M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region was established in 1920 as the Archives of the Podole Region. During its first years, the Archives was intended as a place the storage and conservation of documents from the pre-Bolshevik period. The Archives was transferred to the responsibility of the NKVD in 1938. The Archives received the name: the State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region, in 1944. Since 1960, the Archives has been under the authority of the Implementation Committee of the Vinnitsa Region. Among the Archives' collections, the documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes during the occupation period, 1941-1944, takes a special place; This Sub-Record Group includes documentation of the occupying authorities: Lists of Jews from Vinnitsa who turned to the authorities in order to receive identity cards, November 1941, lists of inmates, and a list of Jews who were sent to camps; documentation regarding the partisans, and documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission.