survey of the positions of the Jewish population in the town/province. 1924-1925. 159 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File numbers 2934-2937: Materials about Jewish (protocols about room, reports, help and information about work among Jewish population in the province.) 1925-1926. 177 l. WWII 9

Fond 3, Inventory 1, File numbers 3986, 3988, 3959, 3992: Materials about Jewish (protocols about room, reports, help and information about work among Jewish population in the province.) 1928-1929. 833 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 4117: Materials about Jewish (protocols about room, reports, help and information about work among Jewish population in the province.) 1929. 4 l. Reel 17: Fond 3, Inventory 1, File numbers 3990, 3990a: Materials about Jewish (protocols about room, reports, help and information about work among Jewish population in the province.) 1928-1929. 833 l. Fond 1597: Primary party organization of Cmolensk Jewish teacher of a college, town Smolensk. Inventory 6, 7, 8, (beginning- pages 13), 9, 10, 11, case from 1930-1937 (720 l.). Content: protocols about general party meetings; materials according to admission in ВКП(б). 1922. 60 l. Reel 18: Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 1700: Reports about work of Evseki and Latoishska section of the provincial committee РКП(б). 1922. 60 l. Fond 3, Inventory 1, File number 3991: Materials of Evseki (protocol meetings, reports, help and information about work between the Jewish population of the province). 1928-1929. 833 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File numbers 364, 367, 378, 395, 415, 421, 424, 431, 439, 453, 509, 526, 555, 561: Memories about Smolensk underground from the previous years. 334 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 381: Memories about the occupying regime in Dorogobujcka region. 1959-1960. 84 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 400: Memories about the underground in Stodolish. 1965. 6 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 404: Memories about the occupying regime in Dorogobujcka region. 1959-1960. 4 l. WWII 10

Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 406: Memories of A. I. Berman about remaining in German camp. 1959. 51 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 411: Memories of Pavl Boboilev about the atrocities of НФЗ in Roslav underground. 1959. 19 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 472: Memories of Nina Gusarova about Rudnyanski underground. 1960-1961. 19 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 475: Memories of L. Degnyarev about captivity and findings in German camps in years of the Great Patriotic War. 1958. 55 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 495: Copy of a letter by a secretary of Rudnyanski district committee Elicev from the back of the enemies. 24 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 517: Memories of N. Zaharenkov Year in the underground (Rudnyansky region). 1967. 20 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File numbers 538-539: Materials to the history of Seshinski international underground. About the actions, withdrawal of known film Call of Fire in Me. In underground was a Jewish member- Anna Pshestilenets. Reel 19: Font 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 13: Personal Department: Department of Personnel: Fond 142, Inventory 2, File numbers 588, 602, 603, 633, 644, 658, 667, 749, 765, 790, 868: Memories about Smolensk underground from previous years. 334 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File numbers 540-543: Record memories about underground Roslavl. 535 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 554: Memories of M. Kazimirov about POW camp no. 126 in Smolensk. 1963. 60 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 598: Article by L. Kotov From History of Fighting Against German-Fascist Occupiers in Smolensk Region. 1960. 50 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 636: Memories of Irma Luss about life of Soviet people in conditions of the occupation. 362 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 711: Article by V. Perejogin Adolf Hosanger s Answer. 1962. 21 l. WWII 11

Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 817: Memories of Tihomirova about the occupation in Smolensk. 1964. 6 l. Fond 142, Inventory 2, File number 819a: Memories of N. Tolkushkina about atrocities by НФЗ. 1967. 6 l. Fond 142, Inventory 3, File number 49: Memories of Izrail Lifshits- commissioner of the partisan regiment jabo. 1967. 14 l. Reel 20: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 13 (cont), 23, 26, 105: Department of Personnel: Fond 8, Inventory 1, File number 479: Reports about underground work of the youth organization of the Monastoirshenski region (with most of the Jewish population). 1944. 76 l. Fond 1597: Primary party organization of Smolensk Jewish Pedagogical College, city Smolensk. Inventory 5 cases from 1930-1937 (720 l.) Contents: Protocols about general party gatherings; materials according to admission in ВКП(б); lists of communists and propagandists. Reel 22: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 106, 109: Department of Personnel: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 173, 176, 178, 174: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Reel 23: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 101, 107: Department of Personnel: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 175, 177, 179, 181-184, 187, 189, 191: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). WWII 12

