Штаб имперского руководителя (рейхсляйтера) Розенберга для оккупированных восточных областей, г.г. Берлин — Киев
Extent and Medium
885 files
Scope and Content
USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows:
Opis 1, Einsatzstab Rosenberg
Folder 2: Einsatzstab Rosenberg for the occupied eastern territories. Correspondence on transport of books, article translations from the foreign press on Lenin and Stalin, a letter on reworking documents of the German playwright Hans Mühlenstein, lists of permanent employees of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, lists of POWs and interrogation results. 11 III 1942-3 IX 1944.
Folder 7: Circulars and correspondence on personnel (locally recruited workers). Inquiries on goods shipped to the headquarters.
Folder 9: Surveys of the Soviet press, articles on Ehrenberg's pamphlets as propaganda, on the nationality and activity of leaders of the Soviet government, quote from defectors and prisoners from the Red Army, the activity of White Russian emigrant V.V. Domennitrius [?]. 1943.
Folder 22: Correspondence on the transport to Berlin of a systematic catalogue of the Korolenko library in Kharkov, religious books of German settlers from regional archives of Odessa oblast; determination of place of permanent residence in Germany, those departing Kiev with the Germans; docent of archeology Bezvinglinsky; senior workers of the Lavra museum, Kurinniy, Kozlovsky, Shugaevsky; and the former director of the Poltava Museum, Mogilevskiy. On the work of White Russian emigrant Naryshkin. Reports on the functions of the department of accounting and sorting, and the headquarters use department.
Folder 25: Surveys of work received by the department. 20 II 1943-15 II 1944.
Folder 26: Monthly reports of Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk and Krivoy Rog groups about work of processing of archives materials, sorting of books and make up agitational-propagandistic review articles (with indication themes and executors). 1942-1943.
Folder 26A: Department of control. Reports of working groups of Dniepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Simferopol, Rostov and another cities to headquarters of Rosenberg about work. 1942-1943.
Folder 27: Report about mood of inhabitants in the city of Kiev during staying of Rosenberg in Kiev. Themes of otter works by headquarter. biographical profiles of journalist Fedor Dubovik, docent Vasily Marchenko, professor of Leningrad Rostislav Alexandrov and his son, who took an active part with headquarters. Correspondence about themes of work of Maiakovsky, Shtepa, Prihodko, about removal of film-archive from Kherson to Berlin. List started by Germans of churches and cultural institutions. 1942-1943.
Folder 29: Correspondence with groups about themes of articles, about selection of authors amongst the local population to write articles, about progress of work, and about activities to be written about. 1943.
Folder 39: Correspondence with Frankfurt Institute for Study of the Jewish Question on the sending from Kiev and other Ukrainian cities Jewish and anti-Jewish journals and books. 28 III 1942-28 V 1943.
Folder 44: Hitler order on transfer to the armed forces in the occupied eastern territories of all archives, libraries and other cultural institutions at the disposal of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg. Report on condition of museums, archives, etc. of Berdichev, of the Kiev museums of west European and Russian art. On the removal to Berlin of the director of the Kharkov Korolenko Library, etc. 1942.
Folder 45: Periodical report about activity of headquarters, including reports about sorting of books received in Kiev from Kursk that had been taken from the libraries of Voronezh by the Germans. 1942.
Folder 47: Biographical profiles of translators, employees of the Central Library, Volksdeutsche Ida Kleeps, Margarita Reseer, Alexandra Sak.
Folder 50: Reports about the removal from Kiev and Kharkov to Frankfurt am Main Jewish books, books about the Jewish Question, and Jewish cultural objects originally held in the Central Jewish library, libraries, and museums. About composition of card-indexes describing archival folders concerning Jews, and about the sending of a card index and archival materials of the Central State Historical Archive. 1942.
Folder 50A: List of bishops of the Orthodox Church which came to the eastern Ukraine with the Germans. Report about activity of the Orthodox Church in the Ukraine during occupation. Letter of servant of Kherson's Church to the German powers. Protocol of a meeting of the organized cathedral of the Kiev region. 1941-1943.
Folder 52: Monthly reports about the work of the main group and issuances of the main group on questions of record keeping. 1941-1942.
Folder 53: Plan of work. Denomination of structural parts. Lists of new comers and local employees of work group in the city of Kiev.
Folder 54: Monthly and quarterly reports about working of group. Information about the removal of books from libraries in Kiev to Germany. 1943.
Folder 56: Description of exposition of anti-religious museum in the Kiev-Pechersk monastery. Lists of icons, pictures, anti-religious placards removed by the Germans. Photographs of separate parts of exposition. 1942.
Folder 58: Reports of commanders of military units and police commands about discovered archives, libraries, and museums in the city of Kharkov. Reports about the condition and work of libraries, medical institutions, museums, historical exhibitions. 1942.
Folder 63: Circulars about the order of reports, about themes for elaboration, about arrangement [of writings?], about trip of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg to the Ukraine. 1943.
Folder 77: Reports about the movement of the personnel staff. 1943.
Folder 77A: Working group for the city of Dniepropetrovsk. Card index of the personnel staff (the employees) of the Gebietskommissariat for the city of Dniepropetrovsk. 1942.
Folder 82: Report by headquarters about the selection of personnel among the members of the local population for the writing of political articles. Reviews/editing of scientific works that were submitted to the headquarters. 1943.
Folder 87: Monthly reports of the personnel staff for 1942 - 1943.
Folder 107: Working group of Byelorussia. Report of Director Richel about his trip to Riga. May 1943.
Folder 111: Report about the interrogation of Soviet prisoners.
Folder 126: Special command of Pleszkow. Report about anti-Soviet demonstration in the city of Pleszkow. Dec 1943.
Folder 128: Special headquarters about the Jewish Question. Reports about the work of employee at headquarters dogen Pol [?] and of junior inspector Muizel about the removal of the Jewish scientific research institute in Vilnius to Frankfurt am Main. 1942-1943.
Folder 137: Working group of Byelorussia. Enumeration of works of art that were removed to Lemberg (aka Lvov, Lviv, Lwow) from Gatchina, Novgorod, Tikhvin, Peterhof, Pavlovsk, and Pleskau. Correspondence about the activity of metropolitan Alexei (Leningrad), archimandrite Seraphim Prochenko (Severskaia), archdeacon Fedor (Peterhof), Kudzinski (Rojdestvenski district of Gatchina), Voronin, Pastor Vodoiavlenski, Alexeev, Peterson, metropolitan Alexander (Narva). Elaborations of professor Vinogradov about metropolitan Sergey Report about bibliographical work of libraries, archives and museums in the cities of Poznan and Torun. 1942 - 1943.
Folder 150: Main work group of the Baltic, Riga. About the establishment of a central archive, about the registration and guarding of cultural items in the occupied eastern oblasts. 1942.
Folder 167: About the removal of literature from different persons. XII 1940-IX 1941
Folder 168: On removal of books and pictures from Jews in Berlin.
Folder 197A: Works of Crimean professors who collaborated with the Germans.
Folder 202: Articles on the Jewish question.
Folder 219: Department of Use (Operations). Reports and correspondence with other departments and employees of headquarters concerning ongoing work.
Folder 222: Main work group of the Ukraine. Personal files of employees, letters A-D.
Folder 223: Personal files of employees, letters R-S. 2 VI 1943-10 I 1944.
Folder 224: Personal files of employees. 9 I-18 VI 1943.
Folder 226: Correspondence with the staff of 'Navka' about the continuing of anthropological research in cities and villages of the Ukraine and about questions of ongoing work. 7 XI 1941-16 VIII 1943.
Folder 229: Special Staff of 'Navka'. Weekly reports about work during 18 IV 1942-14 IX 1943.
Folder 237: Main working group of Belgium and Northern France. Clippings from German newspapers on the Jewish question.
Opis 2, Einsatzstab Rosenberg
Folder 2: Work group for the Baltic. Report of work group for the Baltic about their work in 1941 and after. 1941 - 1942.
Folder 4: Staff management. Department of Use (Operations). Fragment from article of professor Vaschenko who collaborated with the Germans, 'Stages of developing of Soviet pedagology and school,' article of Iakov Aures 'About Birobidjan,' article of unknown author, 'Hungary and Jewish question' and other articles. 1942.
Folder 8: Headquarters. Department of Use (Operations). 'Call to the Jewish nation of the USSR' translated into German.
Folder 11: Ukrainian working group. Report on the activities of the special team in Rostov for the fourth quarter 1942.
Folder 12: Special command team in Rostov. Report about activities of the special team in the city of Rostov, 6 IX 1942-4 X 1942. Correspondence with department heads about hiring interpreters for team in the city of Rostov and other questions. 1942.
Folder 19: Management by staff. Department of registration and control. Reports of heads of departments of Rosenberg's staff about their activities. Lists of institutions in the city of Rostov, correspondence with baggage department in Krakow about reception of freight and other questions. 1943.
