Metadata: Department of Romanian War Propaganda of the Odessa Military Command; Odessa
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-2262
- Title:
- Department of Romanian War Propaganda of the Odessa Military Command; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Отдел румынской военной пропаганды военного командования г. Одессы; Відділ румунської військової пропаганди військового командування м. Одеси
- Creator/accumulator:
- Department of Romanian War Propaganda of the Odessa Military Command; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1941/1943
- Language:
- Russian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- (93 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Housed in the fonds are reports by clandestine agents and by volunteer informants, that among other things contain information pertaining to Jews in Odessa. Among these documents are indications concerning persons in hiding in the city, including by using forged documents or pretending to belong to a different ethnicity (Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, or Karaite); or using the cover of having a non-Jewish spouse. In particular, there is material on a Jewish communist named A. A. Burman (a woman going by the surname Burmenko); on a certain Strizhak (according to his passport, a Ukrainian, but in fact Jewish), who had allegedly taken part in political repressions against German colonists; on a Jew named Gleizer, in whose apartment were found numerous papers and valuable books, including Jewish works (this report includes the supposition that Gleizer did not intend to use these items for the purpose of profiteering, as municipality personnel thought, but rather in order to organise an underground printing press); on A. I. Zagal’skii, director of studies at high school No. 68, who was harbouring at his residence the “Zhid-communist teacher” K. I. Kel’man (“under the guise of being his wife”) and her son Vadim from her first marriage.
Also housed in the fonds are recommendations that particular individuals be checked to see whether they were secretly Jewish, and descriptions of characteristics by which Jews could be found out; reports on neighbours looting empty Jewish apartments and taking over property left by Jews; narrations of rumours allegedly being circulated by Jews concerning eighteen Slobodka ghetto internees who had been sent to Berezovka and somehow managed to escape being shot there, and upon returning to Odessa related the details of what had happened; a description of antisemitic attitudes in the city: the joy some felt due to the absence of Jewish tradesmen at markets; and indignation due to some Romanian and German military personnel “strolling with Zhid-women,” who were thus “protecting themselves from any unpleasantness,” and the fact that there were still plaques memorialising the names of “Zhid-communists”; etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Burman, A. A.
- Kel’man, K. I.
- Zagal’skii, A. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically; some documents are compiled in personal dossiers.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
