Polonska-Vasylenko (Morgun), Natalya Dmytrivna (1884-1973)

This is the personal fonds of Kharkiv-born historian and archaeologist Natalya Dmitrivna Polonska-Vasylenko (Morgun) (1884–1973), including letters and other documents. She was a professor at Kyiv University and a director of the Kyiv Central Archive of Old Documents. During the Second World War, she fled west, first to Lviv, then to Prague, and finally to Bavaria. She was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague (1944–1945) and moved with this institution to Munich, where she continued teaching until she died in 1973. While in Munich, she published a book on famous Ukrainian women in history (1969) and a textbook on Ukrainian historiography (1971) that includes the topic of emigration during the interwar period and the Second World War.