Reel 24: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 180, 190, 192, 194, 195, 196: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Reel 25: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 193, 197-200: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Fond 8, Inventory 6, File number 193: Features in partisan detachment of the Smolensk region. 1942. 106 l. Fond 8, Inventory 6, File number 194: Features in earlier partisan detachments. 1943. 60 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 12: Statistical data about partisans, actions in the Smolensk territory from 1941-1944. Incomplete data. accounted 162 Jew. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 59: Protocol meeting of the bureau of Rudnyanski underground district committee ВЛКСМ and records of the secretary, Merkina (Jewish, left the front line, organized underground district committee and newspaper). 1943. 13 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number115: Document of the commander of the partisan detachment Kazannikov about the occupying regime in Hoclavishcki and Monastoirshinski regions (includes statistical data about the destruction of Jews in Hoslavishcki and Monastoirshinski regions). October 1942. 6 l. Reel 26: Fond 6, Inventory 1, File number 1544: Lists of agency and collective state workers killed in battle with НФЗ, shot and killed in partisan detachments. 1945. 50 l. Fond 6, Inventory 6, File number 167: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 207: Leaflets and different Soviet materials by agitation in the rear enemies. May 1942. 49 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 208: Appeal, leaflets, orders by the German command. 1942. 68 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File numbers 222-225: Leaflets, articles, and treatment of partisans, soviets organs and partisan to population in occupied territory and POWs. 1942-1943. 246 l. WWII 13

Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 334: Materials about the actions of Smolensk underground. Lists of personal composition and historical information by the underground group. 1966. 33 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 338: The same about actions by the Roslavlski underground. 1967. 20 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 339: Historical information about the actions of Roslavlski underground. LL. 31-34, 87. About assistant professor of Moscow Road Institute, Sameil Golbraih- spy, whose actions under view Mingrelian Ali Zayarshina. Was awarded the governmental award. LL. 49-52. Information about German management city, names of criminals. LL. 79-80. Information about POW camp with 54000 men. 1968. 107 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 355: Soviet leaflets, newspaper Baby ( Workers path few formats for occupied regions). 1942-1943. 27 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 361: Order from German them for the population (scripts). 1962. 8 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 364: Smolensk woman in the Great Patriotic War. Materials from the funds of the Archives Minister of Defense. 1958. 81 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 365: Reports by the chief German operative group B about actions. 15 November- 15 December 1942. 50 l. Reel 27: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 9, 10, 11, 16, 55, 113: Department of Personnel: Reel 28: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 12, 14, 18, 19, 28, 34: Department of Personnel: Reel 29: WWII 14

Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 29, 33, 35, 54, 72, 73, 75, 94, 111: Department of Personnel: Lists partisan, accounting cards of the partisan units, lists of the partisan units, personal. Reel 30: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 110, 112, 114: Department of Personnel: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File number 162, 163, 165, 168: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 372: Materials of Rudnyanski underground organization (documents). 1964. 87 l. Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 389: Translation of a diary about war actions by the no. 3 commanding general security troops and commander of the rear group army Center Shenkendorf. 1 July-31 December 1942. 306 l. Reel 31: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 32, 37: Department of Personnel: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 161, 164, 166, 170, 171: Supply Department: (armament, food, and pr.). Fond 8, Inventory 8, File number 366: Documents of German occupying administration (Debrovski region). 1959. 45 l. Reel 32: Fond 8, Inventory 3, File numbers 102, 103, 104: Department of Personnel: WWII 15