There’s no end to the determination and resilience of Ukrainians.
Case in point: Employees of the State Archives of Kyiv Region are working remotely to ensure archival documents are scanned.
A couple of days ago, 4,290 additional files of WWII forced Ukrainian labourers — Ostarbeiters — were posted on the archives’ website.
Vera Miller, who researches family history in Ukraine and Russia, tweeted about the ongoing digitization project. Yesterday she wrote, “For a third time, more records are appearing online.”
Ostarbeiters was a German Nazi term for foreign workers rounded up from occupied Central and Eastern Europe to perform forced labour in Germany during the Second World War. More than 50 percent of Ostarbeiters were former Soviet subjects originating from the territory of modern-day Ukraine,
In a news item posted on its website, the archives wrote, in Ukrainian, “The digitization of (the original documents) was possible through cooperation with FamilySearch International in the United States. (USA). In total, the archive has almost 115,000 filtration cases of repatriates. (I’m still trying to figure out the exact English term for filtration, but I suspect some genealogists will know.)
Image: Kyiv Regional Archives website.
The archives continues to post news on its website, and thanks to Google Translate, non-Ukrainian speakers can read what they write.
