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Creator: Shevchenko Portal

Language: Ukrainian

Dedicated to celebrated Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and intellectual Taras Shevchenko, also known as Kobzar ("the bard"). The collection includes scans of Shevchenko's original handwritten writings, published works, paintings and illustrations, and personal and biographical documents. Click the three-lines icon on the lefthand toolbar to access the menu.

Tags: 19th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського

Language: Ukrainian

An ongoing online project that aims to compile and make accessible the complete works of famed Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky. The digital collection includes works written, edited, and collaborated on by Hrushevsky; studies of Hrushevksy; his personal documents and correspondence as well as those of people close to him; archival, state, legal, and financial documents related to…

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Center for Research on Ukrainian Heritage

Language: Russian

Digitized audio recordings from a large-scale oral history project conducted by Ukrainian scholars led by William Noll in 1993-1995. Interviews were conducted with people who lived in rural western and central Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s. They examine the transformation of rural society throughout this period. About 100 interviews are available online. They are presented without transcript, so…

Tags: 20th 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: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Language: English

A major North American center for the study of the Jews of Eastern Europe, YIVO offers a great bulk of its archival materials in digital, open-access form. At the given link, browse through several YIVO digital archive projects pertaining to the Jewish history of Eastern Europe and migration. While there is no set collection pertaining to contemporary Ukraine, users can find many sources related…

Tags: 19th century| 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

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: Музей Голодомору

Language: Ukrainian

Video, audio, and written transcripts of oral histories on Holodomor and other Ukrainian famines of the 1920s-1940s. This compilation of oral histories pairs with the Holodomor Museum's burial map, a digital project where users can track the events of the Holodomor famine and other Soviet famines in Ukraine (those of 1921-1923 and 1946-7) by location. On the "Свідчення" (testimonies) page of the…

Tags: 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Diasporiana

Language: Ukrainian

Archive of writing and periodicals from the Ukrainian diaspora, particularly in North America, dating back 125 years. Includes drama, poetry, political science, children’s books, folklore, and over 8,000 periodical publications (mostly from the mid-20th century).

Tags: 19th century| 20th century| All Ukraine

Creator: Российская национальная библиотека

Language: Russian

The Russian National Library's online collection of digitized newspapers includes many newspapers from Ukraine in both Ukrainian and Russian languages. Collections are especially rich for the mid-19th century through the 1940s, but researchers will find materials for as early as the 1700s and as late as the 2000s. Collections are organized by city, so the researcher must know which cities they are…

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Creator: Верховна рада України

Language: Ukrainian

A major, searchable database of legislation passed in Ukraine dating back to 1903, although sources are most numerous for the period since 1991 and especially the 21st century. Users can use advanced search functions to search hundreds thousands of legal documents and can also browse by committee, most popular documents, and other categories.

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