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World Jewish News
Ukraine Passes Documents about NKVD Surveillance of Zionist organizations to Israel
08.05.2009
According to Haaretz newspaper, the confidential documents passed to Israel by the Ukrainian government and argumentative of Soviet secret services' surveillance of Zionist organizations in the 1920-1930s have been
first presented at the Peres Centre for Peace this week.
According to historian and researcher Hana Kohavi, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko brought a full case of documents neatly typed and marked Top Secret' as a present during his visit to Israel in 2007.
Among these documents, brought, it would seem, to spite Russia, one can find the Soviet government decree dating back to 1920 which reads that activities of Halutz Zionist organization on the territory of the RSFSR must be forbidden; as well as a detailed report dated 1929 about the influence of Jewish organizations in Palestine on the work of Zionist organizations in the USSR signed by Genrikh
Yagoda.
There are court verdicts, resolutions on liquidations, executions and repressions among the presented documents. The report on activities of the Zionist anti-Soviet underground that allegedly collaborated with Germans in
Poland, Western Belarus and Western Ukraine in 1939 appears among other documents.
Documents of different Zionist organizations confiscated during searches and preserved in the NKVD archives also attracted the attention of historians.
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