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Mogilev, 1943–1944: the Turnătoria workers and their families
Two lists of the Jewish workers of the Turnătoria, the foundry and workshops in Mogilev on the Dniester (Moghilev, now Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Ukraine), in Romanian-ruled Transnistria. The workers were Jews deported in 1941 from Bukovina, the Dorohoi district and northern Bessarabia, with some Jews of Mogilev itself. The list of October 1943 gives each worker's trade, age, date of hiring and the town he or she was deported from; the list of January 1944 names the members of each worker's family as well. Every name is searchable.
Index from Yad Vashem's online images of the original lists in the archive of Siegfried Jägendorf, the engineer who ran the works and signed both lists. Each entry links to its page at Yad Vashem.
Under “More fields”: the town a worker was deported from (any of its names), and the surname of someone else in the same family on the 1944 list. Search tips · Trades
2,486entries in two lists
653workers, October 1943
540 + 1,293workers and family members, January 1944
The lists
| List | Date | At Yad Vashem |
|---|---|---|
| Jewish workers of the Mogilev workshops (Turnătoria) “Tablou nominal al lucrătorilor evrei ocupați la Atelierele-Moghilev (Turnătoria)” All 653 Jewish workers in three parts: A. the Mogilev workshops (foundry, machine and building shops, the apprentice school, the office), B. the nail and horseshoe workshop, C. auxiliary services (supply, kitchen and canteen, medical service, guards). With title, trade, date of hiring, age and the place each worker was deported from. | 28 October 1943 | File 21, item 6784301 |
| Specialists at the Turnătoria, with their families “Tabloul specialiștilor ocupați la Turnătoria din Moghilev” 540 workers with trade and the place they were deported from, each followed by the names of the members of the family living with him or her: 1,293 people in all. The list gives no ages and no relationships. | 30 January 1944 | File 22, item 6784300 |
The 1943 list ends with its own count of the workers by the place they came from (Împărțirea lucrătorilor evrei pe localități, frame 21): Cernăuți 252 · Rădăuți 186 · Vatra-Dornei 58 · Moghilev (local Jews) 51 · Gura Humorului 42 · Câmpulung 17 · Suceava 17 · Dorohoi 16 · Vijnița 11 · Briceni 3 · total 653.
What these lists are
- A place of work in Transnistria. From the autumn of 1941 the Romanian authorities deported the Jews of Bukovina, Bessarabia and the Dorohoi district across the Dniester to Transnistria; Mogilev was the main crossing point. Deported engineers and craftsmen restored the ruined foundry and workshops of the town and worked there under Romanian control. A place on the list of workers came with a work permit for the worker and the family, and with it some protection from being sent further east. Mogilev was retaken by the Red Army in March 1944.
- Two lists, three months apart. The list of 28 October 1943 is the full staff of 653, by workshop. The list of 30 January 1944 has 540 workers, and after each worker the family members living with him or her. Many people are on both; where the surname and given name match only one person in each list, the entry pages link the two.
- “Deported from” is the column locul evacuării (1943) or evacuat din (1944): the town the worker was deported from, not the place of birth. Localnic means a local Jew of Mogilev. The two lists do not always agree; in 1943 the place was added by hand.
- Ages are given only in the 1943 list, as written there. The 1944 list gives no ages and does not say who in the family is a wife, a child or a parent.
- Not on a list proves nothing. These are the workers of one works on two dates. People came and went, and thousands of deportees in Mogilev never worked there.
How it was read
- From the full-size images that Yad Vashem publishes online, line by line, letter for letter, with machine help. The 1943 list is typed, with age and place written in by hand; the 1944 list is typed throughout.
- Marks. [?] or a question mark marks an uncertain letter or reading. Where the handwritten age or place sits half a line off the typed name, it was matched by counting lines; such readings are marked uncertain on the entry page. A ditto mark is written out as the value above it.
- Names are as typed: German, Romanian and Yiddish spellings side by side (Șulim, Herș, Jacques). “Sounds like” search finds them together. Where the typist clearly slipped (Rosenkraz in a family of Rosenkranz), the entry gives the name as corrected and says how it was printed.
- Images are not republished. This is an index only. Each entry gives the archival file and the frame number, with links to the document and the frame at Yad Vashem.
- Privacy. Only the surname is shown for anyone who may have been born in 1926 or later: workers under 18 in October 1943, apprentices and helpers whose age is not given, and the family members of the 1944 list, except those who are themselves on the 1943 list as adults. Why.
- Found a mistake? Use “Report an error” on the entry page.
