Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the Kakhovka District at the Executive Committee of the Kakhovka District Council of Toilers’ Deputies, Kakhovka Town (Kakhovka District, Kherson Region)

These entities were established in 1943-44 pursuant to an edict (2 November 1942) of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. The regional commission was in charge of the city and district extraordinary state commissions and in turn was subordinate to Ukraine’s republic-level Extraordinary State Commission, and included representatives of the public prosecutor’s office and investigative organs, medical experts, representatives of public organizations, and Soviet and party workers. The extraordinary state commissions were tasked with investigating the criminal activities of the occupiers, assessing the material damages they had caused to enterprises, institutions, and citizens of the Kherson region, and also compiling lists of those shot and forcibly removed, as well as of war criminals. The extraordinary state commissions ceased activities in late 1945. The fonds’ inventories are systematized chronologically. The fond house proceedings of district extraordinary state commissions and other materials (minutes of interrogations of witnesses, write-ups of the analysis of forensic medical experts, photographs of burial sites and exhumed bodies, etc.) containing data on the number of Jews who perished at the hands of the occupiers, the circumstances and places of shootings (in the territory of the G. Dmitrov Kolkhoz [Kakhovka district]), on the German officers in charge of these, their local accomplices, etc. The documents are in Russian.