Czernowitz Oblast Archives records
Extent and Medium
36,864 digital images, JPEG
37 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti (Chernivtsi Oblast State Archive). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1994.
Scope and Content
Contains various documents relating to ghettoization and other forms of persecution against Jews in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Records relate to the Romanian occupation of the city of Czernovitz and the surrounding territory by the Romanian military. Subjects include the establishment and maintenance of a wide variety of ghettos and labor camps, the administration of the occupied territory by city and regional administrative agencies, the activities of various police agencies, the confiscation and disposition of Jewish property, and census (name lists) of Jews and others, the individual case files of Jews accused of and punished for infractions of ghetto rules and regulations, deportations to camps, the wearing of the yellow star, the forced labor of Jews, the return of Jews from camps, the Dorohoi deportations, and the denunciations of Jews and communists.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
- Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine)
- Jews--Ukraine--Chernivt︠s︡i.
- Chernivet︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine--Chernivt︠s︡i.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Chernivet︠s︡ʹkoï oblasti