Moscow Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE); Moscow

Collection

Holding institution:: Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України

Title:: Moscow Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE); Moscow

Title (official language):: Московское отделение Всероссийского общества охранения здоровья еврейского населения (Московское отделение ОЗЕ), г. Москва

Creator/accumulator:: Moscow Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE)

Scope and content:: Included in the fond are materials on the activities of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE) and a number of its branches (those in Moscow, Warsaw, and Vil’no). These include the OZE charter, minutes of its sessions, activity agendas, reports, instructions, circulars, decrees, correspondence between the OZE Central Bureau and its branches, and reports of OZE personnel (including the well-known Jewish public figure, Dr. A. M. Bramson) on the provision of food and medical-sanitary aid to the Jewish population; materials on pogroms against Jews in 1918-20; information on the activities of the Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Evobshchestkom); a copy of a stenogram of a discussion between an American delegation and OZE representatives in Moscow on aiding Jewish war and pogrom victims; certain issues of the journal News of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population for 1919; identification papers of OZE personnel; expense budgets of regional branches of the OZE; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Moscow Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population was established in 1914 as a regional branch of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE), which arose in 1912 in Petersburg and which sought to care for children and improve the healthcare of the Jewish population, and their sanitary and hygienic living conditions. In particular, during the Civil War, the Moscow branch of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population organized detachments of specialists and sent them to Ukraine to provide material, food, and medical aid to Jewish refugees and to the local Jewish population having suffered from pogroms and military operations. The charter of the Moscow branch of the OZE was approved by the RSFSR Council of People’s Commissars in 1918, and its activities were coordinated with the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Health and the Moscow City Department of Health. However, in June 1920, the Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Evobshchestkom), established by the Soviet authorities, absorbed both the OZE and the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (EKOPO), with which the OZE had been coordinating its activities. And although both of these organizations soon withdrew from the Evobshchestkom, they were officially closed in 1921.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Food distribution; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Antisemitism; Correspondence; Financial records; Genealogy; Health and medical matters; Pogroms; Refugees

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory without any expressed structure.