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Soviet Survivors of Nazi Occupation

The web portal presents an extensive corpus of previously unknown interviews with Soviet survivors and contemporary witnesses of the German occupation in the Soviet Union. The eyewitness accounts were recorded by Moscow historians (the so-called Minc Commission) who followed the Red Army on its advance westwards from 1942 until the end of the war. The interview transcripts (approx. 400 in total) and additional documents currently stored in Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian archives are gradually being made available online. A portion of them are also provided in German and English translations.

Please, note, that the database is still in BETA-mode. The pilot project to this database can be accessed here.