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Language of Description: English
Country: Ukraine

  1. Рівненська районна управа, м. Рівне Рівненської області

    • Rovno District Administration

    Copies of documents, preserved at USHMM, are described as follows: Opis 1 Folder 17/27, Correspondence with Rovno Gebietskomissariat concerning the Jewish property. 1943. 25 pp. Folder 16/26, Ibid. 1943. 46 pp.

  2. Видавництво газети "Українська думка" - орган Черкаської районної управи, м. Черкаси

    • Editorial board of the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper, an official organ of the Cherkasy district board, city of Cherkasy
    • Vydavnytstvo hazety "Ukrainska dumka" - orhan Cherkaskoi raionnoi upravy, m. Cherkasy

    As an occupation media, this 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. Orders and instructions within the editorial board, 140 pages. File 2. Lists of workers and employees for 1942, 38 pages. File 3. Lists of workers and employees, 1943, 46 pages. File 4. Profiles and autobiographies of the staff, 1942, 8 pages. Files 5-7. Salary registers, 1942-43, each file is approx. 40 pages on average. File 8. Cash journal for honorarium payment to the author...

  3. Черкаська районна управа, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy district board, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska raionna uprava, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information related to the history of the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Orders appointing village elders and delegates from city districts to the establishments of Cherkasy city; correspondence with Smila gebietskommissariat about rewarding village elders and policemen for their participation in anti-partisan warfare; statements and memos about situation with the railway bridge and other issues, 31 pages. File 2. Lists of staff of the housing department of district board, of communication depar...

  4. Колекція документів "Чернігівщина в роки Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941-1945 рр."

    • Document collection "Chernihiv region in the years of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945"
    • Kolektsiia dokumentiv "Chernihivschina v roky Velykoi Vitchiznianoi viyny 1941-1945"

    As the collection contains testimonies and memoirs, as well as official records on various aspects of the German occupation, some files relate to Holocaust history. Files 1-40. Student essays entitled “What I survived during the German-Fascist occupation”; each file is 30 pages on average. File 42. Report entitled “Photographs of the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders on the Territory of Chernihiv Region During the Occupation Period,” 10 pages. File 43. Memoirs by R.I. Tovstukha-Novitskaia about the occupation period of Chernihiv region, 34 pages.

  5. 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...

  6. Чернігівська міська управа, м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

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

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust in the area. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Printed orders, decrees and announcements of the Ortskommandantur and city board about organizing of district boards, village elders and their tasks, tax payments, and other issues, 33 pages. File 2. Orders within city board about list of staff members, hiring and dismissal of servants. Memo from Baran-Butovych regarding releasing POWs from the camps, dwellers of Chernihiv and nearby villages, 43 pages. File 3. ...

  7. 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...

  8. Козелецька районна управа, смт. Козелець Козелецького району Чернігівської області

    • Kozelets district board, town of Kozelets, Kozelets district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Kozeletska raionna uprava, s.m.t. Kozelets Kozeletskoho raionu 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 13. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to submit lists of ethnic Germans. Lists of ethnic Germans registered in Kozelets district board, number of pages not available. File 14. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to compile lists of persons who have arrived from another locations, to prohibit prisoners of war from marrying, and to register prisoners of war, 31 pages. File 24. Decree by Kozelets ortskommandantur to allocate la...

  9. Коропська районна поліція, с. Короп Коропського району Чернігівської області

    • Korop district police, village of Korop, Korop district of Chernihivska oblast
    • Koropska raionna politsiia, v. Korop Koropskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files: File 2. Lists of policemen of Korop district to obtain allowance, 35 pages. File 3. Lists of policemen. Reports about searches, statements for obtaining food assistance, 73 pages. File 4. Lists of policemen of Korop district. Reports on receiving food and food inventories. Applications for food and uniforms, 105 pages. File 5. Lists of policemen to obtain foodstuff. Salary inventories for assistants of Korop district police, 202 pages. File 9. Salary inventories for...

  10. Сосницька районна поліція, смт. Сосниця Сосницького району Чернігівської області

    • Sosnytsia district police, town of Sosnytsia, Sosnytsia district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Sosnytska raionna politsiia, s.m.t. Sosnytsia Sosnytskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files: File 2. Minutes of interrogation, 115 pages. File 6. Personal information of the police staff (orders, registers, lists, reports), 133 pages. File 7. Signed statements by village dwellers, lists of district police agents, 100 pages. File 11. Lists of policemen to obtain allowance, registers for food distribution, 16 pages. File 13. Lists of arrested persons, 23 pages. File 14. Registration book of arrested persons, 21 pages. File 15. Registration book of the operati...

  11. Корюківська районна поліція, смт. Корюківка Чернігівської області

    • Koriukivka district police, town of Koriukivka, Chernihiv oblast
    • Koriukivska raionna politsiia, s.m.t. Koriukivka of Chernihivska oblast

    Documentation of the local auxiliary police can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the files: File 1. Book of orders, 89 pages. File 2. Lists of policemen, 167 pages. File 3. Lists of policemen, 36 pages.

  12. 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...

  13. Сільські управи Дніпропетровської області (об'єднаний фонд)

    • Village boards of Dnipropetrovsk region (joint collection)
    • Silski upravy Dnipropetrovskoi oblasti (objednanyi fond)

    Village boards were the lowest level administrative bodies responsible for implementation of the German orders on the ground and facilitation of the occupation policies. Some of the files included in the Inventory 2 of the collection are connected to the German population policies and the Holocaust. Inventory 2 (Opys 2) File 1. Orders of the chef of district board in Apostolovo district, Soldatovo village board. 1941-42. 549 pages. File 4. Orders and decrees of Apostolovo district board about prohibition of Soviet propaganda, giving help to prisoners of war, awarding for arrests of communis...

  14. 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; ...

  15. 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...

  16. Kharkiv city administration

    • Харківська міська управа
    • Kharkivska miska uprava

    Collection includes: Instruction on registration of the population of the city of Kharkiv with a note that all Jews, regardless of their faith, should be listed in separate lists, December 1941 (inventory 1, file 215, p. 13). Information from the Mayor of Kharkiv about the final results of the census in December 1941, indicating the number of Jews (inventory 1, file 232, p. 1). Results of the census run by the city administration in December 1941 containing data on various ethnic groups including the Jews (inventory 2, file 116, p. 54) Report of the head of the housing department of the 2nd...

  17. 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).

  18. 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).

  19. 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).

  20. 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, ...