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Language of Description: English
Country: Ukraine

  1. Дирекція охорони здоров'я Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

    • Directorate of Health of the Governorate of Transnistria, City of Odessa

    The fond includes two inventories systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Documents in the fond include (op. 1) a report (1942) by Dr. Mircha Beier on the condition of Jews in the Tiraspol’ ghetto; the ghetto’s population, sanitary conditions, etc.

  2. Дирекція праці Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

    • Directorate of Labor of the Governorate of Transnistria, City of Odessa

    The fond includes two inventories systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. The fond contains (op. 1, 2) orders of the Romanian occupation authorities, including an order (2 January 1942) by head of state I. Antonescu and Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu on the forcible removal of Jews from Odessa and environs beginning 10 January 1942 and their settlement in ghettos (in northern Ochakov county and southern Berezovka county), and on the liquidation of the property of Jews; prefects’ letters on creating Jewish labor bureaus in the counties, including a state...

  3. Дирекція юстиції Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

    • Governorate of Transnistria Directorate of Justice

  4. Дирекція індустрії Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса

    • Governorate of Transnistria Directorate of Industry

    The fond includes three inventories systematized chronologically. Documents in the fond include orders of the governor of Transnistria (11 November 1941) that a special count be taken of Jews, that special lists be drawn up of their settlement in colonies, and that their labor conscription be organized; (2 January 1942) that the Jews of Odessa be deported beginning 10 January 1942 with the aim of their subsequent settlement in ghettos (in northern Ochakov county and southern Berezovka county), and that the property of Jews be liquidated; correspondence with the Directorate of Labor on using...

  5. Дніпропетровська обласна комісія обліку збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками та їх співучасниками, м. Дніпропетровськ

    • Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Commission for Registration of Damage Caused by German-Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices, city of Dnipropetrovsk
    • Dnipropetrovska oblasna komisiia obliku zbytkiv, zapodiianykh nimetsko-fashistskymy zagarbnykamy ta ikh spivuchasnykamy, m. Dnipropetrovsk

    Despite the Commission was focused primarily on collecting information on the material damage caused by the German occupiers, some part of collection are files containing materials about atrocities towards the civilian population of the region, including the Holocaust-related data. Inventory 1 (Opys 1) File 1. Directives, lists of personnel in charge in regional organizations, correspondence between regional commission and Extraordinary State Commission regarding sending commission statements and statements by individuals, who were evacuated from Dnipropetrovsk, to compensate the material d...

  6. Дніпропетровська Українська допоміжна управа, м. Дніпропетровськ.

    • Dnipropetrovsk Ukrainian Auxiliary board, city of Dnipropetrovsk
    • Dnipropetrovska Ukrainska dopomizhna uprava, m. Dnipropetrovsk

    As an occupation authority body, Dnipropetrovsk City Board was involved into the Nazi population policy and the Holocaust. Below are selected files which contain occupation and Holocaust-related information. File 1. Orders by city board about its structure, introduction of rationing system, forbiddance to population to sell and exchange foods, license issuing. 60 pages. File 2. Orders and decrees by the German military commandant to population about punishment for signaling to Red Army, about forcible mobilization of population to compulsory public works. Plan for creation of industrial coo...

  7. Дніпропетровський обласний комітет Комуністичної партії України

    • Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
    • Dnipropetrovskyi oblasnyi komitet Komunystychnoi partii Ukrainy
    • Днепропетровский областной комитет Коммунистической партии Украины

    Inventory 4 (Opys 4) contains filed relating to the history of the German occupation regime, population policies and the Holocaust in the region during the World War II. Inventory 4 (Opys 4). File 4. Letters, informations, reports by the Regional Committee to the lower-level party and governmental bodies, city- and district Communist party branches about activities of military registration and enlistment offices, defense construction works and dislocation of military units, creation of destruction battalions, about atrocities committed by the occupiers and their accomplices. 1943. 66 pages....

  8. Дніпропетровський штадткомісар, м. Дніпропетровськ

    • Dnepropetrowsk Stadtkommissar
    • Dnipropetrovsk City Commissar
    • Dnipropetrovskyi shtadtkomisar, m. Dnipropetrovsk

    As an occupation German civil administration documentation, the collection contains the following files which are -- or potentially could be -- related to the Holocaust: File 1. Orders, decrees by Reichskommissariat Ukraine, gendarmerie and city board instructions about organization of gendarmerie, registration of anti-Soviet individuals, prohibition to Germans to marry persons of another ethnicity, reporting police and gendarmerie activities, fight against partisans, Jews, arrest of communists in Piatikhatskyi district. Minutes of propaganda staff meeting and gendarmerie officers meeting; ...

  9. 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.

  10. Документи учасників Великої Вітчизняної війни

    • Documents of the participants of the Great Patriotic War
    • Dokumenty uchasnykiv Velykoi Vitchiznianoi viiny

    Collection contains personal documents (autobiography, IDs, characteristics, references, etc.). of Heroes of the Soviet Union, combatants; description of the feats by Heroes of the Soviet Union; memories about forced labor in Germany; memories of participation in battles; memoirs about activities of underground organizations in the region during the war; collection of letters from the front, front photos of war veterans; documents on the anniversary of liberation of localities of the region. Selected files from the collection can contain information about the Nazi occupation regime and the ...

  11. Житомирский генерал-комиссариат, г. Житомир

    • Zhytomyr General Commissariat
    • Zhytomyrskyi general-komissariat

    The following files contain information about the organization of the occupation administrative and power apparatus, as well as anti-Jewish policies: File 1. Orders for transfer of policemen, sentences, October 28, 1942 - October 21, 1943, 54 p. File 2. Reports of district officials on their work in the field and the structure of the of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), July 31, 1941 - March 25, 1943, 179 p. File 3. Reports by Kovalsky M., Vingalova N., Arendt M., Grinasevich M., Stavichenko M., Sheriy V., Vetvitsky S. and Kulitsky A., December 9, 1941 - February 24, 1942, 2...

  12. Житомирська обласна комісія зі встановлення збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками під час Великої Вітчизняної війни, м. Житомир

    • Zhytomyr regional commission for investigation of the damage caused by the German-Fascist invaders

    Inventory 1. File 2. Report on the results of the work of Zhytomyr Regional Commission on damage accounting and investigation of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in Zhytomyr region, 78 p. File 3. Memorandum "Results of damage calculation and the investigation of the atrocities of the German-Fascist invaders in Zhytomyr region", 1944, 29 p. File 4. Report “Results of activities of Zhytomyr Regional Commission on damage calculation and investigation of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in the Zhytomyr region of t...

  13. Житомирське обласне управління

    • Zhytomyr regional administration
    • Zhytomyrske oblasne upravlinnia

    Lists of personnel of the statistical department of the Zhytomyr administration and applications for employment, personal files of teachers, regulations of the administration on organization of police, the procedure recording acts of civil status, instructions on census of population and of livestock, information on land in public farms of the region, certificates of teachers, lists of industrial enterprises of the region and of settlements of the region, curricula and reports of the work of schools. File 7. Lists the population of districts and settlements of Zhytomyr region by age, gender...

  14. Жмеринська районна управа

    • Zhmerynska raionna uprava
    • Zhmerynka district administration

    Documents of the medical department of the Zhmerinka ghetto on prevention the epidemic of typhoid fever [inventory 1, file 9, pp. 2-3]

  15. Запорізька міська комісія по сприянню в роботі Надзвичайної державної комісії по встановленню та розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників та їх спільників і заподіяних ними збитків громадянам, колгоспам, громадським організаціям і державним підприємствам, м. Запоріжжя Запорізької області

    • Zaporizhzhia City Commission for assistance to Extraordinary State Commission on Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices, city of Zaporizhzhia
    • Запорожская городская комиссия по оказанию содействия в работе Чрезвычайной государственной комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний немецко-фашистских захватчиков и их сообщников и причиненного ими ущерба гражданам, колхозам, общественным организациям, государственным предприятиям и учреждениям СССР

    The file includes: Information and evidence about the mass executions of citizens of Jewish ethnicity and place of burial; the forensic medical expert committee on the basis of exhumations of mass graves uncovered in the city of Zaporozhye; lists of perpetrators.

  16. Запорізька міська управа, м. Запоріжжя Запорізької області

    • Zaporiyhyhia city board, city of Zaporizhzhia
    • Zaporizka miska uprava, m. Zaporizhzhia
    • Запорожская городская управа, г. Запорожье

    Inventory 1 (Opys 1) contains files with statistical information about population of the city, indicating the national composition (including Jews and Karaites), the number of male and female Jewish population with an indication of the age groups and neighborhoods (files 227, 231); inventory and receipts on the receiving derelict household goods by the warehouse of the city council (files 48, 98, 263); informations about transferring of furniture to the store of city council and acts of its sale with the names of former owners; information about the number of houses and premises, formerly b...

  17. Запорізька обласна комісія по сприянню в роботі Надзвичайної державної комісії по встановленню та розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників та їх спільників і заподіяних ними збитків громадянам, колгоспам, громадським організаціям і державним підприємствам, м. Запоріжжя Запорізької області

    • Zaporizhzhia Regional Commission for assistance to Extraordinary State Commission on Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices, city of Zaporizhzhia
    • Запорожская областная комиссия по оказанию содействия в работе Чрезвычайной государственной комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний немецко-фашистских захватчиков и их сообщников и причиненного ими ущерба гражданам, колхозам, общественным организациям, государственным предприятиям и учреждениям СССР (ЧГК), г. Запорожье Запорожской области

    The selected files from the collection contain information about crimes against the civilian population committed by the German occupation authorities. File 3. Minutes of interrogation, eyewitness testimonies, statements about crimes and atrocities of the German-Fascist invaders on the territory of Zaporizhzhia region; lists of the perished and deported to Germany. 1943-1944. 308 pages. File 4. Report about atrocities of the German-Fascist occupation authorities in Zaporizhzhia region. 58 pages. File 7. Statements about crimes of the German-Fascist occupiers in district of the region. 1943-...

  18. Зіньківська районна управа (райуправа), м. Зіньків Зіньківського р-ну Полтавської обл.

    • Zinkiv district board, town of Zinkiv, Zinkiv district, Poltava region
    • Zinkivska raionna uprava, m. Zinkiv Zinkivskoho raionu Poltavskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the history of the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 4. Decisions of Zinkiv district board, 1941. File 9. List of the elders of village boards in the district and of other employees, 1942 File 10. Information about statistical changes of population in the district. 1942 File 11а. List of Ukrainian policemen who were outstanding in the fight against anti-partisans, 1942 File 157. List of the staff of village boards and of other institutions of the district, 1943

  19. Київська штадткомендатура, м. Київ

    • Kiev Stadtkommandatura

    Fond 2353, Opis 1, Delo 1: Instructions of the Chief of Staff of the German armed forces and the commander of the troops of Ukraine on celebrating Christmas and on the spiritual education of the troops. Military-political overview Nos. 5 and 6 for 1941. 1941. 152 pp. Fond 2353, Opis 1, Delo 2: Lists of Ukrainian employees of the Stadtskommandatura who received allowances in November, December 1941. Lists and German and Ukrainian employees. 1941. 31 pp. Fond 2353, Opis 1, Delo 5: Orders of the Stadtskommandant for August-December 1941. 1941. 59 pp. Fond 2353, Opis 1, Delo 6: Orders of the Ge...

  20. Київський генералкомісаріат, м. Київ

    • Kiev Generalkommissariat

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 14: Record of salary payments. 1942-1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 15: Schedule of lessons and tests for students in German schools. 1942-1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 18: Copies of notices distributed to Volksdeutsche in May-June 1943. 1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 23: Instructions of the Reichskommissar, correspondence of the Generalkommissar with the Gebietskommissar on payment and work conditions in enterprises and organizations. 1941-1943. Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 25: Orders of the person in charge...