Territorial Collection: Russia and USSR
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Brief Description:

Personal documents, letters, memoirs, testimonies, clippings relating to Jews in pre-revolutionary Russia and in the Soviet Union.

Materials on the anarchist movement. Clippings from Russian and European newspapers about the blood libel trial of Mendel Beilis, 1913, as well as other materials about the trial. Testimonies and memoirs about the pogroms of 1903 and 1905. Materials on experiences in the Gulag. Materials on the experiences of Polish refugees in the Soviet Union during World War II. Writing assignments of children in Jewish children's homes, 1920s, including issues of the handwritten journal *Kommunar*, Vitebsk, 1922. Clippings from the Soviet press about Jewish affairs, 1920s-1960s.

Held at:
YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 116 Russia and USSR/RG 116RussiaandUSSR
Volume: 0.0
Subject Index
Anarchism
Antisemitism
Belorussia
Communism
Holocaust and Aftermath
Pogroms
Refugees
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Russia
Soviet Union
Ukraine
USSR
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