Metadata: The Rovno Regional Museum of Local History
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- The Rovno Regional Museum of Local History
- Holding institution (official language):
- Ровенский областной краеведческий музей; Рівненський обласний краєзнавчий музей
- Postal address:
- 19 Dragomanova str., Rovno, 33028 Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (362) 26-75-80
- Web address:
- http://museum.rv.gov.ua/
- Email:
- rivnemuseum@ukr.net
- Title:
- The Rovno Regional Museum of Local History
- Title (official language):
- Ровенский областной краеведческий музей; Рівненський обласний краєзнавчий музей
- Creator/accumulator:
- The Rovno Regional Museum of Local History
- Date note:
- 19th century – 1990s
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Hebrew
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 45 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Graphic material
- Scope and content:
- Materials on Jewish history and culture are housed in a single museum fonds and include, aside from monuments of material culture, also written and visual sources, among them a Torah scroll and photographs of the old Jewish cemetery in the town of Korets and of Rovno’s Jewish quarter, destroyed in German bombardments of the city in 1944. The most significant quantity of documents is devoted to the subject of the Holocaust. Among these are a list, compiled by Ia. A. German, of “Soviet citizens” shot by German occupiers 6-9 November 1941 at Sosenki [urochishche Sosenki] near Rovno; photographs of a memorial in the village of Sosenki, and of other monuments to genocide victims in the territory of the Rovno region; a selection of letters responding to an article run in the Rovno newspaper Zmina titled “Picking Souls Clean” [Obvorovyvanie dush], on the trial of looters who dug at the sites of mass shootings of the Jewish population (1987); materials on “righteous of the nations” from Rovno, including photographs of those saved and their saviours; a copy of correspondence of the Administration of the Ukrainian President, the Rovno Regional Council, the Ministry of Social Security of the Population, and other agencies on the issue of awarding Christians who had rescued Jews the status of Great Patriotic War veteran; the provisional by-laws and mission-statement of the public charity association Righteous of the Nations of the World, an organisation of citizens of Ukraine who had saved Jews during the Second World War (1992); etc. There are also documents of the Rovno Society of Jewish Culture, including minutes and resolutions of its founding conference, and photographs of participants thereof (1989).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was opened in February 1940 on the basis of Rovno’s already-extant Economic Museum of Volhynia, established in 1936 at the initiative of the Lublin Commercial-Manufacturing Chamber (the latter museum had in turn inherited some of the exhibits of the first Rovno museum, founded in 1906 by a local agricultural society). During the Second World War, many of the museum’s collections were lost; they began to be actively supplemented after the museum’s work was renewed in May 1948. Currently the museum’s fonds house and exhibit more than 140,000 storage units.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Biber, M.-M.
- Edels, Shemu’el Eli’ezer
- German, Ia. A.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary