МІЖОСОБИСТІСНЕ СПІЛКУВАННЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ЕМІГРАЦІЙНОЇ В МІЖВОЄННОМУ СВІТСЬКОМУ ПРОСТОРІ ЧСР: АНОМАЛІЇ, ФОБІЇ, ПАТОЛОГІЇ ТА ДЕВІАЦІЇ (1921–1939)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the policy of Czechoslovakia’s first president T. G. Masaryk concerning Ukrainian emigrants in the context of his perception of the Ukrainian issue.The purpose of the article is to highlight the attitude of the leader of the Czechoslovak liberation movement from the time of the First World War and the first president of the Czechoslovakia T. G. Masaryk to Ukrainian emigrants and the main aspects of politics concerning them.Czechoslovak support for emigrants from the territories of the former Russian Empire was a unique state humanitarian program of the interwar period. It was carried out within the Russian action to help (1921-1931). One of its initiators was president T. G. Masaryk, who was guided by the ideas of humanism, his own understanding of the Slavic program, which saw first of all the economic and cultural perspective in relations between the Czechoslovak republic and East Slavic people. The implementation of the Russian action to help began in two directions. The first relates to assistance to the hungry in Russia and Ukraine, and the second one – the support of emigrants from these countries, which returned to their homeland,after their education in Czechoslovakia, was calculated by the leadership of the Czechoslovak republic. Emigrant’s policy was directed primarily at supporting their cultural, educational and scientific activities. Thanks to her, Ukrainians wishing to receive higher education, and, in particular, scientists, were able to realize their creative potential. For Ukrainian emigrants, this was of great importance to national-cultural values. Czechoslovak republic has become one of the centers for the development of Ukrainian culture and science. On the modern day it was one of the first successful examples of the intellectual integration of Ukrainian scholars into the world scientific and cultural space, which is actively continuing today. It isworth noting that individual achievements of emigrants were enriched not only by Ukrainian and Czechoslovak but also by world science. Support for the cultural, educational and scientific activities of Ukrainian emigrants and Belarusian and Russian, strengthened the importance of the Czechoslovak republic as one of the leading centers of Slavic studies.

У статті розглянуто український молодіжний рух у контексті міжнародних відносин у Європі в 1920–1939 рр. На базі широкого кола джерел автор всебічно досліджує українські молодіжні організації в еміграції та визначає ступінь їх включення до міжнародних процесів у Європі. Ґрунтовно проаналізовано історіографію проблеми й визначено стан її розробки в науковій літературі. Також наголошується на особливому значенні молоді в репрезентації української нації у світовому співтоваристві. В статье рассматривается украинское молодежное движение в контексте международных отношений в Европе в 1920–1939 гг. На основе широкого круга источников автор всесторонне исследует украинские организации в эмиграции и определяет степень их включения в международные процессы в Европе. Основательно проанализирована историография проблемы и определено состояние ее разработки в научной литературе. Также отмечается особое значение молодежи в представлении украинской нации в мировом сообществе. The problem of Ukrainian youth emigration in the European system of international relations in 1920–1930s is actual for investigation in modern history. During the interwar period such countries as Czechoslovak Republic, Poland, Germany, Austria were the most important centers for the Ukrainians. Above 100 thousands of Ukrainian emigrants were concentrated in Europe. Young people represented considerable part of them.Youth movement of the Ukrainian emigration consisted of three constituents: students, scouts and so called “falcons” or ”sokols”. So, the fi rst and the largest group of young Ukrainian emigrants were represented by students. They were considerable part of Ukrainian emigration. Their amount, for example, in Czechoslovak Republic during the interwar period was approximately 5000–7000. In Europe students’ emigration had peculiarities, mostly social and legal, which depended on the governmental policy to emigrants in diff erent European countries. Ukrainian students in Czechoslovak Republic infl uenced greatly the all Ukrainian emigration in Europe. They were basis not only for scientifi c and cultural work, but also created new Ukrainian political system abroad. During the interwar period Ukrainian students founded more than 100 academic, educational, professional, cultural, sport, political organizations in Europe. The Central Union of Ukrainian Students Organizations was established in Prague in 1922 and acted during the next twenty years.Ukrainian scouts or Plast was the second branch of Ukrainian youth movement. The net of Ukrainian scouts was very powerful and spread in all European regions. At the beginning of 1930s in Czechoslovakia it was founded the Union of Ukrainian Plast-Emigrants which coordinated activity of other Ukrainian scout organizations in Europe. The Plast closely cooperated with the Czech scout movement. Ukrainian scouts took part in international scout competitions and congresses, presenting Ukrainian nation among foreign community.Physical training was considered by the majority of Ukrainian young emigrants to be not only a kind of sport activity, but also the way of patriotic upbringing. Going in for sports, young people cultivated fi rst of all national spirit in healthy bodies. Because, after graduating the universities, emigrants had to become not only true professionals, but also healthy patriots, ready to struggle for the Ukrainian independence. In that case, the third branch of Ukrainian youth movement is presented by sport organizations. Sport was very popular among all the groups of emigrants. Taking part in diff erent sport competitions, the Ukrainians got opportunity to present their achievements at the international level. The most powerful Ukrainian sport movement could be researched through the activity of so called “falcons” or “sokols”. In Czechoslovak Republic it was even founded the Union of Ukrainian Sokol’s Abroad. Numerous members of that Union took part in internationalsport competitions, closely cooperated with the Czech “falcons”.Ukrainian emigrants conducted cultural and educational work in their organizations. Important aims of these organizations were: preservation of “national memory” (traditions, culture, history), popularization information about Ukraine among the foreign community, cooperation in the international sphere.In European countries, Ukrainian young people were under the infl uence of all social, cultural and political changes and movements of Europe. Ukrainian emigrants were involved in all these movements, but also contributed to the transformation processes in the interwar Europe. In that case, in high importance is to retrace all movements and process in Czechoslovakia, which infl uenced Ukrainian youth movement in Europe.

Кіно в житті української еміграції в міжвоєнній ЧСР (1921–1939)

The purpose of the study is to show the assessment of Ukrainian politicians in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic in the 1920s and 1930s of their departure abroad through the prism of everyday life. The research methodology is based on the principles of a specifi chistorical approach, problem chronological, objectivity, comprehensiveness, and integrity, as well as the use of methods of analysis and synthesis. Th e scientifi c novelty is to refl ect everyday life of Ukrainian emigration. Conclusions. The assessment of Ukrainian political exiles of their departure abroad and the expediency of their stay in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic at the level of everyday practices, in fact, depended on foreign and domestic political and economic factors. If in 1918–1921 attention to going abroad and the expediency of staying abroad was minimal, starting from 1921–1925, provided a combination of “the concept of rapid return”, “Russian aid action”, “golden years of the Czechoslovak crown” and the results of scientifi c and tech nological progress, the stay abroad of Ukrainian immigrants was assessed quite optimistically and eff ectively. Changes in emigration assessments of their departure abroad from optimistic to pessimistic began in 1925–1929: political and everyday – from the moment of the “turn” and the collapse of the “Russian aid action”, economic and everyday – from the time of the interwar Czechoslovakia with the fi rst eff ects of world war crisis and infl ation of the Czechoslovak crown. Since the peak of the economic crisis in the country fell in 1932 and thus the crisis lasted until 1935 (closing the labour market, total unemployment), Ukrainian emigrants were faced with the question of purely physical survival. It was no longer about any political, social, or cultural mani festations. In 1930, they demonstrated to Ukrainian emigrants the futility and inexpediency of their stay abroad, both by the fact that unemployment was eliminated in Bolshevik Ukraine, as well as throughout the USSR (1933), and by the fact that the Second World War “knocked” on emigrant doors (1938, the Munich conspiracy).

