Vikentii Shandor papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal correspondence and writings of Vikentii Shandor, as well as records documenting his activities in various Ukrainian and Ukrainian American organizations, most prominently the Carpathian Alliance and the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Exile. The latter contains correspondence, meeting and event records, and related materials.
Фонд складається з особистої кореспонденції та творів Вікентія Шандора, а також з матеріалів, які документують його діяльність в різних українських та українських організаціях. Особливо між ними це Карпатський Союз та Уряд Української Народної Республіки в екзилі. Між матеріалами кореспонденція, протоколи, інформації про заходи, фінансові звіти, та подібне.
Dates
- 1949 - 1992
Language of Materials
Materials are primarily Ukrainian, with less than 10% of materials in English and other languages.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for researcher use. Please contact the archivist (archives@ukrhec.org) for more information and to make arrangements.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Biographical / Historical
Vikentii Shandor (also Vincent Shandor, Вікентій Шандор) was a lawyer, author, and Ukrainian American community activist originally from Transcarpathian Ukraine.
He was born in the village of Baranyntsi (today Uzhhorod raion, Zakarpats'ka oblast', Ukraine) in 1907. He completed the Commerce Academy in Uzhhorod and Mukachevo, and studied law at the Charles University in Prague, where he obtained a Doctor of Law degree in 1939. He later studied economics and political science in Frankfurt, Germany and at Columbia University in New York City.
He worked for banks in Uzhhorod and Bratislava, and in 1938-1939 served as a representative of Carpathian Ukraine to the Czechoslovak government in Prague. He emigrated to the United States in 1948, where he worked for the U.S. Treasury Department and as a political science and economics advisor on the Slavic lands of the U.S.S.R. to the United Nations Secretariat. He was active in Ukrainian organizations such as the Carpathian Alliance and the Ukrainian Technical Institute, and from 1985 to 1989 served as deputy chair of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Exile.
Extent
1.7 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Abstract
Vikentii Shandor was a lawyer, author, and Ukrainian American community activist originally from Transcarpathian Ukraine. This collection contains his personal correspondence and writings, as well as records documenting his activities in the Carpathian Alliance, the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Exile, and other organizations.
Processing Information
File level order has been retained as found by the current processign archivist. It is not clear if this is the original order, or if it had been rearranged by a previous worker. Series structure has been imposed by the processing archivist.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael Andrec
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Ukrainian History and Education Center Archives Repository