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Vol. LV No.I THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 25 cent3 Koryagin, Khmara among 150 Demjanjuk trial concludes first week tBportedly freed by Soviets Defense questions credibility of Treblinka accounts Special to Svoboda and The Weekly began last November 26, resumed on JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Nearly three psychiatrist who exposed the abuse of from Maria Skorupsky via telephone Monday, February 16, with Mr. O'Con­ weeks after the first of two decrees of the psychiatry by Soviet authorities; Stepan nor unsuccessfully challenging Israel's Presidium of the Supreme Soviet that Khmara, a Ukrainian who was involved JERUSALEM - As the first week of jurisdiction in the case. Mr. O'Connor granted pardons to politieal prisoners in producing the samvydav journal John Demjanjuk's trial on charges of stated that Mr. Demjanjuk was extra­ serving sentences for "anti-Soviet agita­ Ukrainian Herald (Ukrayinsky Visnik); Nazi war crimes came to a close here on dited to Israel on the basis of a docu­ tion and propaganda," confusion re­ Mikhail Kukobaka, a Byelorussian Thursday, February 19, the defense had ment specifying he would be tried for mains about who was and who wasn't national activist; and Aleksandr Ogo- succeeded in questioning the credibility murder, not war crimes as stated in the released, as well as about the kinds of rodnikov, a Russian Orthodox activist. of Holocaust survivors' recollections indictment. statements required from dissidents Dr. Koryagin, 48, is from Kharkiv, during extensive cross-examination of a But Judge Dov Levin, chairman of before they are set free. Ukraine, and is known for his activity in Yad Vashem historian. the panel of judges, rejected this argu­ Among those newly confirmed to be the Working Commission to Investigate The Holocaust historian, Yitzak ment, saying, "the (U.S, extradition released were: Dr. Anatoly Koryagin, a the Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Arad, testified for the prosecution on document) made it clear that by murder Purposes. He was sentenced in 1981 to the second day of the trial after the it meant all the crimes mentioned by the seven years of imprisonment and five three-judge panel hearing the case over­ extradition request." Famine commission (Continued on page 11) ruled the defense's objection that there Mr. Demjanjuk was extradited to was no need to explain the historical Israel nearly one year ago; he was hears six survivors facts regarding the Nazi annihilation of stripped of U.S. citizenship in 1981. the Jews and the killing process at the Mr. O'Connor also argued that the by Tamara Horodysky Treblinka death camp, because these defendant could have been tried in the are not subjects of dispute. United States or by a United Nations SAN FRANCISCO - Sen. Dennis Mr. Demjanjuk, a 66-year-old former court. DeConcini (D-Ariz.) presided at a auto worker froni the Cleveland suburb During the first day of the trial the meeting of the U.S. government Com­ of Seven Hi11s, is accused of being "Ivan defense also provided Mr. Demjanjuk's mission on the Ukraine Famine held on the Terrible," a brutal guard at Tre­ alibi, that is recounted his biography. February 10 in San Francisco. blinka. "This man, John Demjanjuk has never Six California residents, eyewitnesses Dr. Arad was subjected to two full been in any death camp in any capa­ to the artificial famine, testified before days of cross-examination on the third city," Mr. O'Connor stressed. The Sen. DeConcini and public members and fourth days of the trial by defense defense contends that Mr. Demjanjuk, Ulana Mazurkevich of Pennsylvania attorneys Mark O'Connor of Buffalo, who served in the Red Army and then and Dr. 01eh \Veres of California. N.Y., and Yoram Sheftel of Tel Aviv. was captured by the Nazis, is a victim of Attending the hearing in the Federal The third member of the defense team is mistaken identity. Building were Kevin Elliott, field repre­ John Gi1l of Cleveland. sentative for Sen. Pete Wilson (R- Yona Blattman, in the prosecution's opening statement, said, "John Dem­ Calif.), Dr. Harvey Miller, Curriculum Opening day's sessions Division of the California Department janjuk stands accused of responsibility of Education, Dr. James Mace, staff for the most terrible and heinous crimes Dr. Anatoly Koryagin The Demjanjuk trial, which actually director of the famine commission, (Continued on page 16) members of the press, and over 40 other interested persons. Sen. DeConcini opened the meeting Charter 77 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by commending the eyewitnesses for WASHINGTON - The U.S. Com­ mental freedoms. In recent years, "From the start," continued the their courage in testifying before the mission on Security and Cooperation in according to the commission, Charter commission's letter, "the Chartists commission. "They must face the pain Europe has nominated Charter 77, 77 has "initiated a pan-European dis­ sought to bridge the gap of mistrust of remembering traumas most of us can the Czechoslovak human-rights group, cussion on peace and human rights," between citizens and the state by main­ scarcely imagine. They have accepted for the Nobel Peace Prize. highlighted by its March 1985 Prague taining a dialogue on issues that involve the responsibility of exposing Soviet lies Appeal which emphasizes the essential them both. Their goal was to create a with truth." The Helsinki commission, in a letter to the Nobel Institute signed by every linkage between these two issues. framework for a society committed to The senator pointed out, "We can "The year I986," the letter states, the free exchange of ideas." learn from this tragedy ... Food was one of its 15 current congressional members, stated that "no group in *'witnessed echoes of this Charter­ The commission also noted that used as a weapon against a resistant initiated dialogue across the whole "the Charter signatories have paid population. Today we see food used as a Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union has worked longer than Charter 77 to European spectrum," which demon­ dearly for their promotion of peace and weapon by the Ethiopian government... strates "the influence and respect the human rights." Dozens have been in We also see the destruction of crops as a promote the twin goals of peace and human rights." Charter 77, which has Charter has come to hold for all citizens prison, with six remaining there today; basic weapon in the Soviet war against who seek a voice in the affairs of Europe six more are under state-sanctioned the people of Afghanistan." over 1,100 signatories with diverse social and professional backgrounds, is and the wor1d." restrictions, house searches and 24­ After opening remarks by Commis­ The Helsinki commission added: "At hour surveillance. Many others are sioners Mazurkevich and Weres, the celebrating its 10th дnniversary this year. great personal risk, Charter signatories harassed through summary detentions, audience listened to the heart-wrench­ have issued statements on economic, interrogations and threats. "Almost all ing testimony of eyewitnesses as read by The commission described Charter social and environmental issues, in­ share the grim fate of losing employ­ Dr. 01ga Samilenko-Tsvetkov of the 77 as representing "the type of inform­ cluding nuclear plant safety, pollution, ment, a punishment meant to demora­ commission staff. ed, rational dissent" that is rarely the medical system, problems of youth lize the movement and discourage Each offered a different perspective welcomed by "political systems that are and limitations on individual rights. others from joining." on the famine due to varying back­ hostile to individual rights." The group, These statements are meant not to The Helsinki commissioners who grounds and ages. Testifying were eye­ said the commission, *'has survived provoke anger from authorities, but signed the letter are: Sen. Alfonse witnesses who at the time of the repeated official attempts to suppress rather to stimulate thought and discus­ D'Amato (chairman); Rep. Steny H. famine were: a 34-year-old professor in it." sion. In 1978, Charter signatories Hoyer (co-chairman); Reps. Dante Kharkiv, a 20-year-old factory worker The commission noted that the origi­ formed the working group VONS Fascell, Ed Markey, Don Ritter, Chris in the Donbas, an engineer-economist nal Charter 77 signatories, some 250 in (Committee for the Defense of the Smith, Jack Kemp and John Porter; in Odessa, a 14-year-old Kiev student, all, "drew their inspiration from the Unjustly Persecuted) to monitor indivi­ and Sens. Claiborne Pell, Dennis De­ and 8- and 14-year-old villagers. 1975 Helsinki Final Act," which links dual human-rights cases and to advo­ Concini, Frank Lautenberg, John Eighty nine-year-old A. Butkovska, a international trust and security to cate the rights of prisoners of con­ Heinz, James McClure, Gordon Hum­ (Continued on page 6) respect for human rights and funda­ science. phrey and Malcolm Wallop. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22.1987 No.

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY 13 excess cases of retardation foreseen due to Ctiornobyl disaster A look at Moscow and Kiev CHICAGO - Up to 13 more cases of children whose mothers were exposed mental retardation than normally ex­ to radiation when the atomic bomb was pected may be found in Soviet children dropped on Hiroshima. coverage of the Berkhin affair born since the nuclear accident in Of the З00 children born, Dr. Gale by Roman Solchanyk timely and required measures to elimi­ Chornobyl because of exposure to said 26 would normally suffer mental nate gross violations of the law and hazardous levels of radiation, according retardation. He did not explain what he The Communist Party daily Radian­ punish the guilty officials. to Dr. Robert Gale, who recently meant by that term, stated the Times. 1f ska Ukraina in its issue for January 8 The entire staff of the Buro of the returned from the Soviet Union. None 13 additional cases did occur, the reported that the Central Committee in Voroshylovhrad 0blast Party Commit­ of the children, however, have yet been Chornobyl radiation would be respon­ Kiev has examined the materials con- tee and "specifically its first secretary, found to have any physical defects. sible for an increase of 50 percent, he rning the illegal arrest of Vikor B. comrade Honcharenko, B. T." were Dr. Gale, a physician at the Univer­ said. Thirteen was the worst possible f jrkhin, a correspondent for the Soviet rebuked for a low level of exactingness sity of California at Los Angeles, who estimate, he stressed. journal Sovietskiy Shakhter, by local with regard to the cadres in the 0bIast's has worked extensively with patients of "1t's too early to test for things of that authorities in Voroshylovhrad. The law enforcement organs. The Buro was the April 26, 1986, accident, said 13 ex­ nature," Dr. Gale stated. "We will Berkhin affair was given wide coverage also instructed to examine the reasons cess cases of retardaUon were expected follow these children very carefully and in the Western press after Viktor Che- for the illegal actions of the individuals among З00 infants born to women who try to identify them and eventually try brikov, the Soviet KGB chief, disclosed involved, resolve the question of their were pregnant at the time of the disaster to get them better schooling or do on the front page of Pravda that Mr. party responsibility, take measures that and who lived within 30 kilometers of whatever we could to prevent" any Berkhin's arrest and interrogation had would preclude such activities in the the reactor, reported The New York problems. been inspired by the head of the Voro­ future, and strengthen the law enforce­ Times. None of the З00 newborn infants have shylovhrad KGB. ment cadres with politically mature and Speaking at a press conference during shown any physical defects be­ Western reports have emphasized professionally trained workers. the annual meeting of the American cause of radiation, he said. High that this is perhaps the first time since Finally, the Central Committee in­ Association for the Advancement of levels of radiation can bring about the early 1950s that the Soviet security structed all 0bIast party committees and Science, Dr. Gale said the estimates deformities and miscarriage; the levels organs have been criticized in the Soviet the Kiev City Party Committee to came from studjes of retardation among (Continued on page 15) press. strengthen political leadership of the The resolution adopted by the Ukrai­ law enforcement organs, exercise con­ nian Central Committee states that "the tinual control of their work, and raise Donahue interviews UCLA physician violation of legality was made possible the personal responsibility of the leader­ as a result of serious shortcomings in ship of these organs for unswervingly JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Phil Dona­ hardly guess the houses are victims of a work with the training of cadres in the abiding by the law. hue, armed with a Russian translator, a nuclear disaster; it seems as though organs of the prosecutor's office and Under normal circumstances this microphone, and a knack for satisfying their owners could return home tomor­ internal affairs of Voroshylovhrad report would not arouse any particular some Americans' curiosity, took his row. 0blast, a weakening of control and interest; its content and format corres­ daytime talk show to the Soviet Union Dr. Gale told Mr. Donahue that as a fastidiousness on the part of the Voro­ pond to the standard responses that are two weeks ago, traveling from Moscow result of the accident, between 5,000 shylovhrad 0blast Party Committee, routinely published in the Kiev press to Leningrad, to the Chornobyl nuclear and 75,000 more cases of cancer world­ the Ukrainian SSR Prosecutor's Office, after one or another form of official power plant, asking a host of questions, wide can be expected over the next 50 and the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of wrongdoing is exposed in the central from when the war in Afghanistan will years. Internal Affairs/' press. 1n this case, however, the circum­ end to why some Jews are unhappy in In a recent article in The New York Rather than taking active measures stances are far from normal. On the very their country. Times, Dr. Gale, who has traveled to the to protect the rights and interests of day that Radianska Ukraina published During his weeklong visit to the (Continued on page 15) ' dttzerts, says the-WBwspapeF,^ "certain its report, that is, January 8, Pravda USSR, Mr. Donahue interviewed many workers" of 4he .Voroshylovhrad Jaw published Mr. Chebrikov's article people, including Dr. Robert Gale, the enforcement agencies themselves *4ook informing readers that Mr. Berkhin's University of California at Los Angeles Gale working the path of illegal activities." arrest had actually been inspired by the (UCLA) physician who has been instru­ The report goes on to name the local KGB, specifically by the head of mental in the care of victims since the on book the Voroshylovhrad 0blast KGB, A. nuclear disaster at Chornobyl on April individuals who were disciplined in the NEWARK, N.J. - The Star­ Dichenko. In an earlier Pravda article 26, 1986. Interviewing Dr. Gale at the Berkhin affair. Severe reprimands were Ledger, New Jersey's largest news­ on the Berkhin affair of January 4, Mr. foot of the Chornobyl nuclear plant in meted out to V.P. Shatalov, the Voro­ paper, reported that Dr. Robert Gale Dichenko had been identified only as a Prypiat, Mr. Donahue asked the physi­ shylovhrad 0blast prosecutor, and H. is working on a book about the candidate member of the Buro of the cian his opinion on the use of nuclear M. Vetrov, the head of the Voroshy­ Chornobyl nuclear accident and his Voroshylovhrad 0blast Party Commit­ energy. lovhrad administration of internal experiences treating its victinas. tee. "We live in a nuclear age," Dr. Gale affairs, for irresponsible attitudes Dr. 0дIе and Go-atith6r Tom The report in Radianska Ukraina answered. "We have to educate the towards their official duties and viola­ Hauser signed a deal with Warner refers only to the initial article in Pravda public as to the risks of this type of tions of the law. fBooks for the rights to "Chernobyl: at the end of November 1986, which energy. The rest of the wor1d is chang­ Two fepublic-level officials — Ukrai­ The Final Warning." first brought the Berkhin scandal into ing... We must Ibarn what lessons we can nian SSR Prosecutor P. H. Qsypenko According to Dr. Gale's personal and Minister of Internal Affairs I. D. the open. The fact that the newspaper from Chornobyl." fails to mention the second Pravda piece Mr. Donahue also went inside the management office, "The issues to be Gladush - were given lesser repri­ discussed will include not only the mands for permitting law enforcement of January 4 is rather odd, but not all Chornobyl nuclear plant and to the that crucial. What does cause one to nearby snow-covered town of Prypiat. tragic accident at Chornobyl, but agencies in the 0bIast to operate **with­ also the future role of nuclear energy out control," and for failing to take (Continued on page 15) The cameras showed homes which are deserted, but except for the brown trees in the coming century, and Soviet­ which dot the landscape, one could American relations," Antonenko-Davydovych, Shastkiv die tragically in Ukraine ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - Two where the KGB spread false rumors Ul(rainianWeeyY FOUNDED 1933 young Ukrainians whose families are about him, reported Smoloskyp. known for their involvement in the Borys Antonenko-Davydovych died An English-language Ukrainian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National Ukrainian national movement, have in 1984 at the age of 84. He was Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. died tragically, according to the Smolo- considered a spiritual father to the 07302. skyp Ukrainian Information Service. dissident movement and was a guiding Second-class postage paid at Jersey City, NJ. 07302. Yevhen Antonenko-Davydovych, force for many younger Ukrainian (ISSN - 0273-9348) son of the late writer Borys Antonenko­ intellectuals. Davydovych, died under mysterious circumstances shortly after comp1eting News also reached the West about the Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - %b. a term of imprisonment. The younger murder in a Lviv sports stadium of Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. Antonenko-Davydovych, who was Zinoviy Shastkiv, son of a cousin of the born in 1952, was constantly perse­ late 01ena Antoniv-Krasivska, a Ukrai­ The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: , cuted by the KGB and was thrice nian human-rights activist. Mr. Shast­ (201) 434-0237, -0807, -3036 (201)451-2200 imprisoned on trumped-up criminal kiv, who was born in 1955, was mur­ charges. He served 10 vearsofimprison- dered in the evening of October !, 1986, :TOeDt (1.971-19*^6. IQ77-!978 a!id 1982- several days before he V,'as to be married. 10-.^;, No.! IHE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 Globe and Mail editorial blasts State Department report focuses ad placed by ethnocultural groups on Ukrainian Church's persecution TORONTO - A Ukrainian comnitted war crimes in Europe during WASHINGTON - The U.S. State activities of the Catholic Church in group that placed a full-page advertise­ the second wor1d war. Department has made public its special western Ukraine that brought about the ment on February 2 in Canada*8 na­ "The Americans set up a war crimes report on the plight and struggle of emergence of an organized human tional newspaper, The Globe and Mail, agency with disastrous results. Ukrainian Catholics in the western and rights movement among believers."The was accused by the newspaper's edi­ "...Don't tell us that a witch-hunt Transcarpathian regions of Ukraine. organized right's movement, united torial writers two days later of launch­ cannot happen here. It happened in Titled, "Soviet Repression of the Ukrai­ under the auspices of the Central ing a "strident, pre-emptive attack" on Europe. We see it happening in the nian Catholic Church, "the Department Committee of Ukrainian Catholics, is the anticipated recommendations of the United States. And we will see it happen of State has assessed, based on histori­ headed by Yosyp Terelia, who is report­ Deschenes Commission of Inquiry on here." cal data and current repressive efforts ed to have been released from Soviet War Criminals. Referring to the sponsors of the ad as by Soviet authorities, that "no institu­ prison camp No. 36 near Kuchino on The lead Globe and Mail editorial on "self-styled civil libertarians," The tion has suffered more than the Ukrai­ February 8. Februar:y 4 focused on an ad spear­ Globe and Mail accused them of con­ nian Catholic Church." The long report concludes with an headed by the Ukrainian Canadian fusing a "legitimate and overdue man­ Setting forth a detailed historical analysis of the current interest in Committee titled "Protect the Inno­ hunt for individual war criminals with a account of the Ukrainian Catholic (Continued on page 15) cent." witch-hunt aimed at their communi­ Church since the Soviet Russian occu­ The ad, paid for by the UCC's Civil ties." pation of Western Ukraine in 1939, the Liberties Commission and 10 other Added the editorial: "...the adverti­ paper offers a graphic analysis of the Schifter hears Canadian ethnocultural groups - sers are themselves culpable of disinfor­ losses suffered by the Church in its including the influential National Con­ mation. They grossly distort the ro1e of forced reunion with Russian Ortho­ gress of Italian Canadians — urged the the Office of Special Investigations. doxy, which was proclaimed in Lviv on about persecution Canadian government to decide against The OSI, the editorial asserts, does March 8-10, 1946, without the presence establishing a permanent Nazi-hunting not single out only East Europeans, of Ukrainian Catholic hierarchs. of Ukrainians body in Canada. as the advertisers suggest, but it has also The report mentions KGB propa­ WASHINGTON - The struggle and The creation of a unit similar to the "adduced evidence" against war crimes ganda efforts geared at discrediting and persecution of Ukrainian political U.S. Justice Department's Office of suspects of German origin. defaming Church leaders in an effort to prisoners was the topic of a special Special Investigations, an agency which The editorial goes on to point out the intimidate believers. Acknowledgement meeting between Ukrainian American has stirred considerable controversy in OSI ordered the deportation and dena- is made that the great Metropolitan representatives and Ambassador Ri­ the U.S. is reported to be one of the turalization of U.S. residents only in Audrey Sheptytsky has been a target of chard Schifter, assistant secretary of recommendations in the soon-to-be- cases where there is proof that suspects such propaganda efforts and further state in the Bureau of Human: Rights published report of the Deschenes: "entered the country illegally by con­ verifies that the metropohtan, who has and Humanitarian Affairs on January Commission. cealing their membership in pro-Nazi "led his church for four and one-half 22. "Your civil liberties are threatened," organizations or their participation in decades (і900-1944)," and has saved According to the Ukrainian National said the ad. "Millions of Canadians are war crimes." "the lives of thousands of Jews during Information Service, the houriong outraged by the recent suggestion that a U.S. observers of OSI methodology, Wor1d War II," is still maligned by the meeting was intended to raise various special agency be created to investigate however, say that, in fact, persons KGB to this day. human and national rights-related Canadian citizens alleged to have (Continued on page 4) Detailing the contemporary Church issues with the assistant secretary as well of the Catacombs, the report claims that as a general discussion of significant the underground movement embraces cases. Highlighted were the plights of hundreds of priests which are headed by Yuriy Shukhevych, Oksana Popovych a number of зесгеі bishops all working^, іШїйі l^eyq4^^І!Уа,^еаІр^Vад^,^гЖ*ї#га1 under the authority of CardinaL:Myro-, -discussion oa the? SoMiet,rjegirae,3Biperse- Slav Lubachivsky in Rome. More than ciition of Ukrainian believers which in 1,00О religious women in orders are said the past several months has reached to be serving throughout Ukraine along staggering levels. with many former Catholic and non- Ambassador Schifter stated that his Orthodox priests who have taken up office, as well as the U.S. delegation civilian professions and continue to attending the Vienna r^view meeting of celebrate the sacraments in private. the Helsinki Accords, will continue to Protect Special attention is paid to the highlight the cases of Ukrainian politi­ samvydav "Chronicle of the Catholic cal prisoners, as well as the Ukrainian Church" which first appeared at the nationality questipn which he finds of beginning of 1984. Commenting on the eqiial ідіррйапсеДо sQlying in4ivi4ual renaissance of Ukraine's religious cases. ..:- :-.', ;- -rr\^ movement, the State Department writes Aside from the persecution of be­ that it was "years of abortive demands lievers and activists in Ukraine, the by believers that authorities legalize the (Continued on page 15) Buchanan asks Meese to stop deportation WASH1NGTON - White House Special 1nvestigations of heading the Communications Director Patrick Nazi concentration camp in Tartu, Buchanan asked Attorney General Estonia. Mr. Linnas has been held in a Edwin Meese to stop the deportation of Manhattan federal jail since his arrest imocent Karl Linnas, an Estonian who faces the last April. death penalty in the Soviet Union. The Associated Press reported on Mr. Linnas was stripped of his U.S. February 13, eking unidentified Justice Citizenship after he was found guilty of Department sources, that Mr. Linnas' iying about his past. The Supreme deportation wou' ^^ - renounced with­ Court twice deciined to hear Mr. Lin­ in a week, nas' case, thus paving the way for his deportation to the USSR. Mr. Linnas had been tried in absen­ Wiesentha /^nter tia by a Soviet court, which handed down a death sentence m 1962. The submits пеш liSt Your civil liberties are threatened. have been attacked and terrorized ui their own homes by vigilantes. verdict, however, was announced in the WASH1NGTON - The Simon Wie­ Millions of Canadians are outraged by the recent suggestion that One man was murdered by a terrorist bomb and six others were a special agency be created to investigate Canadian citizens alleged to mutilated. It could happen here! Soviet press even before the proceed­ sentha1 Center has submitted the names have committed war crimes in Europe during the Second Wor1d War Don't tell us that a witch-hunt cannot happen here. 1t happened ings had begun. of 74 suspected Nazi war criminals to The Americans set up a war crimes agency with disastrous results. in Europe. We see it happening in the United States. And we will Ш 1n the U.S., investigations are launched based on evidence see it happen here. United Press International reported federal investigators. supplied by the secret police of the Soviet Union, which refuses to All legitimate war criminals must be brought to justice. But respect human rights. It could happen here! not at the cost of our civil liberties. that on January 29 Mr. Buchanan wrote Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesentha1 Ш 1n the U.S., instead of proving that the accused persons The Canadian justice system must not be side stepped or a letter on White House stationery to Center's director in the United States, committed war crimes, the special agency uses the courts to strip compromised to satisfy the political interests of any foreign power, away citizenship and deport the defendants to the Soviet Union for least of all the Soviet Union. Mr. Meese, in which he argued against said that some of the persons on the list breaking immigration laws. It could happen here! |an deporting Mr. Linnas to the Soviet may have died, but there was no doubt Afghan A rio iCanadal Ш In the U.S., because the | і T.h,sadv,m.n,cn,w,llhe po,d (.,,by d0,,a,,,,ns Union. that ''many are still alive and йнIГ" in the American agency has singled wc ask t ,r v,v, supix,n рігам- scmi dorui,,,ns, out and prosecuted Eastern ' ^''""'''**^"'"''"""""'"" ^'"-^i^'*"''' ^ Mr. Buchanan told The New York New York area, Chicago and Los Europeans, whole ethnic : Post that he did send a memo on White Angeles. communities have been ; "*"' slandered by the process. ^.^^^, House stationery to the attorney ge­ Twenty-three of the 74 may be living И could happen here! in the Metropolitan New York area, a 1n the U.S., individuals I: neral but that it had dealt in general investigated by the agency IMM j with deportation of accused war crimi­ including 13 in New York, seven in nals, not specifically Mr. Linnas. Connecticut and three in New Jersey, he Full-page advertisement that appeared in The Globe and Mail. Mr. Linnas is accused by the Office of said. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 No.8

Research and Documentation Center Baltic leaders confer on strategy finds home at Ukrainian Institute to fight OSI-prosecuted cases NEW YORK - After various ad­ and organizations have already made ministrative changes, the Ukrainian substantial financial contributions Research and Documentation Center However, in order to realize the plans of (URDC) has established its residence the URDC, Ms. Pawlenko observed, on the third floor of the Ukrainian ongoing community interest and finan­ Institute of America (UIA), located cial support will be necessary. here at 2 E. 79th St. The URDC is planned as a center for Sponsored by the UIA, tbe URDC collecting archives and documents on has employed a new executive director, Ukrainians in the 20th century. The Natalia Pawlenko. A long-time activist URDC will focus especially on topics in the Ukrainian community, Ms. for which documents are scarce or Pawlenko said that the preparatory difficult to find, for example, the history work carried out in the past year of Ukrainian organizations and institu­ resulted in a solid foundation of tions in the diaspora, Ukrainians m collected materials — over 600,000 wor1d wars I and II, the Ukrainian pieces of documentation, some of which famine of 1932-33 and the dissident are quite valuable. movement in the I960s. Although there was no formal fund­ The URDC intends to launch an oral raising effort this past year, individuals history project this year. "This will be a long-term, ongoing project," explained Ms. Pawlenko, "in which individuals will be interviewed and recorded on a broad range of subjects: from their recollection of historical events to family customs. This iibrary on tapes' is intended to reflect the cultural and historical past of four generations of Ukrainians." In recent months, the URDC re­ ceived the archives of General Dia- Chenko, among others. Taped inter­ views of famine survivors were donated by the Ukrainian Women's League branch in Cleveland. The receipt of such valuable materials is important to the growing archival collection. The URDC advisory board members are Walter Baranetsky, Bohdan Futey, Julian Kulas, Myron Kuropas, Waiter Nazarewicz, Victor Rud and Frank Ed Nishnic holds up a reproduction of the Trawniki ID card that is at the center of Sysyn. The director of the advisory controversy in the John Demjanjuk case. b6ard is Taras Hunczak. LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - Baltic Individuals wishing to contact the Heinz Bartesch described his father leaders met here on February 8 for a URDC or to make a tax-deductible as a 16-year-old at the time OSI accuses strategy and planning meeting called by contribution are encouraged to write to: him of committing war crimes. the Coalition for Constitutional Justice Ukrainian Research and Documenta- Anu Linnas, whose father, Karl ' tion Center, c/o Ukrainian Institute of and Security (CCJS). Linnas, is awaiting deportation to the America, 2 E. 79th St., New York, N.Y. Soviet Union, made her p1ea via a After an update by Anthony B. videotape prepared by Americans for Natalia Pawlenko 10021; or to call (212)288-2917. Mazeika, CCJS president, on the or­ Due Process. ganization's national activities, the Rad 0Slav Artukovic described the assembled activists heard about the current status of OS1 prosecutions and extradition of his father to Yugoslavia California is successful denaturalization/ deportation cases. last year. 1n addition, Prof. F. Winterberg Featured were presentations by rela­ from the University of Nevada briefed in correcting info in textbook tives of four irrdividuals targeted by the the group on the Arthur Rudolph case. