Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Significant Archival Collections from and relevant to the Former Soviet Union This guide provides users with a select list of USHMM archival collections that originate in the states of the former Soviet Union. Its aim is to present a sample of the rich archival resources at the Museum and to suggest future avenues of research on the Holocaust as it occurred in the former Soviet Union. The number of Soviet resources in the holdings of the Museum’s Archives continues to grow at a rapid pace. Researchers can access more than 4.7 million pages of microfilmed and paper collections, as well as access millions of additional relevant pages in the digital holdings of the International Tracing Service archive on the Museum campus. These collections constitute an important, largely untapped portion of the Museum’s more than 190 million pages of archival holdings and present to scholars information on the vast range of information on the Holocaust as it occurred in the Soviet Union and it affected Soviet peoples. Users can identify archival collections by record group (RG) number or by accession number (Acc). RG and Acc numbers that include the letter “M” are available on microfilm or microfiche. To access the regularly updated Archival Guide to the Collections of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, please visit http://www.ushmm.org/online/archival-guide/. For additional information on the collections, please contact the Museum’s reference staff at
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