Фінансова дирекція Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

The fond includes two inventories systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Among materials held in the fond (op. 1-2) on the occupation authorities’ use of the forced labor of POWs and civilian specialists are documents directly concerning the Jewish population. These include reports by the director of the Finance Directorate on organizing the work of Jews in the camps of Transnistria (1942-44); a report of the Mogilev prefecture on the work of a commission on deporting Jews from Bukovina and Bessarabia to Transnistria (1942); lists of Jews driven from northern Bukovina and Bessarabia into ghettos in Transnistria; lists and IDs of Jews having come from Romania (1941-42), and of Jews located in the Mogilev-Podol’skii ghetto, in camps in Mogilev, Dzhugastrovo, and Golta counties, and in Transnistria as a whole (1941-44); records of salary payments to Jewish specialists working in the Tiraspol’ ghetto (1942) and at the marmalade factory in the city of Mogilev-Podol’skii (1943); statistical information, records, and expense reports on sums spent to maintain Jews interned at the Odessa Central Prison, the Slobodka ghetto, and the camp at Vapniarka (1943). A considerable number of documents, moreover, shed light on aid provided to the camps and ghettos of Transnistria from Romania. These include correspondence between the Governorate of Transnistria, the Central Office of the Jews of Romania , and relatives of Jews interned in ghettos in Transnistria regarding transfers of money to internees via the Romanian National Bank (1942-43); statements and receipts regarding payments from Romania, and lists of Jews of Mogilev, Balta, Dzhugastrovo, and Tul’chin counties and the Vapniarka camp having received monetary aid from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania, and their signed receipts (1942-43); payment sheets and receipts of deposits to the National Bank (city of Chernovtsy) by Romanian Jewish communities for Jews in Mogilev county (1942-43); expense reports on payments of money received from Romania for Jews in Tul’chin, Dzhugastrovo, and Golta counties (1942-44); etc. The documents are in Romanian and Russian. By agreement with Germany (signed 30 August 1941 in Bendery), Romania received a mandate to implement temporary “administrative and economic operation” of the Governorate of Transnistria (Rus. Zadnestrov’e) – an artificially created administrative-territorial formation including German-Romanian occupied parts of the Vinnitsa, Odessa, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine and the left-bank districts of Moldavia between the Southern Bug and the Dniester – upon which an administrative structure was introduced, headed by a civilian governor. This individual administered the Governorate of Transnistria through the heads of its thirteen constituent counties (județe), and via a number of sectoral directorates, including Finance, Industry, Commerce, Labor (whose function encompassed the labor conscription of the population, especially Jews, in the occupied territory), Forestry, Health, etc. This administrative structure also included the Main Registry, which housed the archive of the Governorate of Transnistria, the primary purpose of which was to register all incoming and outgoing correspondence. The administrative center of the Governorate of Transnistria from August through October 1941 was the city of Tiraspol’; upon the Red Army’s forced departure from the city of Odessa, the administrative center was transferred there. March 1944 saw the de facto liquidation of the Governorate of Transnistria, when detachments of the Red Army completely liberated the territory between the Dniester and the Southern Bug from German and Romanian forces.