Recognizing an important and largely unknown chapter of Jewish history, in 2006 the Blavatnik Archive Foundation undertook a long-term project to digitally record the personal testimonies of Jewish WWII veterans of the Soviet Army, as well as photographs and documents relating to their war-time experiences. “Among the millions of Soviet citizens who fought the Nazis,” writes Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Judaic Studies at Michigan, “were hundreds of thousands of Jews. Their stories could not be told for decades, but the Blavatnik Archive has rescued the information only they could provide.”

Over 1000 HD video-recorded interviews have been conducted in 10 countries through 2012, supplemented with thousands of digitized archival photographs and documents.

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