Fonds of the local authorities of the Occupation administration

Commissariats

Okrug Commissariats: Baranovichi – NARB, fond  388, 28 items; the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 684, 8 items, 1943 – 1944;
Borisov – NARB, fond 391, 149 items, 1941 – 1943;
Minsk – NARB, fond 393, 1219 items, 1941 – 1944;
Pinsk – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2120, 625 items, 1941 -1944;
Glubokoe – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2839, 4 items, 1941 – 1944;
Petrikov – the State Archives of Gomel Region, fond 1853, 1 item, 1942;
Novogrudok – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 642, 11 items, 1941 – 1944;
Vileika – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 4232, 41 items, 1941 – 1944:
Orders, instructions of the Imperial ministry of the occupied eastern territories, the general commissars of Belarus, Volyn, and Podolia, the general okrug “Zhitomir”, okrug commissars, volost authorities. Protocols on meetings of occupation authorities. Materials about work of okrug commissariats. Regular schedules of occupation administration bodies, documents on personnel. Reports, dispatches, correspondence with commissariats of different levels about work of economic entities and territorial- administrative bodies on issues of economy, social welfare, local administration assignments, passport regime, permits for movement, partisans attacks, creation of defense posts on the highways. Correspondence on the issues of public organizations, use of prisoners’ labour, about number of inhabited localities and local populace, accommodation of refugees, search of the people being  missing, the order of giving premises and apartments. Criminal cases. Lists of burgomasters, starostas (village heads), medical personnel, teachers, the persons subject to deportation to work in Germany, arrested communists. Personal files, personal particulars, autobiographies of medical personnel and teachers. Occupation periodicals and leaflets. Applications and complaints of local inhabitants. Finance estimates and reports. Visas and passes.

Town Commissariats: Vysoko-Litovsk — the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 196, 55 items, 1941 – 1944;
Grodno – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 2, 180 items, 1941 – 1944, including the documents of Grodno burgomaster for 1942 – 1944;
Minsk – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 688, 212 items, 1941 – 1942, 1944:
Orders and instructions of commissariat leadership. Regular schedules of commissariat employees. Production plans and the reports of economic entities. Information about occupation institutions activities, political and propaganda work, the state of industrial and handicraft production, municipal service, pre-school institutions. Lists of local inhabitants, the employees of town and volost councils. Applications of citizens for receiving personal documents, authorization to an apartment, patents for opening enterprises and workshops. Accounts, wage sheets.

Amstcommissariats: Mosty #12 – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 117,  25 items, 1941 – 1944;
Ozery #4 – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 115, 3 items, 1942 – 1943;
Skidel #9 – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 116, 16 items, 1941 – 1944:
Orders and instructions of the Bialystok okrug leadership, the Grodno uyezd commissar. Protocols of  the commissariat employees. Correspondence with occupation administration. Lists of people sent to work in Germany. Applications of citizens for release from labour duties. Accounts, wage sheets of  the persons working in the territory of ghetto.

Uezd Commissariats: Grodno – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 1,  612 items, 1941 – 1944:
Orders, instructions of the higher ruling bodies of Germany, Eastern Prussia, Bialystok okrug, Grodno uyezd commissar, Grodno occupation administration. Reports, certificates, information about political and propaganda work, activities of economic entities, anti-partisan actions, repression of the Jews, the state of education. Information about activities of cultural- educational institutions, collaboration organizations, religious life, population registration. Correspondence with occupation authorities and economic entities. Finance and inventory documents.

Commandant’s Offices

Field Commandant’s Offices: Baranovichi #250 – NARB, fond 405, 2 items, 1942 – 1943;
Vitebsk #781 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2098, 1 item, 1943 – 1944;
Vitebsk #815 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 1610, 1 item, 1941 – 1943;
Lepel #181 – NARB, fond 562, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Minsk district #812 – NARB, fond 409, 11 items, 1941 – 1942;
Orsha –  the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2110, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Polotsk – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2827, 1 item, 1942 – 1944;
Smoliany – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 1608, 2 items, 1942;
Starye dorogi – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1609, 8 items, 1943 – 1944;
defense division of  the “Center” army group rear region #815 –  the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 8, 12 items, 1941 – 1944;
battalion #516 of the military command #7 – NARB, fond 570, 1 item, 1944;
Zheleznodorozhnaia #2 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2099, 4 items, 1944:
Orders of the field commandant’s offices. Plans of anti-aircraft and fire-prevention defense. Information on arrests of the local inhabitants. Sentences of the courts. Dispatches about partisans’ activities. Correspondence with economic, military institutions about combat and defense service, command personnel courses, tax collection, etc. Lists of the village burgomasters, the officers and the ranks of army formations.

Town Commandant’s Offices: Borisov – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 639, 1 item, 1941 – 1943;
Vitebsk – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2146, 5 items, 1942 – 1943;
Vitebsk – NARB, fond 407, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Gorodok – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2085, 1 item, 1941;
Minsk #184 – NARB, fond 408, 2 items, 1941;
Mogilev – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 268, 9 items, 1943;
Senno – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2145, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Tolochin – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2130, 2 items, 1942 – 1944:
Orders and instructions of the military commandants. Information on personnel, arms, transport of army units and formations. Lists of prisoners of war. Personal files of commandant’s officials. Papers on searching private persons. Certificates of local inhabitants, applications for residence registration. Applications for paying allowances to the families of the police officials, who were killed by partisans.

Local Commandant’s Offices: Bobruisk – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 861, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Bogushevsk #1 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 1607, 11 items, 1941 – 1944;
Bogushevsk #841 – NARB, fond 406, 1 item, 1942 – 1943;
Borisov – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 638, 3 items, 1942 – 1944;
Borisov #354 – NARB, fond 564, 1 item, 1943;
Borisov #532 – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1251, 1 item, 1943 – 1944;
Vitebsk – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2122, 4 items, 1941 – 1943;
Vitebsk #683 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2116, 3 items, 1941 – 1944;
Grodno #1/850 – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 1115, 2 items, 1941;
Ivie – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 665, 1 item, 1941 – 1944;
Orsha #842 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2102, 4 items, 1943 – 1944;
Pinsk – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2737, 5 items, 1941 – 1944;
Svisloch #1/508 – NARB, 1 item, 1944;
Senno #1/846 – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 1602, 6 items, 1941 – 1944;
Kholopenichi – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 814, 1 item, 1943 – 1944:
Orders of commandants. Protocols of prisoners’ interrogation. Information about partisans’ combat operations, removal of cattle from partisans’ families, desertion  and discharges of police officials. Correspondence with police subdivisions about search, arrests, keeping of  regime’s enemies. Warrants to arrest. Applications and receipts of the persons enlisted in the police service. Lists of police officials, the employees of town and district councils, the persons who worked in German army units, local inhabitants, the persons registered at labor exchange and sent to work in Germany. Biographical particulars of the persons who acquired the German citizenship. Wage sheets.

Councils

Town Councils: Baranovichi – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 682, 10 items; Bobruisk – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 858, 657 items; Borisov – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 622, 12 items;
Brest – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 201, 4949 items; Vitebsk – the State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 2073, 2437 items; Glusk – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1613, 31 items; Gomel – the State Archives of Gomel Region, fond 1686, 1 item; Grodno – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 15, 36 items; Ivie – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 681, 2 items; Kletsk – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1539, 14 items; Luninets – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2178, 19 items; Minsk – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1050, 14 items; Mogilev – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 260, 169 items; Osipovichi – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 852, 3 items; Pinsk – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2135, 2578 items; Rechitsa – the State Archives of Gomel Region, fond 1326, 17 items; Slonim – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 661, 1 item; Slutsk – the State Archives of Minsk Region, fond 1625, 3 items; Shklov – the State Archives of Mogilev Region, fond 258, 25 items; Novogrudok – the State Archives of Grodno Region, fond 646, 2 items; documents for the period 1941 – 1944:
Resolutions, orders, instructions of the higher government bodies of Germany, occupation administration bodies, town councils. Plans of organizational measures. Reports and information on council departments’ activities, the development and state of municipal service, public security, mobilization measures. Regular schedules of  town councils, organizations, enterprises. Lists of economic entities, town council employees, arrested citizens, local inhabitants sent to work in Germany, refugees, the persons who cooperated with special services. Circulating bills, personal accounts, documents of cash order.

District Boards: The district archives contain materials of 74 district boards; the documents for the period 1941 – 1944:
Resolutions, orders, instructions of the General commissariat of Belarus, okrug commissariats, military authorities, district boards, BPS ruling structures. Protocols on the meetings of  volost boards and village starostas. Plans of district board work. Reports of district boards about finance and economic activities. Information about tax collection, size of area under crops, the total number of villages, peasant farms, inventory, cattle, total volume of crops, collection of agricultural goods. Regular schedules, lists of board employees, organizations, enterprises. Lists of starostas, police employees, the persons sent to work in Germany. Personal files, applications, complaints of local inhabitants to the boards.

District-Town Boards: The State Archives of Vitebsk Region contains the materials of the following boards: Bogushevsk – fond 2087, 33 items; Gorodok – fond 2123, 323 items; Lepel – fond 2088, 91 items; Orsha – fond 2074, 688 items; Senno – fond 2081, 35 items; Tolochin – fond 2127, 11 items; Chashniki – fond 2109, 30 items;
The State Archives of Gomel Region contains the materials of the following boards: Dobrush – fond 1318, 8 items; Kalinkovichi – fond 1827, 2 items; Mozyr – fond 1820, 24 items; Rogachev – fond 1331, 6 items; 1941 – 1944:
Orders, instructions of occupation administration and boards on poll-tax collection, distribution of land plots, compulsory registration of new-comers, instructions on personnel. Protocols on the sittings of land-tax commissions. Reports about boards’ activities, grain-crops collection. Information on estimation of crops. Inventory documents on buildings and workshops. Lists of people sent to work in Germany. Lists of boards’ employees. Applications of citizens to the boards.

Village Starosta, the village of Korotichi, David-Gorodok District – the State Archives of Brest Region, fond 2759, 1 item, 1942 – 1943:
Orders and instructions of okrug commissariats and district boards.

Abbreviations:

NARB – National Archives of the Republic of Belarus