Metadata: Executive Committee of the Chernivtsi Regional Council; City of Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Region
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of the Chernivtsi Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Чернівецької області
- Postal address:
- Nebesnoi Sotni, 20-А (Bldg 1), Chernivtsi, 58029
- Phone number:
- 00380 (372) 57-36-77
- Web address:
- cv.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- archive_cv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-3
- Title:
- Executive Committee of the Chernivtsi Regional Council; City of Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Region
- Title (official language):
- Виконавчий комітет Чернівецького обласної ради, м. Чернівці Чернівецької області
- Creator/accumulator:
- Executive Committee of the Chernivtsi Regional Council; City of Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Region
- Date(s):
- 1940/2005
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 12,578 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
Materials that pertain to Jewish history and culture are concentrated mainly in inventories 1 and 3; these are in the form of particular files and file fragments, and may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Statistical information on the Jewish population of Bukovina, in particular: the “Population” section of “A Historical and Economic Description of the Chernivtsi Region” includes a table titled “Information on the population of the Chernivtsi region as of 1 January 1941” and indicating the Jewish populations of the city of Chernivtsi and towns of Сhotyn and Storozhynets, as well as of settlements of the Vashkivtsi, Vyzhnytsia, Gertsa, Hlyboka, Zastavna, Kitsman, Kelmentsi, Novoselytsia, Putyliv (now Putyla), Sokyriany, Storozhynets, Chotyn, and Chernivtsi districts of Northern Bukovina. Additionally, the section “Education and Culture” indicates that as of January 1941 there were Jewish schools in operation in the territory of the Chernivtsi region.
2) Minutes of meetings of the Chernivtsi Regional Executive Committee and its subordinate institutions, and resolutions of various Soviet authorities, explanatory notes, memoranda, and correspondence on the accommodation of refugees, including Jews, in the territory of Chernivtsi county, in particular on abandoned farmsteads of former landowners (July 1940); on the organising of children’s homes and the assignment of premises for them at sites of former orphanages, including former Jewish orphanages (September 1940); on the phenomenon by which village councils were dominated by a large proportion of former members of bourgeois parties, including, among others, Jewish parties, especially in the Storozhynets district (October 1940); on the granting of a municipal pension to Josip and Lea Shaer, parents of Moshko Shaer, who had been killed by Romanian gendarmes during a demonstration for Jewish workers’ rights (February 1941); etc.
3) The fonds contains a significant amount of documents on the nationalisation of industrial and commercial enterprises, including Jewish-owned ones, in the territory of Chernivtsi county/region, including lists of stores whose annual revenue exceeded 600 lei and which were therefore subject to nationalisation or were sealed by the Soviet authorities. The documents indicate addresses, goods available, annual revenue, and names of proprietors – in the overwhelming majority of cases, Jews – residing in settlements of the Vashkivtsi, Vyzhnytsia, Gertsa, Dnistrovskyi, Zastavna, Kitsman, Kelmentsi, Klishkivtsi, Chervonij Dub, Lipcani, Novoselytsia, Putyliv / Putyla, Sokyriany, Storozhynets, Chotyn, Cheremosh, and Shipintsi districts of the Chernivtsi region (August 1940). There is a separate list of distilleries and pubs in the city of Chernivtsi, previously owned by the Jewish entrepreneurs H Nuselbaum, B Perets, M Rainer, et al., that had been transferred to the jurisdiction of the “Glavino” distillery office of the USSR People’s Commissariat for the Chemical Industry; excerpts from minutes of meetings of the regional and local executive committees on the nationalisation of stores in the city of Chernivtsi owned by Leib Vaysman, Abram Weiberg, Borukh Melman, Usher Rzhavensky, Menashe Tenenboym, Yankel Shiler, Samuil Hurovich, Isaac Horowitz, Sally Shpiner, and others; on the rejection of the Rosenberg brothers’ petition to have their soap factory in the town of Brichani returned to them; etc. (August 1940-January 1941).
4) The fonds also contains data on the operations of Jewish educational and cultural institutions, including minutes of a session of the Chernivtsi Regional Executive Committee at which a report was heard from the vice-chair of the Arts Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR on “organising a network of art institutions and theatre enterprises in the city of Chernivtsi,” and at which the formation of this network was approved; the network included the Yiddish Drama Theatre, to be accommodated in the building at 6 Turets’ka Street, which had a “former Jewish school in its courtyard” – the attached certificate states that in Chernivtsi “there existed a Yiddish Drama Collective of fifty persons; the collective had been persecuted by the former Romanian authorities ... and was in terrible condition ... huddled in a wooden shed completely unsuitable for its work.” There is also an excerpt from minutes of a session of the Chernivtsi Regional Executive Committee including a summation of the operations of primary schools in the first quarter of the 1940-41 academic year, which among other things indicates that eight Jewish schools were in operation in the region; etc. (February-December 1940).
5) Materials on personnel, in particular: lists of employees, including Jews, of various committees and enterprises of the Chernivtsi region – these documents indicate first and last name and patronymic, year of birth, ethnicity, education, previous employment and years of employment at the given enterprise (July 1940-January 1941); data on the number of employees of the Chernivtsi Regional Land Department, with the number of Jews indicated separately (no date); lists of senior officials and technical staff of the Chernivtsi Regional Executive Committee, including Jews, indicating the following information: first and last name and patronymic, position, year of birth, ethnicity, party experience, education and whether the given staff member had previously been elected to a council, etc. (August 1940-April 1941); personnel files of these staff members, in particular, of Lucy Aronson, Rosalie Bass, Rosa Baron, Yisroel Horowitz, Sarah Lieberman, Heinrich Lifshitz, Isaac Mendel, Lily Rosenzweig, Victor Teiler, Mikhail Terletsky, Yisroel Tutelman, Joseph Edelheim, and others – these materials include personnel registration forms, autobiographical statements, employment applications, names of relatives who had emigrated to Palestine or to South or North America, information on languages spoken, including Yiddish; etc.
- Access points: locations:
- Brichani
- Bukovina
- Cheremosh district
- Chernivtsi
- Chernivtsi region
- Chervonij Dub district
- Chotyn district
- Dnistrovskyi district
- Gertsa district
- Hlyboka district
- Kelmentsi district
- Kitsman district
- Klishkivtsi district
- Lipcani district
- Novoselytsia district
- Putyliv district
- Shipintsi district
- Sokyriany district
- Storozhynets
- Storozhynets district
- Vashkivtsi district
- Vyzhnytsia district
- Zastavna district
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aronson, Lucy
- Baron, Rosa
- Bass, Rosalie
- Edelheim, Joseph
- Horowitz, Isaac
- Horowitz, Yisroel
- Hurovich, Samuil
- Lieberman, Sarah
- Lifshitz, Heinrich
- Melman, Borukh
- Mendel, Isaac
- Nuselbaum, H
- Perets, B
- Rainer, M
- Rosenberg
- Rosenzweig, Lily
- Rzhavensky, Usher
- Shaer, Josip
- Shaer, Lea
- Shiler, Yankel
- Shpiner, Sally
- Teiler, Victor
- Tenenboym, Menashe
- Terletsky, Mikhail
- Tutelman, Yisroel
- Vaysman, Leib
- Weiberg, Abram
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises eleven inventories (inventory 2 is in two volumes) arranged mainly chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
