Ukrainian Military Collaborators

Information in the Archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

Authors

  • Roman Shliakhtych Dnipro National University named after O. Honchara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0225/art_rshl01

Keywords:

archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician), Ukrainian auxiliary police

Abstract

This article analyses documents from the archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) that contain information about Ukrainian military collaborators. There are four groups of such sources: documents of personal origin; press materials; documents from archives in different countries; and printed publications. They differ in their information potential and purpose of creation. In this article, I analyse the research potential of documents from the VWI archive regarding crimes committed by members of the Ukrainian auxiliary police as well as by members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician). Information about the involvement of Ukrainian police officers in the Holocaust can be found in various types of sources. These include eyewitness accounts, archival documents, and press materials. They provide a lot of factual material about specific crimes. The information about the Division of the SS (Galician) is mainly concentrated in various brochures, bulletins, and books. These contain information not only about the military history of the division, but also about individual members of this unit who committed violence against civilians, including Jews.

Author Biography

  • Roman Shliakhtych, Dnipro National University named after O. Honchara

    Roman Shliakhtych is a lecturer in the Department of Social-Humanitarian Science at the State University of Economy and Technology in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Since 2023, he has been a doctoral student at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, and his dissertation is on the involvement of members of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in the implementation of Holocaust policy in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. He has been researching the participation of local policemen in the Holocaust on the territory of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine since 2014. Roman is the author of two monographs, and he has published more than forty studies in professional publications. He has been a fellow at leading Holocaust research centres, such as Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yahad-In Unum, and, from 2023 to 2024, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

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Published

2025-05-08

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

Section

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How to Cite

“Ukrainian Military Collaborators: Information in the Archive of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies”. 2025. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 12 (2): 22-40. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0225/art_rshl01.