School museum of Kalynivske village
Extent and Medium
Paper, photocopies, photocopies, photographs, manuscripts.
Archival History
Before the creation of the museum, Zavodianyi actively provided documents from the collection to students of history, most of whom did not return the original documents later. In 1981-1982, he lent an old bilingual local book to Svitlana Blokha, a resident of the village of Zelenyi Hai, half of which was in Hebrew, and the book was not returned to him either. In 1984, the file cabinet of the raion newspaper was also burned. In 2022, during the Russian occupation of the village, most of the original documents on the Jewish history of the village disappeared. These diaries are partially quoted in the monograph by V. Zavodyanyi “Kalininske in Chronicles and Memoirs”.
The collection was started by V.D. Zavodyanyi in 1980, the museum has been functioning since 1999.
Acquisition
Documents were donated by local residents and representatives of the former local administration, family members.
Scope and Content
There were up to three hundred documents by 2022. The collection included memoirs of the village's residents - concentration camp inmates, and diaries about the Holocaust (about 10 original diaries that did not survive the occupation ща 2022). Nothing from this part of the collection concerning the Jewish history of the village survived the Russian occupation in 2022.
Citation: “There were records of testimonies, such as Natasha Sereda's, how she was in 1944, at the beginning of the year the Germans came, gathered them all here, how they were expelled. She, to her credit, took a student's notebook and wrote down all the time, every day. She started with the weather: “Today is March, it's slushy, muddy, we are walking to Snihurivka, we are being chased, loaded into freight cars, and taken away.” And all this until April 5, until the liberation. In Odesa, she escaped.”
Now there are two boxes with unorganized photos, about 80 pieces from the 20s of the 20th century to the present.
3 photos with a list of local Holocaust victims. 8 photos of local participants of World War II, some of them of Jewish origin. 2 handwritten sheets with a list of 62 local participants of World War II. 2 handwritten memoirs of veterans (4 pages by A.S. Althaus and 3 pages by A.A. Kirin). 1 photo with local schoolchildren of the second part of the 30s of the 20th century with inscriptions in Yiddish.
Appraisal
Community members plan to restore the museum, collect new materials, and make copies of lost documents and photos in 2022. Some of them remained on Viktor Kobets' computer.
Conditions Governing Access
Access by prior request.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
By prior agreement.
Archivist Note
Compiled by Vladyslav Lytkevych for Arolsen Archives as part of the project to identify and describe microarchives in Ukraine for EHRI.
Sources
Volodymyr Zavodianyy and Viktor Kobets were personally interviewed by Litkevych Vladyslav during his visits to Kalynivske in the summer of 2023, further clarification by phone.
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0