Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Country: Ukraine
Holding Institution: Державний архів Херсонської області
  1. 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 ...

  2. Херсонський горком Коммуністичної партії України

    • Kherson City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
    • Khersonskyi gorkom Komunystychnoi partii Ukrainy

    The files presented below can contain information about occupation regime and the Holocaust: File 6. Correspondence regarding investigation of activities of members in partisan and underground movement in Kherson during the Nazi occupation. 1944. 6 pages. File 7. Correspondence with the NKGB authorities regarding persons who stayed in the temporarily-occupied territory. 1944. 32 pages. File 46. Correspondence with the MGB authorities regarding persons who stayed in the temporarily occupied territory. 1945. 49 pages. File 49. Statement regarding atrocities of the German-Fascist invaders in K...

  3. Районні управи Херсонщини (Об'єднаний архівний фонд)

    • District Boards of Kherson Region (Joint Archival Fund)

    Selected files may contain information about occupation policy of population and the Holocaust: Berislav district board. File 1. Data about population in rural areas; information about the movement of goods, payroll and financial aid. 1941-1942. 93 pages. File 2. Information on the registration of the population. 1941-1942. 30 pages. File 9. Lists of village elders, police officers and their families, farm managerial stuff, former kulaks, who returned to farms. 1944. 14 pages. Genichesk district board. File 13. Correspondence between Rykivsk village board and the heads of rural communities ...

  4. Сільські управи Херсонщини (ОАФ)

    • Village boards of Kherson region (joint collection)

    Selected files presented below can contain information about occupation population policies and the Holocaust: Velykooleksandrivka district, Borozenska village board. File 3. Documents (orders, circulars, information, lists) to collect taxes from the population; list of people born in 1922-1924. 1941-43. 126 pages. File 4. Information on the number of people in the district; acts, property inventory lists of local institutions and organizations. 1942-43. 82 pages. Novohryhor'yivka village board. File 9. Orders, directives, instructions by Velykooleksandrivka Gebietskommissar regarding popul...

  5. Херсонський окружний комісар (гебітскомісар), м. Херсон, Миколаївської області

    • Kherson Gebietskommissar, City of Kherson

    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...

  6. Комісар м. Херсона (штатскомісар), м. Херсон, Миколаївської області

    • Kherson Stadtkommissar, City of Kherson

    Some files of the collection can contain information about the Nazi occupation regime, population policies and the Holocaust: File 1. Circulars by Nikolaev General Commissariat on the use of prisoners of war at work, the arrangement of camps. 1941. 4 pages. File 2. Monthly reports by commissar of the city about work and political situation of the personnel. 1941. 15 pages. File 3. Reports on the availability of workers in enterprises of the city, the number of population in the villages of Kherson region, data about the harvest of grain. 1941. 5 pages. File 8. Circulars by Nikolaev Generalk...

  7. Kherson Regional Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Kherson Region at the Executive Committee of the Kherson Regional Council of Toilers’ Deputies, City of Kherson (Kherson Region)

    The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically. Documents held in the fond include a report of the Regional Extraordinary State Commission summing up the assessment of damages caused by and the investigation of crimes committed by the occupiers in the Kherson region, which contains, among other things, information on murders of Jews (including 10,000 persons in the city of Kherson) and on the functioning of the Kherson ghetto; proceedings of the Commission from 1944-45 on the investigation of the mass execution of 8,780 Jews in anti-tank ditches near the village of Zeleno...

  8. Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Chaplynka District at the Executive Committee of the Chaplynka District Council of Toilers’ Deputies, Chaplynka Village (Chaplynka District, Mykolaiv Region, from 1944 Kherson Region)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized chronologically. The fonds house proceedings of district extraordinary state commissions and other materials (minutes of interrogations of witnesses, write-ups of the analysis of forensic medical experts, photographs of burial sites and exhumed bodies, etc.) containing data on the number of Jews who perished at the hands of the occupiers, the circumstances and places of shootings, on the German officers in charge of these, their local accomplices, etc. Chronological information on the occupation of population centers of the Chaplinka district includes...

  9. Комісія по розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників на території Іванівського і Нижньосірогозького районів, Херсонської області

    • Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Ivanovka and Nizhne Serogozy District, Nizhne Serogozy (Kherson Region)

    Selected files below contain information about German occupation regime and the Holocaust: File 1. Protocols, statements of investigation of the atrocities committed by Nazi invaders, lists of citizens forcibly deported to Germany, and statements of the citizens to the chairman of Commission for investigation of the atrocities of Nazi invaders. 1944. 204 pages. File 2. Acts about the atrocities of the Nazi occupiers in the Ivanovo district. 1944. 93 pages. File 4. The acts of the investigation of atrocities of German-Fascist invaders on the territory of the collective farm "Shliakh khliboro...

  10. Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Kakhovka District at the Executive Committee of the Kakhovka District Council of Toilers’ Deputies, Kakhovka Town (Kakhovka District, Kherson Region)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized chronologically. The fond house proceedings of district extraordinary state commissions and other materials (minutes of interrogations of witnesses, write-ups of the analysis of forensic medical experts, photographs of burial sites and exhumed bodies, etc.) containing data on the number of Jews who perished at the hands of the occupiers, the circumstances and places of shootings (in the territory of the G. Dmitrov Kolkhoz [Kakhovka district]), on the German officers in charge of these, their local accomplices, etc. The documents are in Russian.

  11. Херсонська міська надзвичайна комісія по розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників на території м. Херсона, Херсонської області

    • Kherson City Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the City of Kherson, Kherson Region

    File 2. Materials about the atrocities committed by the German-fascist invaders. Acts on the persons shot. 1944. 197 pages. File 4. Lists of Soviet citizens who were forcibly deported to Germany. 1944. 64 pages. File 5. Lists of citizens who were shot and taken to Germany (according to personal testimonies). 1944. 131 pages. File 6. Lists of partisans and peaceful citizens killed during the occupation. 1945. 9 pages. File 7. Act on the damage caused by the German-fascist invaders to Kherson and information on accounting the damage. List of citizens of Kherson shot by the German-fascist inva...

  12. Written Essays of Pupils in Kherson Regional Schools on the Theme of “What I Experienced During the Occupation.”

    The collection includes a single inventory systematized alphabetically. A number of essays – by A. Figonenko (town of Velikaia Aleksandrovka [Velikaia Aleksandrovka district]), T. Moiseichenko and M. Tonkonog (city of Skadovsk), L. Bozhenova, I. Koval’, Odarchenko, A. Sidenko, and N. Timofeev (city of Kherson) – contain recollections of anti-Jewish actions during the occupation: Jews being forced to wear six-pointed stars and conscripted to unload rocks for paving roads; the formation of a “particular place” – the Jewish ghetto on the outskirts of Kherson, where the local population was for...