Вінницька обласна комісія сприяння роботі Надзвичайної державній комісїї по встановленню і розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників

Inventory 1 contains resolutions of the SNK of the USSR, of the Ukrainian SSR, and instructions on the activities of the Commission (hereafter ChGK). It also includes decisions and instructions from local authorities; instructional materials by ChGK USSR and that of the USSR; summaries of records, registers, acts, lists of crimes and damage caused by the German-Romanian occupants and their accomplices to citizens, organizations, enterprises, and collective farms; reports, notes on the work of regional, district, city committees of the ChGK sent to the republican ChGK and Moscow’s ChGK. Inventory 1 presents both summarized materials of the regional ChGK and protocols, certificates and annexes to them by district and city commissions; lists of Soviet citizens shot in 1941-1944 and deported to Germany in 1942-1943; summary data and registers of losses incurred by German-fascist invaders to citizens of the region. Inventory 2 holds cases containing acts of property damage inflicted by Nazi occupiers to citizens of the region. The principle of the inventory is geographical; documents are described within the boundaries of districts and cities of the region. The first group of documents indicates a methodology for collecting the data necessary for generalization. These are the decisions of the ChGK of the USSR, the instructions of the ChGK, correspondence with the district and city commissions on the procedure, the timing of accounting for crimes and losses, details of which are contained in the fund of the regional ChGK [inventory 1, file 1-3, 6-7, etc.]. The basic information about the execution was to be accompanied by additional confirmation -- questionnaires, statements to the ChGK from witnesses of events. However, these documents bear the imprint of their time when the loss of the Jewish population was suppressed, and contain veiled information about the "civilian population" and "Soviet citizens". Thus, in the lists of the executed, which was mostly Jewish population, nationality was not indicated, for example, in the title of the case and the list of the same name "List of citizens of Haysin, shot by the Nazi occupants (1941-1944)" [inventory 1, file 139]. The study of a source containing predominantly Jewish surnames allows to conclude that an absolute majority of Jews are among those who were shot [inventory 1, file 31, 38-39a, 39]. The documents contain information that in the temporarily occupied territory of the Vinnytsia region in 1941-1944, up to 165 250 Jews were shot by the Nazis and their accomplices, died of hunger and infectious diseases. Given the Jewish population deported to the Vinnitsa part of Transnistria from Northern Bukovina, Bessarabia and Romania, this number is approaching 200 thousand people. The following group of documents - protocols, acts, information from regional, district and city commissions to assist in the work of the ChGK in investigating crimes and losses. This thematic set of documents was deposited in the regional ChGK collection for each city and district area. In summarized acts, the information of the municipal and district commissions of the ChGK contains information on actions to destroy Jews. In particular, the standard document is, for example, the act of the Vinnitsa City Commission of August 5, 1945, where, in a chronological sequence from June 1941 to August 1942, the facts of the shootings of hostages, prisoners of camps, civilians of Jewish origin were described. It is also indicated where, when, by whom or by whose order, and how many people were destroyed. There were information about moving to Vinnitsa and Zhytomyr camps and prisons. However, these statistics were not always checked carefully [inventory 1, file 5, p. 1-2]. Source study comparative analysis of these and many similar documents in other cities and districts of the region shows that it is not specifically mentioned that this was the Jewish population (this is confirmed by a number of other documents). This is inherent in ChGK documents of Raygorod [inventory 1, file 10, p. 139], Tyvriv [inventory 1, file 10, p. 282], Vinnytsia [inventory 1, file 10, p. 286], Kalinovka [inventory 1, file 13, p. 5], Zhmerinka [inventory1, file 13, p. 19], Sitkovets (inventory1, file 13, p. 8), Dzhuliny [inventory1, file 13, p. 76-79] and a number of other districts. A number of documents contain information on the brutal mistreatment of Jews before executions, in particular, in the Dzhulin district ChGK Act, during a pogrom dated May 