Weinstein family papers

Vladimir Weinstein was born in 1934. During the Second World War, Vladimir found himself (along with his mother, grandmother and younger brother, Mikhail) evacuated to the Urals, while his father fought on the front as a soldier in the Red Army. His mother died shortly thereafter, and Vladimir and Mikhail were placed in an orphan’s home.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archives of the Instytut i︠u︡daïky (Judaica Institute), Kyiv, Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Judaica Institute via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June, 2009.