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -The con­ removed from classrooms and not used Office of Special Investigations in the The attendees concluded by ap­ cerned parents of a high school student as a textbook." Department of Justice. proving the CCJS p1an of action for here have managed to get Harcourt The Kachmars pointed out a number Cleveland businessman Ed Nishnic 1987, including individual and commu­ Brace Jovanovich Inc., one of the of inaccuracies in the text. For ex­ presented the case of his father-in-law, nity project participation in the areas of country's most prestigious book pub­ ample, the book stated, ''The most John Demjanjuk, extradited a year ago archival research, Congressional and lishers, to correct gross inaccuracies important area that the Byzantines to 1srael. media relations. about Kievan Rus\ the influence of the influenced was Russia..." The Kach­ Byzantine Empire, the rise of the mars pointed out, '*Historical facts Mongolian Empire and Muscovite prove there was no Russia during that Famine film offered to educators Russia. era." Or, the textbook stated, "Kievan ALBANY — The award-winning in New York State. Alex and Joanne Kachmar, after Russia had strong ties with the Byzan­ film "Harvest of Despair" will now be tine Empire." The Kachmars' answer: available for educators in the state of The film will be available through the viewing "Peoples and Nations: A Wor1d Center for Learning Technologies, the "There never existed a Kievan Russia." New York as part of their teaching History," the textbook their son used in State Education Department, over the Within several days, the Kachmars curriculum because of the efforts of the his wor1d civilization class, wrote to the next two academic years (Septeniber Sacramento City Unified School Dis­ received a letter from the superinten­ Ad Hoc Committee on Education dent of the Sacramento City United 1986 through July 1988)'. It can be trict in November of 1985 to protest about the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. ordered by secondary schools, colleges "erroneous information" in the text­ School District, Tom Giugni, who said, This organization is дЬо responsible for "I have asked appropriate members of and universities within the state of New book. In the letter dated November 15, having the famine of 1932-33 included York for viewing. 19B5, the Kachmars wrote: my staff to review your concerns and to as part of the curriculum offerings on (Continued on page 11) genocide and the Holocaust for teachers "Our specific concern involves the A flier on "Harvest of Despair," was prepared by Bruce Goldfaden, coordi­ subject, wor1d civilization. As parents investigated by the OSI are victims of of Ukrainian ancestry, we try to instill in nator, Video Programs and Promo­ Globe and Mail... harassment. tional Serves at the Center for Learning our children a pride in their heritage. (Continued from page 3) "The creation of legal machinery to But the textbook used at Hiram John­ Technologies..Mr. Goldfaden wrote to prosecuted by the OSI have only to be probe and prosecute them would be son High School in wor1d civilization the Ad Hoc Committee on December found guilty of misrepresenting their ШОГЄ likely to forestall vigilante action class is full of inaccuracies and down­ 29, 1986, to inform it that the film "will past to be denaturalized and then than to incite it," the editorial said. right lies that contradict the teaching we be released to 14,000 educators through­ deported. The materiality of misrepre­ give our children at home and historical Concluded The Globe and Mail, out the state promoting the program sentations is the issue in the case of facts. "South of the border and down under and announcing that it is available on Juozas Kungys, a Lithuanian emigre (in Australia), justice is in belated videotape through the Center for Learn­ "We want to emphasize that as denaturalized for misrepresenting the pursuit of Nazi war criminals. It could ing Technologies Distribution system. parents we want the best education for date and place of his birth, which is soon happen here. It should happen here." Additionally, it will be included in the our children possible; and if that means to be heard by the Supreme Court. The advertisement is the second full­ next videotape catalogue which is also court actions, then we are willing to TJi^ Globe and Mail also questions page ad placed by the UCC in the paper distributed to schools through the initiate it. We demand tha,t the books be the advertisers' assertion that persons in the past; y?^r. state." No.8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22. I987

For the record: eyeyA^itness tesfimony before Commission on Famine Following is testimony of eyewitnesses to the man­ Anshrov and so on. The nannies in the orphanage were break it down if he didn't comply. The priest, dressed made famine of 1932'33 in Ukraine who appeared at for the most part Russian, and the children spoke only in his night clothes, opened the door. On the floor the Warren, Mich., regional hearing of the U.S. in Russian. where the family slept sat his wife, also in night clothes, Commission on the Ukraine Famine on November 24, In 1939 and I940, there were almost no first grades and their daughter, who had been forbidden to attend 1986. in the majority of village schools, for in 1932-33, there school. were virtually no children born, which is why there The priest's family was terrified. At first the priest Michael Smyk, Detroit: were no 7-year-old candidates for the first grade. But, was asked, "Where is the grain, and how much of it is the school which I am talking about had a first grade. there?" Following the priest's response in the negative, In 1931, sensing that our lives were in jeopardy, all They were taught by an older teacher who was an the brigade commenced its search. 1 witnessed for the of us - my father, mother, sister, brother and myself experienced pedagogue. first time how the brigade conducted its searches. — abandoned our house and everything in it and fled I recall one faculty meeting during which the The contents of the house were all turned over. from our native village. director of the school chided the first grade teacher for Every corner was scrupulously searched, including the I settled in Dniprodzerzhynske formerly Kamian~ falling behind in the fulfillment of her classroom stove. The exterior and interior were examined to the ske, while my father and the rest of the family went to curriculum. With a trembling voice and tears in her tiniest crevice, including the ashes and the crocks the iron ore basin of Kryvorizhzhia. eyes, the teacher replied, "Don't you understand? For sitting on top of the stove. There was a time when I did not know where my the pupils in my class, I am not merely a teacher; I am The icons were turned over. The floors were poked parents were, nor did they know where I, the youngest mother. These children grew up without affection.In with metal crooks, as were the ceiling and the thatched member of the family, was. At the end of 1932,1 finally addition to teaching them reading and writing, I must roof. The same thing happened in the entrance hall, in arrived at the iron ore mine which is located near the also read them fairy tales. My failure to fulfill the the cattle shed and in the yard. Returning to the house, historical site of Zhovti Vody. My father, who worked teaching plan will ultimately be redeemed by the the brigade workers discovered a piece of bread and as an accountant, found me work in the bookkeeping comp1ete education I have given these children," she coup1e of handfuls of flour hidden away in the bed. department of the mining administration. said. The chastised director patiently heard her and These were confiscated, and the priest was arrested. Near the mine, there was a small town of about did not pursue the matter any further. The brigade went from farmstead to farmstead, and its 10,000 to 12,000 persons who worked at the mine, and method of confiscating grain never differed. Each farther away from the town, there were villages where 1 don't know what became of the orphanage after war broke out. In 1940, I was mobilized as a civilian protesting farmer was assaulted with a torrent of hunger raged during the fall of 1932, and the beginning verbal abuse entered in Russian. of 1933. worker in the army. Instead of a rifle, I was given a shove1 to construct fortification on the new Soviet­ The brigade entered the house of a dekulakized The hunger was experienced even by the people German border in western Byelorussia. peasant. The owner had already been exiled to Siberia. who worked in the mines, particularly those who did By the way, in this unit, building battalion, were the His wife who was in the last stages of tuberculosis of not own their own homes with land where they could the lungs was confined to herbed,and their 9-year-old grow their own garden. Each of us office workers sons of executed parents, and beside us also were criminals. That's the same pattern that exists now in daughter had her face and entire body swollen from received about 400 grams of bread, less than one pound hunger. It was very difficult for me.tp сіфспЬе t|be daily, whi^ Ьееаде the stapk^ the Soviet Union in their prisons. I thank you very much. horrible spectacle which I witnessed; kfiddiiftcult for When p|ie t^ there was those who were not witnesses to it to believe what I practically nothing else besides the bread, one ceases Maria N.: saw. to wonder why some individuals, my father and myself The house was filthy after the dekulakization. The included, had swollen legs which are the first symptom In August of 1931, I was appointed to a teaching window panes had been poked out and the holes of starvation. In addition to working all day long, it position at a school in the village of Ovsiuky, located stopped up with hay. The emaciated women with deep was also necessary to attend school at night. in Yablunivsky district in Poltava region. The sunken eyes lay silent in a filthy bed. Yellow skin Once a day, those who were able to use their ration offensive against villagers was at its height. They were covered her bones, and she coughed up blood. The cards in the cafeteria, were given a very watery soup being forced to enter collective farms, and *Volunta­ little girl did not attend school, because she lacked containing no fat and nothing more. Almost every day rily" to hand over to the government the harvest from clothing, shoes and proper social origins. while standing in line at the cafeteria, I noticed their own fields. . The mqthq children between the age of 7 and 10 who were dirty One evening, the party leadership of the village and ragged, and always hungry going through the ordered a meeting of party activists and school TT'^y ^°":"''^іЮ^^И^^р.^, garbage pail with their hands in an attempt to find teachers to take place at the village soviet. An official began, phrased m Russ'ian and sprinkled wim vernal some potato peelings or a few groats that had been sent by the district party committee spoke of the abuse. "If there is bread in the house, where is the discarded by the cafeteria cooks. necessity of collective farms, and maintained that it flour?" Quite a few of these children could also be seen near was necessary to organize grain search brigades to The little girl explained that someone had brought the store where bread was rationed out. They all sat collect "to the last pound, to the last kernel of grain." the bread to the house the night before, and that she, there with outstretched hands and entreating looks 1 witnessed how two party members turned in their not having had anything to eat for three days, had begging for charity, but few were the people who could party membership cards after being branded, "enemies eaten half the 1oaf with water, leaving the rest for later. bring themselves to take the precious bread away from of the people," and were subsequently arrested. The bread was taken away, despite the little girl's their mouths in order to give it to those unfortunate The next day, the village activists were divided into importuning to leave some for her sick mother. children. shock brigades which were sent out to every corner of The leader of the brigade threatened to send the Hunger drove the adults, mostly the men, to the the village. There was a Russian in each brigade. Dark little girl to Siberia, and when she approached him, he mine, but no one would hire them. Nor were they days set in for the village farmers. The shock brigades pushed her away so hard that she fell to the floor. capable of doing work in their weakened, exhausted equipped with sharp metal pikes, the kind utilized by On rare occasions, the brigade actually did find a condition induced by hunger. The small mining town farmers in haying, went from house to house poking small amount of grain. In the evening, the brigades became a cemetery for the majority of these people. the walls, searching the cattle sheds and yards in an returned to the village soviet, and my brigade which A dead human being, generally a man, lying on the attempt to find grain, and seizing everything, had seized the most grain received a red cloth which street of the little town was a common sight at that including baked bread. was called "a victory flag," which was taken on the time. By the way, men were dying first and then The brigades came to owners of individual home­ brigades next expedition to rob industrious peasants women. We men were bigger than women, but 1 never steads who were labelled Indusy, Indians. The twenty- the next day, this time without me. had the occasion to see who removed the bodies when five-thousanders, [those mobilized as part of a The baked bread, groats and the millet were all this was done, although it was probably at night, and campaign in 1929 - 1933 to recruit 25,000 urban given to the members of the Komsomol, Communist where the bodies were buried. workers for permanent work in the Soviet country­ Youth League, and to the Komnezam, Committee of 1 also never saw the people who took away the side] so called because of the official campaign to Non-Wealthy Peasants, really loafers, as a reward for children and adolescents. After 1933, I had the mobilize 25,000 urban workers for permanent work in a job well done. The harvest arrived and the twenty- occasion to experience hunger resulting from a the countryside, assigned the teachers to the brigades five-thousanders ordered all of the grain to be taken shortage of food once again while attending an one at a time. straight from the reaping machines '4o the last pound, institute in Kharkiv. The teachers were forced to enter into ledgers the to last kernel of grain." Hungry farmers, and particularly their children, In I939, I was assigned as a high school teacher to amount of grain confiscated by the grain search tried to gather sheaves of wheat from their own fields, my native Kryvorizhzhia. The Department of Educa­ brigade and name of the victim. My turn came. 1t was but these were seized by the members of the Komso­ tion of the town Kryvyi Rih appointed me to teach in impossible for me to refuse to join the brigade, particularly since 1 was the daughter of dekulakized mol and the Komnezam, because eating grain from the German settlement of Grun Fe1d or Green Field. your own field was called robbing socialism. There were many such settlements, German colonies, parents, although no one in the village of Ovsiuky knew my background since I had fled from my native In August of 1932,1 was transferred from the village in Southern Ukraine from the time of Catherine 11 of Ovsiukiv to the village of Krupoderentsi located in who imported Germans to settle the Ukrainian steppe farmstead. At the time, the Bolsheviks came out with the slogan: "He who is not with us is against us." the Orzhytsky district in the Poltava region. Krupo­ region. derentsi was a wealthy Cossack village where there were 1n Grun FeId, there was a German high school I was notified about my assignment with the brigade in the evening, and the next morning had to leave with only a few Komsomol members since only the children which, like all ethnic schools in Ukraine - Polish, of poor peasants tended to join the Komsomol. Bulgarian, Greek, Yiddish and others - had been the brigade. The leader of the brigade handed me a notebook and a pencil, and informed me how the It would seem that in such a large and wealthy forced to become Russian-speaking a few years prior village consisting of patriotic Cossacks, the twenty- to my arrival as a result of government directive. entries concerning the villagers from whom grain had been taken should be made. I was overwhelmed by fear five-thousanders would have a hard time vanquishing The Ukrainian language was taught only as a the farmers whose farmsteads were still untouched by and sadness for my family, and for my husband who subject. I only recall this school, because besides it and collectivization. had been thrown out of their very own homes in a two-year technical school for mechanics, the town At the first meeting of party activists at the village of had an orphanage that housed children who lost their January of 1930, under the strict injunction not to take Krupoderentsi which all the teachers had to attend, I parents in the tragic years of 1932-33. anything with them, other than the clothes on their encountered young boys who spoke Russian. I found Because they had been brought to the orphanage at back. out that these boys were sent by the authorities to help such an early age that they did not know their own We firstentere d the home of a priest. 1t was still dark with the grain confiscation, for the authorities did not surnames, the children were given new names and outside. The leader of the brigade ordered the priest, trust the local party activists to do the job. surnames, mostly Russian, like 1vanov, Petrov, Father Skitsky, to open the door and threatened to (Coritinued on page 14) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 No.8

UIkrainian Weeyy Faces and Places The UNA'S day by Myron B. Kuropas

Since the celebrations of George Washington's birthday became a Monday holiday and, in fact, are now part of a somewhat generic "Presidents' Day," February 22 has been stripped of the special status it once held in the United The basics and beyond States. However, there is one holiday that still is observed on that day, at least If there is one thing our Saturday Chicago, the committee included the among Ukrainians familiar, with the organization called the Ukrainian heritage schools seem to do well, it is to Rev. Joseph Shary, a Catholic priest, National Association. It was on February 22, 1894, that this fraternal life teach cognitive skills, the so-called the Rev. 0rest Kulick, an Orthodox insurance company was founded in a coal town in Pennsylvania, Shamokin. "basics." priest, and representatives from Ridna For 93 years, the Ukrainian National Association has been there for its Practically all graduates of Ukrai­ Shkola, a parent's organization, and members; for 93 years it has held to its credo of extending a helping hand to nian Saturday schools who comp1ete SUM-A, P1ast and ODUM. one's brother. This, more than anything else, underscores the fraternal their 11th year "matura" examinations The purpose of the UNA committee character of Batko Soyuz, which was founded, in the words of its charter, "to can speak, read and write Ukrainian was to collect data which would provide promote unity, social intercourse and social relations, and to diffuse well, if not fluently. Graduates also have an overview of attitudes regarding the principles of benevolence and charity among Ukrainians..., to secure their a broad knowledge of Ukrainian geo­ United States, Americans, Ukraine, moral and mental development, to educate and instruct them..." graphy, history, literature, music, art, Ukrainians and Ukrainian community Ever since its founding, the UNA has indeed cared for its members, and and in some instances, religion. life among 11th year Saturday school cared about the concerns closest to their hearts. At first it was there simply to What our schools don't seem to students. Our hope was to obtain this provide funds for a decent burial for needy members; later it was there helping handle well, it appears, is the inculca­ information from some 400 anonymous communities build their own churches and national homes which became the tion of affective awareness and commit­ questionnaires distributed to Ukrainian foundation for organized community life in North America; and still later it ment. American students in Chicago, Detroit, was there to publish textbooks for our schools, and encyclopedias to inform When educators develop school curri­ Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York. the wor1d about Ukraine and Ukrainians. cula, they articulate certain goals Only the Chicago Saturday school, The UNA supported Ukrainian youths in recreation and education, and objectives which they expect their where some 90 students comp1eted the sponsoring teams in various sports — baseball, basketball, bow1ing, and students to attain after a prescribed questionnaire, approved our project. providing scholarships without which many would not have been able to period of time. Some objectives are The results were enlightening. Only 6 comp1ete college. cognitive in nature. Others are affective. percent of the respondents knew who It has defended the rights of the Ukrainian nation at home and in the free A somewhat simplified way to re­ the head of the Ukrainian Congress wor1d; it has spoken on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Ukraine who member the distinction between the two Committee was; 8 percent knew that the c6u1d not speak for themselves; and it has protested the persecution of kinds of objectives is to say that cogni­ Ukrainian National Association was a Ukrainian national" and human-rights activists. tive objectives are for the head, affective fraternal insurance company; and 14 During the 93 years of its existence, the Ukrainian National Association objectives for the heart. percent planned to join specific Ukrai­ has supported countless worthwhile projects that benefitted its members, our A better way to understand the nian organizations when they became communities in the United States and Canada, and the entire Ukrainian difference is to see how the two kinds of adults. nation. objectives are expressed within the same In response to the open-ended item, Just last year alone, the UNA published a book about the Vinnytsia area of study. A cognitive objective in "The best thing about Ukrainians is...," massacre; dedicated a new senior citizens' residence at Soyuzivka; co­ civics, for example, might read: "An most respondents (63 percent) men­ sponsored and provided funding for a teachers' seminar on the Great Famine understanding of the importance of tioned either song or dance. Some 68 of 1932-33 in Ukraine; and initiated an amicus curiae brief in a case being human and civil rights in a free society." percent thought the worst thing about prosecuted by the Office of Special Investigations that will have direct impact An affective objective would read: "An Ukrainians was their inability to work on thdusahds of East Europeans who arrived in the United States after Wor1d appreciation for human and civil together. War II. As usual, the UNA broke all previous records in the amount of rights in a free society." What was most revealing about our scholarship aid distributed to UNA members: S110,000 was granted to 217 The difference between the two kinds results was the paucity of knowledge students throughout North America. of objectives is significant. Cognitive regarding Ukrainian life in America and To sum up: the UNA was and is a vital force in the Ukrainian community. objectives stress knowledge and facts. the lack of appreciation of its impor­ And, it promises to remain a vital force for years to come as long as we, its Affective objectives emphasize attitudes tance in preserving the Ukrainian members and potential members, support its activity through our and behavioral expression. identity. If this was the situation with membership and active involvement. Given normal intelligence and a 11th year students, supposedly the desire to learn, one can master cognitive creme de la creme of the Saturday prosperity" created for Foreign Mi­ objectives in a relatively easy manner. school system, then what could we nister Herriot of France who toured Affective objectives, however, espe­ expect, we asked, from those Ukrainian Famine commission... Ukraine. "Police closed off city streets cially those which postulate personal young people who never attended (Continued froin page 1) and stocked the storefront windows. growth and change, are much harder to Saturday school or who dropped out? former professor, told of life and death The few personal cars in the city cruised attain. In view of our small sample and the in the area around Kharkiv. She told of back and forth to create the impression Simply understanding something reticence of Ridna Shkola officials to motherless children, their bodies co­ that our streets were as busy as those does not necessarily lead to a change in allow us to expand the survey, the UNA vered with sores, begging in the streets. abroad. I went into one of the stores behavior. Joseph Stalin may have had a Education Research Committee was Every morning she "saw bodies on the where I knew the sales clerk and he told *'knowledge" of the importance of not in a position to reach any firm pavements, in ditches, under a bush or a me nothing was for sale." human rights in a free society but he conclusions. tree...they died in the streets which bore demonstrated virtually no appreciation Our committee did, however, make the ever-present slogan, *Life has be­ The school that Anna S. attended in for their importance. one major recommendation to the come better; life has become more fun.' Kiev was closed in the spring of 1933. Sta1in's heirs are no better. The latest Saturday school hierarchy. We strongly Now and then, someone risked his life Hay and straw were spread on the Soviet Constitution strikes all of the urged that Ukrainian immigration to add 'for Sta1in.' " floors, for adults and children to layon right cognitive chords regarding civil history be integrated into the Saturday Ivan Kasiianenko told of children while they awaited death and a common rights, but so what? None of it trans­ school curriculum and that both cogni­ "whether they were sick or starving...put grave outside the city. lates into related behavior. tive and affective objectives be imple­ on open trucks like sheaves of wheat and 01eksander Merkelo testified that in What does all of this have to do with mented in the process. If we expect our taken away...none of those children 1929 a well-dressed middle-aged man Ukrainian Saturday schools? Just this. graduates to become active members of were ever seen or heard from again." came from Moscow, rented the best Our schools emphasize "Ukrayinoznav- Ukrainian American society, we ar­ Mykola Kostyrko, a native of 0- house in the village and organized the stvo," the cognitive realm. "Ukrayino- gued, they need to both know and dessa, explained about the existence of semi-literates, the criminal elements liubstvo," the affective realm, doesn't appreciate the tremendous dedication secret stores designated for the exclu­ and others of weak moral character into seem to matter. The result, in my and willingness to sacrifice of those who sive use of the NKVD (secret police), brigades to enforce collectivization. Mr. opinion, is a generation of Ukrainian established and now maintain that city and party officials. He told of inti­ Merkelo, who lived next door, watched savants who remain on the periphery of society. To my knowledge, few Ukrai­ midation and torture used in the early him receive regular packages from Ukrainian communal life. nian Saturday schools heeded our 1930s to force "wealthy persons" such as Moscow with "food, salmon cakes and Thousands of young people have recommendation. former merchants, doctors and lawyers all he needed for a comfortable life." graduated from Ukrainian Saturday As I reflect back on our UNA efforts to give up all their valuables, especially Much of the testimony, including schools during the past 35 years. No one in 1965, I am reminded of how little gold and silver to give the Soviets hard that of 01eksiy Keis, underscored the questions their cognitive abilities. But some things change in our community. cash to buy Ford tractors for the collec­ selective nature of the famine.Ukrai­ do they love Ukrainians? What is their Then, as now, we had little hard data tive farms. As a joke, people called these nian farmers and their families starved, attitude about the Ukrainian commu­ regarding our youth. victims "tractor drivers." while factory workers were issued nity? Do they care enough to become How sad it is that with all of our He observed starving, ragged pea­ sufficient rations to survive and help active in it? present financial and human resources, sants staggering through the city while Stalin create his military-industrial Some of us realized the need to we continue to muddle along with no foreign ships came to Odessa's ports to behemoth. A decree made it a crime to introduce certain changes in the school plan, no direcfion, no vision. When will take "surplus" grain and other mer­ glean the fields of even a grain of wheat curriculum over 20 years ago. We even we ever learn that unless we know where chandise abroad. He saw the Red Army or to catch a rabbit in the woods. This attempted to document the need with we've been, and unless we have a loading ships after shippers refused to was considered theft of state property the establishment of an Education realistic understanding of where we are load fattened swine for export. and punishable by a minimum sentence Research Committee within the Ukrai­ now, we are doomed to drift towards an MI. Kostyrko witnessed the "show of of 10 years or execution. nian National Association. Centered in uncertain future? НоЛ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Most libraries, public and university, ethnic values. tions recently made by Andrew Fyly- Don't forget buy books that are in demand. 1f the As an American of predominantly povych) is to visit the local public demand is great, they will buy several Rusin heritage, I share your continuing library, go to the person or department donated books copies of that book. 1f the demand is endeavor to keep alive the fraternal that orders new books and request that Dear Editor: non-existent, they will dispose of those spirit and devotion to your heritage. Dr. Conquest's book be ordered. I would like to comment on the idea books to make room for books in In addition, your efforts to make the Tell the importance of the book (a of donating books to university libra­ demand. wor1d more aware of the terrible atroci­ scholarly yet readable study of an ries, contained in the report about the The solution to our particular pro­ ties that occurred in Ukraine (1929­ important 20th century event of which SUSTA conference, which appeared in blem is relatively simple: we have to 1933) is to be commended. All, Eastern few Americans know, by a prominent the December 28, 1986, issue of The create the demand for books on Ukrai­ Slavs in particular, should be more and respected historian). Take along Ukrainian Weekly. nian topics. 1f they are not in the attuned to your goal regarding this your personal copy to show the libra­ It is unfortunate, that SUSTA, stu­ catalogue, ask for them at the reference sensitive issue. rian. dent "hromady" and other organiza­ desk. Insist that the librarian get them 1 do have a comment about one 1n a month or so, check to find out tions do not have some sort of institu­ 'for you, either by interlibrary loan or article printed in November 1986. It was whether it has been ordered. If not, tional memory that would prevent by purchasing the book outright. Every titled ''Ukrainian culture, churches renew the request. week or so ask for another book about assimilated in Poland." This article as I them from committing the mistakes Marie Halun Bloch made by their parents years ago: Ukraine. These days th.ere are hundreds see could have, or should have read Denver In the mid-1950s the Ukrainian of English titles on Ukrainian subjects, "Rusin culture, Churches,..." My speci­ community of Detroit collected over so one will never run out of books to ask fic point is that you legitimately, and S50O (a huge sum in those days) toward for. with great emphasis, continually (and Current leaders purchase of books on Ukrainian topics 1s this a lot of bother? Will you rightfully so) condemn the Soviet for the Library of Wayne University become a pest? Of course. But if you are Union for its attempts to Russify have no answers (now Wayne State University). In due near the library anyway, why not stop in Ukraine. But you, by the same token, Dear Editor: time some 30 books were purchased and and do your bit? Now, if you can continue to Ukrainianize those of us I compliment the Weekly on the fine donated to the library — probably all persuade 10 of your friends to do the who wish to remain committed to our quality of its articles, especially the the English-language books that then same, then we have really created a Rusin (some use Rusyn, Carpatho- recent articles by Gene Iwanciw, Myron existed about Ukraine. The student demand. Simply in self-defense the Russian, some use Ruthenian, Rusnak, Kuropas and George Zarycky. "hromada" was very proud of its suc­ library will have to purchase some Lemko, Boiko, Hutsul, etc., heritage. But, given the arthritic nature of the cessful campaign — and in a few years books to get out of the interlibrary loan We are descendants of those who, when majority of the senior leadership of our forgot about it. treadmill. they left the Carpathian area, did not major secular and religious insti]tu­ Some years later, as a graduate And just think: We have not spent call or know themselves as Ukrainian. tions, significant change for the better is student, I had reason to work in a any of our scarce financial resources — Cannot we cling to our desire to be what not likely to occur in the forseeable seldom-visited corner of the library. they can be put to better use. Now we want, such as you and not allow future. Most of the senior leadership is Imagine my surprise, when I noticed an imagine if every student "hromada," others to tell them who they are? happy with malankas, picnics and entire shelf of books on Ukraine — every "hurtok" of P1ast and SUM-A, concerts (what more do you want?). most of the books we donated - every member of Soyuz Ukrainok did Lawrence A. Goga True change for the better is s1ow and together with some torn books and ask for books at their local libraries, not Brooklyn Center, Minn. difficult. Established organizaUons that other odds and ends. The librarian once or twice, but continuously. Then cannot or refuse to evolve in response to explained that these books are to be we would not be the forgotten nation. Editor's note: Mr. Goga has just a changing environment will fade away. thrown out, because "nobody ever committed the mistake he accuses The Efforts to save organizations that resist checks them out and we do not have George Slusarczuk Ukrainian Weekly of making: telling Qon^tr^tim^ftWg9^^f ^ ,4РЯІЩ^СІ, , enough space to hold all books, only Southfields, N.Y. others who they are. : U an^ ^j:ganizat]Qnr^1^'in5titptiGntisn those that are used." truly dedicated to the good of the I rescued those books by checking community, then support it, otherwise them out and asking my friends to check ^^Rusin" is not Request "Harvest" try something else. WeVe in for a long, them out. But, I am certain that in a few sometimes difficult, period of transition years this episode was forgotten, the ''Ukrainian'' for libraries to an uncertain future. But one thing is student "hromada" stopped checking Dear Editor: Dear Editor: certain; the current leadership has no out these books, and they were discard­ After reading some six months of Another thing that should be done to answers. ed. back issues of your newspaper, I am increase the circulation of "The Harvest Walter Lesiuk We should learn from our mistakes. impressed by your promulgation of of Sorrow" (in addition to those sugges­ Los Angeles Commentary: Beri'Meir's letter based on discredited ideology by Sviatoslav Karavansky sponsibility. These ideas brought the past conflicts on future generations, scores to be settle. By concentrating most terrible defeat to the German they attest not to a lack of objectivity, attention on settling scores one may, When for the first time - before its people whose rulers were infected by but to a lack of culture and humanity. simply saying, lose all sense of reason. It publication — I read the letter sent to this doctrine. By shifting the responsibility for past is enough to recall the result of settling the president of Americans for Human The ideology of collective responsi­ conflicts exclusively on opponents, the scores under Hitler. Hitler-like thinking Rights in Ukraine by a deputy speaker bility, secretly worshipped by the lea­ worshippers of the collective responsi­ never comprehended God's truth that of the Israeli Knesset, Dov Ben-Meir, I ders of the USSR, brought the country bility theory do not draw any self­ peace, cooperation and progress could took it for a fraud, prepared to sfir up to the edge of tribal slaughter, which is critical conclusions about their own be reached at the cost of compromises, national hatred in the free wor1d. restrained only by total terror. behavior. So, instead of changing that means before all, at the cost of a But, unfortunately, I was wrong. The But the virus of collective respon­ behavior that caused conflicts in the critical attitude to one's own behavior letter was in fact written by the said sibility found another environment for past, the said worshippers doom their now and in the past. Accusing an parliamentarian. The letter reveals the , its development. This microbe has own peoples to a repetition of dan­ opponent of all the sins and looking for true views of a statesman of the country infected a part of today's Israeli society, gerous behavior in the future, i.e. they scapegoats leads to a deepening of the whose very citizens were victims of the judging from the Knesset member's preclude any development, progress or reasons that caused past conflicts. ideology known as collective responsi­ letter. The views expressed by a deputy improvement. If the deputy speaker thinks that bility. speaker of Knesset apparently are The ideology of collective responsibi­ cultivating national hatred benefits When a belief in collective responsi­ shared by a certain part of the Israeli lity was never widespread among the Israel, he may be deeply wrong. Mr. bility is shared by some extremist citizenry. Even activists of the Society European nations, whose civiHzation Ben-Meir and those who think alike do groups or the representatives of "street" for Jewish-Ukrainian Contacts are not was based on tolerance, humanity and not want and, perhaps, cannot under­ ideologies, this is to some extent a free of this conception. Some of these democracy. By condemning Hitlerism, stand that the most interested in stirring natural phenomenon: some animalistic, activists advise Ukrainians to ask the wor1d condemned also the ideology up anti-Semitism, Ukrainophobia and hatemongering outlooks do have a forgiveness from the Jewish people. of collective responsibility. No national hatred in free wor1d are the place in the gamut of human beliefs. If the doctrine of collective respon­ European leader, thinker, poet or writer Kremlin "peacemakers." It is they who But when the ideology of collective sibility were recognized by all the expresses such views now. These hate­ for decades feed and stir up both anti­ responsibility seizes a nation's leaders, wor1d's nations, wars between people mongering views cultivate hatred of Semitism and Ukrainophobia through then the danger of mass genocides would never cease or, at least, nations peoples for no reason other than ethnic a variety of acts. The fabrication of so­ arises, as does danger for the people would never maintain diplomatic, origin. Such views justifiy genocides. called war criminals cases and the whose rulers believe in collective re- economic or any other relations, be­ Anyone who condemns genocides, who creation of the notion that in Soviet cause there is not a nation in the wor1d calls himself a democrat and humanist Ukraine there is a certain special anti­ Sviatoslav Karavansky is a former that never quarreled with its neighbors. cannot hold such views. Semitism, independent of all-Soviet Soviet political prisoner and a member Conflicts between nations are a very The deputy speaker of the Knesset anti-Semitism, are among these of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In intricate issue, and in many cases it is expresses the opin;on that "the Jewish measures. These measures are put into 1979 he was forced to emigrate by hard to determine which party is re­ people has a longicore to settle with the effect on the state policy level. If the Soviet authorities; he now resides in sponsible for unleashing the conflict. Ukrainian people." Omitting the deputy speaker does not see this, this Maryland with his wife, Nina Strokata, Each conflicting party, as a rule, blames separate issue of the fairness of this does not speak in his favor as a states­ also a former political prisoner and a its opponent. Such mutual accusations statement, let us point out only that any man, because his notions about the founding member of the Ukrainian testify to tneir subjectivity, not objecti­ nation, owing to the folly and defects of situation in the USSR and Ukraine are Helsinki Group. vity. As for attempts to shift the guilt for its rulers or members has too many (Continued on page 11) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 NoJ

CeSUS announces 1987 congress The Washington Group offers WASHINGTON - In conjunction Statutory Committee which will be with a decision made by CeSUS repre­ elected at the upcoming congress. fellowships for research projects sentatives at the organization's mid­ The CeSUS Coordinating Commit­ by Walter Pechenuk government, association or journalism term meeting held in New York on tee, created at the last CeSUS confe­ internships. August 9, 1986, the Central Union of rence held on December 22, 1985, in WASHINGTON -The Washington Anyone who is currently working Ukrainian Students will hold its con­ Toronto, has asked that all member-or­ Group, the association of Ukrainian toward a degree at an accredited college gress on March 20-22 in the Metropo­ ganizations hold their own respective American professionals in the nation's or university or already has one may litan Andrey Sheptytsky Ha1l in Parma, meetings to elect delegates for the con­ capital, has begun a fellowship program apply for a fellowship. Applications will Ohio. gress. for deserving individuals to carry out be judged by: what the candidate's The congress will provide a forum for Organizations currently represented research or work projects in Washing­ proposal can contribute to Ukrainian students from across the wor1d to gather in CeSUS include: the Federation of ton in order to take advantage of the American interests or to his/ her career and commemorate the organization's Ukrainian Student Organizations of city's vast resources outside the acade­ in the interests of the Ukrainian com­ 65th anniversary, as well as adopt America (SUSTA); the Federation of mic community. munity in the United States, the feasibi­ various organizational and statutory Ukrainian Students of Europe One or more awards will be made lity of comp1eting the project, and to modifications in order to resurrect the (SUSTE); Federation of Ukrainian with the total amount disbursed not to what extent the applicant will make use central union representing Ukrainian Students in Germany (SUSN); the exceed S5,00O. of Washington's unique facilities and student interests worldwide. Ukrainian Student Association of The fellowship program originated resources. Among the major topics of discussion Michnowsky (TUSM); Organization of during the second year of the existence Upon comp1eting his/her work, each will be the CeSUS Constitution. At the Ukrainian Youth in Brazil (OUMB); of TWG when it was recognized that fellow will be required to submit a brief mid-term meeting held in New York last and the Organization of Ukrainian there was a need in the Ukrainian written report to the board of directors August, national representatives adopt­ Students in Sydney, Australia (USAA). community to assist young people of of The Washington Group outlining the ed a proposal put forth by the Federa­ For more information, Ukrainian Ukrainian descent in pursuing presti­ results of the work comp1eted. Also, the tion of Ukrainian Students of Europe student organizations are aslced to call gious careers as well as to offer financial recipient of a TWG Fellowship may be (SUSTE) for a new constitution. The Myron Wasylyk, coordinator,* at (202) help to any person of any ethnic back­ asked to make an oral presentation draft constitution, which was adopted 638-0988 or (202) 234-7584; or to write ground or nationality regardless of age before the organization's membership unanimously, will be passed along with to him at 2510 Cliffbourne Place NW, to do research on a topic that is of at a convenient time. a recommendation for approval to the Washington, D.C. 20009. interest to Ukrainian Americans. The Fellowship awards may be begun at a immense wealth of the resources which any time between September 1 of this are available in Washington — whether year and August 31, 1988. All work SUSTA holds Midwest/West conference it be human, organizational or documen­ must be comp1eted by December 31, ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Members of the vice-presidents from the Midwest tary — has been underused in the 1988. the Federation of Ukrainian Student and West, Ulana Remeniuk and 01esia interests of Ukrainian Americans, and Fellowship applications and further Organizations of America (SUSTA) Konowal, as well as several club presi­ this program plans to encourage their information may be obtained by writing arrived here during the weekend of dents met at a local pizzeria. Among utilization, to The Washington Group Fellowship January I6-І8 for a Midwest-West those present at the meeting were As a result of this, TWG's board of Program, P.O. Box 11248, Washing­ Conference. Miss Kozak from the University of directors established a committee to ton, D.C. 20008. The deadline for That week the University of Michi­ Michigan, Andriy Tomkiw from Wayne develop the scope, timetable and rules submitting applications is June 30. gan Ukrainian Student Club was spon­ State University and Oryna Hrushetsky for fellowship recipients. Through Successful candidates will be notified by soring, "The Ukrainian Spectrum," a and Larysa Sawertailo from the Univer­ much deliberation, the committee — August 31. series of lectures, movies, a play, as well sity of 1llinois in Champaign. which is composed of Bohdan Balahu- In conjunction with the recent death as a bandura performance by Mr. Participants of the conference had trak, 0rest Deychakiwsky, Truvor of Alvin Kapusta, one of TWG's most Kytasty. the opportunity to discuss the up­ Kuzmovych, Andrew Most.ovych, influential and moving forces, former The \VЩ|е!1| ^ Friday with a coming Ukrainian Millennium of Chris­ Marta Mostovych, Walter Pechenuk State Department official, Slavic scho­ lecture by Dr. David Marples, author of tianity commemorations and student and Anna Worobij — decided that the lar and expert on Ukrainian Baptists, the recently released book "Chernobyl club participation, as well as exchange TWG fellowship program should com­ the inception of this fellowship program and Nuclear Power in the USSR," who ideas on hosting events such as the plement existing Ukrainian American will be dedicated in his memory and spoke on economic aspects of Chor- lecture series held at the University of fellowship and scholarship programs. honor. Any reader wishing to make a nobyl. Michigan. These awards are aimed at sponsoring contribution to the Fellowship Pro­ The lecture was followed by an A listing of speakers and their ad­ research outside university settings or to gram in the name of Mr. Kapusta may informal gathering at the home of the dresses, and a listing of Ukrainian help financially those Ukrainian Ameri­ do so by sending a check to the address president of the University of Michigan movies and where to acquire them were cans who will need aid to pursue given above. Student C1ub and organizer of the discussed, as were the upcoming ban­ events, Ksenia Kozak. quet and SUSTA congress to be held in On Saturday, Victor Malarek from Newark, N.J., at the end of May. Harvard releases new Millennium booklets the Toronto Globe and Mail, spoke The weekend ended with a dance CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - As part of According to Dr. Frank Sysyn, about "Ukrainians' Failure to Mobi­ hosted by the Wayne State Ukrainian its Millennium Series of studies on associate director of the Ukrainian lize." Following Mr. Malarek's lecture, Student C1ub in Warren, Mich. historical and religious topics, the Research Institute of Harvard and an Ukrainian Studies Fund of Harvard advisor of the Millennium Series, University has just published two new "Almost all scholars in any way in­ UOL executive board meets Millennium booklets: "The Greek volved with publications or conferences by Stefanie S. Dutkevitch president of the Ukrainian Orthodox Catholic Church and Ukrainian Society relating to the Millennium have been Consistory. in Austrian Galicia"by Prof. John-Paul informed of the Ukrainian perspective. PHILADELPHIA - The winter The day's sessions were devoted to Himka and "On the Writing of History Representatives of the State Depart­ meeting of the Ukrainian Orthodox reports of the national officers, com­ in Kievan Rus' " by Prof. Omeljan ment have requested further informa­ League's national executive board was mission chairpersons and standing Pritsak. tion, but we can still do a better job recently held at St. Vladimir's Cathe­ committee chairpersons covering the In the first booklet Prof. Himka of the informing churchmen and the media." dral here. period since the October 1986 meeting University of Alberta examines the vital The Ukrainian Studies Fund of Har­ The winter conclave of the largest in Youngstown, Ohio. ro1e of the Greek Catholic Church in the vard University has recently published Ukrainian American lay organization Of special attention were the reports process of the national awakening of the an article by the director of the Ukrai­ within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by Education Commission's Alice Sivu- Ukrainian masses in Austrian Galicia. nian Research Institute, Prof. Prit­ in America was hosted by the cathedral lich on the commission's successful Prof. Himka explains, "The achieve­ sak, also as part of the Millennium chapter of the league whose president, Church School Teachers' Conferences ments of Ukrainians under Austrian Series. Christine Kurman, headed the arrange­ and proposed publications; the award­ rule in the spheres of both social and In the booklet titled "On the Writing ment committee. ing of scholarships and grants in aid to national liberation would have been of History in Kievan Rus'," Prof. The board's activities began with a seminarians and clergy by the Clergy unthinkable without the cultural ad­ Pritsak examines the difficult questions moleben service at the cathedral served Candidate Commission chaired by the vancement fostered by a large army of surrounding the study of the "Povest' by attending hierarchs and clergy, and Rev. Myron Oryhon of Woonsocket, priest-enlighteners." Vremennykh Let." The Povest (PVL) or by the Very Rev. Frank Estocin, dean of R.I., and plans for the 40th anniver­ The booklet consists of two articles, Primary Chronicles is the most impor­ the cathedral. sary national convention to be held in "The Greek Catholic Church and Na­ tant source for the early history of Rus'- The UOL's national president, Emil Pittsburgh in July. The convention will tion-Building, 1772-1918," first.pub­ Ukraine. it is called "Povest Vremen­ Skocypec, welcomed attending board be hosted by the Carnegie chapter under lished in the journal Harvard Ukrainian nykh Let" from its opening sentence, members from various parts of the Steve Kapeluck's chairmanship. Studies of the Ukrainian Research "Lo, this is the tale of bygone years..." United States. The board was honored UOL President Skocypec an­ 1nstitute of Harvard University, and The oldest extant historical work by the presence of Archbishop Constan~ nounced two commission chairmanship "Priests and Peasants: The Greek written in Rus', the PVL was compiled tine of Chicago, who is also the spiritual appointments with the board's appro­ Catholic Paistor and the Ukrainian in Kiev, most likely at the Monastery of father of the league, and Bishop Antony val. National Movement in Austria, 1867­ the Caves, in the second decade of the of New York. Dr. Stephen Sawchuck of Yardley, 1900" published in Canadian Slavonic I2th century with the declared aim of Greetings from Metropolitan Msty- Pa., was appointed to head the league's Papers of Carleton University, Ottawa. narrating "the origin of the land of Rus' slav, primate of the Ukrainian Ortho­ Millennium Committee. The position This booklet, as the others in the and the identity of its first princes." dox Church in the USA and Diaspora, has been vacant since the July conven­ Millennium Series have been, will be 1t is of inestimable histor.ical value were extended by the Very Rev. Paul tion. Dr. Sawchuk is well-known sent out to targeted scholars who study since it provides the fundamental chro­ Hrynyshyn of Wilmington, Del., spiri­ throughout the country as a noted related topics. The effects of these nological framework for reconstructing tual advisor to the board and vice­ (Continued on page 12) mailings have already become manifest. (Continued on page 13) No,( THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 Wife of the late William Kurelek recalls his simplicity by Chris Gu1y later in 1962. In those memoirs, Jean discovered a WINNIPEG - Since his death in man starved for affection, who had 1977, Canadian artist William Kurelek been depressed about his early family has often been portrayed as a man life. William's Ukrainian-born father driven by his own insanity. Mr. Kure- was harsh and strict, and would force his lek's vision and artistic gift have been son to work in the fields. His mother, tied to what some have said was a also of Ukrainian decent, was born in fatalistic, apocalyptic view of the wor1d. Canada. This blurred, largely media-created "It didn't sit well with his artistic image of the man annoys his ^yife, Jean. temperament," Mrs. Kurelek said. In the city recently to accept the coveted Born in Whitford, Alta., to a Ukrai­ Shevchenko Arts Medal on behalf of nian Greek Orthodox family, William her husband, Mrs. Kurelek said that converted to Catholicism shortly after William was a "very spiritual, very self­ his bouts with attempted suicide and disciplined" man. mental illness. According to Mrs. She acknowledged the fact that Mr. Kurelek he found a father in God. Kurelek had spent time in an English Mr. and Mrs. Kurelek moved to a mental hospital in the early 1950s, farm outside Ottawa and raised a before they were married. Having family. Mrs. Kurelek recalled her attempted suicide twice, once by slashing husband as a family man and a devout his wrists and another time taking an Catholic who attended mass daily. overdose of sleeping pills, he received The media seems to forget William's electro-shock therapy. deep spiritually and his commitment to Jean didn't meet William until 1961 God when they attempt to analyze his when they both worked as instructors at life and his career, Mrs. Kurelek said. the Catholic Information Centre on the "They can't understand that this can corner of B1oor and Bathurst in To­ happen in this day and age...they ronto in 1961. Having asked her how automatically think of either Mother much she weighed and how old she was Teresa or Jean Vanier as mysterious (she didn4 tell him), William asked her people." out and offered her the opportunity of An Irish Catholic, Mrs. Kurelek reading his still-unpublished autobio­ explained that both she and her hus­ graphy. (It was later published under band were vehemently pro-life. This the title, "Someone and Me".) and his Christianity were fundamental Working as a nurse at the time, Jean to the spirit of his art. showed the typewritten memoirs to a Among Mr. Kurelek's most famous nurse-friend. *'He talked about his works are his 160 paintings of "The Pas­ mental illness...! didn't know what to sion of Christ" according to St. Mat­ make of it. My friend told me to go thew. St. Ignatius Roman Catholic ahead...he sounded like a nice guy." Church in Winnipeg displays the slides One of the paintings from William Kurelek's series titled "The Ukrainian Pioneer." Jean and William were married a year (Continued on page 13) Niagara Falls Gallery's financial problems threaten Kurelek collection TORONTO - The William Kurelek formally or in writing," stated Jack can see it from the Queen Elizabeth gallery. He now handles Mr. Kurelek's Art Collection which includes the Collinson, chief administrative officer Way, but I wouldn't know how to get to estate. "It would be worth an awful lot monumental work titled "The Passion for the municipality. it. Kurelek was more Catholic than the of money, theoretically, but it's very of Christ," has been offered to the city of The city gave the Kolankiwsky gallery pope, so I think the gallery does tend to difficult to sell a collection like that. A Niagara Falls, Ont., with its two-acre a tax grant of S8,O51 in 1985 but did not attract church groups. But the big religious institution would have to buy property, but, according to owner 01ha do so this year. A tax grant for 1987 is problem is that most people don't even it." Kolankiwsky, there are no takers. being looked into. know it's there." "It certainly is not normal practice for "We are not getting any support from While Mr. Collinson would not Mrs. Kolankiwsky has tried to bor­ a city to take over a private gallery, "He anyone, but my aim is to keep this speculate on the municipality's response row some 26 paintings from the Hamil­ added. "I can only see the collection gallery in operation and to pass it on," to a formal offer of the gallery, accord­ ton gallery to expand upon her collec­ being moved elsewhere as part of Mrs. Kolankiwsky, 63, said. ing to Canada's national newspaper, tion, but Mr. Somers said the gallery another museum's collection;" A story on the gallery appeared The Globe and Mail, knowledgable does not meet many of the normal And this, according to The Globe and recently in The Globe and Mail. sources in the art wor1d have stated it's conditions, such as proper heating and Mail, would not ensure that the collec­ The gallery, which attracts "a few not likely the city will accept an offer. security, required for a loan. tion would remain permanently on thousand" visitors each year has never "The problem is that she has the "The paintings have a narrow appeal, display, a stipulation Mrs. Kolankiw­ paid its way. Mrs. Kolankiwsky's pro­ paintings but can't do anything with and don't necessarily reflect the body of sky has made before she would part blems increased with the death of her them," said David Somers, registrar of the Kurelek work," said Av 1ssacs, who with the collection. husband, Mykola, former publisher of the Art Gallery in Hamilton. *The gave the artist his first big break in I960 "Almost nobody can accept a gift the Ukrainian periodical We and the gallery is in an obscure suburb - you by exhibiting his works in his Toronto (Continued on page 13) Wor1d. Mr. Kolankiwsky died last year. Also known as the Niagara Falls Art Gallery, the 13,000-square-foot build­ ing was built by the coup1e when they sold two small galleries in Toronto in the 1960s. The gallery has been mainly devoted to the work of Mr. Kurelek, who died in 1977 of cancer. 1t also contains works by Ukrainian artists resident in the Soviet Union. The main attraction of the gallery is "The Passion of Christ," a series of 160 paintings based on the gospel accord­ ing to St. Matthew. Mr. Kurelek is best known for his prairie landscapes and scenes of immigrant and rural society. By I959 the artist had dramatically converted to Catholicism, but he led a troubled life in which he attempted suicide several times. "The gallery could be operated for about S100,00O a year," said Mrs. Kolankiwsky who would want to stay on as "a curator or consultant." The building also includes the apartment in which she lives. Although the proposed donation ot the building has been mentioned to the city, "weVe never received anything Preparing for the Sabbath in a Jewish home, as depicted by William Kurelek. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 No.

Ukrainian Independence Day - January 22, 1987 Bayonne, N.J. Manville, N.J.

Bayonne Mayor Dennis P. Co11ins presents Ukrainian Independence Day proclamation to a delegation of local community activists. BAYONNE, N.J. - Mayor Dennis nian National Home; the Rev. Roman P. Co11ins declared January 22, Mirchuk, pastor of St. Mary's Ukrai­ Ukrainian Independence Day in this nian Catholic Church; and the Rev. city and raised the flag of free Ukraine Wasyl Iwashchuk of St. Sophia Ukrai- Anna Greklek and Ukrainian school children presenting Mayor Marion B. Dudash at the City Hall. nain Orthodox Church. with a bouquet of flowers during the ceremony. Mayor Co11ins also submitted an Among those attending the flag­ article on Ukrainian Independence Day MANVILLE, NJ. - At a recently Branch 92. raising ceremonies were Wasyl Wintow- to the Bayonne Community News, scheduled meeting of the Manville Manville Ukrainian residents disre­ niw, president of the Organization for which was published in his regular Borough Council, Mayor Marion B. garded blizzard weather conditions on the Defense of Four Freedoms for column titled "From the Mayor's Dudash proclaimed Thursday, January that day when they gathered to cele­ Ukraine, Myron Solonynka, president Desk." The article appeared in the 22, as Ukrainian Independence Day. brate the 69th anniversary of the procla­ of the board of directors of the Ukrai­ February 4 issue of the newspaper. A proclamation was handed to Anna mation of Ukraine*8 independence. Greklek, delegate of the Ukrainian The event wasorganized by UNWLA Bridgeport, Conn. National Women's League of America, Branch 92. Cleveland CLEVELAND - Prof. George Kul- chycky was named the 1986 Man of the Year in the Greater Cleveland Ukrai­ nian community, and he received his award during the annual Ukrainian 1ndependence Day commemorations on Sunday, January 25. The award was presented by the United Ukrainian Organizations of Greater Cleveland. Dr. Kulchycky was born April 11, 1937, in Vynnyky, near Lviv in western Ukraine. Since 1951 he has lived in Cleveland area. He studied at universi­ ties in Cleveland and Kent, Ohio, and comp1eted his doctorate at Georgetown On Thursday, January 22, Mayor Thomas W. Buccj of Brideport, Conn., University, writing a dissertation on the greeted membersof the Ukrainian community at a flag-raising ceremony to history of Eastern Europe and the commemorate the 69th anniversary of the proclamation of the indepen­ Balkans. dence of Ukraine. Afterwards, the delegation proceeded to the mayor's He is a full professor of history at office for the annual reading and signing of the proclamation. On hand to Youngstown State University and at the accept the document were, from left to right: (first row): Jeremy Dmyterko, Ukrainian Free University in Munich. Dr. George P. Kulchycky Daniel Burij and Matthew Dmyterko; (second row): Wasyl Peleschuk, the He has writtdn articles in the English, Rev. Anatoly Jacobs, the Rev. Dennis D. Kristof, the Rev. John Terlecky and Ukrainian and German languages, and tions since his youth. Roma Hayda. is a member of the editorial board of The Currently he chairs the local commu­ Ukrainian Quarterly and Ukrainian nity's Millennium committee, is a mem­ 0anbury, Conn. Review. ber of the Parma Eparchy Committee, He is a member of nine scholarly and is vice-president of the United Ukrai­ associations and has been active in nian Organizations of Greater Cleve­ many Ukrainian community organiza- land. Hamilton Township, N.J.

Hamilton Township Mayor John K. Rafferty signs the Ukrainian Independence Day proclamation in the presence of a Ukrainian community delegation. by Michael Dziubas suburb of Trenton, N.J. The signing ceremony, which took place in the HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - mayor's office on Wednesday, January Mayor John K. Rafferty signed a 21, at 10 a.m., was organized by the 0anbury, Conn., Mayor James E. Dyer issued his proclamation designating proclamation proclaiming January 22 Ukrainian Congress Committee of January 22, 1987, as Ukrainian Independence Day and participated in a as Ukrainian Independence Day in America, Coordinating Council for the flag-raising ceremony. A similar event was held in Newton, Conn., at the Hamilton Township. State of New Jersey (UCCA-NJ). Town HaIl, where First Selectman Jack Rosenthal issued a proclamation. This was the first year this proclama­ Present at the ceremony were Msgr. Above, Mayor Dyer and Olga Paproski raise the Ukrainian flag. tion was issued by a mayor of this (Continued on page 12) НоЛ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22.1987

Soviet official said her husband could mitted such and such crimes." Until Koryagin,.. be released under a provision of Soviet Commentary,,. such an acknowledgement dominates (Continued from page I) law that allows parole after half a (Continued from page 7) the consciousness of those who are years of internal exile. prisoner's sentence is served. created by the perfidious Soviet bosses, responsible for national policies in the Dr. Khmara, a dentist from Chervo- Mr. Begun, a 54-year-old electrical who accepted and sanctioned from wor1d, there will be nations, "guilty" of nohrad in the Lviv 0blast of Ukraine, engineer from Moscow, first ran afoul Moscow all the "manifestations" of all deadly sins, nations with "unsettled . was sentenced in 1980 to seven years' of Soviet authorities in 1971 when he anti-Semitism in Ukraine (especially for scores," and beside them will be "inno­ imprisonment and five years' internal applied to emigrate. He was dismissed export into the free wor1d). The deputy cent" nations, nation-civilizers, nation- exile. He was tried along with Vitaliy from his job and then began giving speaker of the Knesset cannot under­ Godbearers, nations chosen by God, and 01eksander Shevchenko (the two Hebrew lessons. As a result, he was stand that Kremlin rulers nurture such Aryan nations and so on. Shevchenkos are not related). Dr. sentenced for "parasitism" (the crime of beliefs in order to take advantage of not being meaningfully employed) and It is said that history repeats itself. Khmara is 50 years old, and is reported them for the subjugation of all free And it will repeat itself until mankind served a two-year exile term. In 1978 he to be in poor health and suffering from nations, including Israel. It is not the throws away animalistic, hatemongering was exiled for three years after partici­ heart disease. deputy speaker who manipulates Soviet ideologies, expressed openly or covert­ Mr. Kukobaka is a 50-year-old metal­ pating in a demonstration in defense of Communist ideology and compe1ls this ly. Another ideology that propounds worker from Boruisk, Mogilev region Yuri Orlov. In 1983 he was charged with ideology to work in favor of Israel, but coexistence and mutual respect of of Byelorussia. He was sentenced in "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" the Soviet Communists feed and take nations should end this hatemongering. 1978 for writing samizdat articles and for writing about the fate of Soviet advantage of Mr. Ben-Meir's ideology. Such views have to exclude the ideology making oral statements critical of the Jews. The sentence handed down was The Soviets take advantage of Ukraino- of collective responsibility as an ideo­ Soviet regime, and he was rearrested seven years' imprisonment and five phobia, "Arabophobia" and all other logy of medieval obscurantism. while in prison in 1981. He has also years' exile. phobias, because these phobias cause I do not believe that by way of spent at least seven years in Soviet Protests disbanded the anti-Semitism so desired by the j)crsuasion one can compel somebody psychiatric hospitals for his anti-Soviet Soviets in order to fight Zionism. to change his views. Metropolitan activities. Friends and family of Mr. Begun had Andrey Sheptytsky, in the full sway of staged five days of protests in the Arbat But emotions, especially hatred, barbarism in Europe, appealed to Hitler pedestrian ma11 of Moscow. The first blind people, causing them to lose the with the commandment "Do not kill!" day's demonstration was tolerated by ability to think reasonably. The deputy Did this have any effect? Tens of people Soviet authorities, but, beginning on speaker, blinded by emotions, exagge­ wrote to Stalin, persuading him of the the second day, the group was broken rates the extent of the Ukrainians' error of his actions. Did he change up by plainclothes police. Security collaboration with occupying forces. them? Thousands of citizens wrote to agents displayed increasing degrees of He does not note that Ukrainians were Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Did this force toward the protesters on the also participants of the anti-Nazi resis­ produce results? succeeding days. tance. He does not note mistakes made I also do not think that one can Police shoved and punched demon­ by other nations, including his own. He persuade the deputy speaker of the strators and roughed up Western re­ does not understand that he himself, Knesset of any point. When base in­ porters covering the event, and some seized by emotions, is pushed in a stincts prevail over intellect, no remedy demonstrators were detained by the certain direction by the bitterest ene­ can help. ^^ police. After the fifth day of protests, mies of Israel. Friday, February 13, Mr. Begun's son, Boris, and two other demonstrators It is impossible to persuade Mr. Ben- California... were sentenced to 15 days in the work­ Meir that all the aforesaid is true, as it (Continued from page 4) house. They were to begin serving their was impossible to persuade the worship­ provide me with their findings at the terms on Wednesday, February 18, but pers of collective responsibility in the past. earliest possible date." police did not show up to take them into They were not convinced in their views The Kachmars were also in touch Mikhail Kukobaka custody. through logic or the objective analysis with Nicholas Medvid, the president of Mr. Ogorodnikov 36, was first arrest­ of historic events, but by blind hatred, the Ukrainian Congress Committee of ed in 1978, and then rearrested while in Nekipel0V9 Altunyan not freed exaggerated by prejudices and slander America, who suggested the coup1e camp and subsequently sentenced to six that stifled the voice of intellect and contact the Ukrainian studies depart­ years' imprisonment and five years' In other news regarding the mass common sense. They did not want to ment at Harvard University. exile. His offenses: organizing a Chris­ releases, it was learned that two politi­ impartially analyze the reasons for past On December 16, 1985, the Kach­ tian study group, publishing religious cal prisoners originally reported to be conflicts. They knew only that their mars received a letter from the Califor­ samizdat materials and making oral released had not been freed. They are nation was the most impeccable nation nia State Department of Education that statements. He is from Redkino, Victor Nekipelov, a pharmacist and in the wor1d, never was wrong, never did their letter was being forwarded to the Kalinin 0blast of the Russian SFSR. member of the now-defunct Moscow anything that caused the outrage of publisher. He was a student at the Moscow Cinema Helsinki Monitoring Group, who was other nations. Such blindness is charac­ *'In addition, administrative staff Institute before being expelled in 1973 sentenced in 1979 to seven years' im­ teristic of chauvinists. Try to say to the have been contacted at the Sacramento for attempting to make a movie about prisonment and five years' exile for chauvinist of any nation that sometimes City United School District. They are young people and religious beliefs. authoring samizdat documents; and and somewhere the leaders or members planning to work with you to resolve Genrikh Altunyan, a radio engineer of his nation acted unfairly or inhu­ this issue," wrote James R. Smith, 150 reportedly released from Kharkiv, Ukraine, sentenced in manly, Any chauvinist will argue that deputy superintendent. 1980 to seven years' imprisonment and his nation is the best, the fairest, the On January 17, 1986, Betty L. Shan­ Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman five years' exile for human-rights activi­ most honest, most human and never ley, executive editor for Second Social Gennadi Gerasimov this week told ties, including circulating samizdat was involved in any crimes. But un­ Sciences at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reporters in Moscow that the number of materials and oral statements. biased observers know some unattrac­ wrote the Kachmars: "We will review political prisoners released had grown Also, it has been confirmed that tive facts. They know that some up­ our material in the light of your con­ to 150 and that many other cases were Halyna Barats, a Pentecostal activist risings in India were flooded with cerns, asking qualified scholars to make still being feviewed. and wife of Vasyl Barats, leader of the blood, that the native population^ in recommendations for revision. In the However, other sources said they Pentecostal group Right to Emigrate, Tasmania was exterminated, that the next revision or printing of the text, we could not confirm that 150 had indeed was set free. Mr. Barats' release had government in Poland practiced pacifi­ will make whatever changes are neces­ been released. Dissident physicist An­ been confirmed earlier. cations. They know that humans were sary to correct any errors of fact." drei Sakharov, now residing in Mos­ Nadia Svitlychna of the External burned in Germany, that millions died By the end of December 1986, the cow, said he knew of some 60 cases that Representation of the Ukrainian Hel­ of starvation in Ukraine, that prisoners matter had been resolved. Newly print­ were favorably resolved, while Lud- sinki Group told The Ukrainian Weekly of war were shot in Katyn, that the ed and revised editions of "People and milla Alexeyeva a member of the Mos­ that the fates of many political priso­ slaughter of Palestinians occurred in Nations: A World History" are now cow Helsinki Group who now lives in ners are still unclear and the identities of Lebanon. No chauvinist ever said: "No, being used in Hiram Johnson High the United States, said she knew of most of the 150 reportedly released are my nation was not the best; it com­ School. about 40. unknown. The case of Hebrew teacher losif She also pointed out that it is still Begun, which has been in the spotlight unclear exactly what kind of statements THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION because of several days of demonstra­ were required from political prisoners ANNOUNCES tions calling for his release, was re­ before they were set free, adding that portedly decided by a special decree of she knows of some cases in which the the Supreme Soviet's Presidium, and statements written were considered SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS his release was said to be imminent. inadequate and, as a result, the dissi­ FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1987/88 Mr. Begun had not been released dents were not released. The scholarships are avaitable to students at an accredited college or university, earlier because he refused to sign a statement appealing for clemency and шжжжжжжЕЖж:ш:жж^ WHO HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR AT pledging that he would refrain from LEAST TWO YEARS. 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that "an estimated 7 million Ukrainians We have the long-awaited book in stock Hamilton... were systematically starved to death in a (Continued from page 10) Russian-made famine and millions Robert Conquest: Basil Makuch, pastor of St. Josephat's more were deported to Soviet Russian Ukrainian Catholic Church, and the slave labor camps in Siberia" and that THE HARVEST OF SORROW Rev. Мук0Iа Haleta, pastor of St. the "Soviet Union continues to oppress Soviet collectivization and the terror-famine George's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian people in contradiction New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986, pages 412. representatives from various Ukrainian to the Universal Declaration of Human Price S19.95. organizations and former Hamilton Rights, the Genocide Convention, This is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of our century. Township Mayor Maurice T. Perilli. International Covenants on Human The dekulakization, collectivisation and terror-famine of 1932-1933 of the peasants in the The majority of Ukrainians in the Rights, the Helsinki Accords and other Ukraine had a death toII higher than the total number of deaths for all e0ntries in the WorId WarI. Trenton area live in Hamilton Town­ international agreements by which the ship, which is also the site of the above Soviet Union is bound." % Svoboda Book Store mentioned churches as well as the' 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.Y. 07302 Ukrainian National Home and the New Jersey residents add 6% sales tax Ukrainian Youth Home of the Ukrai­ UOL executive... nian American Youth Association's (Continued from page 8) (SUM-A) Trenton branch. physician and active member of the The mayor's proclamation "encou­ Church and its various organizations. rages the freedom-loving residents of He presently serves on the Metropo­ the Township of Hamilton to join with litan's Council and has served as a their neighbors of Ukrainian descent in Millennium Committee member since ANNUAL SKI RACES celebrating" Ukrainian Independence the committee's inception. (Slalom and giant slalom) Day "thereby giving concrete expres­ Dori Nemeth of Philadelphia was sion to America's solidarity with the appointed to serve as Young Adults to be held at Hunter Mountain on March 7, 1987 Ukrainian people and all others strug­ Commission chairperson, filling the Banquet4ind Awards Ceremony at the Lexington Hotel gling against foreign domination." position vacated by the Very Rev. Taras The worst nuclear accident in history, Chubenko. Mrs. Nemeth is extremely Registration* adults S1O, Juniors (under 18) Free which occurred not far from Kiev, is active in the activities of St. Vladimir's Late registration* adults S17, Juniors S1O mentioned in the proclamation: "the Cathedral and has held numerous Lift tickets (2О% discount) ....: S22 Soviet government failed to provide positions in both the junior and senior Banquet (includes cocktail hour, salad bar, dinner, price does not include information about and assistance to the league activities. alcoholic beverages) - Я5 Ukrainian victims of the Chornobyl The activities culminated with a Children under 12 : 7.50 nuclear disaster which occurred in April malanka held at the Cathedra1's hall. R*drtgto rtaitаI^^^Ш^ to the 8kiclub table (In the lodge) 1986 in Ukraine." The next meeting of the national board ^ 'm'--^-^^^^^^^^ '^^--^"-^-;by 9a.m. - The proclamation also recognizes is scheduled for May 16in Carnegie, Pa. * Please register by mail - send name, sex, age, telephone number and registration fee checks (made outto Ukrainian Ski CIub)it0 George PopeI, 68 Meadow Ave., Franklin Park, N.J. 08823. Registration must be received by March 3. Diplomat American * Late registration on Marcb 7 at 8:30-9 a.m. at Hunter Mountain. Board of Family Practice; Rooms may be reserved at the Lexington Hotel (first come, first served) by calling \\ШТ) (518) 989-9797, mention KLK Ski CIub * For more information call G РореГ- before 10 p.m. (201) 297-0786 Д-Р ПЕТРО АНДРІЙ PIBEC || (Український лікар) PETER A. RIVES, M.D. ^:' ^KOBASmUKfRAyELINC. FAMILY MEDICINE 1S7 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. I0003 78 Amboy Avenue (212)254-8779 Metuchen, N. J. 08840 (201)548-4365 Esiablished 1920 Shumeyko. fre%ldent 1987 ESCORTED GROUP TOURS

