Russia – Lot of 6 Ozt lottery tickets, the lottery was on land where participants could settle – Russian and ...

Russia – Lot of 6 Ozt lottery tickets, the lottery was on land where participants could settle – Russian and Yiddish – very rare Ozt (Russian: ОЗЕТ Общество землеустройства еврейских трудящихся) – a public company to promote the conversion project to the agriculture of the Jews working in the Soviet Union – was established in December 1924 as a replacement for the "Jewish Public Committee". He was supposed to practically assist Komzet in achieving his goals. In the years 1921-1914, which were the years of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War, some 500,000 Jews were forcibly expelled from the frontier districts and resettled in the Russian provinces, about a quarter of a million children were orphaned and a similar number of Jews were injured, sick or maimed. In order to help them, the "Jewish Public Committee for the Victims of Pogroms" (ЕКОПО) was established in June 1920. It was composed of 16 organizations and parties, each of which sent two representatives. As part of the upheavals that followed the revolution, hundreds of thousands of Jews lost their sources of livelihood, were defined as unproductive and therefore lost their civil rights (лишенцев). For the purpose of solving the problem, there was an aspiration to convert them to agriculture, and to that end, a state authority was established – the Komzet. Ozt was established, among other things, on the initiative of Yuri Larin (AN) (Michael Lurie), who wanted to establish a public movement alongside a state authority (the Comzate), so that a Jewish public organization could turn to Jewish public bodies outside the Soviet Union. The first conference of the Ozet, convened in November 1926, was attended by, in addition to the local delegates, many guests from abroad who were interested in the issue of converting Jews to agriculture and even expressed sympathy for the intended process. At the opening session of the conference, Mikhail Kalinin delivered a speech, in which he declared the urgent need to maintain Jewish nationalism by the agricultural colonies and the concentration of Jews in one place and called for the conversion of hundreds of thousands of Jews to a population of peasants and productive farmers. In December 1930, the second (and last) Ozt conference was held to decide whether to hold Jewish settlement in the Crimea or in what would become the Autonomous Jewish District (Birobidzhan). As a compromise decision, it was decided to promote settlement in both areas.