The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus

Scope and content

Documents of civilian workers from Belarus: The majority of microfilms contain questionnaires concerning their work in Germany filled in by repatriated persons. The other microfilms contain a variety of documents related to their work in Germany. There are identification cards for civilian workers, identification cards for transportation to Germany; bilingual documents registering the health conditions of the civilian workers, trilingual documents which consist of an abbreviated CV, typed transport lists, which sometimes feature the remark “frw.” meaning voluntary and mention the number of guards accompanying the transport, printed forms for transport lists featuring a remark about the ability to speak German, registry books containing lists of workers to be transported to Germany, and documents of persons who were to be sent back from Germany. Additionally, there is documentation which seems to be indirectly related to the documentation on the civilian workers from Belarus. There are Russian lists, Soviet identification cards and passport issued by the Belarusian SSR, Polish identification cards, bilingual identification cards issued by German authorities, bilingual documents issued by local authorities, registration cards, release documentation for Prisoners Of War, warrant cards of the “Belarusian Constabulary”, cards, which prove the delivery of agricultural products, requests by German employers in Belarus not to send their staff to Germany, citations to the job agency, documents that forcefully send persons to Germany, translations of letters by Belarusian youth who tell about the good life they are having in Germany, lists of the school for leadership of the “Weißruthenisches Jugendwerk (WJW)”, i.e. Belarusian Youth Office, lists about the assignments of female leaders of WJW in Germany and short appraisals of their performance. Furthermore, there are transport lists of Dutch and Flemish boys to Schwerin, Germany and lists of German youth of both sexes including their Hitler Youth member numbers on the microfilms.