Vinnitsa Oblast Archive Records RG-31.011M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 Email: reference@ushmm.org Descriptive Summary Title: Vinnitsa Oblast Archive Records Dates: 1941-1943 RG Number: RG-31.011M Accession Number: 1996.A.0343 Extent: 34 microfilm reels; 35 mm. Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: Romanian, Ukrainian, and German Administrative Information Access: No restrictions on access. Reproduction and Use: No restrictions on use. Fair use only. Preferred Citation: [file name/number], [reel number], RG-31.011M, Vinnitsa Oblast Archive Records, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: Purchased from the Derz h avnyĭ arkhiv Vinnyt s ʹkoï oblasti (Vinnitsa Oblast Archive), Ukraine.The records were created by Romanian and German authorities in the course of the Romanian occupation of the region and were left in the Vinnytsia oblast area when the authorities retreated. They were probably used by Soviet security agencies prior to being transferred to the Vinnytsia State Oblast Archive, from which USHMM acquired them. 1
Custodial History Existence and Location of Originals: The original records are held by the Derz h avnyĭ arkhiv Vinnyt s ʹkoï oblasti, 17 Soborna St. Vinnnytsia, Ukraine 21100. Tel. 011 380 43 232 2092. More information about this repository can be found at http://www.archives.gov.ua/archives/index.php?ra02. Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Scope and Content of Collection This collection contains various types of documents relating to the registration of Jews and Roma and Sinti (Gypsies); the confiscation, plundering, and disposition of Jewish property; labor policies regarding local-hire employees in agriculture and industry; anti-partisan activities; the registration of taxpayers; the ghettoization of Jews; the requirement to wear the Star of David; medical conditions in the ghettos; and aid to Romanian Jews from the Federation of Romanian Jews (Central Evreilor Bucharest). Included are name lists of Jews in forced labor, Jews working in civil administration offices, and Jews forced to pay special taxes. System of Arrangement This collection is arranged thematically. Inventory: Reel File Description 1 24 15 List of all tax payers from Vinnitsa town, July-October, 1941. Most of the residents of Vinnitsa who were registered street by street. Lists contain Jews and non-jews, the heading "nationality" is filled in. ca. 1,000 pages. List of registered persons of Vinnitsa, Pjatnitschani and Altstadt, April - November 1943, persons identified by nationality, sex, age (includes "Halbjuden" and gypsies). List of fines placed on those who did not register, possessed stolen ids, lost their ids etc. Lists of new registrees sent to SD and Kripo. Report of the registration department for Vinnitsa for Mar, May, June, July Aug, Oct and No 1943. German address to Ukrainians (in Ukrainian) stating that the 2
rouble must be destroyed as currency, that the rouble represents the Bolshevik system that Germany is destroying. The rouble will be replaced with the karbovanets, 1 Ukrainian karbovanets = 1 rouble. 8 Fond 1311-1c- 2 Fond 1311-1c- 1 2 1711; Fond 1312-1c-1712; 1713; Fond 1312-1c-1714; 1715; Fond German form for registering workers German-Ukrainian workers identifications, issued for each labor assignment. Memo of Feldkommandant 675 to city administration re: former Jewish dwelling and a Ukrainian claim to it. Letter of Ukrainian asking to remain in former Jewish dwelling Letters from Reich to a Ukrainian female translator working for Germans in Nemirow and Vinnitsa (May 1942-end of 1943). Accompanying memo to SD identifying "suspects" as they are sent to SD from various village outposts, members of militia to be used in cases and interrogations, Feldkommandant 675 file Nov, Dec 1941. Memos to SD in Vinnitsa, about Ukrainians denouncing Jews and Communists. Letters of 1941 to Ukrainian and German police re: plundering and denouncing village members. Letter regarding incidents of rape by Germans, complaint of Ukrainian militia about German behavoir. Ukrainian woman denouncing first husband as communist and plunderer. Memo to General Commissar Shitomir (Klemm) about Christmas wages, December 1941 Memo to POW camp administration Cholm asking to release a Ukrainian for work in German administration. Memos to the district economic leader about Ukrainian agricultural leaders who are not working hard enough to bring in the harvest with requests that they be removed and taken into custody. List of all tax payers from Vinnitsa town, July-October, 1941. Most of the residents of Vinnitsa who were registered street by street. Lists contain Jews and non-jews, the heading "nationality" is filled in. ca. 1,000 pages. 3
1312-1c-1724; 1727; Fond 1312-1c-1728; 1729; Fond 1312-1c-1730; 1731. 3 1732; Fond 1312-1c-1733; 1734; Fond 1312-1c-1735; 1736; Fond 1312-1c-1737; 1738; Fond 1312-1c-1781. Fond 1357-1c- 8 List of all tax payers from Vinnitsa town, July-October, 1941. Most of the residents of Vinnitsa who were registered street by street. Lists contain Jews and non-jews, the heading "nationality" is filled in. ca. 1,000 pages. Order in Ukrainian by Erich Koch (Reich Commissar Ukraine) 27 February 1943 regarding spring planting campaign. Memo of March 1943 from building site in Kasatin about health insurance for Ukrainian workers. Gebietskommissar Kasatin announcement in Ukrainian and German about partisans disguised in German Army uniforms, warning against Ukrainian assistance to partisans, date 10 July 1943. Gebietskommissar Kasatin memo to regional leaders about curfews and closing times of offices, dated 14 July 1943. Fond 1358-1c- 1 Ukrainian language leaflets/orders printed by Germans or of German origin: November 1941 order from Reich Commissar and Higher SS and Police Leader of Southern Russia about necessary documents for travel within Ukraine. August 1942 "Instructions to the people of Bary and 4
Yaltischkova" from the Ukrainian heads of administration and of fire safety. Order No. 8 from the Ukrainian Administration of Bary, dated 11 September 1941. Persons who occupy empty apartments and take furniture must in 3 days leave apartment and give furniture etc. to the administration. Order of Bary administration from 10 June 1942 ordering that all people must clean houses to prevent fires and spread of illnesses by July 1st 1942. Command from Ukrainian head of Bary District administration, V. Kolivepryk that all houses, factories and buildings must be darkened at sunset. Order No. 21 from Bary District Administration of 15 Dec 1941 regarding the formation of 2 ghettos in Bary and Yaltushkova. States that all Jews must be isolated into ghettos within five days. General Leaflet to Ukrainian people, dated September 1941. Propaganda blaming Jews for Bolshevik crimes, urging Ukrainians to work for Germans in struggle against Jews- Bolsheviks. General Leaflet to Ukrainians about the German liberation of Ukraine as a German-led European fight against Bolshevism. Leaflet to Workers urging them to work for Germany or to go to Germany for work. Recruiting Ukrainian workers with inducements to work in the "paradise" of German farms and factories. Fond 1417-3c- 52 Fond 1417-3c- 2 Announcement by the Gebietskommissar of Bar (in Ukrainian) of 23 Feb 1944. No civilians to walk in public from 7:00 pm - 5:00 am Document concerning a Jewish home that was destroyed and later sold by a Ukrainian to another Ukrainian for 450 Reichsmarks. Document of 12 Sept 1941 from Ukrainian district agricultural leader regarding Ukrainian grain quotas to be met for Germans. 5
4 Fond 1417-3c- 1 Series of orders (in Ukrainian) by Ukrainian militia and Wehrmacht concerning initial months of occupation mainly from the region of Shpykiv, situated just south of the Bug River, later part of Transnistria not Reichs Commissarriat Ukraine. Resolution of 24 July 1941 about controlling the rise of prices. Order No. 1 by the Commander of the Ukrainian Militia, 4 Aug 1941 states that Jews from 7 years of age must wear an armband with the blue Star of David. Order No. 2 of 5 Aug 1941 that all plundered items be handed over to the administrationin two days. Declaration of 7 Aug 1941 that by the power of the Ukrainian state that Ukrainians can engage in all types of commerce with the German mark and Ukrainian karbovanets (1 German mark=10 Ukrainian karbovanets). Order No. 4 of 8 Aug 1941 that plundered items must be handed over to administration in two days. Special registration forms 14 Aug 1941 in which all objects, land, livestock and persons are registerd by the Commander of the Ukrainian militia. Announcement of 12 Aug 1941 that Ukrainian men of 18 years of older register as volunteers in the Ukrainian People's Army. Order NO. 6 of 12 August 1941 by Commander of Shpykiv's Ukrainian National Regional Militia ordering the formation in each village of a Ukrainian National People's militia. Order No. 7 of 13 Aug 1941 that all POWs and newcomers must quickly register by the office of the commander of militia. Order No. 8 of 22 Aug 1941 that all communists and former Party members must appear in 24 hours by commander. Form dated 26 August 1941 sent to village leaders of district that factories, agricultural work should be resumed, that people must work. Order No. 9 of 29 Aug 1941 that the Jewish population must twice a day sweep the streets around their houses, that they must not walk on main streets only back streets and cannot be in public at all after 8:00pm. Order No. 10 from 2 Sept 1941 that all tradesmen including Jews must declare assets, monies from period since German invasion. Order No. 11 of 4 Sept 1941 that all plundered musical instruments be deposited in two days in the hall of the sugar refinery. Order No. 12 of Sept 1941 about the behavoir of militia during the fulfillment of duty. Order No. 14 of 12 Sept 1941 that all Jews living in houses on the main street must move completely into Jewish homes on back streets. Order No. 15 of 15 Sept 1941 that the Jewish population must bring in four days a tax in the sum of 10,000 karbovanets. Resolution No. 6 of 17 Nov 1941 from Prefect of Tulchin, Colonel Jon Lazer (ethnic German?) rules that all Jews in the ghetto established by order of 22 Sept 1941 in Tulchin, Braczlow. Shpykiv, and Laduzhin are 6
not allowed to move from designated places without special permission of the Prefect. Violators will be treated like spies. Village elders and police leaders who do not carry out this order will be treated like spies-communists. Document (not dated) outlining the "General Duties and Behavoir of the Village Elder." Fond 1417-3c- 36 Fond 1417-8c- 10 Fond 1495-6c- 27 Fond 1495-6c- 48 Fond 1496-2ac- 190 Fond 1529-6c- 9 Rumanian memo regarding Jews, January 1944. Rumanian memos, November 1941 Rumanian, tax lists? Rumanian memos regarding Jews, August 1941 Registration lists, 1941-42 (name, birth date, occupation) Rumanian lists of Jews, taxes paid? List of Jews from Shpykiv, about 20 names. Chernovets list of people who exchanged currency, 802 names, part of them Jews. Yaryshev list of specialists, only Jews, 44 names. Several lists of Jews from Chernovets in Ladyzhin, about 240 names. List of Romanian Jews deported to Chetvertinovka. 5 Receipts containing names of Romanian Jews in Yampol. List of Ukrainians and Jews from Yampol, 189 names, ca. 20% Jews. List of properties confiscated from Jews in Kryshopol (Crijopol). List of Jews from Zhabokrych, specialists, 30 names. Personnel files of Jews from Kryzhopol and Myastkovka, 1942. Each file has five to six pages of about 3,000 to 4,000 names. 6 Fond 1619-2c- 244 Fond 1619-2c- 248 Fond 1675-2-1 Registration forms from 1942 Registration lists 7
Fond 1675-2-2 Fond 2317-2-2 Fond 2317-2-5 Fond 2317-2-6 Fond 2317-2-7 Fond 2317-2-8, 9, 10 Fond 2317-5-1 Fond 2317-5-2 Receipts Receipts, in Rumanian, Jews paid a sum according to an order of June 1942. Medical reports about illnesses in ghetto, malaria, diptheria and typhus. Reports about ghetto in Bershad. Letter from Rumainian Jew in New York sent via Red Cross, with repsonse from Rumanian contact. Medical reports, Bershad ghetto Lists of local Jews from Kryzhopol, 21 names. Receipts containing the names of 700 Romanian Jews from Bershad. 7 Fond 466-22c- 7 Fond 466-23c- 7 Fond 2711-1- 21 Fond 2383-4-1 Rumanian documents about Mogilev. List of Jews from Bukovina employed in Mogilev-Podolskiy, 33 names. 8 List of residents of Mogilev-Podolskiy who were allowed to register with the town in order to open businesses, about 500 names, Jews and non-jews, ca. 50% Jews. List with 323 names, Jews and non-jews. List of 50 local Jews in forced labor. Another 100 individual files of Jews from Mogilev-Podolskiy. 8
9 Fond 650-1c- 485 37 Fond 650-2c- 37 40 41 46 47 53 above files of Rumanian documents about Mogilev Jews Jewish Council Mogilev Miscellaneous letters, Ukrainian returning from Siberia asks for assistance, employment. December 1941, memo/receipt issued by Mogilev Mayor Work authorization for Jews Documents requesting that bearer present all economic activities and sums to city bookeeper. 49,50,51,52,53, 5?, 56,57 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79. Receipts in Rumanian and Ukrainian about sale of Jewish property or tax payments List of Jews (a few dozen) who worked for the Mogilev-Podolskiy mayor's office. Romanian and Russian Jews; personnel case files of 200 local and Romanian Jews. 10 Personnel case files of 200 local and Romanian Jews in Mogilev- Podolskiy. 11 Authorization for Jews to remain in Mogilev-Podolskiy, about 200 cases. 12 no description 9
13 List of Romanian Jews working for mayor's office of Mogilev- Podolskiy, about 115 names. List of 42 names, Jews and non- Jews, including local Jews who worked for the mayor's office of Mogilev. List of 71 Jews employed by enterprises depending upon the mayor's administration. List of 350 Romainian Jews from Mogilev-Podolskiy, etc. This folder contains approximately 3,000 names of Jews interned in Mogilev-Podolskiy, most of them Romanian. 14 Receipts of Jews from Luchinets, Murafa, Kopaygorod, Scazhinets, Mogilev-Podolskiy, who received aid from Central Evreilor, about 1,000 names. 15 Receipts of Jews from Luchinets, Murafa, Kopaygorod, Scazhinets, Mogilev-Podolskiy, who received aid from Central Evreilor, about 250 names. 16 List of about 300 names of Romanian Jews working for the Mogilev-Podolskiy mayor's office. 17 no description 18 no description 19 Lists of Jews and non-jews from the Sosnovca (Shargorod area), 386 names. List of Jews and non-jews from Cerebeni, 270 names. List of 64 Romainian Jews from Sosnovca. List of 74 Jews and non-jews from Fedorovca. List of 16 workers, Jews and non-jews from the Shargorod hospital. 20 List of Jews used in the Shargorod workshop, 46 names, local and Romanian Jews. 21 Curfew permits for Jews working in the leather factory in Mogilev-Podolskiy, about 100 names. 22 no description 23 List of Jewish specialists who worked in Mogilev-Podolskiy, about 100 names. List of 2,000 names (one name per page) from Murafa, Lucinet, Sargorod, Kopaygorod, Vendicheny, Mogilev, Balki, Zhmerinka, Krasnoe, Dzhurin, Tropova, Tyvrov, most of them Romanian Jews. 10
24 no description 25 400 names of Romanian Jews from Ozarintsy, Sharagorod, Dzhurin. 26 Receipts with 700 names of Jews from Mogilev-Podolskiy, Dzhurin, Sharagorod, and Murafa. Payroll of Jewish employees of wood factory in Mogilev-Podolskiy, 170 names in May 1942. 27 List of medical personnel from the Zhmerinka hospital, about ten Jewish names. Medical personnel of Mogilev-Podolskiy, 70 Jews, December 1941. 28 no description 29 List of 27 Jews from Zhabokrych. List of 27 Jews from Chernovets. List of 43 Jews deported from Ovidiopol to Yampol district. Ten specialists from Yampol. List of 65 medical personnel from Chernovets. 30 no description 31 Vapniarka - no description 32 List of 65 Jews from Yampol, 1941. 33 List of Jewish specialists from Yampol, Tamashpol, Kryshopol, Zhabokrych, Myastrovka, and Chernovets, about 334 names. List of 152 names of Jews from Komargorod, 1943. List of Jews from Gorishovka, about 196 names. List of Jews from Yampol, about 1,214 names. List of Jews from Tamashpol, about 1,509 names. 34 List of Jews from Kiyamivka, July 1943, about 56 names. List of 20 Jews from Sodzievka. List of about 145 Romanian Jews from Balki. Payments for Jews from Vendichany brick factory. 11