Претура Александерфельдського району Очаківського повіту.

The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Documents on “the Jewish question” contained in the pretura fonds may provisionally be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Directives of the Romanian civilian and military authorities that defined the legal status of the Jewish population of Transnistria; these include copies of decrees of Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu (4 August 1943) on remuneration of Jewish labor in accordance with rates established for the local population; (3 May 1943) on remuneration of the labor of Jews sent to Transnistria for ninety-day mandatory work shifts. 2. Orders of local authorities dealing with the forced labor of the Jewish population, 3. Documents on the situation of Jewish doctors and on hygiene and sanitary conditions in which the Jews of Transnistria lived 4. Materials on financial aid to the Jews of Transnistria from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania 5. Various sorts of lists 6. Financial documents, statistical data, and certificates The documents are in Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian. These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos.