Претура Варварівського району, с. Варварівка Варварівського району Очаківського повіту

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. 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 orders of the commander of the Third Army Corps stipulating that Jews working in various Governorate directorates be closely surveilled by gendarme legions; 2. Orders of local authorities dealing with the forced labor of the Jewish population, including correspondence of the transportation section of the Ochakov prefecture on using the Jewish population in the construction of bridges (1943); etc. 3. Documents on the situation of Jewish doctors and on hygiene and sanitary conditions in which the Jews of Transnistria lived, including lists of all Jewish workers in the Slivino camp who had undergone decontamination and been vaccinated against cholera (1943). 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.