Overview
- Description
- Contains correspondence, personal documents, art works (portraits and other paintings), a catalog, and a bibliography of Zinoviĭ Tolkachev works. Also contains guest books from several Tolkachev exhibitions in Majdanek and Oświe̜cim, Poland.
- Date
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inclusive:
1943-1970
- 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
- Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev
- Biography
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Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev was an artist and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Kiev, Ukraine, he was also an official artist of the Red Army. Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev joined up with Soviet forces in Majdanek, Poland, shortly after its liberation in 1944 and immediately after that with the forces that liberated Auschwitz in 1945. During this period he drew the series: "Majdanek," "Auschwitz," and "The Flowers of Auschwitz."
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Guest books. Portraits. Paintings.
- Extent
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500 photocopies.
- Extent
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1 box
- System of Arrangement
- Organized in the following order: RG-31.029*01 (Folder 1); RG-31.029*02 (Folder 2); RG-31.029*03 (Folder 3); RG-31.029*04 (Folder 4); RG-31.029*05 (Folder 5); RG-31.029*06 (Folder 6); RG-31.029*07 (Folder 7); RG-31.029*08 (Folder 8)
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. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2004.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-19 14:13:45
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