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HIDE awarded British Library grant for endangered archives
Our project Religious Minorities Archives and the War in Ukraine has been supported by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme.
Religious Minorities Archives and the War in Ukraine
British Library Endangered Archives Programme
We are going to digitise the Adventist Historical Archive-Museum in Bucha (Ukraine)! This is the richest collection in Ukraine, and possibly in the world, of religious ephemera dating from the 17th to 20th century: samizdat, photographs, manuscripts, folk art, religious maps from Crimea (nowadays occupied by Russia). The collection contains unique and rare documents that shed light on lesser-known popular religious culture in Ukraine from the Imperial to the Soviet period. The archive was long created in Crimea and after the regions occupation in 2014 it was transferred to Bucha, where it was partly damaged (with digitized copies fully destroyed) during the occupation and massacre in February 2022.
Soon, this digitized collection will be available on our website!