Archival Department of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Izmail Region, Izmail

Collection

Postal address:: КУ «Ізмаїльський архів», м Ізмаїл, вул. Савицького, 67, Одеська область, Україна 68612

Title:: Archival Department of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Izmail Region, Izmail

Title (official language):: Архівний відділ Управління Міністерства внутрішніх справ в Ізмаїльській області, м. Ізмаїл

Creator/accumulator:: Archival Department of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Izmail Region, Izmail

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fonds include chronologies of the occupation of population centres of the Izmail region in 1941-44, and of the cities of Izmail and Belgorod-Dnestrovskii (until 1944, Akkerman) in particular, with information on murders of the Jewish population; and excerpts from the statement of a forensic medical commission on the excavation and exhumation in Izmail of the corpses of victims (1946) and from a statement of the Extraordinary State Commission on “damages caused by the German-Romanian invaders in the Bolgrad district,” and on crimes perpetrated by the same against noncombatants (including Jews) and Soviet POWs (undated).

Administrative/biographical history:: This was established in August 1940 in Akkerman to oversee archival institutions of the Akkerman region (which was renamed the Izmail region on 7 December of the same year upon the transfer of its administrative centre from Akkerman to Izmail). The department was tasked with the organisation of a network of state archives in the region to house documents of institutions that had been in operation in the southern part of the Bessarabia province in 1812-1917, as well as in 1918-40, when this territory was part of Romania. The department was liquidated in February 1954 upon the dissolution of the Izmail region.

Subject terms:: Health and medical matters; Holocaust; Mass murder; Occupation (military); Prisoners

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes two inventories in which files are systematised chronologically by year, and within years, by level of significance.