Претура Любашівського району, с. Любашівка Любашівського р-ну Одеської області

These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. Among these are decrees of the Governorate of Transnistria forbidding Jews to mail packages and letters or use a Romanian-language greeting, and on rights granted to Jewish doctors; orders of the Liubashevka county prefecture barring correspondence and telephone communications between the Jews of Transnistria and Romania (1943). A significant number of documents concern Jews located in ghettos and labor camps. These include a decree establishing a camp at Akmechetka (beginning 1 October 1943) where all Jews of the city of Golta and Golta county were to be concentrated except for Jewish specialists, who were to remain in their own residences. Documents of the Romanian authorities regarding the conscription of Jews into forced labor include an order of the Third Army Corps (9 March 1943) that Jewish labor groups be organized to work in cases of fires, floods, air raids, and other emergencies, and a similar order on using these to clear snow from rail lines and roads; an order of the Liubashevka pretura economics section requiring its approval and control of the use of Jews in any work whatsoever (1943). There are also lists of Jews having previously resided (and remaining as of 20 April 1942) in villages of the Liubashevka district; of Jews interned in the ghetto at the Liubashevka station (with profession indicated) and the Liubashevka concentration camp (1943); information on certain categories of persons – baptized Jews, Ukrainians having adopted Jewish children, and Jewish women married to Ukrainian men – residing in the territory of the Liubashevka district in 1942; documents issued by primarias certifying the baptism of Jews; lists of residents of the Grossulovo district and the village of Liubashevka having occupied the homes of Jews interned in ghettos (1943); etc. The documents are in Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian.