Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine and Einsatzstab Rosenberg records from the Ukraine Central State Archive
Extent and Medium
26,895 digital images, JPEG
15 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm
Archival History
T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinni︠a︡ Ukraïny
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinni︠a︡ Ukraïny,TsDAVO (Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine). The records were created by the Reichskommissariat für den Ukraine, Rovno; the Einsatzstab Rosenberg; and the Ukrainian Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet territory from ca. 1940 to ca. 1945. The records were captured by the Red Army and placed in the Ukrainian Central State Archives, formerly the Archive of the October Revolutionin Kiev, after World War II. The records were selected by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and filmed in 1990. The microfilm was received at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Nov. 1990.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the German occupation of the Ukraine; the activities of the Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine; the activities of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg; control of partisan activity; police activities in the occupied territories; Reichskommissariat personnel matters; development of agriculture in Ukraine; population of Ukrainian towns and villages; railroad schedules; railroad construction; use of Soviet POWs in labor; Göring's instructions on the organization of an economic headquarters in the East; various libraries, archives and museums under the surveillance of Einsatzstab Rosenberg (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, ERR); activities of the Orthodox Church and its bishops; literature relating to the "Jewish Question"; and war crimes investigation by the Ukrainian Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory. Also included are name lists of Reichskommissariat personnel, construction workers in the eastern oblasts, bishops of the Orthodox Church, and persons killed in various villages and oblasts of the Ukraine.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinni︠a︡ Ukraïny
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
- Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce
- Soviet Union. Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory
Subjects
- War crimes--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945--Transportation--Ukraine.
- Forced labor.
- Rīga (Latvia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Ukraine.
- Trawniki (Poland)
- Nazis
- Jews--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- Odesa (Ukraine)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Ukraine.
- Kyïv (Ukraine)
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Correspondence.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinni︠a︡ Ukraïny