Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, between November-December 1941

Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, from the first occupation period Directives and orders issued by the municipal administration, lists of municipal workers, lists of German Army soldiers, lists of local residents, and circulars on various subjects: Karaites and more, work documents. German Army forces occupied Kerch for the first time on 16 November 1941. The new municipal administration began to work within the city from the earliest days of the occupation. Sonderkommando 10b soldiers arrived in the city a short time afterwards and started the registration of the Jews. All the Jews received an order to report to the assembly place on 28 November 1941 in order to be transferred to a new place of residence. Everybody who reported was sent to the prison, which had been turned into an internment camp. Most of the Jews were executed during 01-03 December 1941, and before the first German retreat. The answer from Germany regarding the Jewish Krymchaks only arrived in late December. The date for their murder had been set for 03 January 1942, but the city was liberated by the Red Army on 30 December 1941, and the Krymchak Jews were evacuated through the Kerch Bay and were rescued. Following the second occupation of Kerch in May 1942, Sonderkommando 10b executed additional groups of Jews who had been in hiding in the city.