Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Odessa region before and after WWII

Identifier
irn560085
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.148.1
  • RG-31.126
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 2003, 1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1930
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Yidish
  • Ukrainian
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

516,134 digital images, JPEG

Archival History

Odesʹkyĭ oblasnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the State Archive of the Odesa Region, Ukraine (Державний архів Одеської області.) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first part of the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in May 2017, and accretions in Nov. 2018 and April 2019. Project completed.

Scope and Content

Selected records of several regional branches of the Jewish organizations, Odesa Jewish Communist Party (Poalei-Zion), Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, training schools, regional Soviet authorities and trade-union organizations in Odesa region. Including are records related to technical education, implementation of the Soviet national policy toward Jewish population and other ethnic minorities residing in the Odesa region, resettlement, creation of the Jewish agricultural collective farms, statistics, minutes of the meetings of the regional bureau of ethnic minorities, various reports and correspondence related to the activities of local Jewish organizations (OZET, ORT), records of editors of the Jewish communist newspaper Di komunistishe shtime ('The Communist Voice') " 1921, Yiddish language newspaper published in Odesa between 1919-1921; the Office of the Special Representative for the Evacuation of POWs and Refugees of the Odesa District, 1919–1920; the Odesa branch of the Association of Jewish Socialist Culture “GESCULT”, 1928-1931; the American Relief Administration (ARA), Jewish craftsmen, correspondence and applications of the members of professional trade unions.

System of Arrangement

Organized by subjects of various collections, and arranged by the Fond and Opis designations.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Odesʹkyĭ oblasnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.