www.ukrweekly.com X K z о listed by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! о -і aj O r-. г JB rainianWeelcl if Vol. UN ШNo. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, І985 25 cents Chicago Ukrainians, Jews discuss Horbal gets 11-year term mutual concerns, pressing issues JERSEY CITY, NJ. - Ukrainian human-rights activist Mykola Horbal the two groups first meet, they should has been sentenced to eight years in a get to know each other as people and labor camp to be followed by three CHICAGO-- Ukrainiafiafid Jewish discuss the many issues that are years' internal exile after being Americans should come together in a important to both of them — like convicted of "anti-Soviet agitation and series of 'Snaring sessions" in order to human fights for Ukrainians, Jews and propaganda" at a three-day trial April overcome tensions that face both others in the USSR and elsewhere; the 8-Ю. communities, a Jewish leader told commission and the famine in Ukraine It was first believed that the 43-year- Ukrainian Americans^ here in early (1932-33) and the U.S. Holocaust old dissident would be charged with April. Memorial Council; education for their "anti-Soviet slander." He was arrested At an open meeting on April 1, spon­ young people; social services for their last October in a labor camp in the sored by the newly reorganized Chicago elderly population, and the transmittal Ukrainian city of`Nikolayev just two chapter oT Americans for Human Rights of their cultures to young people. days before he was to complete a five- in Ukraine (AHRU), David G. Roth, Once Ukrainian and Jewish year term for what dissident sources national ethnic liaison of the American Americans have a better understanding have said was a trumped-up charge of Jewish Committee, said that of how the other's history affected its "attempted rape." Ukrainians and Jews must tell each behavior, and realize that they have According to government sources in other about their backgrounds, issues in common, they will be better Washington, Mr. Horbal was tried in histories and feelings in order to build prepared to discuss the difficult issues, Nikolayev, where he had been in an trust between each other. Mr. Roth maintained. investigative prison since his arrest. He "We must come together and get to On one current issue that some see as could have been sentenced to 10 years' mm know each other by telling our stories," problematic, the denaturalization hear­ labor camp and five years' exile because Mykola Horbal he said. "We must ask each other ings for those charged with entering the he hadpreviously been convicted under during which Mr. Horbal was attacked questions like, 'who am 1?,' 'how do I United States illegally by concealing a political rather than criminal statute. and beaten after refusing the sexual feel about myself?,' "what did my wartime activity, Mr. Roth said, "we In 1970, he was sentenced to seven years advances of a woman who worked as a parents expect me?,' `how do you feel have a different view on the need for the for "anti-Soviet agitation and secretary at the Kievah office of about you?,' 'what do you expect of trials, but we can share a common view propaganda." Komsomol, the Communist youth your children?' " on one thing. And this is, we can't stand The sources also said that one factor league. Almost immediately after the "Once we start telling each other by and allow an entire community to be raised by the prosecution at the trial was incident began, a potjee car pulled up these things, it becomes very hard to victimized because of the sins of a few." that some of Mr. Horbal's writings have and Mr. Horbal was jaken to the police hurt each other," Mr. Roth noted. "Jewish Americans can understand been published in the West. Mr. Horbal station, where he was charged with Mr. Roth, whose testimony Ukrainian Americans' fear of being is a musicologist and poet. ) attempted rape. ^ '` After his release from a labor campin encouraging the formation of a U.S. blamed and scapegoated as a group," Found guilty, he was sentenced on commission on the Ukrainian famine Mr. Roth said in an interview after the 1978, Mr. Horbal could not find work as a teacher or composer and was forced January 2K 1980, to five years in a labor was described as instrumental by Dr. meeting. camp, where he was subjected to brutal Myron Kuropas, national ethnic liaison "Likewise, I would hope Ukrainian to take a job as an electrician in Kiev, where he took up residence with his wife treatment. In a statement that reached for AHRU and the panel moderator, Americans can understand this: the West in September 1981, he said acknowledged that if Ukrainian and historians now believe that, without and small child. In 1979. after numerous attempts to that he had never before experienced Jewish Americans come