Open Access“Passportization” of the Jewish Population in Western Belorussia (1940–1941)
Author(s) -
Yanina Karpenkina
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
tiroš
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3380
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3380.2018.18.3.6
Subject(s) - judaism , residence , unification , population , geography , political science , focus (optics) , genealogy , ethnology , economy , sociology , history , demography , archaeology , computer science , economics , physics , optics , programming language
The article analyzes the “passportization” of the local, primarily Jewish, population of the Polish territories annexed to the USSR, particularly in Western Belorussia in 1940–1941. The Author considers this transformation not only as a measure of unification, but also as an important method of migration control, as well as “purification” of the social image of cities in the “new” border zone. In the focus of the article is the Jewish population. Since the majority of the Jews fitted at the same time to several paragraphs of the secret instructions on the issuance of passports “with restriction” (which in fact meant a ban on residence in the border town), they were particularly affected during the implementation of the “passportization”.