Lenin District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области

Title (official language):: Ленинский районный комитет Компартии Украины; Ленінський районний комітет Компартії України

Creator/accumulator:: Lenin District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa

Scope and content:: Minutes of the Odessa Area Committee and the Lenin District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine mention the discovery, in the course of purges, of facts that particular communists had hidden pertaining to their social origin, family ties (having parents who were members of the clergy, a brother-in-law who belonged to the Australian Communist Party, etc.), and previous membership in Jewish parties and Zionist organisations (op. 1, 1933-39). Fragmentary information on events of the Holocaust (mention of Jewish residents who were deported to ghettoes and concentration camps during the German-Romanian occupation of the city, and perished there, or escaped; etc.) is found in certain files (op. 6-7) 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 organisations requesting information on persons remaining in the occupied territory; on cancelling 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:: Communism; Communism--Communist parties and organisations; Communism--Communists; Holocaust; Holocaust--Concentration camps; Holocaust--Deportation; Holocaust--Ghettos; Holocaust--Rescue and resistance; Jewish political activity; Military; Occupation (military); Zionism; Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties

System of arrangement:: Inventories in the fonds are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.