66 years have passed since the end of World War II. But for a single day since May 45th, the search for the dead and missing soldiers in that war does not stop. Foundations and organizations have been created, by contacting which the relatives of the missing can try to find out something about the fate of their ancestors.
Instruction manual
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For starters, try to find out the fate of the missing relative through official sources. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation compiled a Generalized Databank (abbreviated as HBS), which contains all the necessary information found in the documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. These papers contain loss reports from the fronts. In addition, the archives also contain information about the places of the existing burial of soldiers.
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To use this information, go to obd-memorial.ru. Select the "Documents on the Fallen Soldiers" section. Then you need the field "database about soldiers killed during the second world war". Once in the database, click "Start Search". Now enter the information that you know about your grandfather or great-grandfather and wait. True, it is not a fact that there is information in the system that interests you. Indeed, during the war there were thousands of military burial places, about which there was simply no one to report.
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If you did not find the information you are interested in on this site, you can try searching differently. To do this, go to the site soldat.ru. There is a section "Books of memory". It contains information collected from books in memory of various regions and districts of the country about soldiers wounded and buried during the war. Here you can find out in which hospitals, in what period the soldiers were lying, who was injured when they were discharged, and much more.
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You can also apply for a search for a person in search organizations. They constantly go on expeditions to look for places of unknown soldier’s graves. In order for the searches to be successful, you need to transfer to the search engines all the information that you have - letters from the front, information about where the soldier was, when he disappeared, what kind of troops he served, etc.
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Any of these methods will surely give its results, and you can rebury the dead hero in his native land. Or, if it is impossible to get the bodies due to the peculiarities of the area where they were found, you can at least take flowers to the place of death of a relative.
