Elar created the database for the German Red Cross

2020: Creation of the database for the German Red Cross

Specialists of ELAR digitized personal records of the German prisoners of war of World War II within the agreement between the Russian State archive (RGVA), the German Red Cross (GRC) and ELAR corporation what the last announced on February 8, 2021.

At the end of the 2020th year the works on scanning of personal records and creation of the automated database on the taken prisoner employees of the German Wehrmacht and the interned civilians for the purpose of clarification of their destinies and the notification of relatives were completed by the German Red Cross.

Within the next stage of cooperation which is conducted by GKK, RGVA and ELAR from 2004th year the staff of ELAR digitized documents from RGVA fund on the German citizens transferred to repatriation camp No. 69 in Frankfurt an der Oder and who died during convoy or soon after arrival in the camp. Transport and echelon lists for 1945 were scanned and indexed for creation of the electronic database on such fields as: number of fund, inventory, case, Full Name, year and birthplace, number, date and place of departure and purpose of an echelon, place of death/burial.

According to the Resolution state treasury bills of the USSR, from areas of the former fronts and rear camps of the country repatriations prisoners of war of the private and unter-officers and also civilians were subject, the place of collecting and transfer of the repatriated Germans announced camp No. 69 in Frankfurt an der Oder. Till February, 2021 complete data on the fate of Germans which were sent in the 1945th of the USSR home, no. Researchers only noted that repatriations, many of lists, died at ways or on site appointments, in echelons was many patients and physically weakened prisoners of war. The created database will help the German Red Cross to clear the fate of the compatriots.

2019

Digitization of a card file of the Hungarian prisoners of war and interned in the USSR

Within the tripartite agreement on sci-tech cooperation between the Russian state military archive, National archive of Hungary and Fund of support of national projects the card file of the Hungarian prisoners of war and interned in the USSR is digitized. On December 11, 2019 the Elar company reported about it.

More than 600,000 typewritten and hand-written cards containing the information about the Hungarian prisoners of war and interned are transferred to an electronic form. The database contains information on a surname, a name, a middle name, birth date and birth place of citizens of Hungary, a military rank, date and the place of capture, depending on the fate of the specific person, date and the reason of leaving, date of death and the place of burial. The information resource is created in the Russian and English languages.

The project of creation of the electronic database has scientific and humanitarian character. It, undoubtedly, will be demanded by historians of World War II, families (relatives), first of all the dead and missing prisoners of war, for refining of fate of the relatives and also search services of Hungary (The Hungarian Red Cross, etc.), speaks the Associate director of the Russian State Military of Archive (RSMA) Vladimir Nikolaevich Kuzelenkov

It will be possible get acquainted with the digitized card file of the Hungarian prisoners of war and interned on electronic resources of the Russian state military archive and National archive of Hungary in 2020.

Hungary joined the triple pact GermanyItaly-Japan on November 20, 1940 and was involved in large battles in the territory of the USSR prior to the beginning of 1943 when troops Voronezh of the front together with the 6th army of the Southwest front performed operation against the Hungarian, German and Italian divisions. As a result of approach of the Red Army the main band of defense of the 7th Hungarian division before the Storozhevsky base was broken through then the Soviet troops passed to an environment and liquidation of the opponent. By February, 1943 the 2nd Hungarian army lost almost all equipment and artillery, losses on staff were estimated approximately at 80%. After the end of World War II in the territory of the USSR the huge mass of prisoners of war and the interned different nationalities concentrated. In the majority it was the former military personnel Nazi Germany and her allies. Along with the German prisoners of war in the territory of the USSR there were Hungarians Romanians, Italians Austrians French Dutches, Slovaks and representatives of other the European people which were at war as a part of Wehrmacht or on side of Germany.

From the prisoners of war of the most different nationalities who got to the Soviet Union researchers meet the greatest difficulties with determination of number of Hungarian prisoners of war. The electronic database created on the basis of card files of the Russian state military archive should help with clearing of this major question,

Scanning and indexation of documents of fund 4, the inventory 12 under the general orders PBCP, PBC CCCP, NPO of the USSR, MVS USSR, VM USSR, MO USSR for 1918 - 1953

On January 16, 2019 ELAR company completed digitization in the Russian State Military Archive (RSMA).

According to the company, in RGVA the works on scanning and indexation of documents of fund 4, the inventory 12 under the general orders PBCP, PBC CCCP, NPO of the USSR, MVS USSR, VM USSR, MO USSR for 1918 - 1953 Specialists of ELAR are completed more than 143 thousand pages of the documents primary sources relating to especially valuable and unique copies were scanned. It is entered information at the level of the case/document indexed) – 37,735 document titles and annexes to them. The project is executed within the federal target program "Culture of Russia (2012-2018)".

In the largest archive organization of the country storage of military and historical documents of the Soviet era and practically all military documentation of the Red Army (from 1918 to 1940), troops of Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-MVD of the USSR (from 1918 to 1991), on the history of the White movement (since the end of 1917 on 2001), documents of a foreign origin on stories more than 20 countries of Europe, Asia and America (the 16-20th centuries), a complex of documents of Head Department for prisoners of war is organized and (1939-1960) interned (GUPVI) of NKVD-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and also documents of personal origin of eminent military persons. For January, 2019 more than 33 thousand funds containing more than 7 million units of storage are stored in RGVA. Annually organization executes social and legal, biographic and thematic requests. Transfer to an electronic form of a documentary array was carried out on the ELAR planetary scanners Planskan S.

The digitized funds treat especially important and unique archive documents therefore it was extremely important to ensure safety of originals at work and high quality of the received copies. The electronic images integrated with index data will be loaded Archives of Russia are posted on the website "Documents of the Soviet Era" of the portal ". Marina Bazanova, head of department of explanatory notes and information archive technologies (HCA and AAT) of RGVA

Program implementation "The culture of Russia (2012 - 2019)" is called, including, to promote informatization of the different industries of culture. Digitization of archive materials of RGVA funds is carried out for the purpose of formation of archive electronic resources and quality improvement of provision of services due to providing online access to documents.