Metadata: Primor’e 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-21
- Title:
- Primor’e District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Приморский районный комитет Компартии Украины; Приморський районний комітет Компартії України
- Creator/accumulator:
- Primor’e District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1936/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- (27,317 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
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. 4, 6, 8) 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).
There is also (op. 4, 6, 14) correspondence of the Kaganovich District Commission of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine with party organisations proposing that party assemblies take up discussion of the issue of Jewish communists who went to synagogue on Yom Kippur, and of subjecting such persons “to severe party sanctions” (1949); requesting that the party archive verify whether the well-known historian Prof. S. Ia. Borovoi had been a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and if so, whether he had been expelled from it (1951); mentioning instances of expulsion from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) for conduct unbecoming a party member, in which said conduct consisted of corresponding with relatives living in the United States or Israel and receiving packages from them (1955); etc.
- 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.”
- Access points: locations:
- Israel
- Odessa
- Ukraine
- United States
- Access points: persons/families:
- Borovoi, S. Ia.
- Subject terms:
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Communism--Communists
- Correspondence
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Holocaust--Deportation
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Jewish holidays
- Military
- Synagogues
- 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