Personal papers of Mark Aguf

Identifier
irn517509
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.177
  • RG-31.035
Dates
1 Jan 1909 - 31 Dec 1962
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517509

Extent and Medium

folders

12

6 microfiche,

Creator(s)

  • Mark Aguf

Archival History

Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in June 2005.

Scope and Content

Contains letters sent by Mark Aguf to his relatives as well as letters received by Mark Aguf from his wife and close relatives who were evacuated from Kyiv to Central Asia. Correspondence relates to problems with the apartment in Kyiv, everyday life of evacuees, their re-evacuation to Kyiv, and the Mark's active service in the Soviet (Red) Army of 1917-1921. The collection also contains poems written by Mark Aguf during and after the war, and memoirs of Mark's father, Mikhail Aguf "V gornile revolucii: Vospomynanyia" (In the hearth of Revolution: Memoirs) completed circa 1966 in Kyiv. Mikhail Aguf writes about his childhood in the beginning of the 20th century; revolutionary activities and imprisonment in 1909-1917 in Kharbin, Irkutsk, Yakutsk. Memoirs also contain information about events of the civil war in Ukraine of 1917-1921.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Rg-31.03501 (Folder 1 - Folder 10); Rg-31.03502 (Folder 11); Rg-31.035*03 (Folder 12)

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine

People

  • Aguf, Mark.

Subjects

  • Jews--Ukraine--Poetry.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish--Ukraine.
  • Jewish soldiers--Ukraine.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Correspondence.
  • Jews--Ukraine--Memoirs.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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