The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File

Introduction; About the Documents; A Prisoner's Personal File: Cover and Cover Page; Order to Receive a Prisoner; Order on the Selection of a Measure of Restraint; The Search Record; Arrestee Form; Intake Fingerprint Form; Preconviction Transfer to Another Prison; Search on Prison Transfer; Prisoner Photographs; Permission to Receive Items; Prisoner Interrogation Records; Extension of Detention; The Decision to Send to a Special Camp; The Decision of the Special Board; The Prisoner's Acknowledgment of Receipt of the Decision of the Special Board; Notice; Transfer to Being Held for the Special Board; Order to Transfer to a Labor Camp; Camp Records-Form No. 1; Certification on Property; Medical Treatment; Death Certificates; Postmortem Fingerprinting; Burial; Correspondence with Relatives; Concluding Thoughts;