Metadata: Kalininskoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kalininskoe, Kherson Region
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-139
- Title:
- Kalininskoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kalininskoe, Kherson Region
- Title (official language):
- Калінінський районний комітет Компартії України, смт Калінінське Херсонської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kalininskoe District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Kalininskoe, Kherson Region
- Date(s):
- 1936/1958
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 520 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Documents housed in the fonds include (op. 1-5) information on the ethnic makeup of the population of the Kalinindorf district; lists of Jewish national village councils (1932); of Jewish kolkhozes and sovkhozes, and of activists and propagandists therein (1936); minutes, decrees, and resolutions on the course of the resettlement campaign; on organising recruitment of the Jewish population via the Committee on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (KOMZET) and the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET), and on establishing district branches of the latter organisation; on uncovering Trotskyites and former members of the Bund, and expelling them from the party; on the work of the Jewish newspapers Kolvirt-emes and Der emes, and of Jewish schools and the requirement that these include instruction in Ukrainian and Russian (1935); on such “distortions of nationalities policy” as instances of non-Jews being denied admission to Jewish sovkhozes; complaints regarding the difficulty of instructing and engaging in public outreach with people who did not know Yiddish; on conducting internationalist work, and in particular, studying the history of the Bolsheviks’ struggle against the Bund; on intensifying antireligious propaganda due to increased religious activity among the population; on Kalinindorf district leaders accused of counterrevolutionary activity and Trotskyism, of having belonged (in the past) to the Bund or Po’ale Tsiyon, and of “nationalism and fascism,” and these persons’ subsequent expulsion from the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; and on the arrest of former party leaders who were Jewish (1937).
Materials pertaining to the postwar period include letters from Jewish residents of the Kalinindorf (Kalininskoe) district requesting information on the fate of relatives who had been left in the district’s territory during the German occupation; requesting “official invitations” [vyzovy] that would allow persons who had been evacuated to return to their former places of residence; requesting that homes that had been occupied by new residents be returned to them; etc.; correspondence with the writer Ilya Ehrenburg in connection with complaints he had received (in his capacity as deputy of the USSR Supreme Council) regarding the authorities’ indifference to requests by Jewish residents of the Kalinindorf district who had been evacuated (the authorities were preventing these persons’ return, and refusing to guard and close off places of mass shootings of the Jewish population by the Nazis: a trench in Kalinindorf and a well near the Ershtmaisk Highway); a memorandum of the Kherson regional plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of Ministers’ Council on Religious Cults on synagogues that were operating illegally in the villages of Bobrovyi Kut and Malaia Seidemenukha (1948); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established in 1932 as the Kalinindorf District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine upon the establishment of the Odessa region’s Kalinindorf district. From 1937, the Kalinindorf district was part of the Nikolaev region; and in 1944, it became part of the Kherson region, and was renamed the Kalininskoe district, with the collection creator correspondingly renamed the Kalininskoe District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (from 1952 on, of the Communist Party of Ukraine). It had oversight of primary party organisations in the territory under its jurisdiction, and in turn was under the jurisdiction of the corresponding regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It ceased operations in 1958 upon the liquidation of the Kalininskoe district.
- Access points: locations:
- Bobrovyi Kut
- Malaia Seidemenukha
- Ukraine
- Subject terms:
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Bund movement
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish councils
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Mass murder
- Migration
- Nazism
- Nazism--Nazis
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Anti-Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes twelve inventories systematised mainly chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
