Metadata: Zhitomir Regional Commission for Registrating the Damage Caused by German Invaders during the Great Patriotic War; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-2636
- Title:
- Zhitomir Regional Commission for Registrating the Damage Caused by German Invaders during the Great Patriotic War; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Житомирская областная комиссия по учету ущерба, нанесенного немецкими захватчиками в период Великой Отечественной войны, г. Житомир Житомирской обл.; Житомирська обласна комісія для обліку збитків, заподіяного німецькими загарбниками в період Великої Вітчизняної війни, м. Житомир Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir Regional Commission for Registrating the Damage Caused by German Invaders during the Great Patriotic War
- Date(s):
- 1943/1946
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 101 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included is information on mass shootings of the Jewish population of Zhitomir, Berdichev, and the Bazarsk, Dzerzhinskii, Korostyshev, Luginy, Liubar, Ruzhin, Chudnov, and other districts of the Zhitomir region, from documents and eyewitness accounts. These include copies of a sworn statement (3 February 1944) on the shooting of Zhitomir Jews near the hamlet of Dovzhik, a report (12 January 1944) by the director of the Zhitomir Home for the Elderly on the shooting in 1941 of a group of Jewish invalids, and a statement (18 May 1945) titled “The Germans’ Massacre of the Jewish Population of the Bazarsk Distict”; lists of persons executed, and also of German occupiers and their accomplices from among the local population who had taken part in shootings; statistical data on the number of Jewish residents of Zhitomir annihilated in September 1941 and in the course of 1942-43; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1944, this was a territorial body of the Extraordinary State Commission to Ascertain and Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices and the Damages Caused by them to Citizens, Collective Farms, Public Organizations, and State Enterprises and Institutions of the USSR. It was founded pursuant to an edict of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 2 November 1942, and was liquidated by order of the USSR Council of Ministers 9 June 1951. Supported by republic-level, regional, city, and district commissions set up as Soviet territory was liberated from the occupiers, it gathered and verified concrete information on the crimes of the latter, and on the material damage they had wrought on the country and its people.
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev
- Chudnov district
- Dovzhik
- Korostyshev district
- Liubar district
- Luginy district
- Ukraine
- Zhitomir
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single unstructured inventory.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary