Overview
- Description
- Contains photocopies of personal letters, official documents, biographical and autobiographical statements, poems, application forms, school transcripts, and newspaper clippings from both students and teachers of Kiev School Number 77. Some of the documents pertain to students who graduated from the school in either 1939 or 1940, and concern their civil and military service to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Items regarding the teachers mainly concern arrests made during the 1937-1938 Stalinist Purges. Series I contains the documents from four main students of School No. 77 in Kiev: Pavel Yul’evich Niron (1923-1942); Mikhail Efimovich Kugel (1923-1983); Yakov Moiseevich Polischuk (b.1923) and; Rafael Yakovlevich Gorenstein (b.1923). Series II contains similar information on specific students, but to a lesser degree. It also contains information on specific teachers at School No. 77 in Kiev who suffered during the Soviet Purges of 1937-1938.
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-2005
- 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.
Physical Details
- Extent
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2 folders
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
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 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. These materials originally were collected as part of a broader effort in 1984 to memorialize School No. 77. 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:
- 2024-03-18 17:14:29
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