Metadata: Collection of the Museum of the Underground and Partisan Movement in the Mykolaiv/Nikolaev Region during the Great Fatherland War of 1941-44
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Museum of the Underground and Partisan Movement in the Nikolaev Region during the Great Fatherland War of 1941-44
- Holding institution (official language):
- Музей «Подпольно-партизанское движение на Николаевщине в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941–1944 гг.»; Музей «Підпільно-партизанський рух на Миколаївщині у роки Великої Вітчизняної війни 1941–1944 рр.»
- Postal address:
- Ukraine, 54001, Mykolaiv/Nikolaev, ul. Liagina, 5; tel./fax: +380 (512) 37-6503; e-mail: muzeumsppd2012@mail.ru
- Title:
- Collection of the Museum of the Underground and Partisan Movement in the Mykolaiv/Nikolaev Region during the Great Fatherland War of 1941-44
- Date note:
- 19th c./1990s
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (30 storage units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Exhibit materials connected with Jewish history and culture include a Torah scroll; photographs and archival materials pertaining to the Holocaust and to Jewish participation in the anti-fascist resistance and on the frontlines of the Second World War; photographs of and documents and awards pertaining to Nikolaev residents recognised as Righteous of the Nations: N. I. Gnatiuk (Anushchenko) of the town of Domanevka; M. V. Rudenko (the village of Mostovoe, Domanevka district); and V. I. Golovatiuk (Nikolaev). Also housed in the museum are seventeen video interviews of residents of the Nikolaev region (A. A. Iur’ev, N. A. Tatarenko, K. F. Gubareva, G. A. Mostova, V. I. Natochii, A. S. Ermolenko, and others) who witnessed Nazi atrocities. There are also materials pertaining to Stalinist political repressions of the Jewish population of the Nikolaev region: photographs and copies of archival documents from investigation files on Jews who had been subjected to political repression, specifically, arrest and search warrants; letters and notes to loved ones from places of incarceration; documents certifying the rehabilitation of persons previously convicted on charges of involvement in the Zionist movement and membership in Ze’ire Zion, Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa’ir, and He-Ḥaluts (I. M. Verbskii and Iu. A. Melamud of Pervomaisk and Sh. N. Gershov of Bashtanka) and Yugnt-Farband (G. Ia. Segal of Nikolaev).
- Archival history:
- This was opened 29 April 1975 in Nikolaev (as a branch of the Nikolaev Regional Museum of Local History) in the memorial building at No. 5 Liagin Street, the residence during the Second World War of V. A. Liagin, an intelligence officer whose activities would earn him recognition as a Hero of the Soviet Union. In 2008-10, the museum took part in carrying out the Eyewitness Interview project, an international research initiative of the oral-history department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary