Ukrainian

The collection of the L’viv Oblast Party Archive was a part of the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP) which was undertaken by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (now: the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs) in the 1990s. The material was collected by Jeffrey Burds, now an Associate Professor of History, and the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union, at Northeastern University.

The Pre-1950 Ukrainian Canadiana collection contains material on Ukrainians and published in Canada from 1900-1950.  Noteworthy items in the collection include the publications of various Ukrainian printing presses and publishing houses, including the Socialist press of the inter-war period.

This collection of original materials was donated by the Luczkiw family in 1982.  It consists of 2,000 monograph and periodical titles published in Ukrainian Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Austria after World War II and is preserved on 86 reels of microfilm. Additional items are added on a regular basis from gift receipts.

Liubchenko (1899-1945) was active in the literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s, as secretary of the literary association Hart, co-founder and permanent secretary of Vaplite, and co-founder of Prolitfront and the almanac Literaturnyi iarmarok.   He also served as editor of Volodymyr Vynnychenko's (1927) and Vasyl Stefanyk's (1928) selected works, and worked in the editorial office of the newspaper Vilna Ukraina in Kharkiv (1941-1942).  Liubchenko published collections of stories and novels, as well as articles, essays, and translations. 

The collection documents the life and activities of participants of one of the Ukrainian nationalist movements, the United Hetman Organization (Soiuz hetmantsiv derzhavnykiv), mainly from the 1940s to 1950s. The correspondence of Rodion Kaliuzhnyi, who served as secretary to Danylo Skoropadskyi, the son of the last Ukrainian hetman, forms a large part of the collection.

A collection of 33 drawings depicting Ukrainian refugees in Displaced Persons camps following the Second World War.

The collection includes the original diary and English-language translation of Dmitrii Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1891-1919), a Russian White Army Officer in the Preobrazhenskii Leib-Guard Regiment in Ukraine, written from January 7 to November 7, 1919, as well as a number of Litovchenko's certificates and other original documents.

A collection of vocal and instrumental music, with Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukrainian words.

The aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent civil wars brought outbreaks of anti-Semitic activities, particularly in Ukraine, where tens of thousands fell victim to Jewish pogroms during the Ukrainian-Soviet War of 1917-1921.  The collection of over 30,000 pages documents the activities of the Kyiv District Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms, including its work with orphanages, schools, hospitals, work centers, shelters, and refugee camps.  The records include correspondence, witness accounts, reports describing commissioners' and committee activities,

Scattered around the world today are an estimated 12 million descendants of Jewish emigres who departed Ukraine for the United States, Canada, Europe and Russia between 1895 and 1917. From start to finish, this remarkable diaspora was managed by a single organization in Kiev—the Society for Adjustment of Jewish Emigration, later called the Jewish Emigration Society. The Society organized and managed the outflow of Jewish emigres and their destinations abroad before it was disbanded in 1917.