Претура Францфельдського району, с. Францфельд Овідіопольського р-ну Одеської області

These were district organs of Romanian executive power that functioned from 1941-44 in the occupied territory included in the newly-created Governorate of Transnistria. They were headed by praetors and subordinate to their respective county prefectures ; and in turn held jurisdiction over village and city primarias. The preturas’ functions included, among other things, the organizing of ghettos 

Претура Францфельдського району, с. Францфельд Овідіопольського р-ну Одеської області 

Entry selected by Michał Czajka from the Project Judaica unpublished materials 

The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. Among these is a copy of orders of the migration service and the Governorate Directorate of Labor on procedures for transmitting material aid to Transnistrian Jews from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania (1943). Documents of the Romanian authorities regarding the conscription of Jews into forced labor include copies of an order of the Romanian Army General Staff (3 July 1943) that Jewish labor be compensated in kind; a resolution on sending Jewish craftsmen from the Mogilev ghetto to the Frantsfel’d district pretura and a list of Jews working in the pretura (1943) The documents are in Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian.