Bureau of Stocktaking of the Simferopol City Council

Reports on the work of the bureau. Acts and inventory of the property of missed individuals, industrial facilities, institutions and organizations of the city. Floor - plans of streets and settlements. For information on apartments and property of persons of German nationality. Files dated from November 1941 to February 1943. Most of the files are dated by January-August 1942. Files 1-80. Acts and inventories of belongings of the evacuated citizens. January 1942 onward. File 81. Instruction for inspection of a district. February 1942. Files 100, 112, 114. The same. 1941-42. File 151. Index of streets where inventory-taking was done. File 204. Acts and inventories. October 1941 – January 1943. File 449. Information about recorded apartments. 1941. File 576. Statements by persons about returning their belongings to them, statements about non-keeping somebody else's belongings. File 653. Acts of property selling. Acts of making inventories. 1941 – 6 August 1942. File 661. Inventories of possessions of the evacuated ethnic Germans. December 1941 – April 1943. File 662. List of apartments of the ethnic Germans. 1942. File 668. Lists of organizations and enterprises to be inventoried. December 1941 – February 1942. File 685. Lists of employees of the Inventory Bureau. March-August 1942. Files related to the Holocaust: Inventory 1. File 35 (40 pages), file 204 (69 листов), file 64 (56 pages), file 653 (30 pages), file 449. Contain inventories of the persons evacuated from the city prior to the German invasion, including Jews. Most of the inventories are dated by January-April 1942. Inventories are compiled following the same pattern: Name, Address, Party affiliation, Ethnicity, Last position before leaving, Time and Reason for leaving. Columns include Type of belonging, Specifications, Level of deterioration, Valuation, Notes. Majority of documents contain ethnicity specification (“Jewish”, sometimes “Russian”, but ethnicity of Jewish spouse is specified as well). In the most of documents say the reason of leaving is evacuation in August-October 1941, but some specify the reason like “taken by the authorities in December 1941”. Some documents contain detained inventories of Jewish belongings, including furniture and cutlery.