Personal Archives of Sofia R. Kotsyna (1873-1940), Jewish librarian, archivist and historian

Sofia Rafailovna Kotsyna was born in 1873 in Białystok,Poland and died after 1940. She was a librarian, historian, and archivist. Throughout her career she was an active and leading figure in a number of societies supporting Jewish education and the study of Jewish history, literature and language in Russia, and collected and inventoried the personal archives of a number of Russian Jewish figures in science, culture, and social life.

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 State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii, GARF) Fond 9535, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from GARF via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in June 2009.