Memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov describing his life before World War II and under the Nazi occupation in Kiev

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.346 | RG Number: RG-31.111

Overview

Description: Contains photocopies of 143 pages of memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov. The author describes his family life in Kyiv during the famine in Ukraine, apartment problem of that time in Kyiv, difficulties with the food supply, persuasion by NKVD “enemies of people”. In the beginning of the war Khudyakov served in the military unit located near Kyiv. Author depicts different military operations of his division in Kyiv oblast at the beginning of the war. In the September 1941 Khudyakov was taken as a prisoner of war and placed in the Soviet POW camps in Yagotin and Sulimovka in Kyiv region.The author was freed from the POW camp in October 1941 and utill 1943 lived in occupied Kyiv. The manuscript provides detailed information about daily life under Nazi occupation in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Date: inclusive: 1932-1945
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: Fedor Khudi︠a︡kov, F. (Fëdor Fëdorovich)

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

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Famines--Ukraine--History. Victims of famine--Ukraine--Biography. Prisoner-of-war camps--Ukraine--Sulimovka. Prisoner-of-war camps--Ukraine--I︠A︡hotyn. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
Geographic Name: Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933. Sulimovka (Ukraine) I︠A︡hotyn (Ukraine)
Personal Name: Khudi︠a︡kov, F. F. (Fëdor Fëdorovich), 1905-1984.

Holder of Originals: 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. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Judaica Center via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2011.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive