Omsk Branch of All-Union Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Казенное учреждение "Исторический архив Омской области"

Title:: Omsk Branch of All-Union Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles

Title (official language):: Омское отделение Всесоюзного общества бывших политкаторжан и ссыльнопоселенцев

Creator/accumulator:: Omsk Branch of All-Union Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles

Scope and content:: This collection contains score cards, profiles and autobiographies of members and candidate members of the Omsk Branch of the All-Union Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles (1924-1934). They include questionnaires and autobiographies of Yakov Danilovich Malkin, Solomon Isaakovich Perchenok, Mikhail Petrovich Nodelman, Grigory Karpovich Gindin, Yakov Semenovich Sokolinsky, Moses Yakovlevic Nahtshteren and Yacov Isaevich Rothstein. Many of them were members of the Bund. The list of members of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) from before the Revolution includes Mikhail Aaranovitch Gertsman (head of the organisational department of the CPSU (b)). The collection also contains the memories (report prepared on the basis of published sources) of E.S. Sozonov (Russian socialist revolutionary, terrorist and murderer of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve).

Archival history:: Materials were added to the archive as part of the standard local process.

Subject terms:: Bund movement; Communism; Communism--Communist parties and organisations; Jewish political activity; Memoirs; Prisoners

Access, restrictions:: No official restrictions. However, loose files and/or files containing personal information may only be available with special permission of the Director.