The Eventov Archives of the Association of Immigrants from the former Yugoslavia in Israel

The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) [Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi] were established in 1939. They hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Board of Directors is composed of representatives of the Government of Israel, The Historical Society of Israel, The Jewish Agency for Israel, The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. On January 30, 2013 The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and the National Library of Israel (NLI) signed an agreement to implement a merger between the Archives and the Library. [see: http://cahjp.huji.ac.il/]

The records were created by Ethel and Jakir Eventov in Haifa, Israel during the 1950s and forms part of the Hitachdut Oley Yugoslavia (Association of Jewish Immigrants from Yugoslavia). The Archives was originally housed in Mr. and Mrs. Evenotv’s home. In 1986 the materials were transferred to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, from which United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired them. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2008, and accretion in March 2011.