Дирекція праці Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

The fond includes two inventories systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. The fond contains (op. 1, 2) orders of the Romanian occupation authorities, including an order (2 January 1942) by head of state I. Antonescu and Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu on the forcible removal of Jews from Odessa and environs beginning 10 January 1942 and their settlement in ghettos (in northern Ochakov county and southern Berezovka county), and on the liquidation of the property of Jews; prefects’ letters on creating Jewish labor bureaus in the counties, including a statement (1943) by the prefect of Ovidiopol’ county that such a thing has no function in light of the absence of Jews in the territory of Ovidiopol’ county. A considerable portion of the fond’s documents consists of correspondence and information on the labor conscription of Jews in the territory of Transnistria as a whole and locally, in counties, districts, labor camps, ghettos, and state farms. This material includes lists and statistical information systematized by sex, age, and profession: lists of Jewish medics found to be residing in Balta county; of Jewish medics and pharmacists from Bacau county (Romania) having arrived in Transnistria for mandatory ninety-day state work shifts; Jewish specialists used in Balta, Golta, Mogilev, and Rybnitsa counties and in the ghettos of the cities of Bershad’, Tiraspol’, Rybnitsa, Mogilev-Podol’skii and the villages of Peshchana (Peshchana district) and Pechora (Shpikov district) (1943). There is also information on Jews unfit for work, disabled veterans, pensioners and widows; requests by Jews for disability certificates, for permission to be repatriated to Romania, for transfer from one ghetto to another of family members and other relatives, queries on the location of same, etc.; documents on receipt and distribution of aid to the Jews of Transnistria received from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania : sums of money transfers, lists of Jewish colonies and Jewish committees of Transnistria to which aid was delivered, and reports on its use; data on the distribution of foodstuffs by the Jewish committee of the city of Chernovtsy amongst other Jewish committees (Tul’chin, Balta, Bershad’, Obodovka, Shargorod, Kopaigorod, and Dzhurin); a list of items transferred to the ghetto at the Liubashevka station (Golta county) (1943); etc. By agreement with Germany (signed 30 August 1941 in Bendery), Romania received a mandate to implement temporary “administrative and economic operation” of the Governorate of Transnistria (Rus. Zadnestrov’e) – an artificially created administrative-territorial formation including German-Romanian occupied parts of the Vinnitsa, Odessa, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine and the left-bank districts of Moldavia between the Southern Bug and the Dniester – upon which an administrative structure was introduced, headed by a civilian governor. This individual administered the Governorate of Transnistria through the heads of its thirteen constituent counties (județe), and via a number of sectoral directorates, including Finance, Industry, Commerce, Labor (whose function encompassed the labor conscription of the population, especially Jews, in the occupied territory), Forestry, Health, etc. This administrative structure also included the Main Registry, which housed the archive of the Governorate of Transnistria, the primary purpose of which was to register all incoming and outgoing correspondence. The administrative center of the Governorate of Transnistria from August through October 1941 was the city of Tiraspol’; upon the Red Army’s forced departure from the city of Odessa, the administrative center was transferred there. March 1944 saw the de facto liquidation of the Governorate of Transnistria, when detachments of the Red Army completely liberated the territory between the Dniester and the Southern Bug from German and Romanian forces.