The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center planned to digitize more than 1.5 million archival documents about Jewish life in Ukraine
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center announced the start of a 48-hour fundraising campaign to preserve unique archival documents about Jewish life in Ukraine.
Due to the war of Russia against Ukraine, in the course of incessant shelling, unique paper archives about the life of the Jews of Ukraine in the 19th and 20th centuries can be damaged or permanently destroyed at any time.
To prevent this, everyone who cares about preserving history will be able to support the initiative of the Memorial Center by clicking on the link https://www.charidy.com/babynyar
The campaign will last 48 hours, during which it is planned to raise $250,000. This money will be used to digitize more than 1.5 million archival documents and then open them to the whole world. Particular attention will be paid to 10 border regions of Eastern and Southern Ukraine, as well as central regions.
Parish books, books of the rabbinate, official records and other documents reflecting the composition of the population of the specified period will be subject to digitization.
The Memorial Center has rich experience in creating online archives and cooperation with the world’s largest archival institutions. Thanks to the efforts of the specialists of the Memorial Center in partnership with the State Archival Service of Ukraine, Yad Vashem, the Bundesarchiv and the Central Archive of the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, thousands of previously unknown victims of the Holocaust have already been identified and the largest online archive in Ukraine with 2 million documents of the 20th century has been collected.
