M.52.DAHmO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Khmelnitskiy Region History of the Archives: The Archives Authority was established in the Kamyanets Podilsk district in April 1922. Afterwards the Archives Authority became the Archives Authority of the Kamyanets Podilsk subdivision in 1925, and it became the local Archives Authority of Kamyanets Podilsk in 1932. The name of the Archives Authority was changed to the Regional State Historical Archives of Kamyanets Podilsk in March 1932. The Archive was subordinate to the Executive Committee of the Vinnitsa region. With the establishment of the Kamyanets Podilsk region in 1937, the Historical Archives became the Regional State Archives of Kamyanets Podilsk. During World War II, all of the Archives' collections were evacuated to the city of Rostov na Donu. Following the liberation of the area in 1944, the Archives returned to its work. It became subordinate to the Soviet Ministry of Interior of Ukraine in 1947. The Archive's name was changed to the Regional State Archives of Kmelnytskiy in 1954. In 1980 its name was changed again, to the State Archives of the Kmelnytskiy Region and it was located in the city of Kamyanets Podilsk. The Archives was transferred to the city of Kmelnytskiy in April 1990. The Sub-Record Group includes official documentation of the local and district committees supporting the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the establishment of the ghettos, such as the Shepetovka Ghetto, including: - Statistical reports regarding the number of inmates in the ghetto, including the number of children and Jews in the ghettos, and the living conditions [ghetto life], including hunger, overcrowding, disease, beatings and mass murder, 1942; - Exhumation reports from the mass burial sites, including a report from Staraya Sinyava indicating the number of people who perished; - Lists of German war criminals; - Lists of people who perished.