Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the USSR (Kersten Committee) records
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, lists.
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1960
Creator
- Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the USSR (Kersten Committee) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Estonian, English
ACCESS RESTRICTIONS
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
The Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the USSR, also known as the Kersten Committee after its chairman, Rep. Charles J. Kersten, was established in 1953 to investigate the forced incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The committee interviewed about 100 people and published the following results in 1954: the Baltic states were violently and unlawfully incorporated into the Soviet Union, the annexation was declared illegal. The committee terminated in March 1954, when it was replaced by the Select Committee on Communist Aggression.
Extent
5 linear inches
PROVENANCE
Collection transferred to the IHRC from the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A. (EAU) in 2003-2005. It was processed as part of a collaborative project between the Estonian Archives in the USA (Lakewood, New Jersey), the National Archives of Estonia (NAE), and the IHRC in March 2010. Margit Laanemets and Kristel Tammik of the National Archives in Tallinn, Estonia, worked with IHRC staff on the project.
Topical
- Title
- Inventory of the Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the USSR (Kersten Committee) records.
- Author
- IHRC Archives
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding Aid in English
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Immigration History Research Center Archives Collecting Area
