IANOV

Pre-1941: Ianov, village, Kalinovka raion, Vinnitsa oblast’, Ukrainian SSR; 1941–1944: Janow, Rayon and Gebiet Kalinowka, Generalkommissariat Shitomir, post-1991: Ivaniv, Kalynivka raion, Vinnytsia oblast’, Ukraine Ianov is located 30 kilometers (19 miles) north-northeast of Vinnitsa. There were probably around 1,000 Jews living in Ianov in 1941. Units of the German 6th Army occupied Ianov on July 22, 1941. In the summer and fall of 1941, a military commandant’s office (Ortskommandantur) ran the village. The commandant appointed a village elder and organized an auxiliary Ukrainian police force. At the end of October 1941, authority was transferred to a German civil administration. It became part of Gebiet Kalinowka, within Generalkommissariat Shitomir. The Gebietskommissar was Regierungsrat Dr. Seelemeyer. Based in Ianov as part of the civil administration were one or two officials of the German agricultural administration (Landwirtschaftsführer).1 In the summer and fall of 1941, th...