Overview
- Description
- Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaia. Malakhovshaia was born in 1934 as Rosaliia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of the port of Odessa and the ensuing widespread conflagration. Members of her family hid in the catacombs beneath the city. Malakhovshaia spent part of 1941 in the Slobodka Ghetto. She survived the war, became an artist, and later emigrated to Israel.
- Date
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inclusive:
1942-2001
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Elena Malakhovskaia
- Biography
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Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaya was born on July 3, 1934 in Odessa. Her birth name was Rosalia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of Odessa’s port, which resulted in a widespread fire. Members of her family, along with other Jewish residents, then sought shelter within the catacombs underneath Odessa. In 1941, during the Nazi occupation of Odessa, Elena Osipovna was forced into the “Slobodka” Ghetto. After the War, Elena went to art school in Odessa, and later became a ceramic artist. She changed her name from Rosalia to Elena and later immigrated to Israel. She did not publish her story until 1997.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication by a third party requires a formal approval of the Judaica Institute in Kiev, Ukraine. Publication requires a mandatory citation of the original source.
- Copyright Holder
- Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jewish ghettos--Russia--Slobodka.
- Geographic Name
- Slobodka (Russia : Extinct city) Odesa (Ukraine) Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Laikhter, Rosalia Osipovn.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archives of the Center for the Studies of History and Culture of East European Jewry (Judaica Center) of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Judaica Center via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June, 2009.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-19 14:02:54
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