Metadata: Kherson Municipal Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Kherson
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kherson Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Херсонської області
- Postal address:
- Ukraine, 73003, Kherson, 3 Yaroslav Mudryi Str.
- Phone number:
- 380 (0552) 22-5733
- Web address:
- http://kherson.archives.gov.ua/
- Email:
- daxo@ukrpost.net
- Reference number:
- F. R-2384
- Title:
- Kherson Municipal Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Kherson
- Title (official language):
- Херсонська міськанадзвичайна державна комісіяз розслідування злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників, м. Херсон
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kherson Municipal Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Kherson
- Date(s):
- 1944/1966
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 9 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are commission proceedings on the shooting of more than 10,000 Jews of the city of Kherson and the plundering of their property by the occupiers; lists of those shot and of members of their families compiled (1944-47) from eyewitness statements; lists (1947) of German war criminals and their local accomplices who had been involved in mass executions and torture of Jews; materials on the investigation of the circumstances of the mass shootings that took place in Kherson in the vicinity of the beer factory on Krasnostudencheskaia Street (see on this the description of f. R-1479); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Extraordinary state commissions were established in 1943-44 pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. The regional commission had oversight of municipal and district extraordinary state commissions and was in turn subordinate to Ukraine’s republic-level Extraordinary State Commission, and included representatives of the public prosecutor’s office and investigative organs, medical experts, representatives of public organisations, and Soviet and party workers. The extraordinary state commissions were tasked with investigating the criminal activities of the occupiers, assessing the material damages they had caused to enterprises, institutions, and citizens of the Kherson region, and also compiling lists of those shot and forcibly removed, as well as of war criminals. The extraordinary state commissions ceased activities in late 1945. However, by resolution (27 November 1965) of the Kherson Regional Executive Committee, the regional commission was reestablished in connection with the discovery of remains of victims of the Nazis in the city of Kherson.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary