Metadata: Zhovtnevoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; 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. P-18
- Title:
- Zhovtnevoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Жовтневый районный комитет Компартии Украины; Жовтневий районний комітет Компартії України
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhovtnevoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1921/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- (26,157 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included (op. 1-3) are descriptions of party cells of institutions and enterprises of the Stalin district, including of the Evrabmol [officially called the October Revolution 1st House of Jewish Working Youth, this was better known as the Evrabmol; it was an industrial training institution for Jewish teenagers that began activities in Odessa in 1924 with the assistance of the ORT, and remained in operation all the way till 1938; during this time it was referred to in documents as an industrial training center or industrial training complex; and for most of its existence it was independent and self-financing. In 1934 there were 350 students at the Evrabmol factory school, of whom 140 had formerly been wards of children’s shelters. Subsequently this entity became the basis for the S. M. Kirov Machine-Tool Factory and Technicum] and the Jewish Pedagogical Technicum (1929); materials and minutes of sessions of district and cell commissions on a Stalin district party purge, on the Jewish Agricultural Institute, the Evrabmol, and the Jewish Mechanical Engineering Technicum (1933), data on the social origin of members thereof, conclusions on the operations of party cells, and lists of members of and candidates for membership in the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine who were subject to being purged and who underwent this process (1933); minutes of open and closed party assemblies of the editorial offices of the newspaper Odeser arbeter and the Russian and Yiddish State Theaters, and resolutions thereof, in particular “condemning the Trotskyite-Zinov’ev-Kamenev gang” (1936-37); lists of members of and candidates for membership in the Communist Party organization of Odeser arbeter, and documents on the submission and receipt of files of the newspaper’s party organization in connection with the process of its liquidation (1936); clippings and translations of articles on current events from the newspapers Odeser arbeter, Der shtern, Chornomors’ka komuna, Udarnik promkooperatsii, and others (1935-36). Minutes of the Odessa Area Committee and the Stalin District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine mention an increase in antisemitic attitudes in workers’ collectives (op. 1, 1929). Fragmentary information on events of the Holocaust (mention of Jewish residents having been deported to ghettoes and concentration camps during the German-Romanian occupation of the city, and perishing there, or escaping; etc.) is found in certain files (op. 4) containing documents and statements of families of military personnel regarding members of and candidates for membership in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) who had died or been killed; lists of communists who had remained in the occupied territory; correspondence with political entities of the Soviet Army and with other organizations requesting information on persons remaining in the occupied territory; on canceling the record cards of deceased communists or those killed or missing in action; etc. (1945-55).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- These bodies were established in the 1920s as district committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (from 1952 on, of the Communist Party of Ukraine) upon the formation of corresponding city districts. They had oversight of primary party organisations and were under the jurisdiction of the Odessa Municipal Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. They suspended operations in 1941-44 due to the German-Romanian occupation of Odessa. Prior to 21 October 1957, the Primor’e district was called the Kaganovich district; and prior to 14 November 1961, the Zhovtnevoe district was the Stalin district. District committees were disbanded pursuant to the edicts of the presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine (26 August 1991) “On temporarily suspending activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine” and (30 August 1991) “On barring the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.”
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Communism--Communists
- Education
- Education--Vocational training
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Holocaust--Deportation
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Military
- Newspaper clippings
- Occupation (military)
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Theatre
- Yiddish periodicals
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories in the fonds are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
