https://www.drobytskyyar.org/index.php?form_page=1441&zpar=1&spar=38
The information begins with the document cover and includes four "slides" or pages.
The original is in Russian but there is a translation below the original [at least on my computer] This was a list from Kharkov, December 1941. The original includes: name, DOB, Nationality, Birth Place, Since When in Kharkov, etc.
Here is a description of "Yellow Lists", according to Perplexity AI:
"The “yellow lists” (often called “yellow house lists” or “yellow census lists”) were special registration forms used by the German occupation authorities and their local collaborators in Kharkiv (Kharkov) in December 1941 to identify and isolate the Jewish population, shortly before the mass murder at Drobytsky Yar .
What the “yellow lists” were
In Kharkiv, after the German occupation began in October 1941, the city council issued an order (often cited as Order No. 23) to conduct a detailed census of the population by district and building . The instructions specified that:
• For each building, two separate lists were to be made:
• One list for all non‑Jewish residents.
• A second, special list for all Jews, regardless of their religion or self‑identification .
• These Jewish lists were printed on distinctive yellow paper, which is why survivors and researchers later called them the “yellow lists” .
What the “yellow lists” were
In Kharkiv, after the German occupation began in October 1941, the city council issued an order (often cited as Order No. 23) to conduct a detailed census of the population by district and building . The instructions specified that:
• For each building, two separate lists were to be made:
• One list for all non‑Jewish residents.
• A second, special list for all Jews, regardless of their religion or self‑identification .
• These Jewish lists were printed on distinctive yellow paper, which is why survivors and researchers later called them the “yellow lists” .
These lists recorded each Jewish person’s name, address, age, occupation, and sometimes family members living in the same apartment . They were compiled by local district officials and housing managers under German orders, often with the help of Ukrainian auxiliary police .
Purpose in the Holocaust
The “yellow lists” served a deadly purpose in the Nazi “Final Solution”:
• They were used to identify every Jew in the city and force them into the Kharkiv ghetto (the Tractor and Machine‑Tool Plant barracks) by mid‑December 1941 .
• Once the ghetto was established, the lists helped the Germans and their collaborators quickly round up Jews for deportation to Drobytsky Yar, where most were shot in mass executions between late December 1941 and early January 1942 .
In practice, the yellow lists became a death register: those listed were almost all murdered at Drobytsky Yar, and the lists themselves later became crucial evidence for documenting the victims .
Connection to your Kharkiv document
The document you have — “Registration of the Jewish population of Kharkov city, December 1941” — is almost certainly one of these “yellow lists” from the Kharkiv census . It shows:
• A specific building or street in Kharkiv (e.g., Vasilevskogo Street, as in the Drobytsky Yar site’s example) .
• A list of Jewish residents in that building, with names, ages, and sometimes occupations .
• The format matches the “yellow lists” described in the Drobytsky Yar martyrology and in the work of researcher Yu. Lyakhovitsky, who later compiled the victims’ names from these forms .
Today, these lists are preserved and digitized on the Drobytsky Yar website and linked to Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, so that each person listed can be memorialized as a victim of the Holocaust in Kharkiv ."
"The “yellow lists” in Kharkiv (Kharkov) in December 1941 were created by the German occupation authorities, but they were compiled on the ground by local Ukrainian city officials and housing managers under direct German orders .
Who ordered and designed the lists
• The German military commandant’s office in Kharkiv issued the overall order to identify and isolate the Jewish population after the city was occupied in late October 1941 .
• On 22 November 1941, the German-installed Kharkiv City Council issued a decree on the “Jewish question,” which ordered that all Jews be forced into a single area (the future ghetto) and that their names be recorded separately .
• On 5 December 1941, the City Council issued a formal resolution to conduct a citywide census by district, with specific instructions that for each building, two lists must be made: one for non‑Jews and a separate list for Jews on special yellow forms ."
