Central
Representation of Ukrainian Emigrants in Germany,
Records, ca. 1945-1960
Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
Abstract
| Provenance/Processing | Historical
Note | Scope and Content | Preliminary
Container List
Central Representation of Ukrainian Emigrants
in Germany
Records, ca. 1945-1960
6 linear feet
Preliminary Inventory
Abstract
The Representation is a civic
institution in the Federal Republic of Germany, elected at the first convention
of Ukrainian immigrants in Germany and Austria in 1945. Its purpose
then was to represent and intercede on behalf of Ukrainians with the occupying
powers, and later with the German government, and to cooperate with foreign
charitable organizations, both Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian. The organization
represented all Ukrainians and until 1950 was based in Augsburg.
In 1953 it moved to Munich and it presently unites a series of cultural
and community institutions with 91 branches throughout Germany.
Records include petitions
requesting admittance to the United States. Organizations represented
in the collection include the Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau (London,
England), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), the United Ukrainian
American Relief Committee, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, the Ukrainian Free Academy
of Arts and Sciences in the U.S.A., the International Committee of the
Red Cross (Geneva, Switzerland), and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of U.S.A.
Also included is correspondence of officers of the organization, including
M. Dorozhynsky, A. Melnyk, and Z. Pelensky. Includes German, Russian,
and English. Inventory available.
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Provenance/Processing
Acquired from the organization
in June, 1967. This is just a preliminary inventory as the collection
has not been fully arranged. This preliminary inventory was prepared
for the Internet by Student Assistant Jessica Roskoski and Assistant Curator
Heather Muir in 2001.
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Historical Notes
The Representation is a civic
institution in the Federal Republic of Germany, elected at the first convention
of Ukrainian immigrants in Germany and Austria in 1945. Its purpose
then was to represent and intercede on behalf of Ukrainians with the occupying
powers, and later with the German government, and to cooperate with foreign
charitable organizations, both Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian. The organization
represented all Ukrainians and until 1950 was based in Augsburg.
In 1953 it moved to Munich and it presently unites a series of cultural
and community institutions with 91 branches throughout Germany.
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Scope and Content
Records include petitions requesting
admittance to the United States. Organizations represented in the
collection include the Central Ukrainian Relief Bureau (London, England),
the International Refugee Organization (IRO), the United Ukrainian American
Relief Committee, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration,
the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, the Ukrainian Free Academy of Arts and
Sciences in the U.S.A., the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva,
Switzerland), and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of U.S.A. Also included
is correspondence of officers of the organization, including M. Dorozhynsky,
A. Melnyk, and Z. Pelensky. Includes German, Russian, and English.
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Preliminary Container
List
| Box |
Folder |
Contents |
| 1 |
1-15 |
Correspondence CRUEG, IRO,
etc. |
| 2 |
16-31 |
Correspondence CRUEG, IRO,
etc. Folder 27 includes considerable amount of correspondence of Samopomich.
Folders 28-30 include materials on Ukrainian schools and their teachers. |
| 3 |
32-44 |
Correspondence CRUEG, IRO,
etc. |
| 4 |
45-46 |
Correspondence, etc. Ts.
U.D.- Biuro London |
| |
47-50 |
Correspondence, CRUEG, etc.
Folder 47 includes list of books for Ukrainian schools recommended for
printing. Folder 48 includes Soiuz Ukraintsiv u V. Brytanii Obizhnyk Upravy
SUB. No. 5 and No. 20. Also included in the box are published misc. materials. |
| 5 |
51-66 |
Correspondence, CRUEG, etc. |
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