Terms you will meet
The lists are in Romanian. Trades are given as written; on each entry page you can switch them to English.
| As written | Meaning |
|---|---|
| curăţitor de fontă, curăţ. fontă | cast-iron fettler Cleans and trims castings after they leave the mould. |
| lucrător de miezuri | core maker Makes the sand cores that form the hollow parts of a casting. |
| formator, formatoare | moulder Makes the sand moulds for casting. |
| modelier | pattern maker Makes the wooden patterns from which moulds are formed. |
| ucenic(ă) | apprentice The works ran a school for apprentices; most were 14 to 17 years old. |
| aj., ajut., ajutor | assistant Before a trade: an assistant or journeyman (“aj. strungar” — assistant turner). |
| croitor, Schneider | tailor |
| tâmplar, tâmpl., Tischler | joiner, carpenter |
| lăcătuş, lăc., lăcăt. | locksmith, fitter |
| tinichigiu | tinsmith |
| zugrav | house painter |
| vopsitor | dyer, painter |
| măcelar, Fleischhauer | butcher |
| frizer, friz. | barber |
| zidar, Maurer | mason |
| brutar | baker |
| funcţionar(ă), funcţ. | clerk |
| lucrător, lucrătoare, lucr. | worker |
| medic | physician |
| inginer, Ing. | engineer |
| contabil, contab. | bookkeeper |
| farmacist(ă) | pharmacist |
| mecanic, mec. | mechanic |
| turnător, turn. | founder (caster) |
| strungar, strung. | turner (lathe operator) |
| rabotar | planer operator |
| matriţer | die maker |
| fierar, fier. | blacksmith |
| potcovar | farrier |
| cuie şi potcoave | nails and horseshoes |
| dulgher | carpenter (building) |
| electrician, electr. | electrician |
| fochist | stoker |
| maşinist | machine operator |
| instalator | pipe fitter |
| sudor | welder |
| desenator | draughtsman |
| proectant | designer |
| arhitect, arh. | architect |
| vopsitorie | paint shop |
| şofer | driver |
| vizitiu | coachman |
| căruţaş | carter |
| rotar | wheelwright |
| salahor | unskilled labourer |
| calfă, calfe | journeyman |
| meşter | foreman |
| şef | head |
| secţ., secţia | section |
| supraveghetor, suprav. | supervisor |
| magazioner, magaz. | storekeeper |
| paznic | watchman |
| portar | doorkeeper |
| om de serviciu | attendant |
| de noapte | by night |
| de zi | by day |
| cămin | hostel |
| bucătărie, bucăt. | kitchen |
| bucătar, bucătăreasă | cook |
| cantină | canteen |
| grădinar | gardener |
| infirmier(ă) | nurse |
| dentist | dentist |
| sanitar | medical |
| învăţător, învăţătoare | teacher |
| dactilografă, stenodact. | typist |
| birou, bir. | office |
| evidenţă, evid. | records |
| atelier, atel. | workshop |
| director | director |
| şcoala | school |
| construcţie, constr. | building |
| echipă, ech. | team |
Search tips
- Sounds like (the default) finds spellings that sound the same by the Daitch–Mokotoff system and keeps only close spellings as results: Katz finds Kac, Kaz, Caț. Other surnames with the same code are listed separately below the results.
- Exact spelling finds only that spelling; Starts with finds every surname that begins with the letters you typed.
- * and ? in a surname: * stands for any letters, ? for one letter. Kat*, *berg, Gr?nberg.
- Accents and alphabets don’t matter: ş = s, ţ = tz, ä = a, ł = l. Records written in Cyrillic are found by their Latin spelling.
- Given name matches the beginning of any given name of the person: Mor finds Moritz, Mordko and Moric.
- Other surnames: a married woman is also found by her maiden name (née, născută, geb.), and anyone by a second surname written with recte, vel, zis or false.
- Town (under “More fields”): any of the town’s names in any language. Collections from one city match only that city.
- Parent, spouse or other: a surname of another person in the same record (a register entry, a family declaration or letter, a family on a list). Use it to find a child by the mother’s maiden name, or a couple.
- A dash (—) in the list of collections means that collection has no such field, so the search was not run there; 0 means it was searched and nothing was found.
- Private: people born in 1926 or later are shown by surname only. Why.
How to cite
Yad Vashem Archives, P.9 (Siegfried Jaegendorf Archive), File 21 (item 6784301): “Tablou nominal al lucrătorilor evrei ocupați la Atelierele-Moghilev (Turnătoria)”, Moghilev, 28 October 1943, no. N. — File 22 (item 6784300): “Tabloul specialiștilor ocupați la Turnătoria din Moghilev”, Moghilev, 30 January 1944, no. N. Index: Zeydele (zeydele.com).