Our blog posts are based on extensive research in archival files, document editions and the published literature. While we try to explain all abbreviations, sometimes we forget. This list of abbreviations also covers the references to our 2011 white paper on Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka and serves as an index of archives (physical and digital) we have or will use in our posts and white papers, or which are frequently cited in the literature.
We'll add a list of frequently used acronyms and shortened forms found in references in due course to this page.
- AAN - Archiwum Akt Nowy, Archive of New Files, Warsaw
- AFSB - Arkhiv FSB (oblast), a provincial FSB archive, Russia
- AIPN - Arkhiv Instytyt Pamieci Narodowej Institue of National Memory, Warsaw, previously known as AGK, Archiwum Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu - Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej, Archives of the Central Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes against the Polish People – Institute of National Memory
- APL - Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, State Archive in Lublin
- APŁ - Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi, State Archive in Łódź
- APP - Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu, State Archive in Poznań
- APMA-B or APMO - Archiwum Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau/Oświęcim, Archive of the State Museum at Auschwit-Birkenau/Oświęcim
- APMM - Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, Archive of the State Museum at Majdanek
- APMS - Archiwum Państwowe Muzeum Stutthof, Archive of State Museum of Stutthof
- ASBU - Arkhiv SBU (oblast) archive of SBU, Ukraine
- AŻIH – Archiwum Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
- BArch - Bundesarchiv, aka German Federal Archive (Berlin)
- BAL - Bundesarchiv, Zweigstelle Ludwigsburg, archive of the former Zentrale Stelle
- BArch DH - Bundesarchiv, Zwischenarchiv Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten
- BA-MA - Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Federal Military Archive, Freiburg
- BDC - Berlin Document Center, microfilm copies available at NARA
- BStU - Bundesbeauftragte für die Stasi-Unterlagen, East German Stasi Archives
- CDJC - Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, Centre of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Paris
- DALO - Derzhavnyi arkhiv Lvivskoi oblast, Lviv Region State Archive
- DAZhO - Derzhavnyi arkhiv Zhytomyrskoi oblasti, Zhytomyr Region State Archive
- GARF - Gosudarstvennyj Arkhiv Rossijskoij Federatsii, State Archive of the Russian Federation
- GFH - Ghetto Fighters' House archive
- HHStA - Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Wiesbaden
- IfZ – Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich
- IWM - Imperial War Museum
- LCVA - Lieutvos Centrinis Valstybes Archyvas Lithuanian State Archives, Vilnius
- LVVA - Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs, Latvian State Historical Archive, Riga
- NAC - National Archives of Canada
- NARA - National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
- NARB - Natsionalnyj Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus, National Archive of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
- NIOD - Nederlands instituut voor oorlogsdocumentatie, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
- RGASPI - Rossiiskij Gosudarstvennyj Arkhiv Sotsial'no-Politicheskoj Istorii, Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Moscow
- RGVA - Rossiiskij Gosudarstvennyj Voennyj Arkhiv, Russian State Military Archive, Moscow
- TNA - The National Archive, formerly Public Record Office (PRO), Kew, UK
- TsADAVOV - Tsentral’nii derzhavnii vishchikh organov vladi ta upravlinnia Ukraini, Central Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government in Ukraine
- TsAFSB - Tsentral'nyj Arkhiv FSB, Central FSB Archive, Moscow
- TsAMO - Tsentral'nyj Arkhiv Ministerstva Oborony Rossijskoj Federatsii, Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Podolsk
- USHMM - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
- VHA - Vojenský historický archiv, Military Historical Archive, Prague
- YVA - Yad Vashem Archive, Jerusalem
- YIVO - YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
- WL - The Wiener Library, London
Some recurring abbreviations in archival references
- Bd - Band, Volume
- NTN - Supreme National Tribunal, Poland
- RG - Record Group