Metadata: Main Committee of the Belorussian Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention, and Its Local Organs
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный архив Республики Беларусь
- Postal address:
- Nezavisimosti Ave. 116, Minsk, 220114
- Phone number:
- (017) 351-05-12
- Email:
- narb@narb.by
- Reference number:
- F. 725
- Title:
- Main Committee of the Belorussian Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention, and Its Local Organs
- Title (official language):
- ГЛАВНЫЙ КОМИТЕТ БЕЛОРУССКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА СОДЕЙСТВИЯ ЖЕРТВАМ ИНТЕРВЕНЦИИ И ЕГО МЕСТНЫЕ ОРГАНЫ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Main Committee of the Belorussian Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention, and Its Local Organs
- Date(s):
- 1924/1926
- Language:
- Russian
- Belarusian
- Extent:
- 222 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises are materials (documents, applications and witness statements gathered by area and district commissions) on damages suffered during the Soviet-Polish military conflict of 1919-21 by residents of the cities of Bobruisk and Rogachev, as well as of settlements of the Buda-Koshelevo, Gorodets, Glusk, Zhlobin, Klichev, Osipovichi, Parichi, Svisloch’, Streshin, and Rogachev districts of the Bobruisk area; the cities of Borisov and Lepel’, and settlements of the Borisov, Lepel’, Pleshchenitsy, and Kholopenichi districts of the Borisov area; the city of Vitebsk and settlements of the Vitebsk district of the Vitebsk area; the cities of Minsk and Cherven’, as well as settlements of the Minsk, Ostroshitskii Gorodok, Samokhvalovichi, Uzda, Koidanovo, Pukhovichi, Logoisk, Klimovichi, Smilovichi, Cherven’, and Shatsk districts of the Minsk area; settlements of the Kalinovichi, Karolin, Lel’chitsy, and Mozyr’ districts of the Mozyr’ area; etc.
Materials that pertain to Jewish history may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1. Claims of damages incurred during the Soviet-Polish War filed by Jewish residents of Bobruisk: A V Belen’kii, R P Ratner, and B A Levin (1924); A A Gurevich, G G Vikhman, and others (1925); by Jewish residents of Minsk: U B Kosanov, L G Levinskii, L Ts Belitskii, Sh Ia Goldman, R L Goldberg, R L Perelman, R Ts Kogan, and others, as well as documents by which these persons granted power of attorney to the Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention to “represent their interests and rights in claims for compensation for damages caused by the hostile actions of foreign governments” (1924-25).
2. Documentation of damages, and general summaries thereof; records on persons and property affected by the actions of Polish military personnel, including in the Bobruisk district, in particular, as reported by F L Giterman, S M Kaplan, I Sh Flider, Ia K Shulman, and others (1924-25); and analogous materials pertaining to the Glusk district (1924); etc.
3. Witness statements by Jewish residents of Rogachev and the Rogachev district, as well as the Starobin district, on damages caused during pogroms perpetrated by Polish military personnel (1924-25); and statements by victims of pogroms that occurred in 1919-21, including V Sh Myshalov and R E Mednik (1924); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The All-Union Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention was established in November 1923 in Moscow. Established at the same time was the society’s provisional board, in February 1924 reorganised as a permanent board pursuant to a special resolution of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars. The society was intended to advocate on behalf of citizens who had suffered from foreign military intervention and to present claims to the governments of the countries that had taken part in interventions in Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia and Turkmenistan in 1918-22. To support the society’s mission, a Belorussian branch of it was organised in 1924; its governing body was the main committee. Subordinate to the main committee were the Bobruisk, Vitebsk, Minsk, Mozyr’, Orsha, Polotsk, and Slutsk area commissions, as well as district commissions – these collected materials on damages the interventionists had caused to citizens of the BSSR. The Belorussian Society to Assist Victims of the Intervention ceased to exist in late 1926, and on 11 April 1927 a special governmental commission organised by the USSR People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs for the hearing of claims ordered that all claims-related materials be transferred for storage to the Currency Department of the USSR People’s Commissariat of Finance.
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Military
- Pogroms
- Testimony
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises a single inventory which is arranged according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary