Archival Section of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odessa Region, City of Odessa

The fond includes forty-three inventories, in which documents are systematized chronologically and, for personal files in op. 11, 39, and 40L, alphabetically. Documents in the fond include (op. 2, 24) correspondence with the Main Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR, subsections of the NKVD and Ministry of Internal Affairs, and local organs of executive power on ascertaining and investigating crimes of the German-Romanian invaders in the Odessa region; chronologies of the occupation of population centers in the Odessa region, including information on instances of mass terror perpetrated upon the Jewish population of cities and villages of the Balta district (the city of Balta, the village of Gol’ma-2), the Berezovka district (the cities of Berezovka and Ovidiopol’, the village of Naifel’d), the Domanevka district (the villages of Bogdanovka, Domanevka, and Marinovka), and other districts (1946); lists of local collaborators involved in, among other things, anti-Semitic acts; reports of partisan detachments active in the territory of the Gaivoron and Savran districts (Odessa region), with data on membership therein of Jewish fighters (1944); etc. This section was established in February 1932 to supervise the archival institutions of the Odessa region, which in this period were subordinate to regional organs of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR. After the creation of the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers Main Archival Administration in 1960, it was reorganized as the Archival Section of the Odessa Regional Executive Committee. It was liquidated in 1988, having transferred its functions to the State Archive of the Odessa Region.