Metadata: Berezovka District Pretura; Berezovka, Berezovka County
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-2377
- Title:
- Berezovka District Pretura; Berezovka, Berezovka County
- Title (official language):
- Березовская районная претура, г. Березовка Березовского у.; Березівська районна претура, м. Березівка Березівського пов.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Berezovka District Pretura; Berezovka, Berezovka County
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (381 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. A significant number of documents concern Jews located in ghettos and labour camps. These include official correspondence of Governorate of Transnistria preturas and prefectures forbidding the issuance of passes to visit camps (1942). Documents of the Romanian authorities regarding the conscription of Jews into forced labour include rulings of the governor of Transnistria and correspondence with prefectures and gendarmerie posts on using local Jews and Jewish deportees in Transnistria as specialists (doctors, bookkeepers, workers) in institutions, enterprises, and factories in Transnistria, with the exception of Odessa (1942-43); correspondence and resolutions of the Berezovka county prefecture and district pretura on ceasing the practice of using Jews as office clerks and Ukrainian-language translators (1942); rulings of same on assigning Jewish doctors for mandatory labour in hospitals in the Berezovka district and on providing them with food (1942); information on the daily food ration of Jewish pharmacists in the Berezovka city hospital (1942); decrees on the service of Jewish medics in the sanitation department of the Berezovka county prefecture, as local doctors in the villages of Sofievka and Donskaia Balka, and in ninety-day mandatory work shifts in the Berezovka city hospital and the medical station in the village of Zavadovka (1943); data on the work of Jewish bookkeepers in enterprises, warehouses, and stores of the Berezovka district (1942-43) and documents identifying Jewish bearers as working in the territory of Transnistria (1944); petitions by Jews for the issuance of such documents; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Preturas 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 via a number of sectoral directorates, including Finance, Industry, Commerce, Labor (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:
- Berezovka
- Berezovka county
- Odessa
- Romania
- Sofievka
- 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