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Language of Description: English
Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Pretura Raionului Crivoe-Oziero

    • Претура Кривоозерського району, с. Криве Озеро
    • Pretura of the Kryve Ozero Rayon, Kryve Ozero village

    These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.

  2. Pretura Raionului Domaniovca

    • Претура Доманівського району, с. Доманівка
    • Pretura of the Domanivka Rayon, Domanivka village

    These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.

  3. Schwurgericht beim LG Frankfurt/M

    • Schwurgericht beim Land Gericht Frankfurt am Main

    Trials of War Crimes

  4. Paneriai mass killing place

    • Ponary mass killing place

    Mass killing place of the Jews from Vilnius, Vilnius area and surroundings. The first execution by the Special Squad in Paneriai took place on 11 July 1941. Untill June 1944 there were killed around 70 000 Jews.

  5. Kaunas Ninth Fort

    • Kauno IX fortas

    Mass killing site in Kaunas. The first shootings at the Ninth Fort took place on September 26, 1941. Until the end of June 1944 around 30 000 Jews were killed there.

  6. Pivonija forest

    • Pivonijos miškas
    • Pivonijos šilas

    Mass killing place 4 km from Ukmergė town. In the period from July to September 1941 more than 7000 Jews were killed there.

  7. Lietuvos aktyvistų frontas

    • Lithuanian Activist Front

    Lithuanian Activist Front or LAF was a short-lived resistance organization established in 1940 after Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union. The goal of the organization was to liberate Lithuania and re-establish its independence. It planned and executed the June Uprising and established the short-lived Provisional Government of Lithuania. The Government self-disbanded and LAF was banned by Nazi authorities in September 1941. LAF remains rather controversial due to its anti-Semitic views.

  8. US National Archives

  9. Honvédelmi Minisztérium

    • Hungarian Ministry of Defense

  10. Благодатнівська районна управа, с. Благодатне

    • Blahodatne Rayon Administration, Blahodatne village

  14. Державний архів Херсонської області

    • State Archives of Kherson Oblast

  15. Генічеська міська управа, м. Генічеськ

    • Genichesk Town Administration, town of Genichesk

  16. Комісія по розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників на території Чаплинського району при виконкомі Чаплинської районної ради депутатів трудящих, с. Чаплинка

    • Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Chaplynka Rayon at the Executive Committee of the Chaplynka Rayon Council of Toilers’ Deputies, Chaplynka village

    These entities were established in 1943-44 pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. The regional commission was in charge of the city and district extraordinary state commissions and in turn was subordinate to Ukraine’s republic-level Extraordinary State Commission, and included representatives of the public prosecutor’s office and investigative organs, medical experts, representatives of public organizations, and Soviet and party workers. The extraordinary state commissions were tasked with investigating the criminal activities of the occu...

  17. Комісія по розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників на території Каховського району при виконкомі Каховської районної ради депутатів трудящих, м. Каховка

    • Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Kakhovka Rayon at the Executive Committee of the Kakhovka Rayon Council of Toilers’ Deputies, town of Kakhovka

    These entities were established in 1943-44 pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. The regional commission was in charge of the city and district extraordinary state commissions and in turn was subordinate to Ukraine’s republic-level Extraordinary State Commission, and included representatives of the public prosecutor’s office and investigative organs, medical experts, representatives of public organizations, and Soviet and party workers. The extraordinary state commissions were tasked with investigating the criminal activities of the occu...

  18. Joodse Raad voor Friesland

    • Joodse Raad Friesland

    The Friesland Joodse Raad representatives were the Chief Rabbi, Rabbi A. S. Levinson and Attorney M. Troostwik. Rabbi Levinson was deported, and perished in Bergen-Belsen. Attorney Troostwijk escaped and went into hiding in August 1943.

  19. Israel Police

  20. Народен съд в България

    • Peapole's court in Bulgary
    • Narodem Sad, Bulgaria

    The Seventh Panel of the People's Court dealt with accusations against those who had been responsible for the anti-Jewish policy during the war and its implementation.