In the article the nature of the activities of Ukrainian and Polish political émigrésis outlined through the assessments of a Ukrainian and Polish historian Oleksandr Kolianchuk (1932) with a reflection on the transcendental value of Ukrainian-Polish interactions and their intercultural significance for the Ukrainian and Polish neighboring peoples during the twentieth century. The topic offered is closely connected with the problem of political emigration, that is with the problem, which can be considered in different dimensions of social character in general and socio- cultural dimension in particular. The article (book) deals with the role of the representatives of the Ukrainian emigration in the Polish science and culture. This problem includes well-reasoned unity which is useful for the Ukrainian-Polish cultural ties in the 20-30th of the XX century. This circle of problems was studied by a well-known historian Oleksandr Kolianchuk from Peremyshl. Scientific works of the Polish outstanding scientist, socio-cultural figure were not enough estimated. Our attention is caught by conceptually new Kolianchuk’s approach to the solving of unsolved tasks of his predecessors by his rich historical-documentary base, which gives panoramic imagination of a great role of Ukrainian military emigration in preserving state-unity traditions of the Ukrainian people, especially after the dramatic defeat of national-liberatory struggle of 1917 – 1921. Scientific works of the scientist make special impression if we consider the facts, events studied by him in the light of the analysis of the parallels, which create a certain chain between the epochs of Bohdan Kchmelnytsky, Ivan Mazepa, Mykchailo Hrushevsky, Symon Petlura, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Avhustyn Voloshyn, Andriy Sheptytsky. It goes without saying that it should be done much for studying those prior identificators which are characteristic for the Polish emigration on the one hand and the Ukrainian emigration on the other hand.

The article is devoted to the perception of the Czechoslovak Republic and the personality of its first president, T.G. Masaryk, by the famous Ukrainian socio-political, cultural and educational figure Maksym Slavinsky (1868-1945). The research methodology is based on the study and critical analysis of M. Slavinsky's official addresses to the top leadership of Czechoslovakia, his interviews and publications about T. G. Masaryk, essays on international relations and other political journalism. The use of the research principles of historicism, scientific objectivity and systematicity contributed to the study of the peculiarities of M. Slavinsky's perception of the Czechoslovak Republic and the figure of its first president, T. G. Masaryk. The author of the article notes that one of the priority objects of study for Ukrainian emigrants in the interwar period was the Czechoslovak Republic and the figure of its first president T. G. Masaryk. To a large extent, this is explained by the unique support of the authorities of this country for the cultural needs of Ukrainian refugees. In their writings, teaching staff and students of educational and cultural-scientific institutions established in the Czechoslovak Republic repeatedly paid attention to various aspects of T. G. Masaryk's activities, thus expressing gratitude to the Czechoslovak Republic and its leader for their support. It was noted that the peculiarity of the coverage of this topic by M. Slavinsky was that he touched it not as a scientist, but as a statesman, being in 1919-1923 the head of the Extraordinary Diplomatic Mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in the Czechoslovak Republic, in 1923-1939 - as an emigrant. It was established that as the head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic and later as an emigrant, M. Slavinsky evaluated the figure of T.G. Masaryk from the point of view of his political successes. A certain glorification is noticeable in the assessments of the president of Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak Republic was mentioned in the context of a successful state-building experience, in particular, its democracy, political consolidation of the country, peaceful foreign policy were noted. He assessed the attitude towards Ukraine as neutrality, noted Prague's support for Ukrainian military emigration. The high evaluations of the Czechoslovak Republic were not determined only by the diplomatic tact of the representative of Ukraine. They reflected the serious domestic and foreign political achievements of the young state. As an emigrant, M. Slavinsky did not change his high assessment of the Czechoslovak Republic and its first president, he emphasized their support for the cultural life of Ukrainian emigrants. However, after the destruction of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1938-1939, M. Slavinsky mentioned the unresolved national issue and stated the problems of the country's foreign policy orientation.

The article reveals the educational and enlightening activities of the well-known Ukrainian educator, cultural and public leader in Halychyna Lev Yasinchuk in the so-called camp period of the Ukrainian emigration (1944–1949). During 1944–1949 L. Yasinchuk was in one of the Austrian camps for displaced persons, the so-called DP camps in Innsbruck. In the middle of 1940s according to various data more than 21 thousand of the Ukrainians were concentrated in the three western occupation zones of Austria, and they were natives, both from the Western Ukrainian lands and Dnieper region, and the representatives of all classes, strata of the Ukrainian society of that time – intellectuals, workers, peasants, etc. Despite their relatively short period of the existence, these camps became the centers of social, political and spiritual, cultural activity for emigrants, specific mini-societies with their inherent camp culture, which left its mark on the way of the life of the Ukrainian communities even after their settlement in new countries. The author lays the focus on L. Yasinchuk’s describing the different aspects of the Ukrainian emmigrants’ life in the Austrian camps, analyses his participation in organizing the mother-tongue schools, educational actions and activities, conducting the extensive propagandizing activity on disseminating the idea of a native school in the emigrant community. The paper singles out the educator’s merits in establishing together with other Ukrainian activists in Innsbruck the cultural and support society “Brotherhood of Saint Andrew ”, which in addition to providing financial assistance, has energetically developed in many aspects the cultural, educational, literary and artistic, religious life, active publishing activity. The activity of L. Yasinchuk as an inspector of the Ukrainian schools that functioned in the Ukrainian camps under the patronage of this society is covered. The article reveals the content of L. Yasinchuk’s publications in the “Svoboda” magazine, in which the author informs the Ukrainian emigrants in the USA and Canada about the position of displaced persons in the post-war camps of Germany and Austria, appeals to the Ukrainian public and church societies, individual influential leaders with the request to provide the financial assistance, and to support the education etc. Key words: Lev Yasinchuk, Austria, displaced persons, Ukrainian emigration. camp life, national school, charity actions.

This article examines the main areas of activity of the first Soviet mission in the Czechoslovak Republic — the mission of the Red Cross of the RSFSR. The author provides extensive evidence that the mission performed functions that went far beyond its official task: providing assistance to former Russian prisoners of war and their repatriation. Considerable attention is paid to the diplomatic activities of the mission: establishing and maintaining contacts with Czechoslovakian officials, negotiations on the neutrality of Prague in the Polish-Soviet war of 1920 and on the recognition of the Soviet state. For Moscow, the Soviet Red Cross mission was an important source of information about the internal political and economic situation in Czechoslovakia, its foreign policy, and international relations in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The article demonstrates the conspiratorial activities of the mission, its support for the revolutionary movement in Czechoslovakia and neighboring countries, its mediating role between the Comintern and left-wing radical organisations in the region, and its work among former legionnaires in the ranks of Russian and Ukrainian emigrants. The author focuses on the personality of the head of the mission, Solomon I. Gillerson, his attitude towards some problems of the domestic and foreign policy of Soviet Russia, towards the communist movement in Czechoslovakia, and towards the directives he received from Moscow. The conflict between Gillerson and the Comintern agent V. Vishnevsky is examined in more detail. The article is based on the study of the funds of Russian and Czech archives, which contain documents of the mission itself (telegrams, letters, reports, and reviews sent to Moscow, and dispatches and instructions by the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR addressed to the mission), as well as materials relating to its position in Prague (diplomatic and other official and personal correspondence, reports from Czechoslovak police agents).

The collection of periodicals of camps for displaced persons and the Ukrainian emigrant press are considered as a study source for investigation of historical and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian Diaspora. It is highlighted that despite challenging conditions after the Second World War, the Ukrainian emigrants cared not only about material needs, but also preserved national cultural heritage. It is argued that the process mentioned above took place in constant struggle with the Soviet repressive system, which aspired to bring back as many displaced persons as possible. However, deliberate Ukrainian intellectuals had different political views but were united by the Ukrainian national idea and created significant historical and cultural heritage after the Second World War, particularly in Germany, part of the heritage was described on the pages of periodicals of the Ukrainian Diaspora. Number and social composition of the Ukrainian emigrants after the Second World War in Germany and Austria is analyzed on the basis of the periodicals, particularly «The Bulletin of Information Help Service». Establishment of educational institutions, archives and libraries in 1945–1948 in Germany is described. Considerable attention is paid to analysis of periodical the «UFAS Chronicle», and investigation of activities of the museum-archive, scientific library and «The Society for the Protection of Ukrainian Heritage Abroad» of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Science in Germany is based on these materials. Significant attention should be drawn to activities of the Scientific and Research Institute of the Ukrainian Martyrology of the Ukrainian Political Prisoners League. Study of the Ukrainian Diaspora periodicals enables to formulate source study vision for students to understand participation of Diaspora in preservation of the heritage and ways of utilization in tourist activities.