Folder 22: Correspondence with heads of departments about equipping office premises, about hiring employees, about conducting of clerical work, etc. 1943.
Folder 23: Correspondence with leaders of occupation organizations in Rostov about the use of buildings as warehouses and about the sending of German workers of this department for temporary assistance to other cities of surrounding oblasts. Lists. 1943-1944.
Folder 29B: Anti-Soviet and antisemitic articles of Ludvig Bronvski [?].
Folder 28: Management by staff. Department of Use (Operations). Review of professor Gruzinski (who collaborated with Germans) for book 'Soviet Psychology and its attitude to Germans.' Booklet of M.G. Kosarev, 'How to increase crop capacity of the seeds of spring-wheat' that was translated into German. 1943-1944.
Folder 30: Press Department. Bulletins of German propaganda service, Numbers 1, 13 for 1943 and Numbers 1, 3A of 1944.
Folder 30A: Materials about activities of German film company 'Ost' (correspondence, contracts, information). 13 III-29 X 1943.
Opis 4, Einsatzstab Rosenberg
Folder 4: Reports of special German groups for investigation of the situation of Germans (Volksdeutsche) living in the occupied regions of the Ukraine.
Folder 10: Statistical informations, composed by a German 'Special Detachment,' which was headed by Dr. Stump about the amount of Volksdeutsche who lived in cities and villages of Kiev and Zhitomir oblasts.
Folder 12: Correspondence with German 'Special Detachment,' headed by Dr. Stump, about its work collecting statistical information concerning Volksdeutsche who lived in the Ukraine.
Folder 14: Press treatment of higher education questions in the eastern territories; establishment of Ostinstitut Berlin; plans for Deutsche Akademie in the east; Volksdeutsche schools.
Folder 36: Report of chiefs of 'Special Detachment' of Dr. Stump about results of inspecting the village of Berezovka in the Zhitomir oblast.
Folder 69: Documents on persons of German ancestry living in German occupied oblasts. (Reports, correspondence.)
Folder 96: Lists of volunteer German employees of the operating group of Dr. Stump working with files concerning Volksdeutsche living in the Soviet Union.
Folder 99: Materials about activity of the 'Special Detachment' of Dr. Stump' of inspecting German settlements in the Soviet Union (maps of settlements, in the Crimea, Transcaucasia, and the oblasts of Kharkov and Leningrad).
Folders 105: Materials of German police of safety and the SD from 1942 that include summaries about economic, moral, and political concerns for oblasts in the occupied east.
Folder 106: Requests to use Einsatzstab Rosenberg archival material (1952).
Folder 115: File with biographical materials on Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian veterinarians who worked in the occupied Soviet Union.
Folder 116: Correspondence with German secret police about control and arrests of inhabitants of occupied eastern oblasts, who were working at the German military unit.
Folder 133: File with materials of Gestapo about question of annexation of western oblasts of the Ukraine and Byelorussia to the Soviet Union.
Folder 135: Official file of 1942-1944 about accusation of sergeant major Aizengut [?] and Shashdt [?] in the assault and battery of a policeman.
Folder 139: File of 1945 with materials of office of court of commandant of fortress Ezseg [?]. Lists of criminal files.
Folder 140: Correspondence of 1942 between German judicial organizations on the question of the instigation of an investigatory case against Gzinkov, Mazjuchak and Zimbek because of their organizing strikes among he coal miners of Gaustam [?].
Folder 275: File of German police of safety and SD of 1942 with documents on prisoners escaping from Auschwitz and other camps.
Folder 276: Case of the SD police in 1942 concerning desertion of Russian volunteers from German fighting units.
Folder 296: File of Department of Propaganda of German administration on occupied oblasts of 1943-1944.
Folder 297: Case with 'Bulletins, directives, and orders to the SS' of 15 I 1945.
Folder 307: Reports of the German security police and SD on the situation in occupied eastern territories, on arrests of Soviet and Party workers.
Folder 308: Materials of the German organizations Einsatzgruppe and Einsatzkommando on the fight against communists and the partisan movement.
Folder 309: Documents on volunteers in the German army, desertions from fighting units, POWs, escapes from camps, and German punitive organizations occupied with finding them.
Folder 312, 314: 'Trophy documents' of the Berlin administration of the German defense police for 1943-1945, for persons serving in German service.
Folder 317: Report of main head of SS to German ministry of home affairs about partisan's activity in the occupied territory of the Ukraine.
