Metadata: Collection of Documents of Researchers of the History of the 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. R-4009
- Title:
- Collection of Documents of Researchers of the History of the Kherson Region
- Title (official language):
- Колекція документів краєзнавців Херсонщини
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive of the Kherson Region
- Date(s):
- 1911/2006
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 495 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included (op. 1) are manuscript memoirs of longtime local residents. The memoir of the Kherson people’s judge G. A. Boianzhu (1902-76), titled “My Life, My School,” deals with the everyday life of a Jewish family in Kherson, its members’ participation in the revolutionary movement, etc. The book Kherson and Its Inhabitants by Dr. I. N. Veksler (1891 – sometime after 1963) gives a detailed description of the city’s Jewish community and particular representatives thereof; the traditional way of life of Kherson Jews, and their occupations; the attitude of the local authorities and population to “the Jewish question,” and the causes of manifestations of antisemitism at both the state and everyday level; the operation of Kherson’s Jewish hospital, and Jewish doctors, some of whom perished during the German occupation of the city; and Jewish philanthropic and educational institutions. The author’s recollections also deal with Jewish cultural life; tour performances by famous Jewish performers (Jascha Heifetz, E. A. Tsimbalist, E.O. Liubimov-Lanskii, the Liuboshits trio); Jewish members of various political parties, including the future Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharet (Chertok) [Kherson native Moshe Sharet (Chertok) (1894-1965) was Israel’s first foreign-affairs minister (1948-56) and second prime minister (1954-55)]; certain synagogues, and their fate in the post-revolutionary period; the pogrom against Jews in Kherson that took place on 18-20 October 1905; the famine of 1921-23, and aid to famine victims by several international philanthropic organisations, including the American Relief Administration (ARA) and the World Jewish Aid Conference (Verelif); etc. There are also recollections by the librarian E. A. Pelekh (maiden name Vaidman; 1896 – sometime after 1980), a native of Kherson, that record the tragic lot of the city’s Jewish population during the occupation: forced registration; an order stipulating that a distinguishing mark in the form of a yellow six-pointed star be worn; the formation of a Judenrat, and then a ghetto; the liberation of Jewish women from there (including the author of these memoirs) whose husbands were not Jewish; the shooting of the remaining prisoners; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection was formed at the State Archive of the Kherson Region in 1987, and is being systematically supplemented.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Boianzhu, G. A.
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Liubimov-Lanskii, E.O.
- Pelekh, E. A.
- Sharet (Chertok), Moshe
- Tsimbalist, E. A.
- Veksler, I. N.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Famine
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Historical research
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Holocaust--Yellow star
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Jewish political activity
- Jewish Question
- Libraries
- Manuscripts
- Mass murder
- Memoirs
- Music
- Music--Musicians
- Occupation (military)
- Pogroms
- Revolutions
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes fourteen inventories systematised chronologically and by document type.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
