Metadata: Reichskommissariat Ukraine; Rovno
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 3206
- Title:
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine; Rovno
- Title (official language):
- Рейхскомиссариат Украины, г. Ровно
- Creator/accumulator:
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine; Rovno
- Date(s):
- 1941/1945
- Language:
- German
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,204 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents on the number and settlement of Jews in cities and on the segregation thereof from the local non-Jewish population; statutes stipulating that Jews be concentrated in places indicated, “resettled,” shot, or imprisoned in jails or forced-labour camps; and documents on the punishment of non-Jews for having contact with or aiding Jews; memoranda and reports of the culture department and the department of the press and propaganda, and correspondence on the publication of antisemitic materials; memoranda of the Territorial Administration of Archives, Libraries, and Museums on studying “the Jewish question” in the USSR, and studying Jewish material and religious culture; records and reference materials on the activities of the Jewish section of the Kiev Central Historical Archive, and a listing of fonds stored therein; brief descriptions of Jewish political parties that had been active in the territory of Russia and Ukraine; lists of books by Jewish authors (including foreign books translated into Russian and Ukrainian, with real names of pseudonymous writers given) to be immediately removed from libraries; selections and scattered publications of an antisemitic nature in collaborationist editions, and print and radio texts (on “Zhido-Bolshevism” in the USSR, the “worldwide Jewish conspiracy,” etc.) prepared by the Reichskommissariat department of the press and propaganda; notes and letters of German polizei agents and Wehrmacht soldiers and officers reflecting their personal attitudes toward Jews; and also reflecting the local population’s attitudes toward Jews and toward Nazi policies regarding “the Jewish question”; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine was established in the city of Rovno on 20 August 1941, and began operations in November of that year. It included much of the territory of the Ukrainian SSR and southern parts of two Belorussian regions (Brest and Pinsk); and was divided into six general commissariats [Generalkommissariate] (Volhynia-Podolia, Kiev, Zhitomir, Nikolaev, Crimea, and Dnepropetrovsk), divided in turn into regional- and city-level administrative units [Gebietskommissariate; Stadtkommissariate]. The central administration at Rovno consisted of a number of special departments, including those of general affairs, legal affairs, industry, agriculture, transportation, communication, culture, education, the press and propaganda, and the Nazi Party department. The life of the population was strictly regimented in Reichskommissariat Ukraine, with any attempts at resistance suppressed. There was a systematic practice of hostage-taking and mass shootings; and there were special courts for the local population; and from March 1942 on, persons were regularly sent to Germany to serve as a labour force there, and numerous forced-labour camps and ghettoes were established. The destruction of Jews as carried out by mobile death squads [Einsatzgruppen] and special detachments [Sonderkommandos] began in the fall of 1941, and continued in the spring and fall of 1942 as carried out by forces of the German police and gendarmerie using Ukrainian (in Volhynia, Polish) police personnel. Reichskommissariat Ukraine ceased to exist in 1944 when Ukraine was liberated by Red Army units.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes six inventories systematised thematically and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
