Metadata: State Archive of the Odessa Region; Odessa
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області
- 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-1142
- Title:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області, м. Одеса
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1931/2010
- Date note:
- [supplementation of the fond is ongoing]
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 2,276 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
Included are materials (op. 1) connected with the work of archive personnel in assisting the Odessa Regional Extraordinary State Commission, and in particular, the album Fascist Atrocities in the Odessa Region during its Temporary Occupation, with photographs of the ghetto near the village of Bogdanovka (Domanevka district, Odessa region) showing exteriors and interiors of living quarters, excavations of burial sites in places of mass shootings of Jews, a medical commission’s work in exhuming the bodies of those who perished, ghetto prisoners who survived, etc. (1944); inventories and documentation on the delivery and receipt of materials from archive fonds transferred to the Museum of the Heroic Defense of Odessa, including orders of the Romanian authorities on deadlines for mandatory registration of Jews, chronologies of mass killings of Soviet citizens, among them “Jews,” “Jews and partisans,” and representatives of “non-Aryan nations” in the cities of Odessa and Berezovka and in the Mostovoe district (Odessa region) (1945-46).
Also housed in the fonds is correspondence (1968) with the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Main Archival Administration on collecting information for a “map of concentration and death camps created by the Nazi invaders in the temporarily occupied territory of the Soviet Union,” which was to be exhibited at an international conference planned for 1969 in Moscow on the prosecution of Nazi criminals; correspondence on a search for materials exposing the “subversive anti-Soviet activities of parties and organizations of international Zionism during the struggle for socialist revolution and the establishment of Soviet power; and the subversive anti-Soviet activities of international Zionism in Ukraine from 1917-29,” including a list of materials found (fifty-six titles of leaflets and newspaper items, 1980); correspondence (1991) with the archive of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on continuing the work, begun in 1989, of finding and making copies of documents on the destruction of Jews in the territory of Transnistria; and correspondence with educational institutions, museums, and other interested institutions on searching the archive for materials on the life and activities of Jewish state and party figures and persons prominent in science and culture.
There are also citizens’ applications for birth, marriage, and death certificates from vital records kept by rabbis; and for documentary evidence of persons who have been interned in concentration camps and ghettos; thematic inquiries, including of a genealogical nature, dealing with the history and culture of the Jews of southern Ukraine; lists and personnel files of archive employees containing data on their periods of internment in concentration camps and ghettos during the occupation; etc.
- Archival history:
- This was established by decree (10 November 1931) of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) as the Odessa State Historical Archive; it was based on the Odessa Territory Historical Archive (see the description of f. R-26). Upon the establishment of the Odessa region in February 1932, it was renamed the Odessa Regional Historical Archive. During the German-Romanian occupation of Odessa, the archive was based in the city of Ural’sk (Western Kazakhstan region), and a considerable portion of its documents could not be evacuated, and perished. In April 1944, it resumed operations in Odessa as the State Archive of the Odessa Region. From 1958-80, it was called the Odessa Regional State Archive; and has had its current title since 1980. It was under the jurisdiction of the Odessa administration of the NKVD until March 1939; thereafter, under that of the archival department of the Administration of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (UNKVD) (from 1946 on, the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs [UMVD]); from July 1960 on, that of the archival department of the Odessa Regional Executive Committee and the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Archival Administration (from 1974 on, the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Main Archival Administration; from March through December 1999, the Main Archival Administration of Ukraine, and then the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine; and from 2011 on, the State Archival Service of Ukraine). Since the dissolution of the Odessa Regional Executive Committee’s archival department in 1988, the State Archive of the Odessa Region has fulfilled that former entity’s duties in overseeing archival institutions in the region’s territory.
- Access points: locations:
- Berezovka
- Bogdanovka
- Odessa
- Romania
- Soviet Union
- Transnistria
- Ukraine
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Correspondence
- Genealogy
- Health and medical matters
- Historical research
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Holocaust--Survivors
- Maps
- Mass murder
- Museums
- Occupation (military)
- Photographs
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- War crimes
- Zionism
- Zionism--Anti-Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes four inventories systematised chronologically and (personnel files in op. 2L) alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
