[Updated web links are provided if available. Outdated links are truncated and crossed out.--ed.]
Barek (2000). History Section on web page titled Data about Ternopil’ Region. For further information, contact: barek@scar.utoronto.ca.
Barnavi, Eli (Ed.) (1992). A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People from the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN: 0-679-40332-9
Center for Jewish Art of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Newsletter No. 14, 1998. (http://...) https://cja.huji.ac.il/Publications/NL14/NL14-content.html
Center for Jewish Art of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Newsletter No. 15, 1999. “Remnants of a material legacy: Documenting Jewish architecture and cemeteries in Ukraine.” (http://...). https://cja.huji.ac.il/home/browser.php?mode=nl15
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Heritage Films: Poland (2000). Jewish History of Poland: Holocaust Period. This description is from a long narrative dealing with the Holocaust. It is at http://....
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Miller, Beth (15 Sept 2000). Ukraine. An e-mail message from Beth Miller to Ron Doctor.
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Weiner, Miriam (1999). Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research; Secaucus, N.J.: The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. ISBN: 0-9656508-1-2.
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[For updated information on contacting the archives, see the State Archival Service of Ukraine and the State Archive of the Ternopil Region.]
There are times when you will want to write to one or more of the archives in Ukraine for information about your ancestors. This section provides contact information for various archives.
Main Archival Administration in Kiev
Central State Historical Archives in Kiev (TsDIA-K), for eastern Ukraine
Central State Historical Archives in Lviv (TsDIA-L), for western Ukraine
Oblast Archives in each of the 25 Oblasts
Registry of Vital Statistics Archives (Reyestratsiya aktiv Hromadianskoho Stanu, RAHS)
Start by writing to the Main Archival Administration office is located in Kiev, to the appropriate Central State Historical Archive, and to the appropriate Oblast Archive. If you write to one of the Central State Historical Archives (in Kiev or Lviv), it is likely that your letter will be forwarded to the appropriate Oblast Archive, but this probably will take some time. Use the Lviv address for records in Galicia and Transcarpathia/ Subcarpathia, in the Oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil’ and Transcarpathia. Use the Kiev address for records in the other Oblasts.
The addresses shown are current for the year indicated. You should check for changes in the address before you write as contact information does change occasionally. Also, be especially careful about the order of elements of the address on the envelope. It differs from the order normally used in North America and Europe. Use the following order:
Start with the Country,
then the City,
then the street address
and finally, the name of the person or office.
For example, Weiner gives the following address for letters to the Main Ukraine Archives would be addressed like this:
UKRAINA
252601 Kyiv
24 Solomyanska Street
Main Archival Administration
Attention: Dr. Ruslan Y. Pirig, Director
Weiner gives the following telephone number for the Main Ukraine Archives in Kiev is 380/44/277-4522; the fax number is 380/44/277-3655. A letter to the Central State Historical Archives in Kiev and Lviv would be addressed like this:
UKRAINA
252601 Kyiv
24 Solomyanska Street
Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv
Attention: Olga Maruchak, Director
UKRAINA
290006 Lviv
3a Plaza Soborna
Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv
Attention: Orest Iaroslavoych Matsiuk, Director
Weiner gives the following telephone numbers for the Central State Archives in Kiev is 380/44/277-3002. The Deputy Director of the Central State Historical Archives in Lviv is Diana Pelc. The telephone and fax number is: 011-380-322-72-35-08 (ph. 72-30-63)
Kremenets is one of 16 Raions in the Ternopil’ Oblast. The 1998 address for the State Archives of Ternopil’ Oblast, Ukraine (Galicia) is:
UKRAINA 282000
Ternopil’
vul. Sahaidachnoho, 14 Derzhavnyi arkhiv Ternopil’skoi oblasti
Director: Bohdan Khavarivsky
The telephone number is (0352) 224495 Fax: (0352) 228618.