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
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"
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
box 1 500 photocopies,
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)
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.
Personal archives of Zinoviĭ Tolkachev