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Iryna Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk papers

 Collection
Identifier: 035

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence with individuals and organizations (including with Soviet newspapers, a radio station, and a publishing house) and articles, speeches, interviews, and travelogs on topics that include Ivan Franko, Uliana Kravchenko and the Ivan Franko Museum in L’viv. The collection also includes Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk’s memoir about her first husband, Orest Radlovs’kyi, a memorial card from the funeral service of her second husband Iaroslav Shcherbaniuk, an account of Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk’s trip to Chernivtsi in 1941 to collect Franko portraits, a document containing information about Ivan Franko’s 1877 imprisonment, and a poem by Uliana Kravchenko.

Dates

  • Record Keeping: 1940 - 1987
  • Creation: 1877 - 1987

Biographical / Historical

Iryna Tytivna Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk (1905-1993), a Ukrainian journalist and senior researcher of the Ivan Franko Museum in L’viv, was born in the village of Ferliiv, Rohatyn country (currently Ivano-Frankivs’k oblast’). She was born to a family of Father Tyt Hlibovets’kyi, who died when she was ten years old. Her mother was a teacher at the Ridna Shkola in L’viv. Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk completed the Gymnasium of the Sisters of Saint Basil. Afterwards, she enrolled in the medical faculty of Ukrains’kyi Taiemnyi Universytet, which was closed by Polish authorities in 1925 before she could graduate. In 1926, she married Orest Radlovs’kyi, one of the directors of the Tsentral’nyi Soiuz (Central Union). Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk was an active member of the “Poradnia materi” society, and was interested in the literary works of the Moloda Muza literary group based in L’viv.

During the Soviet occupation of L’viv, Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk’s husband was imprisoned and died in 1941. At that time, she was a senior researcher of the Muzei Ivana Franka (Ivan Franko Museum) in L’viv. At the same time, she contributed to the newspapers and composed radio scripts. Since she knew German, she was put in charge of the personnel department at the Khliborobs’ka Tsentral’ (Agricultural Center) during the German occupation. In 1944, Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk and her mother left Ukraine and went to Austria, where her mother died. Then she moved to Germany and lived in the area of Landsgut. In 1949, she immigrated to the United States. In 1950, she married Iaroslav Shcherbaniuk, who died in 1987. Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk was a donor to the Shevchenko Scientific Society and died in 1993 in Philadelphia.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection has no restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Researchers may take photographs of archival items using hand-held cameras or smart phones without flash subject to restrictions. The responsibility to secure permissions from all relevant copyright owners rests with the patron. Please visit the main shevchenko.org website to view the full archives use policy.

Description Control

Finding aid written by Ostap Kin in 2012 and edited by Michael Andrec in 2023.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

Ukrainian

English

Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence and writings of Iryna Tytivna Radlovs’ka-Shcherbaniuk (1905-1993), a Ukrainian journalist, civil activist and senior researcher at the Ivan Franko Museum in Lviv (1940-1941).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in four series:

  1. Correspondence, 1941-1949, undated
  2. Writings, 1940-1941, undated
  3. Documents, 1877-1987
  4. Writings by others, 1941, undated

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Oleksander Luzhnyts’kyi.

Processing Information

Materials processed by Ostap Kin in 2012.

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Archives Repository

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