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Creator: Державний архів Одеської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Odesa oblast archive has digitized archival documents from throughout the region's modern history. To access digital files, click "Електронний архів: фонди, описи, документи" (digital archive: collections, descriptions, documents) on the right-hand toolbar. Besides archival finding aids, many original primary sources are digitized. These include the 1897 Odesa census; metric books and birth…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Odesa

Creator: Державний архів Чернігівської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Chernihiv oblast archive has digitized collections from the pre-Soviet and Soviet periods and from the region's communist party archives. To access digitized files, click "Оцифровані описи та справи онлайн" (digitized descriptions and files online) on the front page lefthand tool bar. Then click "ОПИСИ" for descriptions of collections and on "СПРАВИ (оцифровані ДАЧО)" to select from…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv

Creator: Central State Archives of Public Associations of Ukraine

Language: Ukrainian

The Central State Archives of Public Association (CDAGO) online exhibitions include numerous original scans from their archival collection. This website URL brings researchers to a list of exhibition topics spanning the breadth of modern Ukrainian history, including literary figures and movements, World War II, the Afghan War, the transfer of the capital of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Kyiv, the 1920s…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory houses several digital archive projects, including features on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, World War II, Ukrainian independence, contemporary Russian aggression against Ukraine, and more. Users can find links to these projects on the website's homepage, linked here.

Tags: 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine

Creator: The Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre

Language: Ukrainian

A large collection of oral histories in video, audio, and written transcript formats. These oral histories cover Holodomor, World War II, the Holocaust, and the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. With over 2,200 hours of interviews conducted over 30 years and about 80% digitized, this is one of the largest Ukrainian oral history collections in North America. In addition to oral histories, the UCRDC…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Yad Vashem

Language: English

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…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: United States Holocaust Museum

Language: English

A significant proportion of the United States Holocaust Museum's archive collections are available online. These pertain not only to the Holocaust in Ukraine but also life in Ukraine before WWII. When searching, select the "public domain" filter to find open access sources. You can also filter by relevant city (several Ukrainian ones), key event, camp, or ghetto, or using search terms. For…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: The New York Public Library

Language: Yiddish

A search for keyword "Ukraine" on the New York Public Library online archive brings up 1115 results. Sources in Judaica and Jewish history are especially rich, as well photos, illustrations, and other religious documents. The NYPL has also digitized its collection "Peasant art of subcarpathian Russia," comprising photos of physical artifacts and material culture from Zakarpattia. Researchers can…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Chernihiv| Crimea| Galicia| Ivano-Frankivsk| Kherson| Kolomy| Kyiv| Odesa| Poltava| Rivne| Sevastopol| Volhynia| Zakarpattia

Creator: Меморіальний центр Голокосту "Бабин Яр"

Language: Ukrainian

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…

Tags: 20th century| Chernihiv| Chernivtsi| Dnipro| Kharkiv| Kherson| Kropivinsky| Kyiv| Lviv| Mikolaiv| Odesa| Poltava| Zaporizhzhia

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

Language: Ukrainian

A completely digitized collection of archival documents, photos, newsreels, and academic articles on the history of the Babyn Yar region of Kyiv from the late 18th century through the 21st century. Many sources are dedicated to the massacre of 34,000 Jews in Babyn Yar in 1941, and more generally to the Holocaust and WWII in region. Researchers will also find sources on all aspects of life in the…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| Kyiv