27, 1942 [inventory 1, file 13, p. 77] The history of the Holocaust is reflected in such an integral part of the regional ChGK documents as statements of witnesses and victims, protocols of interrogations. Thus, the witness Nikolai Goncharuk in a statement of ChGK Kalinovsky district dated November 7, 1944, reports on the stages of prosecution and extermination of the Jewish population of the town of Yanov in the Kalinovsky district: plunder of Jewish families and their homes, resettlement of Jews to the ghetto; about indemnities (money and jewels) imposed on the Jewish population (with reference to the orders of the Kalinovsky Cebitskommissar); The circumstances of holding the actions of the destruction of the Jewish population are described in detail here [inventory 1, file 13, p. 3-4]. In the consolidated act of the Kalinovska ChGK, these essential information, presented by M. Goncharuk, was not included in the documents submitted to the republican and central ChGK, although they remained in the collection of the regional ChGK [inventory 1, file 13, p. 5-6]. The Act by Khmelnyk regional ChGK also does not focus on the ethnicity of victims, despite the fact that in the years 1941-1943 6 actions were carried out on the destruction of the Jewish population, resulting in the death of 11,759 people. In the regional ChGK collection, the most complete set of testimony, statements of victims and eyewitnesses of events was stored in Khmelnyk ChGK. It has valuable information about the killings of the Jewish population, and the circumstances of the preparation of the actions of destruction. Here are the names of the Nazis and their followers who are guilty of the murder. However, in the final version of the Khmelnyk regional ChGK, this was not reflected [inventory 1, file 13, p. 166-199]. Documents and materials, particularly on the Holocaust on the territory of the Vinnytsia region, are not kept in full in the regional ChGK collection, and documents are scattered. There are no acts of investigation of crimes of the Nazis and their followers in Orativ, Turbiv, Pogrebyshche, Pliskov, Mohyliv-Podilsky, Shargorod, Nemyriv and other districts. Of scholarly value are special types of documents, photocopies, graphic materials of the collection. An act of exhumation of the burial of victims of mass shootings in Tomashpil district is accompanied by a photograph of the dead bodies [inventory1, file 13, p. 428a]; an appendix to the Khmilnyk ChGK Act is a photograph of the exhumation of the burial of 200 mentally ill, mostly Jews [inventory 1, file 13, p. 171a] and so on. Inventory 2 covers 1048 cases involving primary acts of damage inflicted by Nazi occupants. The systematic confiscation of personal values, gold, silver and other jewelry and personal belongings during arrests, deportations to concentration camps and destruction of the Jewish population was one of the most important directions of the occupation policy. It was determined that the losses incurred by citizens of Vinnitsa region amounted to 37373887 rubles [inventory 2, file 17, p. 1] Primary acts contain lists of confiscated items, quantity of each item, the cost of the damage caused by the occupation of the property, and the summing up. The vast majority of acts as primary documents contain information about the property, money savings, jewels belonging to the Jewish population of Vinnitsa, Haysin, Mogilev-Podilsky, Tulchyn, Bershad, Bratslav, Zhmerynka and other locations [inventory 1, file 12-22; 23-34, 122-139, 173-213, 344-379]. In files concerning dwellers of the Romanian occupation zone (Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Bershad, Bratslav, Zhmerinka, etc.), acts about persons who were deported to Transnistria from Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, the Romanian county of Dorokhoi, are partially stored. At the time when the acts were compiled (August-November 1944), they have already left the territory of Transnistria to their homeland. The comprehensive source, which reflected both the facts of crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices, as well as the property damage inflicted on the Jewish population of the region, are "Registers of acts and summary report on the calculation of damage caused by the German-Fascist occupants". In the list of such documents (for example, documents in the Teplik district) there is a column "Fate of the family according to available information", which indicates the number of family members shot by occupiers, the wounded, the number of evacuees to the rear, followed by charts with property and financial information [inventory 1, file 66, p. 1-72].