Metadata: Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. P-76
- Title:
- Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Житомирский обком КПУ, г. Житомир Житомирской обл.; Житомирський обком КПУ, м. Житомир Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1933/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 25,753 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents housed in the fonds (op. 1-2, 9) include statistical data on the number of Jews (along with representatives of other nationalities) among candidates for membership in, and among members of, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in district and city organisations of the Zhitomir region; reports on the work of national-minority schools, including Jewish ones, their numbers and the problems they faced (shortages of teachers; lack of interest on the part of parents, who often preferred Russian and Ukrainian schools to national-minority ones); petitions to build a Jewish school in Radomysl’ and expand the Jewish Pedagogical School in Zhitomir (1938); a proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, in connection with “saboteur activity by enemies of the people” in the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET), to inspect the state and work of local organisations thereof and purge them of “enemy elements” (1937); political intelligence of the secretary of the Radomysl’ District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine on the appearance of “counterrevolutionary leaflets” in March 1941 on the outskirts of Radomysl’ that read: “Beat the yids [bei zhidov], save Russia”; information of district party and Soviet bodies on Nazi crimes committed during the occupation of the Zhitomir region (1941-43), including accounts of an anti-Jewish pogrom that took place in the village of Narodichi and the mass shooting of the local Jewish population (26 August 1941).
There are also informational reports of the Plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of Ministers’ Council on Religions for the Zhitomir region on the religious situation for 1969, which contain information (in the section titled “the Judaic cult”) on synagogues and Jewish houses of worship that operated in the region’s territory; on incoming and outgoing cash flows of registered Jewish religious associations; and on the authorities’ efforts to combat “bearers of the Jewish religion”: counter-measures against believers’ observance of religious rites, including at places of mass burial of Holocaust victims, and against their celebration of religious holidays, arrangement of minyans, collection of funds for charitable purposes, baking of matzah, receipt of packages from abroad containing religious literature and items, etc. (the bulk of these materials are found in f. R-4994).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This body was elected in May 1938 at the first regional conference of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine in connection with the formation (by decree [22 September 1937] of the Central Executive Committee and Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) of the Zhitomir region. Immediately subordinate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, it also reported to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). It was tasked with implementing directives of higher party and Soviet organs and overseeing the entirety of economic and political life in the region. It temporarily ceased activities during the German occupation of the Zhitomir region in 1941-43. In 1963, pursuant to a decree of the November plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1962), it was reorganised as two regional party committees, industrial and agricultural, and in December 1964 it renewed its activities as a single regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It was liquidated pursuant to the edict of the Presidium of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine (26 August 1991) “On the temporary cessation of the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.”
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Commemoration
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial records
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Mass murder
- Matsah
- Nazism
- Occupation (military)
- Pogroms
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes thirty-eight inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle, except for op. 20, 20a, and 40-43, which contain documents of various structural subsections of the collection creator that are thematically similar: personal files of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine regional committee’s party commission; materials of the regional committee’s administrative department; award certificates; etc. A number of inventories (11 and 11a) are included in a so-called “special folder.”
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary