Metadata: Executive Committee of the Shevchenko District Council of Workers’ Deputies, Lviv/L’vov
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Lviv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний Архів Львівської області
- Postal address:
- Pidvalna St. 13, 79008 Lviv
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 235-47-22
- Email:
- archive_lviv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-414
- Title:
- Executive Committee of the Shevchenko District Council of Workers’ Deputies, Lviv/L’vov
- Title (official language):
- ВИКОНАВЧИЙ КОМІТЕТ ШЕВЧЕНКІВСЬКОЇ РАЙОННОЇ РАДИ ДЕПУТАТІВ ТРУДЯЩИХ М. ЛЬВОВА
- Creator/accumulator:
- Executive Committee of the Shevchenko District Council of Workers’ Deputies, Lviv/L’vov
- Date(s):
- 1944/1971
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,065 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains minutes of sessions of the Shevchenko District Council of Workers’ Deputies; operational plans, reports of deputy commissions and of particular deputies of the district council on the implementation of electoral directives; documents of the area electoral commission regarding district council elections, as well as council rulings, orders, budgets, cost estimates, reports on the implementation of district budgets, etc. (1944-91).
Jewish-related material in this fonds includes documents certifying assessments of the damage to the economy and population of the Shevchenko district of Lviv/L’vov, including the Jewish population, during the German occupation of the city (1945) – these contain information on the 1941 establishment of the ghetto and its borders; the social makeup of the city’s Jewish population; mass shootings of Jews in the camp on Janowska Street, at the Janowska cemetery, in a sandpit in the village of Lisienice (Lysynychi), and at the corner of Kresowa and Łokietek Streets; and the mass murder of Jews in the Bełżec death camp, as well as an assessment of looted Jewish property. Taking part in the certification of these assessments were representatives of the Jewish community: Dr. David Bentsionovich Sobol, Rabbi Shimon Efremovich Kagan, Izrail Shulimovich Leiter, Dr. Salomon Samuilovich Ravich, and Dr. Ianush Arnoldovich Rauch.
Appended to the certificate is a list of Jewish families that lived in the territory of the Shevchenko district and had been murdered in 1941-43 (a total of 2,154 families).
There are also letters written by a Jew requesting information on the fate of relatives who had been residing in Lviv/L’vov on the eve of the German occupation (1944).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Executive Committee of the Shevchenko District of Lviv/L’vov (the Shevchenko District Executive Committee) was established in December 1939, following the September 1939 Soviet annexation of the Lwów voivodeship in accordance with the Secret Protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Shevchenko District Executive Committee exercised control over the district until December 1940, when elections to local councils of workers’ deputies were held. The elections resulted in the formation of the Shevchenko District Council of Workers’ Deputies, the supreme authority in the district, while the local district executive committee functioned as the council’s administrative-executive body. Duties of the district executive committee included the following: oversight of state, economic and socio-cultural construction; the implementation of orders of higher state bodies; drafting plans for the economic and cultural development of the territory under its jurisdiction; drafting local budgets, submitting them to be approved by the requisite council of workers’ deputies and arranging for their implementation; ensuring compliance with laws and the protection of public order and the rights of citizens. During the German occupation of Lviv/L’vov in 1941, the district executive committee suspended operations. It resumed activities in 1944 and was in operation until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
- Access points: locations:
- Bełżec
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single inventory which is arranged chronologically and thematically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
