Metadata: Documents and Materials of Ukrainian Émigré Institutions, Organisations, and Various Individuals (Collection)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом’янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- http://tsdavo.gov.ua/
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 4465
- Title:
- Documents and Materials of Ukrainian Émigré Institutions, Organisations, and Various Individuals (Collection)
- Title (official language):
- Документы и материалы украинских эмигрантских учреждений, организаций и разных лиц (коллекция)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian Émigré Institutions, Organisations, and Various Individuals
- Date(s):
- 1901/1948
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- German
- Polish
- Czech
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,132 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents on organisational, party, and cultural contacts between Ukrainian organizations (the Ukrainian Free University; the Ukrainian Organizing Service; the Ukrainian Economic Academy), societies (the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen’s Administration; Prosvyta; and Student Aid), and particular individuals (Y. Y. Ogyenko, O. Nazaruk, E. Bachynskyi, and V. M. Shcherbakovskyi) and Jewish political, public, and research entities; on the participation of Jews in combat divisions of the Ukrainian Galician Army and Jews serving in medical and sanitary units thereof; on trials of Jews in the Ukrainian SSR and Eastern Galicia based on files of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Military Organization; manuscripts and publications of Ukrainian authors (M. F. Levytskyi, N. Gnatyshak, L. U. Bykovskyi, V. M. Kubyiovych, N. M. Chekhyvskyi, O. Nazaruk, and others) containing information on the history and culture of Jews in ethnically Ukrainian territories; charters and platforms of societies (the Ukrainian Community in Berlin; the Ukrainian Culture League; the Committee of Galician Doctors) whose events included the participation of Jews.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Small groups of Ukrainian political émigrés settled in Austro-Hungary and Germany in the early twentieth century. After the Civil War and Poland’s occupation of Western Ukraine, many émigrés from Soviet Ukraine headed for Warsaw, Prague, Uzhgorod, and Mukacheve; and from the western Ukrainian lands, to Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and Paris. The interwar period was a time of persistent political mergers and divisions, and also saw the formation of a Ukrainian system of research organisations and institutions (the Ukrainian Research Institute in Warsaw; the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Research Institute in Berlin) and educational institutions (the Ukrainian Economic Academy; the Ukrainian Free University; and the M. P. Dragomanov Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute). Also established in this period, and managing to function despite financial hardships, were press bureaus, publishing houses, and journal and newspaper editorial offices. Most such organisations, institutions, and unions were open also to non-Ukrainians who had emigrated from Ukrainian lands, including Jews from Galicia who had been Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fighters or doctors or pharmacists working with the UPA, as well as Jewish employees of institutions of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) and Directorate. In the 1920s-30s, Ukrainian political émigrés maintained ties with various political movements and parties, including Zionists and the Bund. Émigré Ukrainian educational institutions included Jewish students from Galicia, Kuban’, and Transcarpathia. Many Ukrainian political activists and public organisation members in 1930-38 condemned both “Zhido-Bolshevism” in the USSR and the Soviet authorities’ policies regarding Jews (particularly Zionists, themselves accused by the Soviets of collaborating with Ukrainian nationalists). Beginning in the latter half of the 1930s, Ukrainian émigré organisations in Czechoslovakia and Poland ceased activities due to these countries’ rapprochement with the USSR; in the same period, such political groups as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian National Union became active in Berlin. After the Second World War, the policies of the Central European people’s democracies led to the liquidation of most Ukrainian émigré organisations and institutions. Some of their members and staff were transferred to the USSR, where they were put on trial and convicted; most were concentrated in the Anglo-American occupation zone of Germany and subsequently emigrated to the US, Canada, and Australia.
- Access points: locations:
- Eastern Galicia
- Ukrainian SSR
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bachynskyi, E.
- Bykovskyi, L. U.
- Chekhyvskyi, N. M.
- Gnatyshak, N.
- Kubyiovych,V. M.
- Levytskyi, M. F.
- Nazaruk, O.
- Ogyenko, Y. Y.
- Shcherbakovskyi, V. M.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes a single inventory systematised according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
