Фільтраційні, архівно-слідчі і спостережні справи, трофейні документи, передані з відомчого архіву обласного управління СБУ

Collection consists of several types of documents. 1. Filtering cases (51531 files). The filtration file is a set of documents about an individual deported from Germany: interrogation protocols, questionnaires, correspondence for obtaining information about the life and activities of the deportee. Among those deported to forced labor in Germany were Jews - teenagers, boys and girls, who with the help of counterfeit documents, under other names saved themselves from the actions of the destruction of the Jewish population and entered the territory of the Reich. 38 filtration cases of Jews were taken out to Germany and returned to the Vinnytsia region are available. 2. Filtration cases on former Soviet prisoners of war and trophy cards on them (267 files). They allow to trace the fate of Jewish prisoners of war, who had to describe the circumstances of their captivity, stay in prison camps and the subsequent fate. 26 such files on Jewish prisoners of war are available. 3. Archival and investigative files on individuals brought to court for the assistance to the Nazis (26183 files). They contain information about the accomplices of the Nazis who are guilty of destroying the Jewish population and the specific circumstances of the resettlement of Jews in the ghetto, the robbery of their property, their move to the killing sites, the participation of the collaborators in the executions. This group also includes archival and investigative cases for collaborators from the Jewish population; local and deported to Transnistria from Northern Bukovina, Bessarabia and Dorokhoi County (Romania). Typically, these were the individuals appointed by the Romanian authorities to serve as heads of Jewish communities, ghettos, labor camps. Some of the caseworkers worked in the Jewish police. The archives and investigative cases of Nazi accomplices with the Jewish background can be divided into two parts: (1) documents on actual assistants of the Nazis who committed crimes against Jews held in the ghetto and labor camps, and (2) documents relating to Jewish leaders (communities, ghettos), who contributed to the survival, improvement of social life in the Transnistrian ghettos, but were suspected by the Soviet authorities in aiding Romanian occupation authorities. 4. Trophy German documents (10 files). In particular, they contain information on the occupation regime in the German occupation zone of the Vinnytsia region due to the construction and operation of the Hitler's headquarter Werwolf in suburbs of Vinnytsia. Most German documents translated into Russian. In the core of German trophy materials are reports of military officers of the security group of the secret field police "OST", reports, correspondence as an annex to the "Military Diary". The most numerous group of trophy documents are the orders, reports, and military officials of the secret police field group "OST" near the Hitler’s headquarter, correspondence with Rattenhuber (commander of the SS Imperial Security Service), the security police and SD in Vinnitsa, the security police and SD in Zhytomyr, gendarmerie posts in the security zone, the Vinnitsa Gebietskommissariat, the city prison, the Vinnytsia Jewish labor camp (Stalag 329), the military tribunal of field commandant's office 675 in Vinnitsa.