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Creator: Національний музей історії України у Другій світовій війні

Language: Ukrainian

The digital collections of the National World War II Museum in Kyiv include several curated archival collections from the museum's holdings on topics pertaining to World War II and beyond. Users can browse by collection, with topics ranging from the Holocaust and children in WWII to the personal archive of Andrii Mykhalevych, a Ukrainian partisan fighter murdered by a KGB operation in 1951. You…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů

Language: Czech

This Czech project documents the political repression of Czechoslovak people by the Soviet government. It includes a rich collection of digitized NKVD/KGB investigation files from Ukrainian archives, namely Zakarpattia, which had a large Czech population in the early Soviet period. While the website is in Czech, the uploaded case files are in the original Russian. These documents from Ukrainian…

Tags: 20th century| Ivano-Frankivsk| Lviv| Odesa| Zakarpattia| Zhytomyr

Creator: Державний архів Тернопільської області

Language: Polish

The Ternopil oblast archive website has four digitized collections, including:
1. Metric book records of the city magistrate of Kremenets, 1781-1869
2. Metric book records of the Jewish synagogue in Kremenets and other records on Jewish community birth, marriage, divorce, and death, 1870-1938
3. Metric books of Ternopil's Greek Catholic communities, 1784-1944
4. Archives of the Ternopil…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Ternopil

Creator: Державний архів Сумської області

Language: Russian

The Sumy oblast archive has digitized a great number of archival documents, newspapers, and metric books pertaining to a wide variety of historical topics, mostly from the late imperial period through the Second World War. Users can explore digitized archival collections of institutions, organizations, and enterprises from the late imperial period, provisional government and independent Ukrainian…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Sumy

Creator: Державний архів Рівненської області

Language: Russian

Digitized archival documents are divided into two chronological categories: "Окупаційний період" (occupation period) and "Радянський період" (Soviet period), although the documents within these categories extend beyond those chronological boundaries. The occupation period documents feature OUN, UPA, and partisan documents from 1936-1957, especially World War II. The "Soviet period" documents…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Rivne

Creator: Державний архів Миколаївської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Mikolaiv regional archive's digitized documents include metric books and state registration records from the 19th century through 1940s, house books listing extensive information in Mikolaiv's individuals and communities in the 1930s-40s, and audit records of Mikolaiv's Jewish population 1806-1875.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Mikolaiv

Creator: Державний архів Луганської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Luhansk regional archive has digitized Fond 303, a collection of decrees and government records from the Luhansk regional government. The collection includes different districts' Department of Justice archives for the years 1939-1945. In addition, the website offers digitized copies of metric books from church parishes for the years 1851-1914, as well as a collection of documents pertaining to…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Luhansk

Creator: Державний архів Херсонської області

Language: Ukrainian

The Kherson oblast archive's digitized sources include extensive collections pertaining to imperial and Soviet-era local government, religion, everyday life, economy, and various institutions. The collection mostly ranges from the mid-to-late 19th century through World War II.

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| Kherson

Creator: Державний архів Харківської області

Language: Ukrainian

Digitized collections from the Kharkiv oblast archive include metric books pertaining to Christian, Jewish, and civil communities in the 19th and 20th centuries; birth, marriage, divorce, and deaths records for the 1920s-40s; registers from the Nazi occupation of the 1940s; audit documents from the 18th and 19th centuries; and books on the genealogy of local nobles from the Kharkiv region for the…

Tags: 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| Kharkiv

Creator: Державний архів Чернівецької області

Language: Ukrainian

The Chernivtsi oblast archive's digital collection covers much of the region's 20th century history, under Polish, Soviet, and independent Ukrainian rule. On the left hand toolbar click "Електронний архів" (digital archive) and then choose "дорадянські фонді" (pre-Soviet collections) for 1918-1944 archive documents and "радянські фонді" (Soviet collections) for 1940-1991 photo materials. The…

Tags: 20th century| Chernivtsi

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: Электронная Книга Памяти Украины 1941-1945

Language: Russian

A searchable database of Ukrainian soldiers who served during World War II. This database comprises a digitized version of the "Book of Memory of Ukraine," a document published since 1994 that lists Ukrainian soldiers who died during the Second World War. The digital project complements this information with portraits, photos of military medals, and information on partisans and prisoners of war.…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Ukrainian Institute of National Memory

The Ukrainian Institute for National Memory has created and compiled a diverse range of oral histories on topics throughout modern Ukrainian history. Interviews touch on everything from the Holodomor of the 1930s through the 21st century revolutions in Ukraine.

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

Creator: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади та управління України

Language: Ukrainian

Many documents from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine (TsDAVO) are available in digitized or published format on the archive's website. Documents are available both in published document collections as well as documentary exhibitions. To browse document collections, choose "publikatsiyi" (publications) from the main toolbar. Here you can access free…

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: Archival Information Systems

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of Ukrainian periodicals dating back to 1896. Sources are most numerous for 1917-1945. You can search for items and filter by date, location, or publication title, or browse aggregated collections by clicking "Колекції" (collections) on the homepage.

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Інститут історії України

Language: Ukrainian

This vast database contains published document collections, oral history collections, old metric books, law collections, archival collections, and more. This is a good initial place to look for any research topic. Sources are categorized under "Е-Джерела" (E-resources) by period, and there is also a search function.

Tags: 15th century| 16th century| 17th century| 18th century| 19th century| 20th century| 21st century| All Ukraine| ancient Ukraine| Kyivan Rus'| Middle Ages

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: Blavatnik Archive Foundation

Language: English

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…

Tags: 19th century| 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