Records of the “Joint-Stock Russian-Canadian-American Passenger Company”(RUSCAPA) related to Jewish emigration, Ukraine (Fond P-3066)
Extent and Medium
34,071 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- “Joint-Stock Company Russo-Canadian-American Passenger Agency”
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
- Emigration and immigration--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Germans--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Jews--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Polish people--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Ukrainians--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Telegrams.
- Certificates.
- Letters.
- Questionnaires.