Metadata: Collection of Xeroxes and Photocopies of Documents from Soviet and Foreign Archives
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. 541
- Title:
- Collection of Xeroxes and Photocopies of Documents from Soviet and Foreign Archives
- Title (official language):
- КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ КСЕРОКОПИЙ И ФОТОКОПИЙ ДОКУМЕНТОВ, ПОСТУПИВШИХ ИЗ СОВЕТСКИХ И ЗАРУБЕЖНЫХ АРХИВОВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
- Date(s):
- 1916/2009
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 121 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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Materials in this fonds that pertain to Jewish history are found mainly in ops. 1 and 2 and consist of photocopies of documents of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Narkomnats) of the Executive Committee of Councils of the Western Region of Soviet Russia (administrative centre: Minsk). These include circulars and orders of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities of the Western Region; cost estimates of the Minsk Provincial Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (EKOPO), and explanatory notes to same; payroll records for staff members of the Jewish Department of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities; correspondence on providing premises for the Demobilised Jewish Soldiers’ Committee; lists of Jewish refugees; petitions by Jews requesting protection from pogroms; minutes from the 1st special conference held at the Commissariat on Refugee Affairs for the Western Region and Front; resolutions of the organising commission of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Refugees, and of the executive committee of the Union of Jewish Servicemen of the Western Front; an appeal to Jewish citizens and organisations by the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities; messages from the Military Zionist Organisation of the Western Front regarding the formation of its front committee (1917-19); etc.
The fonds also contains questionnaire forms of delegates to the 10th All-Russian Congress of Councils of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army and Cossack Deputies held in Moscow on 23-27 December 1922, in particular, forms of the Jewish political activists S M Aizinson, A G Beilin, B L Bukhman, S G Indenbaum, S D Kamenshtein, V A Nodel’, A M Pevzner, I A Perel’, A M Rozenshain, M Ia Frumkina, R M Kheifets, D N Shapiro, and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection includes materials from archives of Austria: the Austrian State Archive (Vienna); Germany: the Political Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany (Bonn); the Bundesarchiv (Federal Archive) (Berlin); Poland: the Polish Military Archive, the Manuscript Department of the Warsaw Public Library, the Archive of New Documents (Warsaw); and Lithuania: the Lithuanian Central State Archives (Vilnius); as well as from archives of the USSR: the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the USSR (Moscow), the Party Archives of the Perm and Ulianovsk Regional Committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; and from the Russian Federation: the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History, the Russian State Military Historical Archive (Moscow), the National Archives of the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documents of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan).
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aizinson, S M
- Beilin, A G
- Bukhman, B L
- Frumkina, M Ia
- Indenbaum, S G
- Kamenshtein, S D
- Kheifets, R M
- Nodel’, V A
- Perel’, I A
- Pevzner, A M
- Rozenshain, A M
- Shapiro, D N
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises six inventories arranged structurally and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
