Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Odessa region before and after WWII
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
People
- Rutenberg, Pinhas, 1879-1942.
Corporate Bodies
- World ORT Union
Subjects
- Odesʹka oblastʹ (Ukraine)--History.
- Balta (Ukraine)
- Ananʹïv (Ukraine)
- Education--Ukraine--Odesʹka oblastʹ--History--20th century.
- Russia
- Jewish labor unions.
- Jewish communists--Ukraine--History--20th century.
- Jews--Ukraine--Odesʹka oblastʹ--History--20th century--Registers.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Ethnic relations.
- Jewish organizations--Ukraine--Odesa--History--20th century.
- Jewish craftsmen--Labor unions--History--20th century.
- Socialists -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Jewish craftsmen--Ukraine--Odesʹka oblastʹ--History--20th century.
- Zionists -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Communist parties.
- Ukraine
- Kilii︠a︡ (Ukraine)
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Applications.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Reports.
- Minutes.
- Registers.
- Statistics.