• Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.
• Selected Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR

1995

HOLOCAUST VICTIM NAME LISTS IN THE SELECTED RECORDS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY STATE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE GERMAN-FASCIST CRIMES COMMITTED ON SOVIET TERRITORY (USHMM RG-22.002M) : INDEX / created by the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. : Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• 33 leaves ; tabs ; 28 cm.
• Number of Names or Other Entries-- 1,456 Place names.

Typescript

• In USHMM Survivors Registry Collection: Document File EE2808.
• The microfilm to which the document corresponds is in USHMM Archives: RG-22.002M [27 Reels - Document gives Reel Number for each town]

• "This finding aid relates to the Extraordinary Commision records from GARF [the State Archives of the Russian Federation , formerly TsGAOR] only. These records were microfilmed by the USHMM in conjunction with Yad Vashem and are organized in Record Group 22.002M [...]"--P. [1].
• The Selected Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR states "Types of documents include name lists of victims, protocols of interrogations of eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, signed depositions summarizing what the Commission learned. Infrequently, there are photos, diagrams and maps showing the location of sites of atrocities or graves [...] Records created by the Extraordianry Commission's national-, republic-, oblast-, and raion-level elements during and after World War II in GARF fonds 7021, 8114, and 7445".

• Soviet Union. Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory. --Indexes.
• Names, Geographical --Soviet Union --Indexes.
• World War, 1939-1945 --Atrocities --Indexes.
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Soviet Union --Indexes.

Index of place names indicating reel numbers where personal names may be found in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives microfilm USHMM RG22.002M (Selected Records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR). Each entry contains Place name, District (rayon), Region (oblast), Alternate spelling (if applicable) and Microfilm Reel number. The work contains four leaves of detailed explanatory notes on how to use the index.

• Text in English. The namelists on the microfilm to which the entries refer are primarily in Russian, but also German, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Yiddish or other languages, depending on locality and source of report.
• The explanatory notes at the beginning of the document advise users that "most of the documents, which are in Russian, are handwritten and difficult to read. Researchers should also note that there is information about individuals in the Extraordinary Commission records that does not appear in list format. That documentation is not referenced in this index...In many cases even researchers with a good knowledge of Russian will encounter difficulites in deciphering lists of names or other text because the documents are often of poor quality or because the handwriting is illegible. In such cases we recommend making a copy of the document and seeking assistance from someone who is a native Russian speaker."
• The notes also advise users that "in many cases the boundaries of republics, oblasts, and rayons (districts) in the former USSR changed after World War II. And, in a number of cases, Soviet officials renamed cities, towns, and other localities repeatedly. Note also that there are often towns by the same name in different regions [...] ao it is important to establish the oblast in which the town you are researching was located [...] Researchers should also note that for the Baltics and Moldova, the country is cited in the oblast column".

Compiled by the Survivors Registry, 1995.