The unique archive of the military commander Chaldean will be presented at the Jewish Museum in Moscow

MOSCOW, May 7. The unique archive of the Great Patriotic War military commander Yevgeny Khaldei will be presented for the first time at the exhibition “There is not a single personal fate here. All destinies are merged into one,” dedicated to Victory Day, the exhibition will open on Tuesday at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, the museum’s press service reported.
The exhibition is dedicated to Soviet Jews who participated in the war; the events of 1941-1945 will be presented through the prism of history and the destinies of individuals who made an invaluable contribution to the collective feat of the country.
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“A unique section of the exhibition is the photo archive of Evgeniy Khaldei, which has not previously been shown in Russia. The archive of one of the main photographers of the Great Patriotic War is in the collection of Alexander Borodulin, to whom the collection was personally given by the author. Evgeniy Khaldei collected it as evidence against fascism: the archive contained photographs found among captured German soldiers and in territories liberated from the Nazis,” the press service reported.

Evgeniy Khaldei went through the entire war and reached Berlin. Participated in the assault on Novorossiysk, Kerch, the liberation of Sevastopol, the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary. Participant in the filming of the Potsdam Conference, the Paris Conference and the Nuremberg Trials. Khaldei filmed the hoisting of the flag over the Reichstag and the signing of the act of surrender of Germany. At the Nuremberg trials, one of the physical evidence were photographs of Chaldea.

The exhibition will include unique archival materials: audio versions of wartime diaries, video chronicles and photographs. The exhibition will open with a section dedicated to the defense of Moscow and the battles of the summer-autumn 1941. A separate chapter tells the story of the formation of the people's militia and the tragic fate of the writing company, most of which were Jews who volunteered for the front. One of the sections of the exhibition will be dedicated to war correspondents: Ilya Erenburg, Vasily Grossman, Mikhail Rosenfeld and others.
A separate section of the exhibition will be dedicated to women war heroes.
The exhibition will last until August 4.

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