Metadata: Administration of the “Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle” Society in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 4026
- Title:
- Administration of the “Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle” Society in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- Title (official language):
- Управа общества «Музей освободительной борьбы Украины» в г. Праге (Чехословакия)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the “Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle” Society in Prague (Czechoslovakia)
- Date(s):
- 1925/1945
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- English
- Polish
- French
- Czech
- Extent:
- 42 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents on the worsening of Ukrainian-Jewish relations in connection with the trial in the case of the assassination of S. V. Petliura, head of the Ukrainian government in exile. These include appeals and protests of several Ukrainian public organisations against accusations levelled in the Western press that Petliura had been involved in instigating pogroms against Jews, and accusations of anti-Semitism in the Ukrainian national movement; documents of the Committee to Memorialise S. V. Petliura in Romania; reports on assisting the conduct of the trial of Petliua’s assassin Sholem Schwarzbard in Paris; information on measures taken by the Committee to Memorialise S. V. Petliura to counter the charge that Petliura was an anti-Semite, including information on a report delivered by D. Herodotus at the Fourth Conference of Ukrainian Émigrés in Romania (September 1926) titled “The Jewish Question in Ukraine in Connection with the Assassination of Symon Petliura”; reports on preparations for the publication of a collection of documents on pogroms in Ukraine during the Civil War and the murder of S. Petliura, and of the books Letters on Ukraine by S. I. Gol’del’man and Ukraine and the Red Nightmare by A. Ia. Shul’gin, meant to rehabilitate the Ukrainian liberation movement as perceived in public opinion; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle was established in 1925 on the initiative of Ukrainian émigré activists working with the Ukrainian Free University in Prague. The museum was to collect, preserve, describe, and popularise documentary materials and monuments of material culture illustrating the history of the Ukrainian national movement. Its structure included departments devoted to military affairs, diplomacy, the emigration, etc. The museum also organised the “Museum of the Ukrainian Liberation Struggle” Society. Both the society and the museum ceased to exist after the Second World War and the Sovietisation of Czechoslovakia.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gol’del’man, S. I.
- Herodotus, D.
- Petliura, S.
- Schwarzbard, Sholem
- Shul’gin, A. Ia.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Civil wars
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- Pogroms
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories; files are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary