Records of the “Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company”(RUSCAPA) related to Jewish emigration, Ukraine (Fond P-3066)

Identifier
irn724104
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2021.50.1
  • RG-31.138
Dates
1 Jan 1926 - 31 Dec 1930
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

34,071 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

Biographical History

The Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company” (RUSCAPA) was set up in the early 1920s as a joint-stock company whose members were Russian, Canadian, and American passenger carriers. Its central Moscow office, Kyiv branch, and representatives operating throughout Ukraine helped Soviet citizens to process the necessary emigration documents and arranged for their exit of the USSR and entrance to the USA, Canada, and Latin America.

Archival History

Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Kyïvsʹkoï oblasti

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Kyïvsʹkoï oblasti (Kyiv State Oblast Archive), Ukraine, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in May 2021. Duplication project completed.

Scope and Content

The collection contains records of the “Joint-Stock Company Russo-Canadian-American Passenger Agency” (“Aktsionernoe obshchestvo Russkocanadsko-amerikanskoe passazhirskoe agenstvo”) (RUSCAPA) related to thousands of families emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1926-1930. It includes personal files of emigrants (Jews, Ukrainians, Germans, Poles, Russians), questionnaires, medical certificates, business correspondence with customers, receipts for payment of services, personal letters and telegrams filled out and submitted in order to exit the USSR and enter the USA and Canada, and other important documentation related to personal information of family members, as the age, marital status, health, level of literacy, and finances. More than 80% of the records of the 1,470 dossiers are related to the Soviet Jews emigrants. Dossiers range in size between 3 and 150 pages.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by a last name.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Kyïvsʹkoï oblasti

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.