Documentation from the State Archives of the Volyn Region, from 1919-1946

Documentation from the State Archives of the Volyn Region, from 1919-1946. The archives were founded in December, 1939 and named the Volyn Regional Historical Archive, reporting to the Volyn Regional Archive Department of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In 1941 it was given a new name – the State Archives of the Volyn Region. The archive was closed from June 1941 until March 1944, during the Nazi occupation. During the post-war years, archive employees conducted a great deal of work concerning systematization, scientific and technical documents processing, improvement of their storage conditions, and the creation of information systems. In 1958 the Archive was renamed the Volyn Regional State Archives. From 1980 it was renamed the State Archives of the Volyn Region. Since 05 October 1988, due to the liquidation of archives department of the Volyn Regional Executive Committee, the State Archives of the Volyn Region manages archival affairs in the region, and is a center for archival science and methodology. The archive has been a structural subdivision of the Regional State Administration since 1997. (https://old.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ra03.php#Hystory) The Yad Vashem archives contain documents from the State Archive of the Volyn Region regarding Jewish communities in the Lutsk district from 1919-1939: lists of Jewish residents of the Trostyanets, Rozhishch, Gorodkovsky, and Torchinsky districts, and of Silno, Holoniv, Kisilin, Tsuman, Krasnovol, Gruzyatin; metric books of Jews born in Lutsk, Sokol, Chartorisk, Olyka; record books regarding deceased Jews, marriages, divorces in the colonies and towns of Sofiievka, Ignatovka, Torchin, Kolki and Trostyanets, Novo-Chartorisk; list of Jewish homeowners in Lutsk. The collection includes: orders, directives, statistics by the Lutsk city administration regarding Jews; correspondence between the Lutsk city administration and Lutsk Judenrat regarding the organization of the hospital in the ghetto, typhus and quarantine in the ghetto: lists of Jews in forced labor from 1941-1942; lists of employees of hospitals and medical posts; lists of medical staff of the children's clinic; food cards; citizens' statements regarding their non-Jewish origin; applications of citizens for the issuance of identity cards; rulings regarding fines for citizens for evading registration; lists of non-registered persons; correspondence with institutions regarding Jewish specialists; lists of Jews in Lutsk, Rozhishche, Olyka from 23 October 1941 – 31 November 1942; correspondence with district governments and the Jewish Council regarding the number of Jews and the search for Jews by the police; Payments to Jews in the ghetto for 1942, lists of workers in the village of Novostav in the Lutsk region; general circulars of the commissars in Volyn and Podolia; orders of the district commissariat and city government; lists of the residents deported to forced labor in Germany, personal statements; lists of those not registered with the city government, registered in the city of Lutsk, from 28 May – 23 August 1943; lists of doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics in the Lutsk region on 15 August 1943. A collection of documents from the Extraordinary State Commission for the investigation of the crimes of German Nazi invaders and their accomplices, and the losses caused by them to citizens, collective farms, public organizations, state enterprises and institutions of the USSR (ChGK from 1944-1947. The collection includes: the statement issued by the Commission regarding atrocities committed by the German occupiers against Jews in the Lutsk region; protocols of the investigation of the mass graves where Jews were murdered by the German occupiers and local collaborators; acts, registers, and questionnaires with information regarding tortured and executed communists, Soviet activists, prisoners of war, civilians, and Jews; lists of villages in the area destroyed during the war; documents of commissions for the restoration of settlements destroyed during the war. This is a joint project of Yad Vashem and USHMM.