Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

Description of the collection : Official Committee documentation, testimonies of survivors, Red Army soldiers, underground members, lists of Jewish victims, notices and announcements, investigative reports against Nazi criminals, survey reports, letters, radio broadcasts, articles and photographs. There are three main collections in the records group:A. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the"Black Book", including valuable testimonies, diaries and memoirs that were processed for literary presentation and others that were only published partially, testimonies and memoirs regarding the Holocaust that were sent to the JAF and to Ilya Ehrenburg, but were not published for ideological reasons, and included in the"Unknown Black Book"(Jerusalem, 1980, 1993), articles based on the testimonies and published in the"Einigkeit"newspaper (the JAF newspaper), Soviet radio broadcasts transmitted to listeners in other countries and articles by JAF members that were sent for publication in newspapers outside of the Soviet Union; B. Private letters sent by Soviet Jews to the Committee leadership and to the author Ilya Ehrenburg with requests for financial and legal assistance, as well as requests from those supporting the establishment of the State of Israel, and proposals for support for the State during the War of Independence, letters regarding aliya to Israel or a move to Birobidzhan;C. Reports of Committee meetings until liquidation of the Committee in 1948; JAF correspondence with the Soviet authorities, survey reports regarding the important events in the lives of Jews outside the Soviet Union. The collection also includes photographs prepared mainly for the"Einigkeit"newspaper, although most of them were not published. There are photographs of Committee leaders and activists in the Jewish Anti-Fascist movements abroad, photographs of Jewish soldiers and Soviet partisans, photographs taken in parts of Europe and the Soviet Union during the Holocaust pertaining to deportation of Jews, ghettos, riots, camps, murder, the victims, ghetto fighters and underground members, survivors, survivors of the Sobibor camp and more, as well as photographs of Jewish children from the Soviet Union in orphanages after the war.