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The materials in this collection document personal and professional life of Jurij Lawrynenko (1905-1987), prominent literature figure Ukrainian emigration, as well as the formation and development of the literary, cultural, and social life of the Ukrainian diaspora in Germany and the United States. They are extremely valuable resources for research on Ukrainian literature, journalism, publishing, and political movements, and on the history of Ukrainian emigration in the 20th century.

This collection consists of books, correspondence, documents, drafts, manuscripts, periodicals, photographs and printed material. The papers document the life and work of Leonid Plyushch (1939-2015), a Ukrainian political activist and mathematician, a member of the Initiative Group for Human Rights in the USSR and a victim of Soviet punitive psychiatry.