Одеська обласна комісія сприяння у роботі надзвичайної державної комісії по встановленню та розслідуванню лиходійства німецько-фашистськими загарбниками та їх спільниками і заподіяних ними збитків громадянам, колгоспам, громадським організаціям, підприємствам та установам.

Established pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, this commission began activities after the liberation of the Odessa region from German-Romanian forces in June 1944. It was subordinate to the Extraordinary State Commission of the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn in charge of district and city commissions. It included representatives of the public prosecutor’s office and of military justice, Soviet and party workers, deputies of the Supreme Council of the USSR and the Odessa Regional Council of Toilers’ Deputies, the deputy director of the Odessa eparchy, and others. The main task of the commission was to discover and investigate crimes of the occupying powers, determine the concrete identities of those responsible, and evaluate the extent of the damages caused to citizens, enterprises, organizations, and institutions of the city of Odessa and the Odessa region. It was liquidated in connection with the completion of its work in late 1945. The fond includes one inventory systematized chronologically by year, and within years, by file significance. Contained in the fond are summary statistical data by district of the city of Odessa and the Odessa region regarding casualties among the civilian population during the German-Romanian occupation of 1941-44 (numbers of those killed, deceased, expelled to Germany, etc.), including information on the number of individuals located in ghettos. Similar information – on Odessa Jews discovered by the occupiers in their places of residence and sent to prisons and ghettos – is found in certain individual documents as well. There are also applications by local residents, including Jews, for compensation for damages caused to their property during the occupation; lists of invaders who had committed acts of theft and violence, including with regard to the Jewish population; etc. The documents are in Russian and Ukrainian.