Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence regarding industrial factories and skilled professionals in the Bialystok region; directive of the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland (Reichs commissioner for Ostland) in Riga, given to the Generalkommissar (general commissioner) of Belorussia in Minsk, regarding the confiscation of property of cultural value in the Belorussia area by Einsatzstab Rosenberg; investigation and imprisonment of Polish citizens who stole building materials from the abandoned synagogue building in Grodno; documentation of the German authorities regarding Jews, including among other matters: documentation regarding Jewish property in the Grodno district; letter sent to the district commissioner by I. Soschane, chairman of the Judenrat in Grodno, requesting to purchase used holy books in order to use them as waste paper; reports regarding the detention and sentencing of Jews by the Gendarmeriekreis in Grodno; execution of the Jews who attempted to escape from the Grodno Ghetto.