Files selected from Inventory 1 (Opys 1) contain information about the occupation regime, population policies and the Holocaust:

File 1. Orders, circulars and instructions by the Reich Minister of Ukraine on the structure of the administrative apparatus in the occupied Eastern territories, regarding stolen goods, the procedure for the recruitment of women and individuals of mixed origin, etc. The draft structure of the Kherson City Kommissar. List of youth leaders. 1941-1943. 98 pages.

File 2. Orders and circulars by Nikolaev Generalkommissar and correspondence with him about the conditions of employment and payment of salaries to workers and employees, Volksdeutsche service (Schutzmannschaft). 1941. 15 pages.

File 4. Circulars by the Generalkommissar on the conduct of statistical reports. Police information on the situation and the mood of the population in Kherson. Summaries of Labour Office on the state of the manpower. List of companies working in Kherson. 1941-1943. 52 pages.

File 5. Circulars by Nikolaev Generalkommissar on the procedure of recruitment and use of local people. 1941. 15 pages.

File 10. Statistical data by Kherson Labour Ofice on the availability of manpower. 1941-1943. 48 pages.

File 14. Memos, invoices and statements about property looted from the population and enterprises for the personal use of the Gebietskommissar and his office. 1941-1943. 166 pages.

File 16. Orders and circulars by Reichskommissar of Ukraine on the mobilization of resources for the front, on the behavior of the occupation authorities when dealing with the local population. Rules of conduct of the occupation authorities and the local population of various ethnicities. 1942. 38 pages.

File 19. Orders and circulars of Generalkommissar regarding employment of local Germans into personnel and awarding them. Lists of staff of Stadtkommissar and Gebietskommissar. 1942-1943. 70 pages.

File 27. Circulars by Generalkommissar and correspondence with him about the fight against the partisan movement, cooperation of security apparatus with the local population. Lists of district chiefs. 1942. 148 pages.

File 29. Circulars by Generalkommissar on the procedure of employment into the German institutions (by ethnicity). 1942-1943. 2 pages.

File 51. Profiles of employees of district boards and Generalkommissariat. List of persons on duty in the Gebietskommissariat. 1942-1943. 23 pages.

File 52. Profiles of employees of the Gebietskommissar and enterprises of the city. 1943. 4 pages.

File 53. Profiles, biographies and other documents of the employees of the police department. 1942. 7 pages.

Included are policy materials of the German military and occupation authorities regarding “the Jewish question,” among them an order (5 August 1942) of the Reichsminister of the occupied eastern territories promulgating the decision of the Nazi Party Chancery forbidding Grade-1 persons of mixed descent (i.e., Reich citizens whose mother or father was Jewish) from military service on the eastern front; circulars (21 May 1942) of the Reichskommissar of Ukraine on treatment of the local population, particularly Jews, with a reminder of the fact that according to the Nuremberg laws it was forbidden to enter into any sort of unofficial relations with them, and that all unofficial conversations with them were to cease; circulars of the Nikolaev general-commissar (5 June 1942) elucidating a previously-promulgated order (23 May 1942) of the Reichskommissar of Ukraine to the effect that “the Gebietskommissar’s duties do not include the adoption of his own anti-Jewish measures”; reports of the Kherson Gebietskommissar to the Nikolaev general-commissar to the effect that his Gebiet may be considered cleared of Jews and that the “final solution of the Jewish question” requires that “Jewish half-bloods also be eradicated” (27 January 1942); and that there were about 150 Jewish women married to Ukrainian men living in Kherson, and that insofar as the SD [Sicherheitsdienst] refused to undertake their liquidation, more active attempts should be made to persuade the Ukrainian men to divorce, and then the obstacles (to the women’s liquidation) would fall away on their own (13 February 1943); etc. A number of directives of the German military and occupation authorities deal with discriminatory measures vis-à-vis the Jewish population: there is a directive (September 1941) that Jewish workers be paid in foodstuffs instead of money; that they be paid only 80% of the established wage (December 1941); that houses belonging to Jews be transferred to the property of the state, that Jews be stripped of the right to vacation and healthcare, that marriage between Jews and non-Jews be forbidden, that Jews and “Jewish half-bloods” wear yellow identification markers on their clothes (1942-43); etc. There is also a note of the administrator of state farms of the Kherson Gebiet on apportioning among them migrants from the northern Caucasus, from which it is clear that most were sent to the former Jewish kolkhoz at Kalinindorf; and a circular (11 April 1943) of the Kherson Gebietskommissar on the renaming of Kalinindorf to Bol’shoi Ingulets; an anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet addressed to Ukrainian young people (1943); etc. The documents are in German, Russian, and Ukrainian.

Опис № 1 містить 229 справ, опис № 2 – 64 справ. Вибрані справи опису № 1 містять відомості про окупаційний режим, політику народонаселення та Голокост:

Спр. 1. Приказы, циркуляры и инструкции имперского министра Украины о структуре управленческого аппарата в оккупированных восточных районах, об учете награбленного имущества, о порядке приема на работу женщин и граждан национальной помеси и др. Проект структуры Херсонского городского комиссариата. Список молодежных руководителей. 1941-1943. 98 арк.

Спр. 2. Приказы и циркуляры Николаевского генерального комиссара и переписка с ним об условиях приема на работу и оплате жалования рабочим и служащим фольксдойч, немцам, служащим местной охраны (шуцманам). 1941. 15 арк.

Спр. 4. Циркуляры генерал-комиссара о ведении статистических отчетов. Сведения полицейских о положении и настроениях населения Херсона. Сводки Биржи труда о состоянии рабочей силы по профессиям. Список работающих предприятий Херсона. 1941-1943. 52 арк.

Спр. 5. Циркуляры Николаевского генерального комиссара о порядке приема на работу и использовании как рабочей силы местного населения. 1941. 15 арк.

Спр. 10. Статистические данные Херсонской Биржи труда о наличии рабочей силы. 1941-1943. 48 арк.

Спр. 14. Накладные, счета и ведомости на инвентарь и вещи домашнего обихода, награбленных у населения и на предприятиях для личного пользования Областного комиссара и его канцелярии. 1941-1943. 166 арк.

Спр. 16. Приказы и циркуляры комиссара Украины о мобилизации всех средств для фронта, о поведении оккупационных властей при общении с местным населением с целью отвлечения украинцев от участия в партизанском движении. Правила поведения оккупационных властей и местного населения различной национальности. 1942. 38 арк.

Спр. 19. Приказы и циркуляры генерал-комиссара о порядке учета служащих персонала, назначении на работу, награждении орденами работников-немцев. Списки личного состава городского и областного комиссаров. 1942-1943. 70 арк.

Спр. 27. Циркуляры генерального комиссара и переписка с ним о борьбе с партизанским движением, сотрудничестве местного населения с карательными органами. Списки районных шефов. 1942. 128 арк.

Спр. 29. Циркуляры генерал-комиссара о порядке приема на работу в немецкие учреждения (по национальности). 1942-1943. 2 арк.

Спр. 51. Анкеты служащих районных управ и областного комиссариата. Список ответственных дежурных по областному комиссариату. 1942-1943. 23 арк.

Спр. 52. Анкеты сотрудников областного комиссариата и предприятий города. 1943. 4 арк.

Спр. 53. Анкеты, биографии и др. документы служащих полицейского управления. 1942. 7 арк.