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Language of Description: English
Country: Ukraine

  1. Administration of the 4th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 4-го району м. Харкова
    • Uprava 4-ho raionu Kharkova

    Collection includes Instruction on registration of the population of the city of Kharkov ordering all the Jews to be registered in separate lists disregarding their faith (inventory 1, file 179, p. 79).

  2. Administration of the 6th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 6-го району м. Харкова

    Collection includes Circular from vice-mayor of the 6th district of Kharkiv to caretakers of residential houses on the calculation of the property in the apartments belonging to the Jews, March 1942 (inventory 1, file 7, p. 21).

  3. Administration of the 5th district of Kharkiv

    • Управа 5-го району м. Харкова
    • Uprava 5-ho raionu Kharkova

    Collection includes: Note from November 14, 1941 by the head of the Kharkiv City Council about the arrest of 50 Communists and Jews as hostages (inventory 2, file 7, p. 9).

  4. Станіславська надзвичайна державна комісія по встановленню і розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників і їх спільників на території Станіславської області.

    • Stanislav Special State Comission on the investigation of the atrocities concluded by Nazi occupiers and their associates in the Stanislav area

    The copies of the documents from this collection are described by USHMM as follows: 1. Reports and regulations of the Stanislav Regional Special State Committee on the results of the investigation on the atrocities committed by the fascist aggressors, including damage caused to the industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as to the individuals. 16 June– 22 August 1945. 64 pp. 1а. Acts on the damages caused by the German-Fascist occupiers in town of Stanislavow. 1 October 1944- 1 January 1945. 374 pp. 1B. Same. 1 of January- 16 of February 1945. 185 pp. 2. Reports from interrogations, ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. Gebietskommissariat of Kamianets-Podilskyi

    • Кам'янець-Подільський гебітскомісаріат
    • Kamianets-Podilskyi gebietskommissariat

    Collection contains regulations of wages, correspondence with the Gebietskommissar, city administration and other institutions on various issues, acts of the description of the property of the Jews and its sale, accounting documents, minutes of the meeting of the Ukrainian committee, accounting books. Collection includes document containing information about liquidation of ghettos in various localities of Kamianets-Podilskyi gebiet (file 1).

  16. Shepetivka Gebietskommissariat

    • Шепетівський гебітскомісаріат
    • Shepetivskyi gebietskomisariat

    Collection includes population census (with divisions on age) in various localities of Shepetivka district as of 20 January 1942, particularly Jewish population (inventory 1, file 21, p. 36); information about ghetto in Dunaivtsy (inventory 1, file 62, p. 83); information about taxes imposed on the Jewish ghettos and sums obtained from them in Sudylkiv, Shepetivka, Berezdiv, Slavuta and Hannopil in February-March 1942 (inventory 1, file 184, p. 52); regulations about organization of Jewish workshops in Shepetivka gebiet to serve the local non-Jewish population (inventory 1, file 192, p. 18).

  17. Proskuriv gebiet administration

    • Проскурівська окружна управа
    • Proskurivska okruzhna uprava

    Collection contains results of the population census of Proskurov and surrounding districts for 1941, cases of crimes and offenses, property disputes documentation. Collection includes population statistics in Proskurov city for September 15, 1941, including Jews (adults and children) (Inventory 1, file 558, p. 1); population statistics in Felshtyn district from October 1, 1941, including the Jews (Inventory 1, file 558, p. 26); population statistics in locations of Volochysk district from October 15, 1941, including the Jews (Inventory 1, file 558, p. 5-8); population statistics in Chornoo...

  18. Shepetivka gebiet administration

    • Шепетівська окружна управа
    • Shepetivska okruzhna uprava

    Collection contains orders of the gebiet administration on economic and administrative issues, correspondence, lists of employees of the Shepetivka gebiet administration, applications, autobiography and questionnaires for appointment to work, lists of enterprises and institutions, their employees in the districts of the Shepetivka, accounting records inventory and materials of the Shepetivka paramedic school, description of the property of the agricultural department, materials on the granting of pensions and assistance, information on the payment of wages. Collection includes order from De...

  19. Kamianets-Podilskyi city administration

    • Кам'янець-Подільська міська управа
    • Kamianets-Podilska miska uprava

    Collection includes order by the local Ortskommandantur and city administration to the Jewish population from to resettle into the ghetto (inventory 1, file 1, p. 48); order by the same authorities to the Jews to wear "Star of Zion" (inventory 1, file 3, p. 41); prohibition by the same authorities to the Jews to purchase food beyond the ghetto area (inventory 1, file 1, p. 5); prohibition to the non-Jewish population to interact with the Jews and to stay in the ghetto (inventory 1, file 1, p. 77); prohibition to the city administration staff to use the term "citizen" regarding Jewish indivi...

  20. Ukrainian auxiliary police of Volochysk village

    • Українська допоміжна охоронна поліція, с. Волочиськ
    • Ukrainska dopomizhna ohoronna politsiia, s. Volochysk

    Collection contains weekly reports of the local police about their activities in the village. Collection includes weekly report of policeman in Kupil village from August 1942 particularly mentioning exploitation of the Jews in the village (file 1, page 54).