Records of the Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish Workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET) (P-7541)
Extent and Medium
109,377 digital images, JPEG
116 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
From the Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii (GARF) (Fond P-7541, opis 1). Records created by the the Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish Workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in April 2012.
Scope and Content
Collections consists of the records related to the activity of the KOMZET and its regional branches. It includes bylaws of the organizations, directives of the state authorities, minutes of the meetings, reports, correspondence with other Jewish and Soviet public organizations, annual plans, reference materials, various statistical information, financial and personnel records of the organization. In addition to these records, collection also includes detailed information about Jewish collective farms, their economic situation, statistical information about Jewish population and Jewish settlers etc. Includes correspondence of the Central Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET) with the Soviet State Ministries, AgroJoint (Jewish Distribution Committee), Jewish Colonization Society (EKO), and regional KOMZET offices.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in the following seven series: 1. Personnel office, KOMZET employees (folders 987-991); 2. Statistical and planning records (folders 992-1325); 3. Records of the Statistical Commission (folders 1325-1357); 4. Finance department (folders 1358-1396); 5. Printed materials about KOMZET activities (folders 1397-1404); 6. KOMZET's reports regarding activities of the regional branches of organization in Ukraine and Belarus (folder 1410); 7. Minutes of the KOMZET's meetings (folder 411). Records are organized chronologically.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Corporate Bodies
- Hias-Ica Emigration Association
- Jewish Colonization Association
- American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation
Subjects
- Soviet Union--Colonies--Social conditions.
- Jews--Colonization--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Agricultural colonies--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Land grants--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Jewish farmers--Soviet Union--Economic conditions.
Genre
- Statistics.
- Minutes.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Reports.