Metadata: Office of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev and Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland, Czechoslovakia
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- 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
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом’янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- http://tsdavo.gov.ua/
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1429
- Title:
- Office of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev and Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland, Czechoslovakia
- Title (official language):
- Канцелярия Директории Украинской Народной Республики, г.г. Киев – Каменец-Подольский – Польша – Чехословакия
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; Kiev and Kamenets-Podol’skii, Poland, Czechoslovakia
- Date(s):
- 1919/1938
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 305 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Among materials housed are documents on representatives of Jewish political parties in the UNR government, and on the personnel makeup of the UNR Ministry of Jewish Affairs; a letter (17 January 1921) of P. Krasnyi, minister of Jewish affairs, to S. V. Petliura, head of the Directorate, on preparations for literature on Ukrainian-Jewish relations; individual reports of UNR Army unit commanders on the presence of Jews among Red Army commissars, and on these persons’ conduct of Bolshevik agitation (November 1920); intelligence information of the UNR Ministry of Internal Affairs’ political department on the spread of anti-Semitic sentiment among part of the Ukrainian population; reports of unit headquarters and the information department of the UNR Army, and of the UNR Ministry of Jewish Affairs, on the involvement of servicemen of the UNR Army, the Red Army, and rebel detachments in pogroms against Jews, particularly on plundering of Jews and raping of Jewish women committed by Cossacks of the 7th and 9th regiments of the UNR Army (in the town of Markovka, August 1919) and Cossacks of the 5th and 6th divisions of S. M. Budennyi’s Cavalry (in the town of Liubar, January 1921); a universal [decree] of Ataman N. Grigor’ev titled “The Ukrainian People” (May 1919) demanding a 5% cap on Jewish representation in entities of state power in Ukraine; materials on the creation of an emergency inquiry commission to investigate the circumstances of pogroms in Zhitomir (December 1918 and March 1919), and correspondence on the Ukrainian government’s allocation of 1.6 million rubles to aid victims thereof (April 1919); informational communiqués on the increasing wave of Jewish refugees from Ukraine, and correspondence on the possibility of the UNR government in exile providing them aid (1921); eyewitness information on the policies of Soviet power vis-à-vis “the Jewish question,” on Bolshevik terror with regard to Jewish political and religious activities, on the liquidation of Jewish public organisations, etc.; and newspaper excerpts on the scale of the pogrom movement in Ukrainian territory, bulletins of the Jewish Press Bureau in Ukraine (1921-22), etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was the administrative-technical apparatus of the highest body of state power of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR), formed in November 1918. During the Civil War in Ukraine, this office, along with the Directorate itself, repeatedly changed locations (Proskurov, Rovno, Kamenets-Podol’skii). From late 1920 on, it functioned as part of the UNR government in exile (see f. 5235).
- Access points: locations:
- Czechoslovakia
- Kamenets-Podol’skii
- Kiev
- Liubar
- Poland
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grigor’ev, N.
- Krasnyi, P. A.
- Petliura, S.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes five inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary