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Records of the central council of the Jewish Communities in Russia (TsVaad)

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.101 | RG Number: RG-22.025M

Overview

Description: The collection consists of minutes of the meetings of the TsVaad ‘s Executive Council, declarations and circular letters regarding Jewish pogroms in Poland and Galicia, correspondence with Jewish communities and public organizations regarding evacuation of Jewish civilians from the zones of war conflict, food supplies for refugees and other needs of the evacuated Jewish population. Collection also includes various newspaper clippings, drafts of articles and questionnaires.
Date: inclusive: 1918-1920
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

Language: Russian Yiddish Hebrew
Genre/Form: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Questionnaires.
Extent: 168 microfiche.

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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: No copies or publication for third parties without permission of the source archive

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Russia (Federation)--Newspapers. Jews--Russia (Federation)--Politics and government. Jews--Russia (Federation)--Social conditions. Jewish communities (ushmm)
Geographic Name: Russia (Federation) Russia

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: From the State Archive of the Russian Federation fond 9531, opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Archive via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2009.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

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