together and relieving Hitler of essential such suffering. He wrote there were immediately discuss political events, responsibility for the Holocaust, it's gain permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Mr. Horbal joined the moments when suicide seemed like the they will encounter conflict. clear that the West abandoned the Jews only way out. Thus, Mr. Roth stressed that when (Continued on page 10) Kiev-based Ukrainian Helsinki Group, set up three years earlier to monitor La-st November. Mr. Horbal's Soviet compliance with the 1975 brother-in-law. Pavlo Siokotelnyj. Helsinki Accords. staged a 12-day hunger strike in front of Shortly thereafter, dissideni sources the United Nations in New York to say, the KGB staged a bizarre street scene protest his re-arrest. Meshko said to be in poor health JERSEY CITY. N.J. Exiled human-rights activist Oksana Meshko was hospitalized three times in 1984 for treatment of hypertension and continues to be in failing health, reported USSR News Brief. The 80-year-old activist, who is scheduled to complete a five-year exile term in April 1986. suffers from diabetes and is blind in one eye. She lives in Ayan, a coastal village in the Khaborovsk Krai, a remote region on the eastern edge of the Soviet Union along the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest of Japan. I SSR News Brief did not say when Ms. Meshko was hospitalized or for | Reiuto Яоіоіо how long. Dr. Myron Kuropas (right) presents AHRU award to David G. Roth as Natalka Ms. Meshko was arrested on October Zavadowycz, president of AHRU's Chicago Chapter, looks on. (Continued on page 13) Oksana Meshko THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No. 16 Swedes want to question Terelia about Wallenberg Chronicle of TORONTO - Swedish officials a heart attack in prison in 1947. investigating the disappearance of However, the Soviets never provided the Catholic Church Raoul Wallenberg, the heroic diplomat proof of his death and there have been taken prisoner by the Red Army in persistent reports, some as late as the in Ukraine 1945, want to talk to fugitive religious 1970sx that Mr. Wallenberg was sighted dissident Yosyp Terelia, w,ho revealed in Soviet labor camps. If alive, he would in an underground journal that he may be 72. have information about the diplomat's Mr. Terelia, an activist in the fate. outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church The following excerpts are from and the host was fined 50 According to an April 9" article by and a former political prisoner, wrote a Issue So. 7 of the Chronicle of the karbovantsi. On May 5, the faithful Maria Bohuslawsky in The Toronto letter in the Chronicle, eight issues of Catholic Church in Ukraine, an gathered at the home of Yu. M. Sun, Ingrid Garde Widemar of which have reached the West, underground publication which Palka, where a similar scenario was Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg describing encounters with people who made-its appearance in January 1984 played out and a fine of SO karbo­ Association said in a telephone had met Mr. Wallenberg. but has only recently reached the vantsi imposed. Regional authorities interview from Stockholm that her He wrote that Mr. Wallenberg and West. Thus far, eight issues have constantly persecute the Pentecostal organization has been trying to his driver were arrested on orders from made their way out of Ukraine. The community in Kushnytsia. Dmytro substantiate Mr. Terelia's claim — the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Chronicle is published in samvydav Yurevych Prodan, the village made in an issue of the clandestine then a major general in the Red Army. form by the Initiative Group for the presbyter, was called to the regional Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Defense of Believers and the Church, procurator's office where regional Ukraine - that Mr. Wallenberg died in Speaking of Mr. Terelia's allega­ which was founded in 1982 to pro­ procurators. Braila officially warned a Soviet labor camp but that his driver tions, Mr. Widemar said: "We've mote the legalization of the Ukrai­ him that he would be dragged to may still be alive. investigated but we can't find out if nian Catholic Church, which has court if he did not stop "deceiving re­ Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, there's any truth to it. We'd love to talk been outlawed since 1946. sidents because everyone knows that is credited with saving about 100,000 to him but its quite impossible because there is no God...and we will not Hungarian Jews from the Germans he's in Russia. tolerate the spread of religious during World War II. Citing The Ukrainian Weekly, the (5od and the truth are with us! fanaticism in our region."On June 25 He was arrested by Soviet troops article goes on to say that Mr.