Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Rostov na Donu district during 1941-1943

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Rostov na Donu district during 1941-1943 - Reports, articles, testimonies and letters, regarding crimes carried out by the Nazis in the Rostov na Donu region and in particular in Donu, Taganrog, Shakhty and Novoshkhtinsk, published in newspapers (regional and central) and in books published in the Soviet Union during 1943-1944 (including a publication from 07/2000); - Reports by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding war crimes carried out by the Nazis in the Rostov na Donu region (including the persecution and murder of Soviet POWs in the "POW hospital" camp in Rostov na Donu, and the persecution, theft and murder of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Soviet POWs and the local population in Petrushino near Taganrog, in Zmiyevskaya Balka near Rostov na Donu, in Shakhty, Novocherkassk and Azov na Donu), prepared in Rostov na Donu, Taganrog, Novocherkassk and Azov na Donu during 02-11/1943); - Documentation regarding clarification of war crimes carried out in the context of the occupation, including mass murders, activities in the "POW hospital" camp, the establishment and operation of brothels in Rostov na Donu and Taganrog, the exploitation of local women and the sending of local residents to forced labor in Germany (testimonies of local residents and reports regarding the collection of testimonies, requests by the local residents, internal correspondence of the security forces, Soviet Extraordinary State Commission reports regarding damage caused to local residents, and so forth), prepared in Rostov na Donu during 1943-1944; - Documentation related to the functioning of the occupation authority and its institutions (such as posters, orders, appeals to the population, appeals to the Jews, internal instructions, reports regarding internal inspections, announcements, maps, and so forth) created in the Rostov na Donu district (first of all in Rostov na Donu, Taganrog and Semikarakorskaya) during 1941-1943 (copies, in Russian and German, sometimes only a translation from German appears), including also drafts in Russian with a summary of the contents; The documents appear as copies (as photocopies or typewritten copies), some of them in excerpts; all of the copies are from the National Archive of the Rostov na Donu region or from the Taganrog branch of the same archive); Included in the file: - Description of a collection of documents from the Rostov na Donu Archive, according to the collection number, record group, files and their names (undated, in Hebrew, Russian and English); - Summaries of data from Soviet Extraordinary State Commission reports (origin, manuscript, in Russian, undated) regarding Nazi war crimes in the Rostov region during 1941-1943; Included in the file are lists of residents of Rostov na Donu who were murdered or persecuted during the occupation, lists of people from Novocherkassk and Azov who were murdered, lists of German war criminals who were active in the Rostov na Donu region, and a list of residents of Taganrog, which appear among the occupation authorities' documents.