Selected records from the State Archives of Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine related to the history of the Jewish Communities of the region before, during, and after WWII
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Overview
- Description
- Records of the history of the Jewish communities of the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine. Includes leaflets, minutes and reports submitted to the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Headquarters on the activities of the Zionist Jewish Party in Transcarpathia; correspondence of the police and district authorities on the activities of various political parties operating in the Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ; reports of the police and district authorities on Jewish parties in various locations; reports on activities of Jewish associations (preparing Jews for emigration to Palestine), and the New Zionist Organization; correspondence of the Jewish communities and cultural associations related to grants; case files for passports of Jewish residents (birth certificates, photographs); correspondence of complaints submitted by Jewish parties regarding the situation of foreign Jewish citizens, deportation of Jews from Uzhhorod, the organization and activities of the “Young Jews Association", exemption from military service, and criminal cases; correspondence and investigation documents by the police and the civil authorities in the cases on communist activities among the Jewish population; commercial licenses, establishment of Jewish religious schools, the Torah Talmud Jewish Association; statistics and vital records on Jewish population, reports of the Mayor of Mukacheve, 1944; documents on discrimination and persecution of Jews in the City of Mukacheve (decrees and decisions); protocols, registers, correspondence on the settlement of the issue of citizenship of the inhabitants of the territories annexed to Czechoslovakia, a list of Jewish landowners and district notary's decision on their expropriation, 1942; list of persons who escaped to the Soviet Union,1942; certificates of territorial residence of residents, 1940-1943; residential applications for Jewish housing in Mukacheve, and other.
- Date
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inclusive:
1918-1957
- 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.
- Reference
- Three finding aids for this collection: Inventory in Humgarian; List of Fonds; Additional Inventory of Postwar Records,1945-1957
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Birth certificates. Certificates. Correspondence. Decrees. Leaflets. Minutes. Photographs. Registers. Reports. Statistics.
- Extent
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575,465 digital images : JPEG ; 2.622 TB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically by three groups: 1. Before the war, 1918-1938; 2. During the war, 1939-1945; 3. Soviet period, 1946 -1950s.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Mandatory citation of source archives as well as United States Holocaust Memorial Musem. Fair use only. No use for commercial purposes.
- Copyright Holder
- Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Zakarpatsʹkoï oblasti
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--Ukraine. World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--History--20th century. Jewish property--Ukraine--Mukacheve. Jewish associations--Ukraine--History--20th century. Political parties--Ukraine--History--20th century. Zionism--Ukraine--History--20th century. Communism--Ukraine--Europe--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Ukraine--History--20th century.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Zakarpatsʹkoï oblasti
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Zakarpatsʹkoï oblasti (State Archives of the Transcarpathian Region), Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2020 and Aug. 2021. Duplication project completed.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-18 09:10:39
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn723168
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