Archival Section of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Izmail Region

The fond includes one inventory systematized chronologically. Included are chronologies of the German-Romanian occupation of population centers of the Izmail region; these contain information on instances of mass killings of Jews, toward whom the occupiers harbored “a particularly horrifying hatred,” including in Akkerman (from 1944 on, Belgorod-Dnestrovskii), the towns of Artsiz, Kiliia, Tatarbunary, and Tarutino, and the villages of Briiany, Manzur, Novyi Fershampenuaz (Artsiz district), Sarata, and Shabo (1946). A number of documents indicate the names of victims. There are also lists of persons having served the occupation authorities and having abetted them in carrying out of the policy of terrorizing civilians. The documents are in Russian and Ukrainian