Metadata: Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region; Kherson
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kherson Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Херсонської області
- Postal address:
- Ukraine, 73003, Kherson, 3 Yaroslav Mudryi Str.
- Phone number:
- 380 (0552) 22-5733
- Web address:
- http://kherson.archives.gov.ua/
- Email:
- daxo@ukrpost.net
- Reference number:
- F. R-4033
- Title:
- Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region; Kherson
- Title (official language):
- Управління Служби безпеки України в Херсонській області, м. Херсон
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region; Kherson
- Date(s):
- 1919/1999
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 7,236 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- Included (op. 3-9) are archival-investigative files on repressions carried out by extrajudicial entities which were used to finalise work towards exonerating victims of repression. Among these are files from the 1920s-30s pertaining to the indictment of several residents of the Kherson region, mostly from the Kalinindorf Jewish National District. These included two directors of the Kalinindorf Jewish middle school, N. M. Kaplan and Kh. U. Rabinovich, who were arrested in 1937-38, and a group of persons accused of being active Zionists from the Avangard kolkhoz in the colony of Shterndorf, which according to Stalin-era investigators had been a centre of a certain Zionist organisation in the 1920s (later its headquarters was alleged to be in the village of Kalinindorf [this was called Bol’shaia Seidemenukha until 1927, and had been one of the Russian Empire’s first Jewish agricultural colonies; in 1944 it was renamed Kalininskoe]); these persons were accused of counterrevolutionary activities and being members of various Zionist entities (Po’ale Tsiyon, He-Halutz, Zeire Zion, the Zionist-Socialist Union of Youth, etc.) There are also files on B. Sh. Shusterman and Ia. Z. Bilkes, accused of organising an illegal Jewish religious community in the P. G. Smidovich kolkhoz in the same Kalinindorf district (1937); and on R. A. Perel’shtein, who was arrested on 17 July 1940 in the city on the charge that in October 1939, he and other Jewish refugees from Germany had crossed the Soviet border illegally (and it is further mentioned that he had been a member of Po’ale Tsiyon in 1938-39). Aside from detainees’ forms and photographs, minutes of interrogations of defendants and of cross-examinations between plaintiffs and defendants, and complaints and petitions by persons convicted and their relatives, the investigative files also contain information on life in Jewish colonies; a description of the Kalinindorf Jewish school; material evidence seized during searches, and in particular, a flier of the Zionist-Socialist Union of Youth (“The Platform of the TsSIuF”); and materials pertaining to the process in the 1950s-90s of officially exonerating the victims of unlawful repression (most of whom had been sentenced to capital punishment, i.e., had been shot).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in March 1944 as the Administration of the Ukrainian SSR NKVD in the Kherson Region; in March 1946 it was reorganised as the Administration of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of State Security in the Kherson Region; in March 1953, as the Administration of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kherson Region; in March 1954, as the Administration of the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ State Security Committee [KGB]in the Kherson Region; and was subsequently renamed the Administration of the Ukrainian SSR KGB in the Kherson Region. After Ukraine declared independence and the Ukrainian SSR KGB was dissolved (by decree of the Supreme Rada 20 September 1991), and the National Security Service of Ukraine was organised, it was called the Administration of the National Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region. On 15 March 1992, upon the adoption of the law on the Security Service of Ukraine, it began to be called the Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region. The State Archive of the Kherson Region received documents from the archive of the Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson Region pursuant to an edict of the presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine (9 September 1991) stipulating that so-called filtration files kept on former Soviet POWs, and files pertaining to discontinued criminal cases that had been decided by extrajudicial entities, be transferred to state archives. [On extrajudicial entities and on legal acts that discontinued the cases they had heard regarding persons subjected to political repression, and on the subsequent transfer of these case files from archives of subdivisions of the Security Service of Ukraine to state archives, see the historical information given in the description of State Archive of the Odessa Region f. R-8065, “The Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Odessa Region.”]
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Kherson
- Shterndorf
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bilkes, Ia. Z.
- Kaplan, N. M.
- Perel’shtein, R. A.
- Rabinovich, Kh. U.
- Shusterman, B. Sh.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes nine inventories in which documents are systematised alphabetically (by name).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
