Zenon Kuzelia was an ethnographer, lexicographer, bibliographer, journalist, and community figure. From 1920 he lived in Berlin, where he edited several newspapers and books of the publishing houses Ukrainske Slovo and Ukrainska Nakladnia. Kuzelia was a member of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin, and a lecturer at Berlin University. After the Second World War he headed the Ukrainian Students' Aid Commission, was the coeditor of the Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva, and served as president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. The Kuzelia papers primarily consist of correspondence during the period when he lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1945. There is some additional correspondence from 1919 to 1920 when he was editing the newspaper Shliakh published in Salzwedel, Germany. Besides correspondence the papers contain letters of protest, reports, and an article by Viktor Petrov.
Scope: 1919-1942
Size: 5 linear in., 2 boxes
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