Metadata: Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Rovno Circuit Court; Rovno, Volhynia Wojewodship
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Rovno Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Рівненської області
- Postal address:
- 26-a Stepan Bandera Str., Rivne, 33014 (building 1); 8 Kavkazka St. Rivne, 33013 (building 2), Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (362) 23-42-61
- Web address:
- http://rv.archives.gov.ua/index.php/in-english.html
- Email:
- archive_rv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 33
- Title:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Rovno Circuit Court; Rovno, Volhynia Wojewodship
- Title (official language):
- Прокуратура Ровенского окружного суда, г. Ровно Волынского воеводства; Прокуратура Рівненського окружного суду, м. Рівне Волинського воєводства
- Creator/accumulator:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Rovno Circuit Court
- Date(s):
- 1919/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- З0,420 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included (op. 1, 2, 5) are files on a printing house owner, Sh. Shestakovskii, accused of publishing the newspaper Voliner vokh without registration (1925-26); on a rabbi of the Jewish organisation Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa’ir in the town of Liudvipol’ accused of disturbances of the peace at a synagogue (1927-28); on a number of Jews accused of making comments “against the Polish nation”; of engaging in anti-religious propaganda; of communist activity and belonging to the Communist Party of Western Ukraine (KPZU) and the Communist Party of Western Belarus (KPZB) and to Jewish parties and political organisations (the Bund, Ze’ire Zion, 1926-28); of calling upon the Jewish population to not take part in elections to the Sejm and local bodies, and to strike in connection with an anti-Jewish pogrom in the city of Przytyk (1936); of evading the draft; of forging documents during Rovno Jewish community elections; files on investigations of abuses in the administration of Jewish communities (of Rovno, Dubno, Radzvilov, and Mlynov) in 1930-39, and of the Society for Safeguarding the Health of the Jewish Population (TOZ – the abbreviation of the Polish title Towarzystwo ochrony zdrowia ludności żydowskiej) and the Linas Hatzedek Society to Aid Poor and Sick Jews; and documents on the confiscation of the pamphlet Przegląd Prasowy [Survey of the Press], published by the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris (1936).
There is also information on mixed Ukrainian-Jewish cells of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine (KPZU) and assemblies thereof in the city of Kovel’ (1934); documentary testimony on campaigns against the Jewish presence in Western Ukraine, and in particular on Jews perishing at the hands of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) for being suspected of communist activity (1934); a file on the dissemination of antisemitic leaflets calling for a boycott of Jewish stores (1936); information of the Kostopol’ County Detachment of the State Police describing the sentiments of the Jewish population, particularly Jews’ readiness to defend the Polish state (1939); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established by the Rovno Circuit Court 1 July 1923 and held jurisdiction over Dubno, Kremenets, Ostrog, and Sarny counties, and later the newly-created Kostopol’ county. The jurisdiction of the public prosecutor’s office was divided into prosecutorial districts that took into account the existing jurisdictional division of municipal courts and investigators, as well as administrative divisions, with certain public prosecutors entrusted with cases of the same kind regardless of territorial affiliation. The public prosecutor’s office received information on the local state of affairs in the form of periodic reports and emergency communiqués from county administrations, county detachments of the state police, the Volhynia Wojewodship Administration, and the wojewodship detachment of the state police. It was liquidated in September 1939.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shestakovskii, Sh.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic boycotts
- Bund movement
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Health and medical matters
- Jewish political activity
- Legal matters
- Military
- Paintings
- Pogroms
- Printing
- Rabbis
- Testimony
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes five inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
