Documents in the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings (BGAKFFD) relating to the Great Patriotic War

Documentary photographs catalogued according to various subjects

The early period of the Great Patriotic War

Offensive of German troops at the Soviet border. – BGAKFFD, 29 items

Defense of Brest Fortress in 1941 (combat operations, basements, casemates, inscriptions on the walls, the group and individual portraits of the fortress’s defenders and their families, meetings with general puiblic in the post-war time). – BGAKFFD, 153 items

Defense of Mogilev. – BGAKFFD, 18 items

Military operations on the war fronts, combat service and daily life of soldiers

Combat operations in the territory of Belarus. – BGAKFFD, 444 items

Combat operations outside Belarus (defense of Smolensk, Moscow, Leningrad, Sevastopol, Voronezh, battles in Stalingrad, Kursk, in Baultic countries, seizure of Kaunas, Vilnius, Riga, Tallin, Germany’s towns and other inhabited areas). – BGAKFFD, 229 items

Activities of the auxiliary services and units (intelligence, communication, medical service, snipers, etc.). – BGAKFFD, 123 items

Military reporters, cameramen, women-soldiers. – BGAKFFD, 75 items

Political work in the army (the party and komsomol meetings, admission to the Communist Party and Komsomol, reception of delegations, etc.). – BGAKFFD, 87 items

Every-day life of the Soviet troops (reading of newspapers and letters from home; distribution of parcels and letters at the front line; performance of professional artists and amateur groups; publication of “Combat papers”, etc.). – BGAKFFD, 62 items

The Soviet and German POW. – BGAKFFD, 89 items

Funerals of the killed soldiers, and graves of the Soviet soldiers, partisans and civilians. – BGAKFFD, 33 items

The killed German soldiers; German cemeteries in the territory of Belarus. – BGAKFFD, 7 items

Rewarding of the Soviet military men. – BGAKFFD, 37 items

The captured material and the destroyed military equipment of the enemy. – BGAKFFD, 35 items

The regiment and division’s banners saved by the Belarusian residents. – BGAKFFD, 15 items

The population’s returning homeland. – BGAKFFD, 40 items

Portraits of participants of the Great Patriotic War. – BGAKFFD, 706 items

Partisan and Underground movement

Administration of oath. – BGAKFFD, 9 items

The combat and diversionary operations of Partisans. – BGAKFFD, 488 items

Cooperation between Partisans and the local population. – BGAKFFD, 41 items

Cooperation between Partisans and transport aviation (evacuation of children to the unoccupied territory, Partisan airfields, pilot groups, planes’  preparation for flights). – BGAKFFD, 22 items

Political work in Partisan units and among the local population. – BGAKFFD, 121 items

Partisans’ printing works. – BGAKFFD, 63 items

Every-day life of Partisans (baking of bread, making and repairing of arms, family camps, assistance of Partisans to the kolkhoz workers in field works, building of earth-houses, training in Partisan schools, etc.). – BGAKFFD, 56 items

Medical care of Partisans. – BGAKFFD, 29 items

Rewarding of Partisans. – BGAKFFD, 18 items

Parades of Partisans. – BGAKFFD, 55 items

Portraits of the Partisan leaders and the participants of the Partisan movement. – BGAKFFD, 1131 items

Portraits of the leaders and members of underground organizations. – BGAKFFD, 563 items

Soldiers of the Armia Krajova formations located in Belarus. – BGAKFFD, 43 items

Battle sites; the earth-houses and huts of Partisans.- BGAKFFD, 80 items

Soviet home front

Work of the Belarusian enterprises evacuated to the Soviet back areas; the bureau for search of the evacuated Belarusian people, etc. – Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, 37 items

The German Occupation and its aftermath

The economic, political and social manifestations of the occupation regime (deportation of people to Germany, driving away of cattle, patrol inspection of documents, etc.) – BGAKFFD, 181 items

The punitive and terrorist actions of the occupants (executions of Partisans, underground fighters and civilians; the sites of mass holding and annihilation; corpses of Soviet citizens, etc.). – BGAKFFD,565 items

Destructions in the localities of Belarus. – BGAKFFD, 618 items

Mass actions and portraits of the Belarusian collaborators. – BGAKFFD, 33 items

Activities of the commissions for investigation of the Nazi crimes. – BGAKFFD, 10 items

Legal processes over the war criminals (sittings of military tribunals; interrogations of the accused persons; photocopies)