Selected records from the Zhytomyr State Oblast Archive

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0269 | RG Number: RG-31.096M

Overview

Description: Collection contains selected records of the Generalkommissar Zhitomir on the formation, structure, and activities of the commissariat, as well as files from subordinate district leaders (Gebietskommissare) in Kasatin, Ruz︠h︡yn, Zwiahel, Korosten, Owruch, Radom, Emilchino, Tschudnow, and Berdichev. Materials include information on the confiscation of Jewish property, local searches for Jews, and reports about the executions of Jewish families found in hiding. A substantial part of the collection covers the history of the Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft in the Kasatin commissariat (recruitment, personnel lists, training, actions) as well as monthly Kommandobefehle issued from German Gendarmarie leaders in Zhitomir and Vinnitsa from 1942 to 1943. Other topics include SD interrogations of partisans and Ukrainian nationalists, Nazi-captured materials relating to the Ukrainian nationalist independence movement (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN-B), detailed German police logs of partisan attacks, accounts of roundups for slave labor and deportation schedules from the Zwiahel commissariat, reports on the local economic situation; roadbuilding and Organisation Todt, records on the colonization of local Volksdeutsche, ethnographic surveys conducted by Karl Stumpp, and reports from the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, Aussenstelle Zhitomir.
Date: inclusive: 1939-1945

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Mandatory citation of source archives as well as United States Holocaust Memorial Musem. Fair use only. No use for commercial purposes.
Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti

Topical Term: World War, 1939-194--Confiscations and contributions--Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--Z︠H︡ytomyr--Pogroms--Registers. Racism--Germany--History--20th century. Jewish property--Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine) Nationalists. Nationalist -- Associations, institutions, etc.
Geographic Name: Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)--Ethnic relations. Z︠H︡ytomyr (Ukraine) Ruz︠h︡yn (Ukraine) Novohrad-Volynsʹkyĭ (Ukraine) Korostenʹ (Ukraine) Berdychiv (Ukraine) Ukraine
Personal Name: Stumpp, Karl.
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Holder of Originals: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti (State Archives of Zhytomyr Oblast). The records were created by various German military, police, and civilian occupation authorities and were left in Zhytomyr oblast by the retreating Germans. They were maintained by Soviet security forces and were later transferred to Zhytomyr State Oblast Archive, Ukraine, from which United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired them. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1996.