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Part 1: Real name is Fedir Petrovych Podopryhora; born on March 3, 1912 in a village of Burtky, Kyiv region (huberniia); then parents moved to the Kherson region; he is Orthodox; his wife’s name is Kylyna Samiilivna Hudzenko, she was born is a nearby village, Remintarivka (Kyiv region); he had 13 siblings; his 2 brothers were killed in the WWI; his uncles was a General Secretary in the Tsentral’na Rada, he was killed in 1919; villagers then believed the Bolsheviks’ promises; NEP in the 1920s; his father was elected a zastupnyk starosty volosti; his brother had to be conscripted to the Bolshevik Army but was killed the chekists, Sen’ka Pogorelyi killed his father in 1923; NEP and lands; his mother died of grief in 1928; everything was in Ukrainian - Ukrainization Period; Ukrainian Church; his mother’s role in Theodor’s religious and overall development; till 1928 only local villagers were in power, not Communists; CheKa; Russians as “nahabni zhebraky”; relations between Ukrainians and Jews; 1927 - the beginning of changes, cooperation.

Part 2: Cooperation; no Communists in Theodor’s village till 1928; in 1925, were organized MTT (mashynno-traktorne tovarystvo); Tovarystvo “Suspil’na zemel’na obrobka”; villages being forced to joining the kolhosp; Soviet propaganda; Theodor was a batrak in 1928, joined the kolhosp in 1929, married in 1930; radhosp im. Kosiora was organized in his region; Holodomor circumstances in Kyiv region, Kirovohrad, Donbas; cannibalism cases.

Part 3: Holodomor, cannibalism; his life in the Donbas; Spring of 1932 - the beginning of the famine; mass media on the famine; Russification after the Holodomor; Skrypnyk’s suicide; being on a road during the famine; ethnically mixed Ukraine; Ukrainian Army, contacts with banderivtsi; Theodor left his village for Germany; life under German occupation; partizans, Kalashnyk.

Part 4: Return of the Red Army; Theodor fled away (through German colonies in Bessarabia and Romania); propaganda about UPA; Halychyna Division; Theodor was in Munich when the WWII ended; DP camps in Austria; Ukrainian camps in Salzburg; escaping the Soviet zone of occupation and return to the USSR; Fr Fotiy (??); bandarivtsi, Ivaniuk as a holova taborovoi rady; Fr. Savchuk; banderivtsi fighting mel’nykivtsi in the camp; Pundyk (now in Winnipeg); sotnyk Herasymenko, Pestushko; Volyniak; publishing “Promin’” in the first camp; Theodor left the camp for Venezuela in 1947 and lived there till 1955, organizing a Ukrainian colony there, 15 families; Mykola Livyts’kyi; leaving for Canada in July 1955, settled in London, ON; he belongs to CUC; older immigrants, Tomyn (??); Chaikivs’kyi (??); SUZHERO (??); halychany’s attitudes toward him; SUS; Fr. Fedir Kysyliuk - Orthodox priest; an Orthodox church built under Fr. Debryn (??) in 1963 while land was bought under Fr. Hutsuliak; Odyn (??); Ivan Franko Club - Theodor was its member; Tatsiuk (??).

Part 5: Court case RE: the Club money; old and new immigrants’ membership; CUC - Theodor is a Holova kontrol’noi komisii; CUC Statuty; Orthodox community in London; Ukrainian community in Canada, Ukrainian nationalism; mel’nykivtsi.

File consists of poems in Ukrainian, memories about Ukraine from a Ukrainian woman, concert brochures.

The file consists of the book with poems by Stepan Andrusiak, poems about Ivan Lahola by Andrusiak, original poems by Andrusiak for book, Lahola’s Certificate pass of League of Ukrainian political prisoners of German concentration camps, greeting cards from Andrusiak.