Memorial Foundation collection

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1149
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1918-1920, 1926, 1930s-1940s, 1991-1992
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 201 ff., manuscript, typescript, printed (photocopy), and photographs

Scope and Content

Comprises photocopies of Soviet labour-camp dossiers, with miscellaneous statistical and other information, a file on British prisoners of war, a visitor's pass, secret attestation of executions, correspondence, Moscow Political Red Cross questionnaires completed 1919-1920, with a list of 28 British subjects, and files on captured British [Railway] Mission personnel attached to Admiral Kolchak's forces, 1920

Administrative / Biographical History

The Memorial Foundation in Russia documents politically motivated repression during the Soviet era and honours the memory of the victims

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Francis Greene, April 1991, August 1992, March 1994, January 1995

Note

Russian, English

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm