Personal archives of Zinoviĭ Tolkachev

Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev was an artist and professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Kiev, Ukraine, he was also an official artist of the Red Army. Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev joined up with Soviet forces in Majdanek, Poland, shortly after its liberation in 1944 and immediately after that with the forces that liberated Auschwitz in 1945. During this period he drew the series:"Majdanek," "Auschwitz," and "The Flowers of Auschwitz."

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 Instytut i︠u︡daïky (Judaica Institute), Ukraine. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photocopied collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2004.