The article examines the Uzhhorod and Prague editions of 1930–1931, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Tomash Masaryk. The focus is on the work of Ukrainian researchers on the attitude of the Czech president to the Ukrainian question in the 1920s and 1930s. Determined the role in the organization of cultural and educational life of emigration in the Czechoslovak Republic and the attitude to the representatives of various socio-political currents in Transcarpathia. Much attention is focused to the activities of cultural and educational institutions in Transcarpathia («Tovarystvo «Prosvita» in Uzhgorod», «Tovarystvo im. A. Dukhnovycha»), as well as educational institutions and publishing houses of Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia (Ukrayinsʹkyy Vilʹnyy Universytet, Ukrayinsʹkyy Vyshchyy Pedahohichnyy Instytut im. M. Drahomanova, Ukrayinsʹka Hospodarsʹka Akademiya, «Chesʹko-Ukrayinsʹka Knyha»). Keywords: Tomash Masaryk, ukrainian emigration, Prague, Uzhhorod.

The article deals with the informational component of the attempt to unite Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia in the period of collision of the old political concepts of the Ukrainian National Republic and the hetmanate with the young nationalist movement of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The purpose of the article is to find out the nature of information activities of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Czechoslovakia in the period of active attempts of its ideological and political consolidation on a democratic basis in the Union of Ukrainian Emigrant Organizations. An analysis of the content of the press body of this association – the Bulletin Vistnyk – will help to understand the reasons for the defeat of the integration project in the environment of Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia. The chronological boundaries are due to the period of active publishing of the Union. The subject of the study is the Ukrainian diaspora in Czechoslovakia, and the subject matter is its informational activity within the framework of the mentioned edition. The main sources of this article include the materials of the Central State Archives of Foreign Ukrainians, documents of the Central State Archives of higher authorities and governments of Ukraine as well as the articles published in the Tryzub Weekly, Memorandum to the League of Nations. The research implements structural and problematic methods for its analysis. The results suggest that in the Bulletin Vistnyk, the Union of Ukrainian Emigrant Organizations tried to promote the idea of uniting different organizations around a certain goal – the fight for their own statehood.

The article deals with informal communication between Ukrainian political emigrants, who found themselves on the territory of interwar Czechoslovaczczyna. The aim of the study. reveal a number of topics that interested Ukrainian emigrants, using such forms of informal communication as gossip, rumors, anecdotes, true and untrue stories. The methodological basis of the study is a historical-chronological method of studying the emigration everyday life, based on the study of the emergence, formation and development of norms of being and their various forms. The scientific novelty of the study is to present well-known political, social, cultural and military figures as ordinary individuals, who are characterized by the of everything ordinary and everyday, because they, first, as bearers of national identity, found themselves in new realities of life, were involved to creating and adaptation of new life rules, norms, standards, regulations of everyday life;. secondly, absorbing the realities of Czechoslovak everyday life, ukrainian emigrants transferred their previously formed "ukrainian pre-liberation" views and norms of everyday life to Czechoslovak soil. Conclusions. Informal communication in an emigration environment was indicative of relaxation of people, who often got tired of too formal norms of communication and needed changes in emotions (such as "splashing out emotions" at a football or hockey match). Escaping from some emotions, emigrants freed their psyche for others and thus emotionally rebuilt and developed.

This article is devoted to the relationship between interwar Ukrainian political emigrants and local authorities in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). A comparative analysis of the attitude of the Yugoslav authorities towards Russian and Ukrainian emigrants was conducted. The Russophilia of Yugoslav authorities, who viewed the Ukrainian question through the lense of the Russian emigrants, was described. The idea of Pan-Slavism had been spreading in the Balkans for a long time, which facilitated the legitimization of friendly relations between the southern Slavs (primarily Serbs) and Russians, whom Serbs considered as protectors from the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Yugoslavia sided with the anti-Bolshevik White Movement, an ally of the Entente, which had a positive impact on the situation of Russian emigrants. The young state was in need of professionals with a good command of foreign languages and European culture. Many emigrants met those requirements. Therefore, in the early 1920s, several thousands of emigrants worked in the public service. The reigning Karadjordjević dynasty had marital ties with the Romanov dynasty. A former Russian diplomat was among advisers to the king and the head of government. The immigration from the former Russian Empire was addressed by the Royal Court as well as several ministries and central government institutions. Direct support to the immigrants was provided by the State Commission for Assistance to Russian Refugees. Yugoslavia was a center of political and religious immigration for Russians and a provincial center for Ukrainian emigration. It is concluded that the Yugoslav authorities did not distinguish Ukrainians from Russian emigrants, therefore, any specific policy towards them was not carried out. The degree of interaction of Ukrainian emigrants with local authorities in Yugoslavia varied geographically (Slovenia and Croatia, on the one hand, and Serbia and Macedonia, on the other) and in time (in the first half of the 1920s and from the mid-1920s until the beginning of World War II). Keywords: authorities, emigration, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Yugoslavia.

