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  1. Чернігівська районна управа, м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Chernihiv district board, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Chernihivska raionna uprava, m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 22. Orders and instructions of the German commandment and Chernihiv district board about drafting of volunteers to serve in the rear units of the German army; labour duty to serve wartime needs of the front area; registration of the population and other administrative and economic issues. Lists of the employees at town board of Kotovsk town, 264 pages. File 23. Decrees of the German commandment and Chernihiv district board abo...

  2. 2-поліцейський участок Префектури міста Одеси.

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 232 – Declarations on the ethnic origin of persons in Transnistria. 165pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 241 – Birth certificates of Transnistrian citizens. 1943. 64pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 248 – Lists of refugees in Transnistria. 78pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 251 – Population statistics for the district of Odessa. 1943. 18pp. Fond 2353; Opis 1 Ed. hr. No. 254 – Population statistics for the district of Odessa. 1943. List of 3,441 persons under the age of 20 in Odessa. 1943. 91...

  3. Крюківська міська управа (міськуправа), пос. Крюків м. Кременчука Полтавської обл.

    • Kriukiv town board, town of Kriukiv, Kremenchuk district, Poltava region
    • Kriukivska miska uprava, pos. Kriukiv m. Kremenchuka Poltavskoi oblasti

    Orders concerning activities; requests for obtaining passes; lists of Germans and Volksdeutsche; certificates for goods confiscated from evacuees; lists of inhabitants; lists and certificates for obtaining bread and ration cards; budget documentation; receipts. Selected files containing information about the Holocaust: File 25 – Statistical data about population of Kriukiv; register of Beletsk ceramic factory, 1942. The first 7 pages of the file contain statistical information (population data) from Kriukov which was provided to the district board of Kremenchuk; there is a separate column f...

  4. Колекція документів Чернігівської обласної комісії з історії Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941-1945

    • Collection of documents of the Chernihiv regional commission on the history of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
    • Kolektsiia dokumentiv Chernihivskoi oblasnoi komisii z istorii Velykoi Vitchyznianoi viiny 1941-1945

    The Chernihiv regional commission on the history of the Great Patriotic War focused on collecting documents and evidence about various aspects of the German occupation regime; thus, some of the following files potentially relate to the history of the Holocaust: File 14. Chronological reference book about temporary occupation of locations in Chernihiv region by German-Fascist invaders, and liberation by the Soviet Army (page-proof), 118 pages. File 18. Document collection “Atrocities and Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in Chernihiv Region and Struggle of Soviet People for Its Liberatio...

  5. Черкаська народна районна поліція, м. Черкаси

    • District People's Police, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska narodna raionna politsiia, m. Cherkasy

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Lists of policemen and other employees of the district police; lists of employees and workers of establishments and enterprises in Cherkasy that were eligible to use electricity, 1942-43, 43 pages. File 2. Lists of policemen; receipts they obtained for arrested persons and confiscated money, statements and certificates regarding bicycles registered; report for the administrative and economic expenses, etc. Not dated. 40 p...

  6. Адресне бюро Черкаської української охоронної поліції, м. Черкаси

    • Address Bureau of Cherkasy Ukrainian Schutzpolizei, city of Cherkasy
    • Adresne biuro Cherkaskoi ukrainskoi okhoronnoi politsii, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: Inventory 1. Selected file titles: File 2. Correspondence with district police, district board and other bodies of the German occupation authorities about issuance of passports to the city and district population. January-July 1942, 106 pages. File 3. Lists of the plenipotentiaries of the district board, correspondence with the police about people who had fled from the labour camp and those who had violated passport regulations. Pe...

  7. Колекція. Історичні довідки про найважливіші події Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941–1945 рр. у м. Черкаси та Черкаському районі, м. Черкаси Київської області

    • Collection. Historical information about the most important events in Cherkasy and Cherkasy district during the Great Patriotic War of the USSR in 1941-1945 against the German-Fascist invaders
    • Kolektsiia. Istorychni dovidky pro naivazhlyvishi podii Velykoi Vitchyznianoi viiny 1941–1945 rr. u m. Cherkasy ta Cherkaskomu raioni, m. Cherkasy Kyivskoi oblasti

    The collection contains historical information about the events of the German occupation in Cherkasy and Cherkasy district; some files selected below may be relevant to the Holocaust history. File 3. Historical information about the most important events of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 in the villages of Cherkasy district, April-August 1944, 88 pages. File 4. Profiles, recollections and references about Nazi atrocities and about recruitment and deportations to Germany for forced labour; copies of letters sent from Germany; information about those deported. List of Cherkasy dwellers rep...

  8. Черкаська біржа праці, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy Labour Registry Office, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska birzha pratsi, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. List of graduates from Cherkasy school for medical assistants. April-November 1942, 74 pages. File 2. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. May 1942 – March 1943, 79 pages. File 3. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organ...

  9. Партійний архів Полтавського обласного комітету Комуністичної партії України

    • Party archives of the Poltava regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine

    Within this collection the following files contain information on occupation and local administration, population policies, and the Holocaust: • File 789 - Selected documents for 3-volume collection of the documents "Ukrainian SSR in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", 252 pages. This file contains documentation on the evacuation of economic structures of Poltava region (pp. 49-117); and on the activities of diversionary-partisan groups and occupier atrocities (pp. 118-172); • File 240 - Manuscript of the "Chronological reference book abour liberation by the Soviet Army of the region's loca...

  10. Харсиківська сільська управа (сільуправа), с. Харсики Чорнухинського р-ну Полтавської обл

    • Kharsyky village board, village of Kharsyky, Chornukhy district (raion), Poltava region (oblast)
    • Kharsykivska silska uprava (siluprava), s. Kharsyky Chornukhynskoho r-nu Poltavskoi obl.

    Instructions issued by Chornukhy district board and orders by head of district board about population census, taxes, and fire-prevention measures. Lists of the employees at the district board and policemen. Selected files containing information on occupation and local administration, population policies, and the Holocaust: File 1. Orders and decrees by Chornukha district board. Lists of policemen and personnel of the board. 1941-1942. Holocaust-related documents in the files: File 1, page 4. Order on November 1, 1941 from the commandant's office to the burgomasters of the district to submit...

  11. Добрянська міська управа, с. Добрянка Добрянського району Чернігівської області

    • Dobrianka village board, village of Dobrianka, Dobrianka district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Dobrianska miska uprava, v. Dobrianka Dobrianskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles of the selected files: File 3. Order by Chernihiv District Department for Health Protection and instructions from Dobriansk district board about measures to fight spotted fever. List of settled German soldiers. Order by district board concerning establishment of the German-Ukrainian courses. Materials of the population census. File 6. Orders, certificates. List of population of Sidalevka to obtain passports. Materials of the population census.

  12. Колекція листівок, закликів та оголошень німецьких установ періоду окупації.

    • Collection of leaflets, appeals, and announcements of the German institutions of the occupation period.
    • Kolektsiia lystivok, zaklykiv ta oholoshen nimetskykh ustanov peroidu okupatsii

    These leaflets, appeals, and announcements were produced by various branches of the military and civil German authorities in the city of Chernihiv and surrounding areas, as well as by local municipalities and rural area administrative bodies. Some of the items in the collection can relate to the Holocaust. File 1. Orders, decrees and instructions of the Chernihiv district board, 20 pages. File 2. Orders, decrees and announcements of the joint-district board and district board of Chernihiv, 15 pages. File 4. Orders of Chernihiv city board, 56 pages. File 5. Announcements of Chernihiv city bo...

  13. Archive of Dr. Israel Kasztner, one of the leaders of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, and Collection of Dov Dinur, Kasztner's biographer

    in the Collection there are 4,500 pages of original documentation, mostly regarding the following subjects: A. The history of the Jews of Hungary during the Holocaust;B. Efforts of the Relief and Rescue Committee in Hungary in whose framework Dr. Israel Kasztner was active, 1942-1944; C. The role of the Jewish institutions that were active in the Free World countries working to rescue Jews;D. Documentation regarding the Nuremberg Trial at which Dr. Kasztner testified on behalf of Kurt Becher; E. Documentation regarding the Kasztner Affair in Israel, 1952-1958;F. Documentation regarding the ...

  14. Židovské organizace

    • Jewish organisations

    The collection contains documents about activities of Jewish organisations and individuals that were examined by the Czechoslovak security apparatus during the 1950s. It includes materials of Jewish relief organisations, in particular of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT) in Czechoslovakia, documents about Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia (especially between 1945 and 1950), and of Zionist organisations. It also contains materials about Czechoslovak assistance to Israel in 1948-49, including training and shipments of weaponry. Among other materials, it also contains a fil...

  15. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  16. Управління Служби безпеки України в Черкаській області м. Черкаси Черкаської області

    • Cherkasy Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, city of Cherkasy, Cherkasy region
    • Upravlinnia Sluzhby Bezpeky Ukrainy v Cherkaskii oblasti, m. Cherkasy Cherkaskoi oblasti

    Collection contains personal criminal investigation files on Soviet citizens accused of political or criminal crimes (Inventory 1), and on Soviet citizens who returned to the USSR from German captivity or from being Ostarbeiter (Inventory 2). Some of these persons may have been of Jewish background. Inventory 1. 10916 files; 1918–1995. Extrajudicial and aborted criminal files. Inventory 2. 30642 files; 1941–1945. Filtration files.

  17. Видавництво українсько-фашистської газети "Золотоніські вісті", м. Золотоноша Полтавської області

    • Editorial board of the Ukrainian-Fascist newspaper "Zolotonosha Herald," town of Zolotonosha, Poltava region
    • Vydavnytstvo ukrainsko-fashistskoi gazety "Zolotoniski visti", m. Zolotonosha Poltavskoi oblasti

    As an occupation media, the newspaper contained orders and instructions addressed to the local population, as well as materials of propaganda nature, and thus can be related to the history of the Holocaust. File 1. Copies of the newspaper of 1943 (incomplete set), 34 pages. File 2. Issues No. 5 (117), 38 (150), 39 (151) of 1943, 5 pages. File 3. Issues from December 17, 1942 to May 2, 1943, No. 91 (110) – 35 (147), 9 pages. File 4. Issues from June 20, 1943 to July 4, 1943, No. 49-53, 10 pages. File 5. Issues from February 4 to April 29, 1943, 10 pages. File 6. Issues from May 9 to June 6, ...

  18. Savska Banovina: upravno odijeljenje

    • Sava Region Governance: Department of Administration

  19. Pokrajinska uprava za Hrvatsku i Slavoniju

    • Regional administration office for Croatia and Slavonia

    Department for Religious Affairs; Department for the issue of national status and citizenship

  20. Virtual Collection Terezin

    • ehri terezin research guide
    • English

    The aim of the EHRI Terezín Research Guide is to create a comprehensive, innovative and easy to use guide through the dispersed and fragmented Terezín (Theresienstadt) archival material and to empower further research on the history of the ghetto. The Terezín Research Guide illustrates the primary raison d'être of EHRI - to connect collections spread in many archives and in more countries. EHRI research guides demonstrate what a collaborative archival project can achieve and how archivists can redefine their tasks beyond providing physical access and creating finding aids restricted to the ...