Metadata: Kherson Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; 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. P-46
- Title:
- Kherson Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kherson
- Title (official language):
- Херсонський обласний комітет Компартії України, м. Херсон
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kherson Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kherson
- Date(s):
- 1944/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 22,085 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are applications of Jews located in places to which they had been evacuated in connection with the Nazi occupation of the region in 1942-44 requesting “official invitations” [vyzovy] that would allow them to return to the newly-formed Kherson region (with notes regarding the rejection of such applications); a memorandum of the regional Extraordinary State Commission on the results of a “calculation of the damages and investigation of the crimes committed by the occupiers” in the Kherson region, with information on violence committed against the Jewish population, the establishment of a Jewish ghetto in the territory of Kherson, and the shooting of ten thousand Jews (1944). The fonds includes a considerable number of documents consisting of yearly and quarterly reports of the Kherson regional plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of Ministers’ Council on Religious Cults (1948-52, 1954, 1956-57, 1960-62),which contain statistical data on the number of Jewish congregations and believers in the region; attendance at the Kherson synagogue; members of the local congregation (1949); members of the clergy, including rabbis (1950); and the amount of matzah baked and the number of persons providing flour for it (1950); a list of districts of the Kherson region in which houses of worship, including Jewish ones, had been registered (1949-50); information on the social and professional status of persons who attended synagogue during the Jewish high holidays in 1950; on the observance of Passover by the Jewish community of the city of Kherson in 1948-61, and on the cessation of this practice when the synagogue building was transferred to the Kherson Municipal Department of Education to be used as a kindergarten (1962); on applications by the local congregation requesting permission for a cantor to perform in the synagogue (1948-49), and on the rejection of a request to invite a cantor from Odessa (1960); on the plenipotentiary’s suppression of the baking of matzah and its distribution to the poor, and his suppression of the practice of holding seders in the synagogue and the sale of seating to worshippers (1952-54); on determining whether the Kherson Jewish community was in violation of Soviet legislation in connection with the practice of charging money from relatives of the deceased for plots in the Jewish cemetery, and on instances in which managers of economic, construction, and commercial-supply organisations of the city of Kherson rendered aid to the Jewish community in the form of materials to repair the cemetery (1948); on an investigation into violations of labour discipline on Jewish holidays at industrial-cooperative, local-industrial, and commercial organisations of Kherson with a large number of Jewish employees; on an article titled “The Day of Atonement” in the newspaper Naddnipians’ka pravda, on the fact that cobblers in the city of Kherson had not shown up for work on Yom Kippur (12 September 1951); on a reception held by the plenipotentiary with nine members of Kherson’s Jewish community, who expressed gratitude for the defence of their rights in connection with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decree “On mistakes in the conduct of scientific-atheistic propaganda among the population” (1954); on the unauthorised opening of a house of worship by Jewish believers in the village of Kalininskoe (Kalininskoe district), and measures taken by the plenipotentiary to prevent these persons from holding assemblies for prayer services (1950-52); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in April 1944 upon the formation of the Kherson region; it was called the Kherson Regional Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, and from 1952 on, of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It was immediately subordinate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, as well as to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). It had oversight of district and municipal party committees of the Kherson region. In 1963 it was reorganised into two separate regional committees, industrial and agricultural; and in December 1964 resumed operations as a unified regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It was liquidated pursuant to edicts (26 August and 30 August 1991) of the presidium of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine that temporarily suspended and then barred operations of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the chronological-thematic principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