Folder 318: Materials about activity of German police in the area of the Ukraine (circulars, instructions, correspondence, lists, forms).
Folder 320: Correspondence of Gestapo in the city of Litzmannstadt (Lodz) with German gendarmerie in Kalisz (Poland) about Russian POWs who escaped from a camp.
Folder 331: Materials for persons (Russian and Ukrainian) who served in the SS and the German police of safety in Trawniki (Poland). Volume V - Last.
Folder 442-443: File with documents of the German police of safety, SD, and Abwehr for the city of Kiev and other cities of the Ukraine, 1943 - 1944. Volume I-II.
Folder 479: Secret reports of head of German secret police and service of safety attached to the SS in the city of Kharkov about mood of inhabitants. About establishing in the city of bourgeois nationalistic society 'Prosvita,' about economic, industrial, and religious concerns, etc.
Folder 480: Secret reports of chief of German secret police of occupied Eastern oblasts about increase of partisans activity in the Ukraine and Crimea. About economic situation and mood of inhabitants of eastern Ukraine, etc.
Existence and Location of Copies
USHMM RG-31.002M
Archivist Note
Entry selected by Michal Czajka from the finding aid on the website of the USHMM (http://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-31.002M.pdf, 28 April 2014)
Rules and Conventions
ISAD (G)
Штаб имперского руководителя (рейхсляйтера) Розенберга для оккупированных восточных областей, г.г. Берлин — Киев
Extent and Medium
885 files
Biographical History
Создание Айнзацштаба рейхсляйтера Розенберга было санкционировано распоряжением Гитлера от 5 июля 1940 г. приказом Верховного командования Вермахта. Одной из его основных задач было «сохранение и учет бесхозного культурного массива на оккупированных восточных территориях». Айнзацштаб функционировал как отдельная самостоятельная организация, руководство ко- торой осуществляла личная канцелярия Розенберга. Структура Айнзацштаба включала управление штаба (Берлин) во главе с штатсфюрером Г. Утикалем и разветвленную систему подотделов и групп, которые входили в состав трех отде- лов. Главный организационный отдел выполнял функции секретариата и ведал кадровыми вопросами, Главный оперативный отдел занимался «учетом и сохра- нением предметов культуры на оккупированных территориях», Главный отдел особых задач организовывал выявление и вел учет предметов искусства, книжных собраний еврейского происхождения. Текущие задачи Айнзацштаба осуществляли главные рабочие группы, которые подчинялись Управлению Штаба. Главная рабочая группа «Украина», организованная 3 октября 1941 г., действовала на территории Восточной, Южной Украины и в Крыму и состояла в свою очередь из пяти рабочих групп (Киев, Харьков, Херсон, Крым с центром в Симферополе и Днепропетровск). Параллельно с рабочими группами действовали так называе- мые зондерштабы, находившиеся в подчинении Управления Айнзацштаба, кото- рые курировали сбор материалов по определенным отраслям науки и культуры (искусство, материальная культура, архивы, генеалогия, этнография, книжные собрания, библиотеки). Айнзацштаб прекратил деятельность на восточных тер- риториях Украины в конце 1943 г., на западных осенью 1944 г.
Archival History
Архив Управления Айнзацштаба Розенберга был перемещен в Ратибор (юго-запад Польши). В 1945 г. составлявшие его документы были перемещены в СССР в качестве военных трофеев.
Scope and Content
В фонде пять описей, сформированных на основе немецких подшивок документов и сгруппированных по принципу обратной хронологии (причем документы самого Айнзацштаба находятся только в первых трех из них). Представлены материалы Управления Айнзацштаба, его отделов и Группы особых задач по организации учета предметов искусства и книг еврейского происхождения; вырезки из немецких и английских газет и аналитические статьи по еврейскому вопросу; переписка с Институтом исследования еврейского вопроса во Франкфурте на Майне (о наличии предметов иудаики в Киеве и Харькове, 1942); документы, касающиеся учета вывоза книг и предметов материальной культуры (в том числе и еврейских) из Киева и Харькова; разработки из архива Главной рабочей группы «Украина» по истории иудаизма, истории евреев в Крыму и др.
Finding Aids
Jewish Documentary Sources in Kiev Archives
Existence and Location of Copies
USHMM RG-31.002M
Archivist Note
Entry selected by Michał Czajka from 'Jewish Documentary Sources in Kiev Archives. A Guide', ed. by Efim Melamed, Mark Kupovetsky, Dukh i Litera, Kiev 2006, p. 293-294
Rules and Conventions
ISAD (G)