Metadata: Land Commissar (Landkommissar) in the City of Schowkwa (Żółkiew, Zhovkva), Schowkwa Municipal Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Lviv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний Архів Львівської області
- Postal address:
- ul. Pidvalna 13, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 235-47-22
- Email:
- archive_lviv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-98
- Title:
- Land Commissar (Landkommissar) in the City of Schowkwa (Żółkiew, Zhovkva), Schowkwa Municipal Administration
- Title (official language):
- Крайовий комісар у Жовкві. Міське управління у Жовкві
- Creator/accumulator:
- Land Commissar in the City of Schowkwa
- Date(s):
- 1941/1944
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 103 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents in this fonds that pertain to the history of Jews in this region may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Documents on the ghettoisation of the Jews of Żółkiew/Zhovkva: a summons of the housing department stipulating that Jews immediately vacate their apartments (1941-42); an announcement of the housing department of the Schowkwa Landkommissariat on procedures for housing Jews evicted from their apartments or houses (1941); correspondence of the land commissar with the head (vogt) of the Kulykiv (Kulików) rural community, a police post in Kulykiv, and the chairman of the Schowkwa/Żółkiew/Zhovkva Judenrat, Dr. Rubinfeld, on the ghettoisation of Jews of the villages of Koscheevo, Stroniatyn, and Zarudce (1942); a report of the commandant of the Kulykiv Ukrainian police regarding a request by the manager of an agricultural estate (folwark) in Wisłoboki/Visloboki who was asking that a Jewish family from Stroniatyn employed on this estate (1942) not be deported; instructions of the Schowkwa land commissar to the head of Mosty Wielkie (Velyki Mosty) directing that the latter carry out the order of the commandant of the SS police in the District of Galicia regarding the transfer of Jewish workers engaged in compulsory labour to permanent residence in camps (1942); etc.
2) Documents pertaining to operations of the Judenrat and to life in the ghetto: a statement by the housing department of the city of Zhovkva on the allocation of workers for logging work (1941); reports on the population’s need for foodstuffs, with an indication as to the number of “Aryans” and Jews, in the cities of Zhovkva and Velyki Mosty (1941); a directive of the land commissar regarding the transfer of bedding, and a notification by the Judenrat to the effect that the order had been carried out (1942); a requisition by the department of food and agricultural production that meat byproducts be allocated for a Jewish workers’ kitchen (1942); signed statements by Judenrat representatives regarding Jews employed at job sites (1942); passes/permits of Jews engaged in agricultural work (1942); records on the withholding of income tax from the wages of Judenrat employees (1942-43); etc.
3) Documents on Jewish-owned property and real estate in the Schowkwa/Żółkiew/Zhovkva area: registration forms of Jewish-owned homes in Zhovkva (1941); a register of real estate nationalized from Jews in Zhovkva (1942); questionnaire forms of property owners (including Jews) in Jaryczów Nowy (Novy Yarichiv) (1942); registration cards for inventoried property and real estate that had been “nationalised” from Jews in villages of the Schowkwa/Żółkiew/Zhovkva Landkommissariat (1942); documentation on the assessment of property and real estate confiscated from Jews and the Jewish community of Zhovkva (1943); documentation on the demolition of community buildings of the Jewish religious community of Zhovkva (1943); an order of the central agricultural department of the Governor’s Office of the District of Galicia that Jewish-owned homes in Zhovkva be transferred for various other economic purposes (1943); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The post of land commissar (Landkommissar) in Schowkwa (Żółkiew, Zhovkva) was established in August 1941 in connection with the replacement of the temporary military administration of the occupied territories with a civil administration. The land commissar headed the German occupation administration in the county (in German, the Bezirke) and was subordinate to the Office of the Lemberg Area Head (Kreishauptmannschaft Lemberg Land). It was liquidated in 1944 upon the liberation of Zhovkva county from German occupation.
- Access points: locations:
- Jaryczów Nowy
- Kulików
- Schowkwa]
- Stroniatyn
- Velyki Mosty
- Wisłoboki [Visloboki]
- Zhovkva [Żółkiew
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rubinfeld
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
