Дирекція індустрії Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса

The fond includes three inventories systematized chronologically. Documents in the fond include orders of the governor of Transnistria (11 November 1941) that a special count be taken of Jews, that special lists be drawn up of their settlement in colonies, and that their labor conscription be organized; (2 January 1942) that the Jews of Odessa be deported beginning 10 January 1942 with the aim of their subsequent settlement in ghettos (in northern Ochakov county and southern Berezovka county), and that the property of Jews be liquidated; correspondence with the Directorate of Labor on using Jews from the ghettos for work in factories and plants (1943); lists of Jewish specialists working at peat bogs in Tul’chin, and payroll records of Jewish engineers taking part in this project (1943). There are also petitions of the administration of the Maevka sugar factory that a Jewish dentist be sent to work there, and of the Spikov sugar factory that specialist-technicians be transferred to work there from among Jews interned in the Mogilev-Podol’skii ghetto (1943); 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.