This article informs about the impact of scientific and technological progress of the 1920s on everyday life of the Ukrainian emigration center in the interwar period of Czechoslovakia in 1918-1939. First of all, it is referred to technological novelties of the period in 1921-1929: cinematography, television, automobile manufacturing, fashion, medical industry, telegraph, and bank and post transfers. The proposed topic has not been submitted to the scientific audience yet, as far as the life of the Ukrainian emigration in the interwar of Czechoslovak Republic was considered mainly in the context of political and sociocultural work both emigrants themselves and the latest Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak historians. It is focused on two pointsin the proposed scientific intelligence: consideration of the everyday life of anti-Bolshevist emigration and of the lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Czechoslovakia which were arbitrarily distributed for four periods: 1918-1921, 1921-1925, 1925-1933, 1933-1939, all of which had its own specific features. Consideration of the Ukrainian everyday emigration life in the years 1921–1929 in the interwar of Czechoslovakia carried out with the help ofrecollection, memoirs, postal correspondence (letters) and archival documentation. Therefore, it implies the usage of general methods of the scientific research: analysis, analogy, historical and logical methods. The emigrational routine is a farsighted direction of the historical research, because it is the history of the small vivid worlds, peculiar alternative to the researches which are focused on global political and social processes and events.Everyday life is not minted in special decrees or laws;it is notrecorded in programs and speeches, as far as political and state history, and it is not honed by the financial gains in the economy, and by the cultural monuments, though it always exists like air, it goes unnoticed as time.

The present study investigates the predicament of Ukrainian women in post-war Austria, where numerous Ukrainian refugees found themselves after the end of the Second World War. Ukrainian women were active in public life, which led to attempts to resume the activities of the Ukrainian Women's Union. The relevance of this study is conditioned upon both the lack of its research and its importance for the history of the Ukrainian women's movement. The purpose of this paper is to consider the attempts to consolidate Ukrainian women, intensify the Ukrainian women's movement, resume the activities of the Union of Ukrainian Women in emigration, the main tasks and vectors of Ukrainian women's activities in post-war Austria. The study is based on the use of documentary materials stored in the Central State Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, the memories of people who were in DP camps and materials of the then Ukrainian press. The study employed general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction) and special-historical methods – problem-historical, chronological, comparative-historical, which enabled a comprehensive analysis of the problem. In the first post-war years, the Ukrainian women's movement was revived in camps for displaced persons and refugees in Austria and West Germany. The intensification of women’s activities was connected both with the need to solve a number of social and national problems of refugees and with the continuation of the traditions of the Ukrainian women’s movement. It was in Austria in 1945 that the Union of Ukrainian Women resumed its activities and the idea arose to establish a single organisational superstructure that would unite Ukrainian women in new political circumstances and emigration conditions (a project of the Union of Ukrainian Women of Europe). The authors of this study draw attention to the need to review the tasks of Ukrainian women in exile. Although the post-war living conditions of Ukrainian refugees in Austria did not allow for the implementation of part of the programme of the Ukrainian Women's Congress in Feldkirch, the activities of local branches of the Union of Ukrainian Women in DP camps were important for the life of Ukrainian communities, as women themselves were actively engaged in support activities, social work, organisation of cultural and educational activities, preservation of Ukrainian traditions in emigration. The present research can be used to write summary works on the history of life of Ukrainians in camps for displaced persons in Germany and Austria after the Second World War, the history of the women's movement and Ukrainian emigration