1859 GAOO STATE ARCHIVES (ODESSA): SEX TRAFFICKING

1859 GAOO STATE ARCHIVES (ODESSA): SEX TRAFFICKING

(Jews of Odessa & Southern Russia)

July 12 1859

BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE ODESSA MAYOR: ABOUT THE ABDUCTION OF RUSSIAN WOMEN FOR FILLING BROTHELS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

F 2, Op. 4, D. 66

This archival segment deals with the problem of a network consisting of about 100 abandoned young Jewish girls who were seduced from Odessa with the promise of marriage and subsequently sold in the Constantinople slave market and houses of prostitution.

"Investigation of the Case of International Pimping" (II. 48-48):

Some of the names were--

Abram Horn (Schmiel)

Abraham Hersh (fr. Retsky?)

Bodyanu (?) Fishelmaher

Gershem  Rozen

Bagdany Cherni/Black

Moishe Yakub (aka Yankep/Kamlep)

Srul Chernisky

Srulem Groysman/Groisman (fr. colony, Novopodolsk, Kherson province)—died in jail Feb. 9, 1859

    Wife, Altoyu (?)

Abram Oliner

Nachman Purpere—suspected of supplying false passports to foreign Jews

Salomeye/Salome Naumenkov (Ryzhey/Ginger)

Abrame Attentole (fr. Turkey??)

Yekaterine/Catherine Levitsky

Rivka Mordkevich Spivak

Shmuel Morgoyeitsky

SECRET NOTICE TO THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF THE GENDARMERIE CONTROL IN ODESSA’S PORT ON THE POSSIBLE ARRIVAL OF AN INTERNATIONAL PIMP:

F. 314, Op. 2, D. Z I. 73

The individual, Serebryannik, was commissioned by Shanghai Jews to recruit women for hotels and taverns for $500 each.