Ukrainica is a major database compiling reference, informational, and documentary sources on the broadest areas of Ukrainian history, culture, economics, and more. Its sources are archival, published, and manuscript documents and include materials created both within and without Ukraine, on all topics related to documenting the history and heritage of the Ukrainian people.
A go-to website for finding Ukrainian art and artists. Browse hundreds of digital scans of paintings, photographs, postcards, exhibition catalogues, rare books, and other sources from throughout Ukrainian history. Users can search by artist or keyword, or explore categories organized by art movement, medium, chronological period, and more. The section "eksklyusiv" (exclusive) found on the top menu…
The digital archives of the Literature and Art Archive-Museum of Ukraine house three large personal collections of notable Ukrainian figures of the 19th and 20th centuries: the Beretti architects, who designed and built many notable buildings in 19th century St. Petersburg and Kyiv; the Orientalist, linguist, and founder of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Ahatanhel Krymsky; and…
The Blavatnik Archive is a non-profit organization that collects materials on 20th century Jewish life not typically found in standard archives: postcards, ephemera, correspondence, and more. About 15 percent of the archive's content is available online, and this number continues to grow as the foundation uploads more materials. Online collections offer rich materials on Jewish life and…
The Yad Vashem open access digital collections include a central database of Holocaust victims' names; an enormous photo archive of Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust, including in Ukraine; a database of "the righteous among the nations", those who helped Jews (1448 records for Ukrainian persons — you can then filter by profession, religion, and gender); a large number of digitized…
A multimedia project on Babyn Yar and the history of the Holocaust, WWII, and the Soviet period in Ukraine by the Holocaust Memorial Center of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The entire website is worth exploring, but two main areas will be of use to researchers. For a large digital library collection featuring many different kinds of sources, go to "library" (бібліотека) and then "explore library" (дослідити…