Consists of personal and professional correspondence to and from Zenkl. Of special interest is a letter to Zenkl from U.S. President Richard Nixon in honor of Zenkl's 85th birthday and a 1954 memorandum to the U.S. Congress urging its members to conduct public hearings into the activities of political exiles. A big number of noted exiles from Central and Eastern Europe signed the memorandum, including former Vice-Premier of Yugoslavia Miha Krek, former Prime Minister of Poland Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and former Czechoslovak Minister for Foreign Trade Hubert Ripka. The signers of the memorandum felt that closed investigations of various Czechoslovak exiles by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security headed by U.S. Senator William J. Jenner were unfairly influenced by allegations made by anti-democratic Czechoslovak extremists.

Manuscripts on childhood, siblings, Christmas, poor family conditions, and family business.

Manuscripts containing information on grammar school in Tabor, Zenkl's favorite professor, the Sokol athletics organization, working in Tabor and going to Prague only for exams due to his family's financial conditions, studying philology, life in Prague, his friendship with Czech poet Vrchlicky, teaching at the Commerce School in Karlin, and activities during WWI.

Manuscripts regarding activities after the 1918 revolution, social activities, the establishment of the Czechoslovak Red Cross, and information on accomodation policies, employment, transport, and beggary.

Manuscripts regarding Zenkl's memories of the first Czechoslovak President Tomas G. Masaryk as his teacher, colleague, and president.

Manuscripts regarding politics in the first Czechoslovak Republic and the honorary citizenship of the City of Prague, along with accounts of escaping Czechoslovakia, the 1938 mobilization in Czechoslovakia, the election of Emil Hacha as President in 1938, being taken by gestapo in 1939, the first day in prison, and conditions in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Manuscripts on Communist co-prisoners in Buchenwald, on sardines sent President Benes through the Red Cross, and liberation of Buchenwald.

Manuscripts regarding Ilsa Koch, wife of a Buchenwald camp commander, last days in Buchenwald, examples of the spread of Communist power in Czechoslovakia, and an Eastern German publication about Buchenwald.

Manuscripts on Czechoslovak politicians before the Communist putsch, Communist power and techniques, and the government of Klement Gottwald.

Contains a copy Walter H. Judd's speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the 10th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Communist putsch in 1958, Zenkl's article in Ceske Slovo an article titled "Why Have We Submitted Over the Demission in February 1948?", manuscripts on the Marshall Plan, and information on Zenkl's job search in the U.S.

Manuscripts regarding the last days in Buchenwald, political challenges in the 1930s, an attempt to kill Zenkl with a bomb package, political events before the Communist putsch, and advice given by the Lord Mayor of Vienna, who was also being detained in Buchenwald.

Manuscripts on Zenkl's reaction to a publication written by Jan Kozak called "The Role of the Parliament and the Unions In the Communist Revolution," an address to the U.N. on Kozak, an international partnership organization, cultural activities in exile, and Zenkl's return to Czechoslovakia after WWII.

Contains biographical information and versions of Zenkl's resumes. In Czech and English.

Contains articles about Zenkl, memories of him in the concentration camp Buchenwald, propaganda about Zenkl's behavior in the camp, and Zenkl's manuscripts regarding Buchenwald.