Collection of records of the Agricultural American Joint Distribution Committee Office in Moscow, USSR Amerikanskiy agronomicheskiy ob'edineny raspredilitel'nyy komitet. Agro-Joint (Fond P-7746)
Extent and Medium
77 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
digital images,
Creator(s)
- American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation (Agro-Joint)
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.
Source of acquisition is the Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii (GARF) (State Archives of the Russian Federation), Fond P-7746, inventories 1-5. Records created by the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation (Agro-Joint). This collection does not include records of the two major offices of the Agro-Joint: Dnepropetrovsk and Crimean. These records are kept in the State Archives of the Dnipropetrovsʹk region and the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea (Simferopol), Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from GARF via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Jan 2013.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of contracts signed by the Agro-Joint with the Soviet government for 1924, 1927, 1933, minutes of meetings of the main and field offices, correspondence with agencies, organizations and foreign firms on the purchase and delivery to the USSR of agricultural equipment and supplies; various reports on the work of agronomists in the Jewish settlers' villages, financial plans and reports (1924-1937), statements for the payment of wages; maps, charts, drawings, posters on the activities of the Agro-Joint. Also includes personal files of the staff members of the organization, including foreign experts (German Jewish doctors and experts), who had emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1933-1938 e.g. through the Agro-Joint as well as records of the Ukraine, Kherson and Krivoy Rog regional offices of the Agro-Joint. The records of the regional offices include minutes of staff meetings (1926-1929); reports from local agronomists, reports on the work of specialists, correspondence with the Moscow office, lists of employees and members of the local agricultural coops, bylaws, annual reports and reports on the progress of the resettlement of Jews and building settlements.
System of Arrangement
Arranged by five series representing a structure of the organization. Within each series organization is chronological (except of a series 2 (Opis 2)): 1. Fond P-7746, Opis1, Main office of the Agro-Joint in Moscow (Folder 1-570); 2. Fond P-7746, Opis 2, Personnel office (personal cases of the staff members of the Agro-Joint, in alphabetical order (Folder 1-321); 3. Fond P-7746, Opis 3, Agro-Joint office in the Kherson region, Ukraine (Folder 1-74); 4. Fond P-7746, Opis 4, Agro-Joint office, Ukraine office (Folder 1-46); 5.Fond P-7746, Opis 5, Agro-Joint office, Kryvyĭ Rih office (Folder 1-54).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Farmers, Jewish--Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Kherson (Ukraine)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Kryvyĭ Rih (Ukraine)
- Jews--Soviet Union--History.
- Agricultural colonies--Russia (Federation)
- Russia (Federation)--Economic conditions.
- Jews--Soviet Union--Social conditions.
Genre
- Posters.
- Maps.
- Document
- Reports.
- Drawings.
- Minutes.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii