Metadata: Holocaust History Fonds
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies
- Holding institution (official language):
- Петербургский институт иудаики
- Postal address:
- 191036, St. Petersburg, 1-aia Sovetskaia ul., d. 10, lit. K, 1-N
- Phone number:
- (812)449-52-50
- Web address:
- http://pijs.ru/ob_arhive
- Email:
- archive@pijs.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 6
- Title:
- Holocaust History Fonds
- Title (official language):
- Фонд по истории Холокоста
- Creator/accumulator:
- St. Petersburg Jewish University
- Date(s):
- 1941/1997
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Extent:
- 81 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises all sorts of reference material on the history of the Holocaust in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, including information on Jewish mass burial sites, memoiristic writings and photoGraphic materials and publications on this subject.
Op. 1 includes reference materials and research projects (1941-95), including lists of murdered Jewish residents of several localities in Ukraine, in particular, Bratslav (Vinnytsia region) (compiled by an unidentified person) and Staraia Siniava (Khmelnytskyi region) (compiled by P. E. Radchenko, secretary of the district executive committee); descriptions of monuments at sites of mass shootings of Jews in the Vinnytsia region, including in Nemirov, Bratslav, and elsewhere; publications, including The Population of the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Shoah (in the Former Soviet Union) (Yad Vashem, 1994); etc.
Op. 2 contains reference materials on mass burial sites of murdered Jews (1941-45), compiled by staff members of the St. Petersburg Jewish University. Each document contains information on a particular burial site, including the date and a brief description of the circumstances in which those buried there perished; the date when a monument was erected, and a brief description of the monument; the date and number of the resolution by which the regional executive committee made the monument an object of conservation; and mentions of it in literature.
Op. 3 contains memoiristic materials (1981-97) devoted to events (1941-43) of the Holocaust, including information about former juvenile prisoners of the Bratslav and Pechersk concentration camps; recollections on the destruction of the town of Orynin (Orinin, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine), and on a trip made by Rachel and Reuven Rogovin to the town of Volozhin (Minsk region, Belarus) after the war; an audio interview with M. A. Gordon about his family and the death of his father in 1942; an audio interview with A. G. Mostovoi about Holocaust-related events in the town of Nemirov (Vinnytsia region, Ukraine); and an unpublished article by N. R. Brumberg titled “Several Essays about Ghettos and Concentration Camps, about Jews and about Non-Jews as well.”
Op. 4 contains various publications about the Holocaust (1945-2002), including an article by L. Suslenskii titled “The Ukrainian Population’s Aid to Jews during the Second World War” (1991); documents of the occupation prefecture related to the Bershad’ ghetto (1992); a study by S. Elisavetskii titled “Berdichev Tragedy” (1991); M. V. Pupik’s translation from the Yiddish of an article titled “The Jewish People in the Fight against Fascism”, with comments and annotation by A. I. Khaesh; materials of the 3rd Anti-Fascist Demonstration of Representatives of the Jewish People and the 3rd plenum of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR (Moscow, 1945); etc.
Op. 5 contains photoGraphic materials (1975-92), including photographs of monuments and sites of mass shootings of Jews in Miory (Vitebsk region, Belarus), Berdichev and Miropol’ (Zhytomyr region, Ukraine), Kislovodsk (Stavropol’ territory, Russia), and a place known as Belendinka (Belendiika/Belendeevka), next to the town of Gaisin (Haysyn, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine); as well as photographs from the demonstration held on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1990 at the Jewish (Preobrazhenskii) cemetery in Leningrad.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was formed in the late 1980s and 1990s, primarily from materials collected during expeditions of the St. Petersburg Jewish University, as well as from documents received from private individuals.
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev
- Bershad’
- Bratslav
- Kislovodsk
- Miory
- Miropol’
- Nemirov
- Orynin
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Stara Siniava
- Ukraine
- Volozhin
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises five inventories arranged according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
