Bidspirit auction | 26 Antique and old Photos

26 Antique and old Photos of a Jewish Family, Uzbekistan, NY, Palestine, 1st half of 20th cen., In Hebrew and Russian. - 26 Antique and old Photos of a Jewish Family, Uzbekistan (Samarkand), NY, Palestine, 1st half of 20th cen., In Hebrew and Russian. One photo made in Zhytomyr and one in Odessa (Ukraine) On one photo (PC size) depicted a Jewish couple - a man wears NKVD uniform Size of the biggest photo (total size with folder) 26 x 18.5 cm. (10.2 x 7.2 inches) PC size to the most of photos, some a bit more, some less. Different condition Some photos have tears, rubbing, stains, cracks The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del. ), abbreviated as NKVD (), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on intelligence and state security functions. The NKVD is known for carrying out political repression and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin, as well as counterintelligence and other operations on the Eastern Front of World War II. The head of the NKVD was Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov in 1946.