Metadata: Directorate of Labor
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-2264
- Title:
- Directorate of Labor
- Title (official language):
- Дирекция труда; Дирекція праці
- Creator/accumulator:
- Directorate of Labor
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Russian
- Extent:
- (53 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains (op. 1, 2) orders of the Romanian occupation authorities, including an order (2 January 1942) by head of state I. Antonescu and Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu that on 10 January 1942 Jews be deported from Odessa and environs to ghettos in northern Ochakov county and southern Berezovka county, and that the property of Jews be liquidated; prefects’ letters on creating Jewish labour bureaus in the counties, including a statement (1943) by the prefect of Ovidiopol’ county that such a thing had no function in light of the absence of Jews in the territory of Ovidiopol’ county.
A considerable portion of the fonds' documents consists of correspondence and information on the labour conscription of Jews in the territory of Transnistria as a whole and in particular counties, districts, labour camps, ghettos, and state farms. This material includes lists and statistical information systematised by sex, age, and profession: lists of Jewish medics found to be residing in Balta county; of Jewish medics and pharmacists from Bacau county (Romania) who have arrived in Transnistria for mandatory ninety-day state work shifts; Jewish specialists used at various work sites in Balta, Golta, Mogilev, and Rybnitsa counties and in the ghettos of the cities of Bershad’, Tiraspol’, Rybnitsa, Mogilev-Podol’skii and the villages of Peshchana (Peshchana district) and Pechora (Shpikov district) (1943).
There is also information on Jews unfit for work, disabled veterans, pensioners and widows; requests by Jews for disability certificates, for permission to be repatriated to Romania, for transfer from one ghetto to another of family members and other relatives, queries on the location of same, etc.; documents on receipt and distribution of aid to the Jews of Transnistria received from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania [Rom. Centrala Evreilor din România; 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 on 16 December 1941. Controlled by the authorities, the Central Office was granted the exclusive right to represent the interests of the Jewish population of Romania. Its functions included, furthermore, registering all Romanian Jews, providing them with identification papers they were never to be without, and conscripting them in all manner of labour]: sums of money transfers, lists of Jewish committees of Transnistria to which aid was delivered, and reports on its use; data on the distribution of foodstuffs by the Jewish committee of the city of Chernovtsy amongst other Jewish committees (Tul’chin, Balta, Bershad’, Obodovka, Shargorod, Kopaigorod, and Dzhurin); a list of items transferred to the ghetto at Liubashevka (Golta county) (1943); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- 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 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Balta
- Berezovka county
- Bershad’
- Chernovtsy
- Kopaigorod
- Mogilev county
- Ochakov county
- Odessa
- Romania
- Shargorod
- Transnistria
- Tul’chin
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Alexianu, G.
- Antonescu, I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
