This collection documents the life of Oleksii Balabas and his family in Kuban', Prague, as a Displaced Person in Germany, and in the United States. Of particular importance are six volumes of diaries in which he describes his life in Germany and the United States. In addition, the collection has official and legal documents from pre-Revolutionary Russia and his immigration into the USA, family and personal correspondence, writings on Kuban' history, and photographs from Kuban', Prague, Germany and the USA. Two letters dated 1933 from family members in Kuban' make reference to the Holodomor.