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Waschkoutz, 1941: lists of the Romanian police
Name lists from the file of the police commissariat of Waschkoutz on the Czeremosz (Văscăuți pe Ceremuș, now Vashkivtsi, Chernivtsi oblast), July to December 1941: the Jews of the town and its villages, a camp, the people deported by the Soviets in June 1941, Jewish men listed for labour, Jewish craftsmen. Every name on the lists is searchable.
Index from photographs by Julie Dawson. Julie photographed the file in the reading room of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast and agreed to these lists being indexed here.
Under “More fields”: place of birth or domicile (any of its names), and the surname of someone else in the same family on the list. Search tips · Terms
1,645entries
9lists in one archival file
194115 July – 27 December
The lists
| List | Date | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| Jews of the Waschkoutz police district, town and villages The longest list in the file: families with place and year of birth, Waschkoutz and the villages of the district (Karapcziu, Lukawetz, Stanestie, Broskoutz, both Banillas, Willawcze, Jadowa and others). Its title page is not in the photographs. | summer 1941 | 657 |
| Camp “Captain Grigorescu” “Lagărul „Cpt. Grigorescu“” People held in the camp, with place and year of birth; most come from villages of the Storozhynets district rather than from Waschkoutz itself. | 1941 | 558 |
| Inhabitants taken away by the Soviets (handwritten list) “Tablou nominal de locuitorii orașului Văscăuți p.C., cari au fost evacuați (ridicați) de către bolșevici și duși în interiorul Rusiei” Everyone the Soviet authorities deported from the town, most on 13 June 1941: with sex, age and occupation. Nos. 1–66 are Ukrainians, Romanians and Poles; nos. 67–153 are Jews. | certified 19 July 1941 | 153 |
| Jews forcibly evacuated by the Soviet authorities “Tabel de evreii, din Vășcăuți p/C., cari au fost evacuați forțat de autoritățile sovietice” The Jewish families of the previous list again, this time with place and year of birth. | 1941 | 78 |
| Inhabitants taken away by the Bolsheviks (typed list) “Tablou nominal de locuitorii orașului Văscăuți p/C., cari au fost evacuați cu forță de către bolșevici și duși în interiorul Rusiei” Heads of family only, with occupation (the list also gives the property left behind, which is not indexed here). The file holds two typed copies; one was indexed. | sent 19 August 1941 | 57 |
| Jews aged 20 to 50 Jewish men of Waschkoutz of working age, listed for labour, with day, month and year of birth. | 30 September 1941 | 95 |
| Jewish tailors and shoemakers (handwritten) “Tabel nominal de croitorii și cismarii evrei din orașul Văscăuți p.C.” Seven craftsmen, all marked as needed locally. | 11 August 1941 | 7 |
| Jewish tailors and shoemakers (typed) “Tablou nominal de toți croitorii și cismarii evrei din orașul Văscăuți p/C.” The same seven men, typed for the police in Storozhynets. | 4 September 1941 | 7 |
| Jews who left with the Soviets “Tabel de evreii din Văscăuți cari s-au evacuat odată cu sovietele” Thirty-three people who went east with the retreating Soviet authorities; place and year of birth where given. | 1941 | 33 |
What these lists are
- Police lists of 1941. They were drawn up by the Romanian police after Romania retook northern Bukovina in July 1941, on orders from the prefecture of Storozhynets, under the Antonescu regime. They were instruments of persecution. In October 1941 the Jews of Waschkoutz were deported to Transnistria.
- Spelling is the clerk's. Names are written as Romanian clerks wrote them: Caț for Katz, Cuperschmidt for Kupferschmidt, Șafer for Schäfer. “Sounds like” search finds these forms together.
- One person, several lists. The same family can appear in more than one list (the three lists of people deported by the Soviets describe the same families; the two lists of craftsmen name the same men). Each line is a separate entry; where we are confident it is the same person, the entry page links to the others.
- Ages and years are as written. The handwritten list of people deported by the Soviets gives age, not year of birth; ages and years in different lists do not always agree.
- Not everyone is Jewish. The handwritten and typed lists of people deported by the Soviets include all inhabitants taken, Ukrainians, Romanians and Poles among them.
- Not on a list proves nothing. The file is incomplete and some pages were not photographed.
How it was read
- From Julie Dawson's photographs of the archival file, taken in the reading room of the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast. The lines of the lists were transcribed letter for letter, with machine help, and 161 lines were then checked again against the photographs, letter by letter; these are marked on the entry page.
- Marks. [?] marks an uncertain letter or reading; [illegible] means the place is unreadable in the photograph.
- Images are not published. This is an index only. Each entry gives the archival reference and the number of the photograph, so that a reading can be checked against the file in the archive.
- Privacy. For people born in 1926 or later, only the surname is shown. Why.
- Found a mistake? Use “Report an error” on the entry page.
Terms you will meet
The lists are in Romanian. Relationships and occupations are given as the clerk wrote them; on each entry page you can switch to English.
| As written | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cap de familie, cap fam., capul familiei | head of family The person who filed the declaration or heads the household on the list. |
| a lui | child of “Leib a Moise” — Leib, son of Moise: the father’s given name, not a surname. |
| Schächter, haham | ritual slaughterer (shochet) Slaughterer of animals by Jewish law. In Romanian records “haham”. |
| p/C, p.C. | on the Czeremosz Pe Ceremuş: villages on the Czeremosz river (Waschkoutz p/C, Banilla p/C). |
| cap. | head of family |
| soţia, soţie | wife |
| soţul, soţ | husband |
| fiul, fiu | son |
| fiică, fică | daughter |
| văduvă, văd. | widow |
| div., divorţat(ă) | divorced |
| casnică, casn. | housewife |
| comerciant, comerc. | merchant |
| croitor, Schneider | tailor |
| cişmar, cizmar, Schuhmacher | shoemaker |
| funcţionar public | civil servant |
| funcţionar(ă), funcţ. | clerk |
| agricultor, agric. | farmer |
| lucrător, lucrătoare, lucr. | worker |
| elev, elevă | pupil |
| avocat, advocat | lawyer |
| farmacist(ă) | pharmacist |
| gardian public | town watchman |
| idem | the same as above |
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
State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast (DAChO), fond 831, opys 2, file 2, “Vashkivtsi police commissariat”, 15 July – 27 December 1941, [list], no. N. Index: Zeydele (zeydele.com), from photographs by Julie Dawson.