Documents related to the righteous gentiles in the former USSR
Extent and Medium
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678 digital images, TIFF
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 filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in May 2006.
Scope and Content
The collection includes photocopied letters, envelopes, testimonies, certified statements, photographs, passports, certificates of honor, forms, and applications of Jewish residents of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the Gentiles who saved them. These documents were collected mostly from 1989 to 1997 by four main organizations: The Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers; the Association of Jewish Organizations and the Ukrainian Community; World of the Righteous; and the Societal History Instruction Center on Babi Yar.
System of Arrangement
Ogranized in the following order: RG-31.04901 - RG-31.04904
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
Subjects
- Jews--Ukraine--Memoirs.
- World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Ukraine.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Ukraine.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut i︠u︡daïky