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  1. Fialkov family collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents and letters of commendation from the Soviet government, as well as personal letters, telegrams, and postcards from the Fialkov family documenting the evacuation of Kiev. Included are items pertaining to Iakov Anatolevich Fialkov and Maria Isaakovna Fialkova, who were spouses and professors at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and their sons Anatol Iakovlevich Fialkov and Iurii Iakovlevich Fialkov. Also included are letters from Maria’s father, Isaak Kantor, and letters to Lena Tulchinsky, a childhood friend of Iurii.

  2. Gorodetsky family letters

    Contains six photocopied personal letters from the Gorodetsky family during the Second World War. Included are five letters from S. B. Gorodetsky to his wife Zinaida (Zina), and one letter to his sister, Nina Borisovna, in Kazan.

  3. Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaya collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaia. Malakhovshaia was born in 1934 as Rosaliia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of the port of Odessa and the ensuing widespread conflagration. Members of her family hid in the catacombs beneath the city. Malakhovshaia spent part of 1941 in the Slobodka Ghetto. She survived the war, became an artist, and later emigrated to Israel.

  4. Memorial to Kiev School No. 77 collection

    Contains personal letters, official documents, biographical and autobiographical statements, poems, application forms, school transcripts, and newspaper clippings from both students and teachers of Kiev School Number 77. Some of the documents pertain to students who graduated from the school in either 1939 or 1940, and concern their civil and military service to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Items regarding the teachers mainly concern arrests made during the 1937-1938 Stalinist Purges. Series I contains the documents from four main students of School No. 77 in Kiev: Pavel Yu...

  5. Schwartzman family postcards

    Contains photocopies of six wartime postcards sent to Uzbekistan, Stalingrad, Novosibirsk, and Gorkii by members of the Schwartzman family, some of whom fought in the Red Army and some of whom were evacuated to Central Asia. Postcards display anti-fascist graphic art typical of World War II.

  6. Segal family papers

    Contains photocopies of official documents and personal letters written mostly by Abram Segal, who was evacuated to Tashkent during the War.

  7. The Ulik family papers

    Contains the personal correspondence of the Ulik family, members of which moved several times between 1941 and 1959. Postcards display World War II anti-fascist art; some letters were sent with newspaper clippings, theater programs, and other enclosures. Official documents include Josef Ulik’s Communist Party membership card and death certificate.

  8. Schwartzman family papers

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters and poems written by various members of the Schwartzman family of Kiev. Some of the documents are pre-1917, while others coincide with World War II.

  9. Sklar family papers

    Contains the family papers of the Sklar family, principally, Boris Moiseevich Sklar. Included are personal letters, stamped certificates, and postcards. Also included is a photocopy of a brief, handwritten autobiographical statement written by Tsipa Yankelevna Shvidkaya (another family member) in 1946.

  10. Ushomirsky family letters

    Contains the photocopied official documents, personal letters, postcards, and handwritten poems of the Ushomirsky family. The letters span the 1940s through the 1950s, while the official documents are primarily from before the Second World War.

  11. Solomon Benedictovich Telingater collection

    Contains the photocopied book Solomon Benedictovich Telingater: Notes About My Father, written by V. S. Telingater and published in Moscow in 2008.

  12. Political files Politische Akten

    Contains documents on illegal Nazi activities in Austria before its annexation to Germany in March 1938. Topics covered include the Nazi administration in Oberdonau from 1938 to 1945 and the Aryanization of Jewish property, as well as postwar denazification.The collection includes records from the Bezirkshauptmannschaften of Braunau am Inn; Eferding; Gmunden; Grieskrichen; Kirchdorf an der Krems; Linz-Land; Ried im Innkreis; Schärding; and Steyr.

  14. Selected records from the State Archives of Ivano- Frankivsk (formerly Stanislav) Oblast

    Contains reports and decisions from the Stanislavskaia Oblast’ State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Forces and by Their Collaborators in Ukraine. Also included is information on other activities of the Germans and their allies, details on various localities, and lists of Soviet citizens abused or killed. The collection also includes reports by local bureaus of the People’s Commissariat for State Security (NKGB).

  15. Holocaust survivor indemnification case files a.k.a. Moskovits Office Expedientes personales: indemnizaciones a sobrevivientes del Holocausto/Estudio Moskovits

    Contains hundreds individual compensation and reparation claim files for Holocaust survivors living in South America, all of whom were clients of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. The claim files feature testimonies and affidavits by the survivors, legal documents and correspondence.

  16. Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)

    This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and many other countries, Jewish participation in partisan movements against the Nazis and their allies, as well as Jewish life generally before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes testimonies, correspondence, documents of ghetto councils, German and Judenrat edicts, memoirs, biographies, documents of the rescue and aid organizations, underground proclamations, meeting minutes, personal papers, commendations and decorations, research papers,...

  17. Personal archives of Meer Bomash, member of the State Duma (Fond 9458, opis1)

    Contains letters to Meer Bomash from Russian State Duma members, civil servants, publishers, students, intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens about the establishment of Jewish educational institutions, antisemitism, compulsory military service, and the general conditions of the Jewish community of Łódź. Also included are requests for help in gaining acceptance to educational institutions, for aid obtaining transfers to different government posts or schools, for material and financial assistance on behalf of aid societies, and for the commutation of prison sentences. There are also reports, p...

  18. Personal Archives of Sofia R. Kotsyna (1873-1940), Jewish librarian, archivist and historian

    Contains Sofia R. Kotsyna’s lectures on elementary and post-elementary education, the library work of Jewish societies, the Second Congress of Archive Workers, and the works and archives of the Jewish historian P.S. Marek. Also included are letters from Jewish figures including A.M. Bergengeim, L.E. Motylev, and S.M. Ginzburg; and indexes to the collections of P.S. Marek, S.S. Vermel’, S.A. Rapoport, and O.B. Gavronsky. Of special interest are reports on the work of the Society for Promotion of Jewish Education from 1903 to 1917; library courses at Shaniaavskii University; and rules, accoun...

  19. Cyprus internment camps

    Contains administrative records created by Jewish internees in the internment camps in Cyprus, including correspondence with the Cyprus camp administration, legal files of the camp court, minutes and proceedings of administrative bodies within the camp, certificates issued by the Jewish Agency for Emigration to Palestine, legal files, reports, statistical lists of refugees, and more.

  20. Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.