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  1. 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...

  2. Державний архів Херсонської області

    • State Archives of Kherson Oblast

  5. Благодатнівська районна управа, с. Благодатне

    • Blahodatne Rayon Administration, Blahodatne village

  6. Honvédelmi Minisztérium

    • Hungarian Ministry of Defense

  7. US National Archives

  8. 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.

  9. Yitzhak Weisman

    Jewish Refugees in WWII

  10. Fritz Wisten

    Kulturbund der Juden in Deutschland

  11. Pretura Raionului Mostovoi

    • Претура Мостівського району, с. Мостове
    • Pretura of the Mostove Rayon, Mostove 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.

  12. Pretura Raionului Landau

    • Претура Ландауського району, с. Ландау
    • Pretura of the Landau Rayon, Landau Colony

    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.

  13. Pretura Raionului Varvarovca

    • Претура Варварівського району, с. Варварівка
    • Pretura of the Varvarivka Rayon, Varvarivka 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.

  14. Prefectura Județului Oceacov

    • Префектура Очаківського повіту, м. Очаків
    • Prefecture of the Ochakov County, Town of Ochakov

    These were county 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 prefects subordinate to the civilian governor of Transnistria, and in turn held jurisdiction over district preturas , village and city primarias , and other institutions located within their respective counties, including gendarmeries and police departments.

  15. Арбузинська районна управа, с. Арбузинка

    • Arbuzynka Rayon Administration, Arbuzynka village

  16. Привільнянська районна управа, с. Привільне

    • Pryvilne Rayon Administration, Pryvilne village

  17. Миколаївська міська управа, м. Миколаїв.

    • Mykolaiv Town Administration, town of Mykolaiv

  18. Центральний державний архів громадських об'єднань України

    • Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine

  19. Nachman Zonabend

    Nachman Zonabend was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until the end of the war.

  20. Michal Weichert

    Michal Weichert was born in Podhajce, eastern Galicia, Poland, 1890. He attended Polish schools, earned a degree in law at the University of Vienna, and also attended the Theater Arts Academy in Berlin. Upon his return to Poland, he established the Young Yiddish Theater in Warsaw. He served as a Yiddish theater critic and was a prominent figure in the cultural life of the Jews of Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. At the same time, he also served as a legal advisor for charitable institutions and Jewish cultural organizations in Poland, and eventually he became a contact person with the Joi...