The Kiev High School [gimnaziia] of the Committee to Aid Refugees

Collection

Title (official language):: Киевская гимназия Комитета по предоставлению помощи беженцам

Creator/accumulator:: The Kiev High School [gimnaziia] of the Committee to Aid Refugees

Scope and content:: Included are student files of Jewish pupils with information on their background, etc.; lists of pupils, including indications in cases in which their tuition was being covered by Jewish charitable entities; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: In November 1915, the Tat’ianino Committee to Aid Refugees opened a co-educational school in Kiev for refugees from the western provinces of the Russian Empire (Volhynia and Belorussia). From January 1917 on, this institution had the status of a high school [gimnaziia], and in July 1918 it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Fifth Teachers’ Society. The refugees aided included a significant number of Jews, and the school had a higher percentage of Jewish pupils than was typical at Kiev high schools. The tuition of some Jewish students was paid by Jewish philanthropists. After the February Revolution of 1917 ended all restrictions on the education of young Jewish people, an even greater number of Jews enrolled at the school. The high school curriculum in general included no special Jewish subjects, but the general-education curriculum of the Kiev High School of the Committee to Aid Refugees did include a course on the history of the Jewish people. This institution was reorganised as a Unified Labor School in 1920.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Education; Education--Students; Personal records

System of arrangement:: The fond includes a single inventory systematised in part chronologically (office files), and in part alphabetically (student files and coursework).