Metadata: Ukrainian Central Committee; Krakow (Poland)
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:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 3959
- Title:
- Ukrainian Central Committee; Krakow (Poland)
- Title (official language):
- Украинский центральный комитет, г. Краков (Польша)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian Central Committee; Krakow (Poland)
- Date(s):
- 1940/1944
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 516 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed contain information on Jewish resistance and on the response of peasants, city-inhabitants, and Ukrainian local authorities to Nazi policies toward the Jewish population; on the organising of ghettoes, the destruction of Jews, and attempts by the Greek Catholic Church to intervene on behalf of Jewish converts to Christianity; and on the location and actions of Jewish combat groups (called “gangs” in reports and correspondence). There are also surnames of Ukrainians and Poles executed (shot, hanged) by emergency courts for harbouring Jews, as well as surnames of informants and polizei agents involved in actions against Jews.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian Territorial Committee (UKK) was established in Lwow; headed by K. Pan’kivskii, it was to be the legal public organisation representing the interests of Ukrainians in the General Governorate [Nazi-occupied territory of the Republic of Poland] in their dealings with the German occupation authorities. The UKK engaged in public oversight and cultural-educational activities, provided social services to the Ukrainian population, and coordinated actions with the Ukrainian Central Committee (UTsK) in Krakow, headed by V. Kubiiovich. Beginning 1 March 1942, per an order of the General Governorate’s main department on population and public oversight, the Ukrainian Territorial Committee lost its autonomy and title, becoming a branch of the Ukrainian Central Committee. The work of the Ukrainian Central Committee was strictly controlled by the occupation authorities, who suppressed any attempts at political activity, and even any petitions on behalf of Jewish converts to Christianity (Greek-rite Catholics). In the spring of 1943 and early 1944, the Ukrainian Central Committee and its Lwow branch took an active role in organising the 14th SS-Volunteer Division “Galician” [14. SS-Freiwilligen Division “Galizien”]. The Ukrainian Central Committee ceased to exist in July 1944 in Lwow and in March 1945 in Krakow.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kubiiovich, V.
- Pan’kivskii, K.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes three inventories compiled according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary