M.52.DAPO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Poltava Region History of the Archives: The Central Historical Archives in Poltava was established in 1918. Afterwards, the archival authority of the Poltava sub-division was established in 1922 when the Historical Archives became subordinate to it and its name was changed to the Historical Archives of the Polatava sub-division. In 1925 it became the Historical Archives affiliated with the regional archival authority. In June 1925 its name was changed to the Regional Historical Archives of Poltava. In 1930, following the re-organization of the archival authority, it became the local archival authority of Polatava, and based on the archival authority and the Historical Archives, the State Historical Archives of Poltava was established in 1932. As of July 1937 the regional archival authority of Poltava started to operate and the archives became the Regional Historical Archives of Poltava, when it operated under the archival authority. In March 1941 the Archives changed its name to the State Archive of the Poltava Region. Afterwards, in 1958, it became the Regional State Archive of Poltava. In 1980 its name was changed again, to the State Archive of the Poltava Region. Among its collections are population registration books and reports prepared by the heads of the region during the German occupation period. In the collection of the Prosecutor of the regional Court of Law in Poltava, there are documents regarding the activities of Symon Petliura in the region until 1919. The archives also include documentation regarding partisans and documentation of the supporting committee of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Poltava region. Poltava was occupied by the German forces on 18 September 1941. By late September 1941, the Sonderkommando 4B unit arrived to Poltava, whose men murdered several hundred Jews by shooting, until early November 1941. On 17 November 1941, Sonderkommando 4A forces invaded the city and executed 1,538 Jews. On 26 December 1941, a registration of the Jews of Kharkov was carried out, and Jews were forced to volunteer for forced labor in Poltava, Romny and Kremenchug. The Sub-Record Group includes documentation submitted by the certification committee of the Kremenchug district of the Poltava region, regarding the participation of several Jews in the partisans movement and in the ranks of the anti-fascist underground. The documentation includes confirmations of the receipt of partisans cards and a list of people who received the cards; list of partisans brigades and detachments and underground organizations active in the district; documentation regarding the murder of Jews who were Soviet activists; documentation from lists of partisans and members of the underground, prepared by the certification committee of the Poltava region; official documentation regarding the number of people who perished; reports prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Poltava region; survey reports regarding the liquidation of the Jews in the Poltava region and the damage caused to the economy in the region; documentation regarding the murder of Jews in the cities of Zolotonosha (along with the Jews of the cities of Slavuta, Kharkov and Korosten, and villages; the materials include several names and sentences that were engraved on walls before their death, by people who perished). Included are the dates of the murder and the circumstances, and the number of people who perished; report regarding the poisoning of the Jewish children in the orphanage in the city of Kobelyaki; liquidation of disabled and mentally ill people; extermination of POWs in camps in Kremenchug and Khorol (including the names of Jewish physicians who were murdered there); list of acts of murder; testimonies of residents of the region, regarding the establishment of the POW camp, the living conditions in the POW camp, and the murder of Jews (including a list of Jewish physicians who were murdered); documentation regarding the suppression and liquidation of the local population; data regarding mass graves and the number of people who perished, and separate numbers regarding Jews and POWs; list of German war criminals.