RG-68.116M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding Aid RG-68 Israel RG-68.116M Acc. 1996.A.0169 Title: Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. Extent: 33 microfilm reels Provenance: Contains materials filmed at: Former Communist Party Archive Kiev, Ukraine; Belorussian Archives; Joodsche Coordinate Commissie of Geneve, Swizterland; Mogilev Oblast Archive; probably the former CP Archiv, Minsk; State Archives of Belarus, Minsk; Brest Oblast Archives; Belarus Oblast Archive, Brest City Administration; Pinsk Gebiets Kommissar of Generalkommissriat Volhyn & Polliya, 1941-1944; Pinsk City Administration, 1941-1944; District Council of Novomysh (Novaya Mysh); Correspondence of the Chairman of Judenrat of Pinsk and the Budapest Archive. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from Yad Vashem in 1996. Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access. Restrictions on Use: Restrictions on use apply. Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Yad Vashem. Researchers may not publish any information on the Internet or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from the Yad Vashem Organization and Arrangement: Arranged by source archive. Most files have a Yad Vashem number beginning with M-37/, M-41/ or M-16/ listed first, followed by a Soviet fond/opis/delo number. Some files have two Yad Vashem numbers, a few only have a Soviet number and some have only a Yad Vashem number. Many documents are incomplete and, in some cases, illegible. Language: Russian, Ukrainian, German, Byelorussian, Dutch, Hungarian. Preferred Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Curatorial Affairs Division, Archives Branch. Scope and Content: Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the RG-68.116M Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. 1 RG-68.116M different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German decrees, tax documents for different Jewish businesses and individuals, names lists, and documents regarding Jewish passports and visas. Includes passports issued to Jewish residents of Brest (Belarus) in 1941 (organized alphabetically). There is also a small amount of material regarding Dutch Jews in the Netherlands and Switzerland. Inventory: Reel 1: Copies of selected documents from the Former Communist Party Archive, Kiev, Ukraine. M-37/1 (1/6/729) Document relating to the Jewish Council in Kiev, in Ukrainian M-37/2 (1/6/842) Decree of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers on resettling Jewish and non-Jewish Poles in Poland. M-37/3 (1/6/820) Decree of the Council of Ministers permitting the State Jewish Theatre to perform in Kiev for a month. M-37/4 (1/6/833) Decree of the Council of Ministers and Central Committee appending "In the name of Sholom Aleckhim" to the title of the Kiev State Jewish Theatre. M-37/4 (1/6/833) Resolution of the Ukrainian Politburo approving the text of a greeting to the State Jewish Theatre on its 20th anniversary. Attached is the full text of the greeting. M-37/4 (1/6/833) Council of Ministers decrees on awards to members of the State Jewish Theatre. M-37/4 (1/6/820) Council of Ministers and Ukrainian Central Committee decree on celebrating the 20th anniversary of the State Jewish Theatre. M-37/5 (1/6/5665) Drafts of a report to the Central Committee Secretary on abolishing the Office of Jewish Culture in the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. 1949. M-37/6 (1/8/199) Decree of the Council of Ministers allowing performances of the Jewish State Theatre in Odessa. July 1946. M-37/7 (1/16/301) Speech excerpt by a Kharkov party committee secretary on the need for more active anti-religion propaganda. RG-68.116M Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. 2 RG-68.116M M-37/8 (1/22/2) Report of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee to Georgi Malenkov on the work of underground groups in Sumsky, Dnepopetrovsky and Kiev Oblasts. It mentions 16,000 Jews killed by the Germans in Dnepopetrovsk. M-37/9 (1/22/12) Report of Komsomol concluding that Kucherenko was a traitor. M-37/10 (1/22/16) Report to the Ukrainian Central Committee on the situation in Rovenskaya Oblast. Notes that Ukrainian nationalists are attacking Jews and Poles. M-37/11 (1/22/72) Arrest of a Jew on suspicion of spying for Germany. M-37/12 (1/22/33) Report on German plans for organizing occupied Ukraine. 1943. M-37/13 (1/22/66) Report to the Ukraine Central Committee on insufficient supplies and cadres in the partisan movement. 1943. M-37/14 (1/22/75) Report on Ukrainian nationalist activities in Rovenskaya Oblast. 1943. Report on the "Russian Liberation Army" established by the Germans. 1943. Report on counter-revolutionary activities of Ukrainian nationalists. 1944. Report on press and cultural activities of Ukrainian nationalists in occupied areas. 1943. Report on Ukrainian nationalist activity. 1943. M-37/15 (1/22/117) Report on German activities in Kiev. Oct 1941. M-37/16 (1/22/146) List of underground organizations operating in Vinnitsa Oblast during German occupation. M-37/17 (1/22/53) Message from the Vinnitsa Oblast partisan organization to the Ukrainian Communist Party that it is sending a report on an underground "Bolshevik" organization that operated in the oblast during German occupation. 1950. Report on the activities of "Bolshevik" underground groups in Vinnitsa Oblast, in Ukrainian. RG-68.116M Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. 3 RG-68.116M M-37/18 (1/22/156) Account of Bolshevik underground activities in Vinnitsa Oblast during German occupation. 1951. M-37/19 (1/22/162) List of underground organizations operating in Vinnitsa Oblast during German occupation. M-37/20 (1/22/163) Breakdown of partisan organizations in Vinnitsa Oblast by nationality, Party membership, casualties. M-37/21 (1/22/164) Account of Party work in two partisan regiments during the German occupation of Vinnitsa Oblast. Jan 1944. Account of Party work in two partisan units in Vinnitsa Oblast. Propaganda appeal to partisan organizations from the Partisan Committee of the Ukrainian Party. 1943. M-37/22 (1/22/165) Notice to Chernovtsy Obkom that statements of two Jews on partisan activities are being sent. Aug 1944. Similar notice. Statement about the death of a partisan. n.d. Statement by Wotenberg on the same subject. M-37/23 (1/22/166) Report on partisan activities in Bershadskiy Rayon, Vinnitsa Oblast. Report on Party work in various regions of Vinnitsa Oblast. Report on underground work in various regions of Vinnitsa Oblast. A number of Jewish partisans are mentioned. n.d. M-37/24 (1/22/176) Notice that a new version of a report on partisan activity in Volynskaya Oblast has been prepared. Jan 1951. Account of partisan activities in Volynskaya Oblast. M-37/25 (1/22/181) Volynskaya Oblast party document, in Ukrainian. Oct 1946. M-37/25 (1/22/181) List of partisans in the Kovelskiy Rayon, Volyn Oblast. M-37/26 (1/22/181) Notice confirming that Lideya Datchuk served in a partisan organization. RG-68.116M Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. 4 RG-68.116M Certification that Datchuk, a Jew, served with partisans. Certification that Faria Zelmanovna Lichtersheyn worked as a nurse in a partisan unit. Statement that Faria Lichtenshteyn served effectively in her unit. M-37/26 (1/22/191) List of partisans in Voroshilovgrad Oblast. List of partisans, some of whom were Jews, in a group in Voroshilovgrad Oblast. List of partisans in Bykovo-Antratsitovskiy Rayon. M-37/27 (1/22/194) List of underground party and Komsomol members in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. List of partisan fighters in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. Description of Pavlovgrad underground organization. List of partisans in Dnepropetrovsk. M-37/28 (1/22/222) Report on partisan activities in Drogobychskaya Oblast during the German occupation. Aug 1943. 1948. M-37/29 (1/22/223) List of partisans in Drogobychskaya Oblast. List of Party workers in Drogobychskaya Oblast. M-37/30 (1/22/238) Report on partisan and party activities in Zaporozhskaya Oblast during the war. Includes an account of German atrocities. Describes the killing of Jews in Melitopol. Decree about awards to partisans operating in Zaporozhskaya Oblast. M-37/31 (1/22/247) List of members of the Zaporozhets underground. M-37/32 (1/22/252) List of participants in Proskurovskiy Rayon underground partisan organization. M-37/31 (1/22/247) List of members of the Zaporozhets underground. RG-68.116M Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem, 1939-1960. 5 RG-68.116M M-37/32 (1/22/252) List of participants in Proskurovskiy Rayon underground partisan organization. M-37/33 (1/22/275) List of members of underground organizations operating in Kiev Oblast during the German occupation. 1946. M-37/34 (1/22/276) List of Kiev Oblast partisans awarded the Order of the Fatherland War. M-37/35 (1/22/281) Report on the work of underground Bolshevik organizations in Kiev operating during the German occupation, 1941-1943. References to German atrocities against Jews and others. 1946. M-37/36 (1/22/297) Account of D.Z.