Chilia [Kiliia] Municipal Police Commissariat; Chilia

Collection

Postal address:: КУ «Ізмаїльський архів», м Ізмаїл, вул. Савицького, 67, Одеська область, Україна 68612

Extent:: 285 files; another portion of this fond is housed in the State Archive of the Odessa Region (f. 873; 138 files for 1918/1940).

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fonds include correspondence of the Chilia [Kiliia] Municipal Commissariat with the Chișinău Area Police Inspectorate, primarias, and other institutions on determining the citizenship of local Jews and providing information as to those who had been stripped of their Romanian citizenship, gone abroad, etc. (1939-40); and a petition by congregants of the Chilia synagogue for permission to hold a pre-election assembly, and a report by a police commissar on this subject (1939). The fonds also contains files on the surveillance of Jews suspected of involvement in the communist movement (1929-40); a file on the surveillance of the brothers N. and L. Bykov, suspected of involvement (in 1908-10) in pogroms against Jews (1918-31); etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: These entities were established as municipal police departments in Ismail [Izmail] county in 1918 when Bessarabia became part of Romania. Upon the adoption of a 21 July 1929 law organising the state police, they began to be called municipal police commissariats and were subordinate to the Chișinău [Kishinev] Area Police Inspectorate, and answered directly to municipal prefects. Added to the commissariats at the same time as departments thereof were sections of the Siguranţă (the secret political police), whose main mission was to combat opposition parties and organisations. Police commissariats were liquidated in June 1940 upon Bessarabia’s annexation to the USSR.

Subject terms:: Citizenship; Communism; Correspondence; Law enforcement; Law enforcement--Police; Migration; Migration--Emigration; Pogroms; Synagogues

System of arrangement:: Files in inventories are systematised chronologically.