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Update on the Captured Documents in the Former Osoby Archive, Moscow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

George C. Browder
George C. Browder
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State University of New York College at Fredonia
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In the summer of 1992, I was able to return to the Osoby Archive, now the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections. At that time, we completed the selection process for microfilming for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive and reviewed many of the opisi, or finding aids. Consequently, I can report corrections on some errors that inevitably resulted from our first, rushed review and can provide more accurate German-language titles for some of the agencies described obscurely in English in my original report.

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Central European History , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1993, pp. 335 - 342
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1993

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References

1. Centr chraneniya istoriko-dokumental'nych kollekciy.

2. Note, Scholarly, “Captured German and Other Nations' Documents in the Osoby (Special) Archive, Moscow,” Central European History 24, no. 4 (1991): 424–45.Google Scholar

3. von Jena, Kai and Lenz, Wilhelm, “Die deutschen Bestände im Sonderarchiv in Moskau,” Der Archivar 45, no. 3 (1992): 457–68.Google Scholar The numbers of folders given in my published list were based on data in the opisi that we reviewed on our second trip and that I was able to insert in the previous report just before it went to press. They should be reliable; however, one must consult the archive in Moscow directly for absolute certainty. Other published lists are now available in German: Wegner, Bernd, “Deutsche Aktenbestände im Moskauer Zentralen Staatsarchiv: Ein Erfahrungsbericht,” Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 40, no. 2 (04 1992): 311–19Google Scholar, describing several key fondy in some detail; and Aly, Götz and Heim, Susanne, Das Zentrale Staatsarchiv in Moskau (“Sonderarchiv”): Rekonstruktion und Bestandsverzeichnis verschollen geglaubten Schriftguts aus der NS-Zeit (Düsseldorf, 1992).Google Scholar

4. Described briefly in Wegner, 313. Since we had no documentation on this material, only word of mouth information, I did not include it in my earlier report.

5. Von Jena and Lenz, “Die deutschen Bestände,” 458.

6. Von Jena and Lenz, “Die deutschen Bestände,” 457; and Zarusky, Jürgen, “Bemerkungen zur russischen Archivstiuation,” Vierteljahrshete für Zeitgeschichte 41, no. 1 (01 1993): 139–47, see 143Google Scholar; and conversation with Josef Henke of the Bundesarchiv.

7. For a breakdown of this important collection, see Zarusky, “Bemerkungen,” 144.

8. For a breakdown, see Zarusky, “Bemerkungen,” 143–44.

9. See Zarusky, “Bemerkungen,” 145, for a summary of fond 519, NSDAP.

10. Zarusky, “Bemerkungen,” 145.

11. Frank Nicosia has reported that prompt copying service now costs sixty cents per page; one can leave orders for copying at the staff's convenience at thirty cents per page, but that is not recommended, as reported in Giles's, Geoffrey “German Studies Association Archives Committee Annual Report,” German Studies Association Newsletter 18, no. 2 (Winter, 1993): 40–41.Google Scholar

12. Zarusky, “Bemerkungen,” 142.

13. For a complete “List of Subcollections” of all archival materials collected from Europe, Israel, and the United States, write to the Research Institute Archives, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024–2150. Scholars wishing to do research should announce their intended date of visit and address inquiries to the same address.