Nizhnie Serogozy Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Nizhnie Serogozy

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Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Херсонської області

Title:: Nizhnie Serogozy Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Nizhnie Serogozy

Title (official language):: Нижньосірогозька надзвичайна державна комісіяз розслідування злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників, с. Нижні Сірогози

Creator/accumulator:: Nizhnie Serogozy Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders; Nizhnie Serogozy

Scope and content:: The fonds houses proceedings of the district extraordinary state commission and other materials (minutes of interrogations of witnesses, write-ups of the analysis of forensic medical experts, photographs of burial sites and exhumed bodies, etc.) containing data on the number of Jews who perished at the hands of the occupiers, the circumstances and places of shootings (near the creamery in the town of Ivanovka), the German officers in charge of these, their local accomplices, etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: [The Nizhnie Serogozy Extraordinary State Commission also operated in the territory of the Kherson region’s Ivanovka district.] 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.

Subject terms:: Burial; Health and medical matters; Holocaust; Holocaust--Collaboration; Mass murder; Nazism; Nazism--Nazis; Occupation (military); Photographs; Statistics; Testimony

System of arrangement:: The fonds' inventories are systematised chronologically.