Metadata: Balta County Prefecture; Balta
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-2358
- Title:
- Balta County Prefecture; Balta
- Title (official language):
- Балтская уездная префектура, г. Балта; Балтська повітова префектура, м. Балта
- Creator/accumulator:
- Balta County Prefecture; Balta
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- (863 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are orders, circulars, and instructions of the Governorate of Transnistria and the Romanian Army command, and correspondence with various institutions on restrictive measures regarding Jews and their conscription for forced labour. Among these are reports of police praetors and agents on living conditions of Jews in the camps of Balta county (1942); etc. A considerable portion of the documents consists of lists of the Jewish population, including of Jewish specialists of Balta county mobilised in fulfilment of their labour conscription requirements (1941-42); of Jews and Gypsies located in ghettos in Balta county (1943-44); of those fulfilling labour conscription requirements in Romanian military detachments (1943); of widows, orphans, and the disabled among Jews located in ghettos in Balta county; of decorated Jewish veterans of the First World War (1943); etc.
A number of documents deal with financial issues. These include payment records for the salaries of Jewish craftsmen and specialists working in ghettos (1943); expense reports and receipts for money and packages sent by the Jewish community of Romania to Jews in the ghettos and camps of Transnistria (including those in the town of Bershad’ and the Bershad’, Balta, and Obodovka districts), and correspondence with preturas regarding the delivery of this aid (1942-43). There is also statistical information on the number of Jews located in ghettos, and requests for transfer from one ghetto to another (1944); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Prefectures were established by the Romanian administration in September 1941 in the German-Romanian-occupied territory between the Dniester and the southern Bug 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 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.]
Prefectures were county executive entities subordinate to the Governorate; they were headed by prefects. They had, in turn, oversight of district preturas and municipal and village primarias, as well as other institutions and organisations located within their respective counties, including gendarmerie and police entities. They were liquidated in January 1944 in the course of this territory’s liberation by units of the Red Army.
- Access points: locations:
- Balta
- Bershad’
- Romania
- Transnistria
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventories are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary