ua
is or was location of agent: ua-006654
contains or contained: Ternopil
is or was location of agent: ua-003293
is or was location of agent: ua-003304
contains or contained: Mykolaiv oblast
contains or contained: Donetsk
is or was location of agent: ua-006659
contains or contained: Kherson
contains or contained: Kyiv
is or was location of agent: ua-003296
contains or contained: Volyn oblast
contains or contained: Zaporizhzhya oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-006667
is or was location of agent: ua-003306
is or was location of agent: ua-004061
is or was location of agent: ua-003319
is or was location of agent: ua-003299
contains or contained: Mykolaiv
contains or contained: Khmelnytskyi
is or was location of agent: ua-003322
contains or contained: Kremenchuk
contains or contained: Rivne oblast
contains or contained: Mykolayiv
is or was location of agent: ua-006557
is or was location of agent: ua-003298
is or was location of agent: ua-003307
is or was location of agent: ua-003310
is or was location of agent: ua-003333
contains or contained: Beryslav district Kherson region
contains or contained: Kyiv City
contains or contained: Odessa
contains or contained: Dnipropetrovsk oblast
contains or contained: Odesa
contains or contained: Luhanska oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-003292
contains or contained: Kalynivske village
is or was location of agent: ua-003324
is or was location of agent: ua-006661
is or was location of agent: ua-003336
contains or contained: Luhansk
contains or contained: Chernihiv oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-006024
archival situation: Ukraine’s archival system is headed by the State Archival Service of Ukraine, which administers and coordinates most of the central and regional archival matters. Within the archival system there are central, regional, and sectoral (e.g. ministerial) archives. Regional archives normally have double subordinations. While in their operational activities they are subordinated to the State Archival Service of Ukraine, at the same time they are considered to be part of the structure of regional (Oblast) administrations who fund and maintain them. For that reason the working rules of each regional archival institution can vary. There are no municipal archives in the strict sense. There are some archives, libraries and museums which are not subject to the State Archival Service of Ukraine, such as the archive of the private Judaica Institute, or the Archive of the Academy of Science of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Historical Museum in Kyiv, the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv, and the Lviv Ivan Franko National University Science Library. Since the Russian invasion of 2014, the Archives in Crimea and the Donbass have been in occupied territory. Since the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022, many archives and collections have been damaged or destroyed.
is or was location of agent: ua-003312
is or was location of agent: ua-006660
is or was location of agent: ua-003335
contains or contained: Uzhhorod
is or was location of agent: ua-003302
contains or contained: Rivne
research extensive: Disclaimer: The EHRI Extensive Report was updated in 2024. **A. EHRI approach to Ukraine: Pre-existing research, available archival guides and expert support** EHRI’s starting point was the archival guide published by the Ukrainian state archives in 2005: Nataliya Makovska’s *Arkhivy okupatsii 1941-1944. Anotovanyi reestr fondiv derzhavnykh arkhiviv Ukrainy* [*Archives of the Occupation. Annotated Register of Fonds in the state archives of Ukraine*] (Kyiv, 2005). It provided Ukrainian-language lists of war-time and war-related collections in Ukrainian central and regional state archives, which have been entered into the EHRI portal. However, the guide rarely explicitly refers to Ukraine’s Jewish population. Thus, the main difficulty in using it is to identify collections which concern the persecution of the Jews. This problem was solved thanks to the help of Yad Vashem, whose staff had previously marked a number of collections as Holocaust-related. All collections in the guide identified as Holocaust-related by Yad Vashem's surveyors have been entered into the EHRI portal. Where available, more detailed Russian language descriptions from Project Judaica were added. About one hundred unpublished new collection descriptions from Project Judaica’s new research guide on Southern Ukraine have been translated from Russian into English and added to the EHRI database. In the cases where USHMM and Yad Vashem have copied from the collections and have described the copy-collections, a link has been made in the EHRI portal between the original collection and the copy collection. Furthermore, as copy-collections often contained copies from more than one collection in the original archive in the past (for example, merging all the copies taken in one repository), EHRI has also engaged in case studies with Yad Vashem and USHMM on the archives of Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Rivne based on the original survey materials. This was done in order to obtain more detailed overviews of what exactly…
is or was location of agent: ua-003315
contains or contained: Kharkiv
contains or contained: Zakarpatska oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-006657
contains or contained: Lutsk
contains or contained: Odesa oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-003303
contains or contained: Severodonetsk
is or was location of agent: ua-006658
is or was location of agent: ua-003317
is or was location of agent: ua-003297
research summary: In the case of Ukraine, EHRI could rely on, and cooperate with, third parties that had carried out important previous survey and copying work, or were in the process of doing so, when EHRI began. Among them were Project Judaica, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Yad Vashem, and individual experts. EHRI has merged and updated information from existing repository overviews and finding aids in various languages (English, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian), and integrated the findings in EHRI’s own archival institutions and collection descriptions. In Ukraine, EHRI has so far identified more than 55 archival institutions and is now able to present archival descriptions for more than 970 collections. Where possible, links to copy collections and their descriptions are also provided. EHRI engaged several local experts to help describe scattered Holocaust-related sources as well as to provide more detailed information via child-level descriptions for very large fonds. Among the Central Archives in Kyiv there are the Central State Archive for Public Organizations of Ukraine (TsDAHO of Ukraine), which contains collections on the history of the Communist Party, the General Headquarters of the Partisans in Ukraine, as well as material on nationalist Ukrainian organisations. They also contain the collection of the Committee for the History of World War II attached to the Academy of Science as well as documentation of the Extraordinary State Committee to Investigate German Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory in Ukraine. The Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO of Ukraine) similarly holds material generated by the Extraordinary Commission as well as central German occupation administration files. The Sectoral Archive of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) is also located in Kyiv. Regional archives contain, among other relevant files, local documentation of the Extraordinary Commission, German, Romanian and local…
is or was location of agent: ua-003320
is or was location of agent: ua-003332
is or was location of agent: ua-003305
is or was location of agent: ua-003321
is or was location of agent: ua-003331
contains or contained: Bobrovyi Kut village
contains or contained: Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
contains or contained: Kirovohrad oblast
is or was location of agent: ua-003334
is or was location of agent: ua-003326
is or was location of agent: ua-006147
contains or contained: Poltava
contains or contained: Chernihiv
contains or contained: Kostyantynivka
is or was location of agent: ua-003323
contains or contained: Sumy
contains or contained: Sevastopol
contains or contained: Donetsk oblast