Metadata: Golta District Pretura; Golta, Golta County
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Nikolaev Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Миколаївської області; Государственный архив Николаевской области
- Postal address:
- 54001, Украина, г. Николаев ул. Московская, 1, тел./факс: +380 (512) 37-0065 e-mail: mail@mk.archives.gov.ua http://mk.archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-2084
- Title:
- Golta District Pretura; Golta, Golta County
- Title (official language):
- Голтянская районная претура, г. Голта Голтянского у.; Голтянська районна претура, м. Голта Голтянського пов.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Golta District Pretura; Golta, Golta County
- Date(s):
- 1941/1943
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (832 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The general description below relates to the fonds of the Aleksanderfel’d, Varvarovka, Golta, Domanevka, Krivoe Ozero, Landau, Mostovoe and Nechaiannoe District Preturas. Material specific to the fonds of the Golta District Pretura is listed separately after the general description.
Documents on “the Jewish question” contained in the pretura fonds may provisionally be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Directives of the Romanian civilian and military authorities that defined the legal status of the Jewish population of Transnistria; these include copies of orders signed by Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu (4 August 1943) on remuneration of Jewish labour in accordance with rates established for the local population; 2. Orders of local authorities dealing with forced labour of the Jewish population; 3. Documents on the situation of Jewish doctors and on hygiene and sanitary conditions in which the Jews of Transnistria lived. 4. Materials on financial aid to the Jews of Transnistria from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania. [The Central Office of the Jews of Romania (Rom. Centrala Evreilor din România) was a structure created 30 January 1942 by Romanian leader Marshal I. Antonescu to replace the independent Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania he had dissolved 16 December 1941. Controlled entirely by Marshal Antonescu, the Central Office was granted the exclusive right to represent the interests of the Jewish population of Romania; on the other hand, it was to ensure that all orders issued by the Romanian authorities regarding the “Jewish question” were carried out. Its functions included, in particular, registering all Romanian Jews, providing them with identification papers they were never to be without, and conscripting them in all sorts of labour.]; 5. Various sorts of lists.
There are also financial documents, statistical data and certificates, including certificates issued by preturas to Jewish doctors granting the right of free movement in corresponding districts for the period when they fulfilled mandatory work; certificates issued by preturas identifying Jewish holders of said documents as working in enterprises in Transnistria; etc.
Specific to the fonds of the Golta District Pretura are the following documents:
List of Jews being used for work at the Bukovin state farm in the Golta district (1943); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria.
[By agreement with Germany (signed 30 August 1941 in Bendery), Romania received a mandate to implement temporary “administrative and economic operation” of the Governorate of Transnistria (Rus. Zadnestrov’e) – an artificially created administrative-territorial formation including German-Romanian occupied parts of the Vinnitsa, Odessa, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine and the left-bank districts of Moldavia between the southern Bug and the Dniester – upon which an administrative structure was introduced, headed by a civilian governor. This individual administered the Governorate of Transnistria through the heads of its thirteen constituent counties (județe), and via a number of sectoral directorates, including Finance, Industry, Commerce, Labour (whose function encompassed the labour conscription of the population, especially Jews, in the occupied territory), Forestry, Health, etc. This administrative structure also included the Main Registry, which housed the archive of the Governorate of Transnistria, the primary purpose of which was to register all incoming and outgoing correspondence. The administrative centre of the Governorate of Transnistria from August through October 1941 was the city of Tiraspol’; upon the Red Army’s forced departure from the city of Odessa, the administrative centre was transferred there. March 1944 saw the de facto liquidation of the Governorate of Transnistria, when detachments of the Red Army completely liberated the territory between the Dniester and the southern Bug from German and Romanian forces.]
Preturas were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures (on which see the historical information given in the descriptions of f. R-2178 and f. R-1028); and in turn held jurisdiction over municipal and village primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organisation of ghettos.
- Access points: locations:
- Romania
- Transnistria
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Alexianu, G.
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
