Metadata: Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kyiv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Київської області
- Postal address:
- 04119, м.Київ, вул.Мельникова, 38, 40.
- Phone number:
- 380 (44)206-74-99
- Web address:
- http://dako.gov.ua/
- Email:
- dako@archives.kiev.ua
- Reference number:
- F. P-5
- Title:
- Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Title (official language):
- Киевский обком КПУ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1932/1990
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 59,757 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are memoranda on issues pertaining to the selection of atheist propagandists vis-à-vis “the Judaic question”; on violations of legislation on religions on the part of leaders of “Judaic communities” of the Kiev region, and on “anti-Soviet remarks by representatives” thereof; on a meeting at which a plenipotentiary of the Kiev Regional Executive Committee’s Council on Religious Cults received representatives of Jewish religious communities of Kiev and the Kiev region (1954); on an incident in which members of an illegal minyan taking place on Zhilianskaia Street were detained by the police, with fines imposed and prayer books confiscated; information of the Kiev Municipal Committee and District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on manifestations of antisemitism in Kiev in connection with the “doctors’ affair” (January 1953); on antisemitic inscriptions, and inscriptions defending the rights of Jews, written on ballots during local council elections (February 1953); and on the discovery of antisemitic leaflets (1953).
The fond also contains information on the number and activities of registered and unregistered Jewish houses of worship, minyans, and yeshivas in the Kiev region; a memorandum on the activities of illegal minyans in private apartments in Kiev, and lists of their organizers, with addresses (1945); reference material on the number of “Jewish believers and Judaic religious communities” in Kiev and the Kiev region; memoranda on the activities of “Judaic religious communities,” on a schism in the “Judaic communities of Kiev,” on the internal life of Jewish religious communities, and on Jewish believers’ complaints regarding wrongful actions taken by the executive bodies of Jewish religious communities; descriptions of Jewish religious communities of Belaia Tserkov’, Kiev, and Cherkassy (1953); information on the Kiev Municipal Financial Department’s audit of income and expenses of “Judaic communities” of Kiev (1962); memoranda containing comparative data on the number of Jews who attended synagogue in Kiev, including during Yom Kippur and other Jewish religious holidays (1951-53); announcements to the effect that the Jewish religious community in Kiev intended to send a telegram to the USSR Council of Ministers on the occasion of Stalin’s death, and on a mourners’ service held at a Kiev synagogue in connection with Stalin’s passing (March 1953); a list of automobiles used to bring Jews to synagogue in Kiev on Jewish religious holidays (1953); and correspondence on repairing synagogues in the Kiev region (1956) and installing radios at a Kiev synagogue (1957).
There is a separate set of documents consisting of lists of Jewish houses of worship singled out as fit for possible visits by foreign delegations (1955); information on a visit to the Kiev synagogue at 29 Shchekavitskaia Street by emissaries of the state of Israel (1954-55) and by American Quakers (1955); a memorandum on “ties between the Jewish clerical element of Kiev” and foreign tourists and employees of foreign diplomatic legations, and on “the hostile activities of diplomats under the pretext of aiding Jewish synagogue-goers.”
There is also correspondence on preparations for and the conduct of Jewish religious holidays in Kiev and the Kiev region (1955); information on the collection of charitable contributions using alms-boxes in synagogues during Jewish holidays; and on “Jewish believers’ violations of labour discipline” on these days (1956); memoranda on the celebration of Passover; and instructions of the USSR Council of Ministers’ Council on Religious Cults on the organisation of the baking and distribution of matzah, on taxing matzah bakeries, and on the operations of illegal matzah bakeries (1954); correspondence of the Chief Rabbi of Kiev and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on the Kiev Jewish community’s receipt of matzah, red wine, and prayer books in connection with the celebration of Passover (1955); information on matzah sent to Jews in Kiev from the United States, and on packages of etrogs and lulavs from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel (1955).
Also housed in the fond are reports on the organisation of the sale of kosher meat by distributors in Kiev; on the operations of illegal poultry slaughterhouses and kosher butchers, and on infractions pertaining to the ritual slaughter of livestock during preparations for the celebration of Passover (1956); information on the performance of ritual ablutions in Jews’ apartments after a mikvah was closed as “unsanitary” (1962), and on the number of Jewish burial rites; memoranda on the reinterment of deceased persons from the Old Jewish and Karaite cemeteries, including “two Hasidic rebbes and other particularly revered persons,” and on the need to regulate the reinterment of deceased Jews from the Old Jewish cemetery (1956); information on the discovery of “shattered monuments” at the Kurenevka cemetery, on the destruction of “Jewish headstones” at the Kurenevka and Baikov cemeteries, on an inspection of Jewish tombstones at the Luk’ianovka cemetery, and on the need to apportion a plot for a new Jewish cemetery (Kiev, 1956); correspondence on infractions pertaining to the burial of “persons of the Jewish nationality” in Kiev (1953); on the need to “repave a sidewalk in Uman’” (which had been paved with broken headstones from Jewish graves during the city’s occupation, 1953); documents on crimes committed by the Nazis in the Kiev region: mass arrests and shootings of Jews; information on gold seized from Jews “in the regions of Warsaw and Lublin” and sent to Germany; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in February 1932, this answered to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (the party’s name was subsequently changed to the Communist Party of Ukraine), and in turn oversaw operations of Communist Party of Ukraine district committees in the territory of the Kiev region. It engaged in ideological and agit-propaganda outreach to the population, and had oversight of all areas of the region’s economy. It was liquidated in 1991 upon the banning of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Belaia Tserkov’
- Cherkassy
- Germany
- Israel
- Kiev
- Kurenevka
- Lublin
- Ukraine
- United States
- Warsaw
- Access points: persons/families:
- Stalin, Joseph
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Burial
- Cemeteries
- Cemeteries--Gravestones
- Ceremonial objects
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Doctors' Plot
- Financial matters
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish Question
- Karaite Judaism
- Legal matters
- Mass murder
- Matsah
- Mikveh
- Nazism
- Nazism--Nazis
- Plunder
- Ritual slaughter
- Ritual slaughter--Butchers
- State of Israel
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- War crimes
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes 100 inventories systematised according to the subject-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary