Vyacheslav Tamarkin papers

The collection documents the experiences of Vi︠a︡cheslav Lvovitch Tamarkin, originally from the Soviet Union, and includes a Russian certificate, dated 14 September 1993, attesting to the fact that Tamarkin was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps; his memoir, "In the Burrow," describing his experiences in Lyadi ghetto and an unnamed concentration camp, the killing of Jews, his escape from the camp, and his activities in the partisans from March 1943 and June 1944; a map detailing the locations of the partisan group with whom Tamarkin was affiliated; poems that he wrote about his partisan commander and the fate of Jews from his village; and a certificate authenticating the German actions in his native village.