The collection comprises administrative correspondence, database information, papers, transcripts, some translations, and some videotapes of interviews of Australian immigrant survivors of the Ukraine famine. Cassette recordings are held of most interviews. Cassette recordings only are held of the interviews with Varvara Baluta, Mykola Bowkun, Paraskevia Kozak, Anna Maz, Olha Odlyha, Mykhailo Ostrowsky, Dmytro Shermarevych, Fedir Slipchenko, Alexander Zelinsky, Waters Petrenko. Videotape recordings are held of interviews with Kiril Shevchenko, Oksana Shevchenko, Tatyana Wolnec and Bozhenna Kowalenko. Also, a copy of: Biulleteny Soiuza Russkikh: Obshchestvennykh Deiatelei N. Iu. u. vols 13-15, 23,24,26, 1965-1968.
During 1932 and 1933, several million people in the Ukranian countryside starved to death as a result of Soviet Government economic and farming policies. A project by the Australian National University enabled the collection of oral testimony of the famine, through interviews of 27 Ukraine famine survivors in Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle and Melbourne. Mr T. Sudomlak of Adelaide donated tape recordings of another 22 interviews made in Adelaide and Perth in the mid 1980's.
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