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Selected records from State Archives of the Volyn Region

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2018.279.1 | RG Number: RG-31.128

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Overview

Description: Selected records related to the German occupation of the Volhynia region during WWII (1941-1944), includes records of the local Ukrainian administration (regional, city and district administration) as well as records of German offices of the Stadtkommando des Ordnungsdienstes, Organisation Todt, Oberfeldkommandantur (O. F. K.), and a local branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
Date: inclusive: 1941-1944
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Physical Details

Language: Ukrainian German
Genre/Form: Correspondence. Minutes. Reports. Registers.
Extent: 31,011 digital images : JPEG ; 605 Gb .
System of Arrangement: Arranged in four subject series: 1. City Administration of Luts'k, 1941-1944; 2. Police in Luts'k, 1941-1944; 3. Organization Todt (OT), 1942-1943; 4. Volhynia Regional branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Use: Fair use only.
Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Volynsʹkoï oblasti

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Ukraine--History--20th century. Police administration--Ukraine--German occupation, 1941-1944. Nationalism--Ukraine--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Volhynia. Nationalist -- Associations, institutions, etc.
Geographic Name: Luts'k (Ukraine)--History--20th century. Volhynia (Ukraine)--History--20th century. Ukraine--History--German occupation (1941-1944) Ukraine
Corporate Name: Organisation Todt (Germany)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Volynsʹkoï oblasti
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the State Archives of the Volyn Region (Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Volynsʹkoï oblasti). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first part of the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2018.
This is a joint Project of the USHMM-Yad Vashem.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2024-03-18 09:00:20
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