Belarusian

Abstract Collection consists of personal correspondence of Dr. Smorstok with his family members and relatives, as well as correspondence with Dr. Smorstok’s friends and acquaintances active in Belarusian American organizations. Included are also files pertaining to his professional activities, newspaper clippings containing information about Dr. Smorstok, handwritten notes related to his interests in Belarusian and Belarusian American history, and newsletters of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox...

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Collection consists of correspondence, Displaced Persons documentation, notebooks, newsletters, newspaper clippings and event memorabilia.

Selected items from the collection have been digitized and are available in the University of Minnesota's U Media Archive and on the Digitizing Immigrant Letters project website (see "Digital material" below).

Abstract Papers of Vitaut Kipel (b. 1927), a Belarusian-American author, New York Public Library librarian, cultural and political activist. Kipel’s papers include bibliographical notes, manuscripts, correspondence, paper clippings, books and magazines, postcards pertaining to the Belarusian (1993) and English (1999) versions of his book "Belarusans in the United States", various articles and publications by and about Dr Kipel. Kipel’s papers contain information regarding to history of Belarus,...