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have one pair, why do I need another'... forced to admit that he was exhavsted Wife of... He was even buried in the same suit he Niagara Falls... and ill. He died of cancer in Octol er of (Continiied from page 9) had for 15 years." ' (Continued from page 9) that year. of that project each year on Good There were so many happy times with strings attached today," stated In the 1940s he wrote of himse Friday. together. Mrs. Kurelek recalled, saying Joan Murray of the Robert McLaugh­ "I have rebelled as 1 understa d a Mrs. Kurelek noted that her husband she found it difficult to even attempt lin Gallery in Oshawa, Ont. proper artist is compelled to - if le is was very conscious of poverty and listing them. There was the time, in Ms. Murray, who has put together worth his salt — against converiti n. I hunger in the wor1d. In the late 1960s he 1963, when Cathy was only 6 months several Kurelek retrospectives, called will face the contempt and p0vert3 chat traveled on arts grants to India, Turkey old, the three bundled up and came to "The Passion of Christ" "a real trea~ being such a social outcast entai . It and then to Mexico, where he had Winnipeg to visit friends and family. seems that I must live as full, intense and studied art shortly after he received his William took them on one of his adven­ Born March 3, 1927, Mr. Kurelek has varied a life as possible to gain a stc e of bachelor of arts degree from the Univer­ tures, this one to Poplar Springs, near remained one of Canada's most promi­ experience that will be my sul ect sity of Manitoba in 1950. On those Stonewall, where the three happily nent artists of the 20th century. As a matter for works of art. I am trying ard travels, Mr. Kurelek witnessed first­ spent the afternoon feasting on a picnic. social activist, a lecturer, a prophet, an to fashion my life on theirs (James hand the conditions under which people The elegant, soft-spoken lady also ethnic and prairie artist, a man of tre­ Joyce and Vincent Van Gogh), і am were forced to live. emphasized William's great pride in his mendous faith and imagination, he proud of my poverty, of not eating the A stay in a downtown hotel in Cal­ Ukrainian heritage. One of his last painted with conviction memorable right food or enough of it, of wearing cutta affected Mr. Kurelek to such a projects was a Ukrainian mural which rural scenes, landscapes of nuclear ho­ shabby clothes, of not bathing or degree that when he returned to Ca­ was to remain in Ottawa. locaust, sermons in paint against shaving regularly, proud of chumming nada, he began regular fasts of up to After months of trying to persuade "secular humanism." with Communists and eccentrics; proud three weeks at a time as his personal Soviet Embassy officials in Ottawa, he Obessed with his mission from God even of suffering periods of depression compensation for the inequalities of the was granted permission to visit his to save a materialistic wor1d, he worked because I believe that out of this 1 am wor1d. father's village, Boriutsi, in Ukraine's at a superhuman pace. In I977 he was destined to produce great art." A nurse by profession, Mrs. Kurelek Bukovina region. recalled being frustrated by her hus­ Though suffering from liver cancer, band's fasts, but would not interfere. acquired, Mrs. Kurelek thinks, from She trusted William knew what he was spray paints Mr. Kurelek worked with doing. Furthermore, he was always in his poorly ventilated basement stu­ conscious to never set a bad example for dio, he left and spent three weeks there. their four children: Cathy, now 23, Six days after he returned to Canada, Steve, 22, Barbara, 20 and Tom, 19. Mr. Kurelek was admitted to hospital. "He would come home and would He died two months later, in November have to go on a diet of yogurt and 1977, in the hospital. bananas for the first week. Otherwise, With numerous testimonials, awards his body wouldn't be able to handle the and media attention, Mrs. Kurelek sudden return ,to normal," she said. must handle in her husband's name, it's Simplicity was a major facet of Mr. difficult to forget that he's gone. Kurelek's personality. "I suppose it could have been a bit "He wasn't ostentatious and didn't easier had there not been all the media believe in fancy clothes," she recalled. attention reminding us that Bill had "If I would buy him an extra pair of died. They think they knew him, but socks or pants, he would say to me, *I only knew a small fraction of the man." Jean Kurelek accepts Shevchenko arts medal on behalf of her husband, William, at nicler's motivation in his selection and first annual Ukrainian arts conference in Winnipeg. Harvard... presentation of material; and even in (Continued from page 8) determining the text itself since the the early Kievan period of the history of earliest copy belongs to the late 14th FEBRUARY-MARCH - FUN&iRAISIN6 Ukraine. The PVL is in many instances century. Prof. Pritsak has already our sole witness for the persons and devoted several articles and a portion of MONTHS FOR UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY FUND episodes that shaped the developing his monograph "The Origins of Rus' "to Dear community members, Ukrainians in the U.S.: East Slavic culture. these vexing questions. The brutal repression and great suffering endured by our nation . The difficulties are in discovering the These booklets are available for S3 Ukraine, including the horrible aftereffects of radiation following the nuclear chronicler's sources; explaining just each from the Harvard Ukrainian disaster in Chornobyl, as well as the mighty campaign of enemy forces, how he formulated his chronological Studies Fund, 1583 Massachusetts defamation of our name and accusations of alleged war crimes, demand fro structure; understanding the chro­ Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. us a consolidation of all our national forces to counteract this slander. In the face of such a hopeless situation, the Ukrainian America^ Coordinating Council has always stressed the need for one strong cent^ ^ Attention! CHICAGO AREA Attention! organization of Ukrainians in the United States and has worked toward realization of this goal. Unfortunately, through no fault of the UACC, th UKRAINAIN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION attempts have thus far been fruitless. announces The UACC has studied the possibilities of establishing, on the basis ot к Canadian experience, a special committee which would take charge ORGANIZING MEETING gathering materials and mustering the appropriate manpower to prepare ^ analysis of the Ukrainian immigration to the United States and publisn ;-. of the findings. The UACC cooperated in the efforts to gain New York State Educat. DISTRICT СОММГТТЕЕ Department approval of a volume on genocide that contains informat!o. about the Great Famine in Ukraine, and which will be incorporated into .^-: to be held curriculum of schools in the state of New York. on Saturday, February 28, 1987, at 2:30 p.m. The UACC executive committee actively participates in the work of St. Wolodymyr Church Hall, 2255 W.Cortez (Corner OakleyBlvd), Chicago, III. National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianil^ All members of the District Committee, Convention, Delegates and Branch Officers Ukraine. of the following Branches are requested to attend: In external political matters, the executive continued its contacts V,.,ь 17, 22, 33,35, 51, 61,100,103,106,107,114,125,13l,l36,139,157,176, government officials as well as ethnic organizations, and supported Uv^^e 190, 220, 221, 243, 250, 259, 301, 379, 395, 399, 423, 425, 452 and 472. policies which benefitted the Captive Nations and especially Ukraine The executive committee made interventions in regard to the U г. PROGRAJVI: Consulate in Kiev and supported actions of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. -\ 1. Opening representative of the UACC participated, within the delegation led by ..c 2. Minutes of prior meeting Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians, in the C6nference on Security and 3. Addresses of Supreme Officers Cooperation in Europe that opened in November 1986 in Vienna. 4. Discussion of UNA insurance sales campaiлg 5. Introduction of Regional UNA Representative, STEPHEN BOHACH In order to enable the UACC to continue fulfilling its goals, as well as u. .^6. Adpption of District program of 1987 financial obligation toward the WCFU, which amounts to S37,500, the 7. Miscellaneous and adjournmeirTt: > - ^^ .. executive committee thanks all its past supporters and appeals to the public to continue supporting the Ukrainian Community Fund established three years Meeting will be attended by: ago to help cover the costs of UACC activity. Dr. John 0. FliS, UNA Supreme President The Ukrainian Community Fund dues are as follows: S25O from national Dr. Myron B. KuropaS, UNA supreme vice President organizations; S5O from their branches; S25 from employed persons; S15 from retired persons; S5 from students. Gloria Paschen, UNA Supreme Vice Presidentess We ask that, if feasible, you contribute more than these minimal sun^ч Anatole Doroshenko. UNA Supreme Auditor Checks should be made payable to Ukrainian American Coordinatii:g Helen Olek-ScOtt, UNA Supreme Advisor Council, and mailed to: For THE DISTRICT COMMITTEE: UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COORDINATING COUNCIL John Gawaluch, Chairman Michael Olshansky, tionorary Chairman 142 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 Roman Prypchan, Secretary Genevieve Blidy, Treasurer UACC Executive Committee 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1987 No. і

housewives threw away their refuse, ate the decaying It seemed at first that she was asleep, but when I For the record,.. matter which was covered with flies, and consequently touched her shoulder, she fell like a blade of grass. She (Continued from page 5) died of food poisoning. was dead. Her child rolled off her, hit its head against The same instructions were given to seize the grain The children who were still alive looked like the ground and also died. "to the last pound, to the last kernel," as well as the skeletons. Filthy and torn, they cried out, "Bread, Some people travelled to Russia and were able to potatoes which are second only to grain as a major bread, give me a little piece of bread, Mama, Гт acquire flour, millet and other items through illegal food source in the Soviet Union. hungry, bread." barter, but such good fortune was rare. My mother The fall of 1932 and the spring of 1933 saw the Two churches in the village of Krupoderentsi had mustered up the courage to make a trip into Russia. harshest offensive against the Ukrainian farmer, been filled with grain and potatoes. The church was My sister and I gathered all that was best for trading because only through hunger could the resistance of surrounded with barbed wire, and armed Russian and gave my mother some money for teachers received the farmers against the hated collectivization be guards stood watch over the plundered grain day and regular monthly wages, and she departed for . Russia broken. night. to seek her fortune. In Krupoderentsi, there was already a collective Struggling to survive, the people ate leaves, nettles, She was able to obtain some flour, millet and a farm. All of the grist mills in the villages and towns pigweed, sorrel, honeysuckle, bulrushes. They made bottle of oil, but her happiness was short-lived and either passed into the hands of the local authorities or tea out of the branches of cherry trees. The leaves of ended in tears. At the border, everything was taken were closed down. Villagers who still held on to some the linden trees were the tastiest. People gleaned the away from her, and her name and address were grain either crushed it with mortars or with rolling pins remnants of rotten siftings and potato and beet recorded. She was given a severe reprimand never to and added to the f1our derived in this way bits of peelings. To these were added strained linden leaves travel to Russia in search of food or to tell Ukrainians pumpkin, beets, cabbage. The resulting mixture, when and the baked mixture was called shchodennyky or about how the Russians lived. baked, resembled bread. everyday patties. People were very much interested in the life of their Domestic animals and birds were slaughtered the Whoever had a poppyseed cake divided it among so-called "elder brothers," [beginning in the 1930s, winter before in the absence of produce and meat the members of his family leaving some for the Soviet ideology began to refer to the Ukrainian nation which also had to be handed over to the government. following days. Peonle died of hunger in the houses, as the "younger brother" of the Russian nation in In the new year of 1933, people were slowly starving. the fields, in the yards, streets, railroad stations, on order to emphasize the latter's ideological, cultural The village was dying. Its inhabitants slowly succumb­ the roofs of train cars. and political seniority] but mother was so frightened ing to the circumstances around them. In the year 1933 until the harvest of that year, the that she told people she had never reached Russia In the spring of 1933, a massive famine struck mortality increased with each day. Every day a vehicle because of the illness that befell her on her journey. Ukrainian villages. Women, men and children swollen from the collective farm drove up to houses, and the My mother visited several Russian vHlages where from hunger were starving to death while the brigades driver called out, "Are there any dead people in there." people had bread, potatoes, different kinds of grain, continued to go from house to house, destroying the Bodies were collected everywhere. They were usually bacon, oil, milk, eggs and other food stuffs, yet were ovens, fireplaces, breaking up the thatched roofs in ^rolled in sack cloth, piled onto wagons like logs of afraid to sell them to Ukrainians or to trade with their quest for grain. The mortality caused by the wood, driven to a single large hole, piled into the hole Ukrainians. fari)ine increased daily. and sprinkled with lime. Some Russians did engage in these activities , ^,,,I^r^t5 A^^9^,stiU had the strength tojcarry their When one hole was completely filled with bodies, discreetly. Mother said that Russia seemed like ^ ^щ^ІсI)|1і|г^п di:p^ roofs of the train cars another one was dug. Bells did not to11 for the dead. No another kingddrfci ^ftd she saft ії, |he реЙр1е were to cities, and abandoned them on city streets. The one wept for the dead or accompanied the bodies to cheerful, lived a normal existence, went tc ork, were militia picked up the abandoned children and p1aced their final rest. Only flies swarmed around the dead pleased with everything. u ? them on the hay in cattle cars. Wards were appointed bodies which were already in the process of decom­ The village loudspeakers b1ared the message, "Zhyt for the abandoned children. posing. The people who collected the bodies received stalo luchshe, zhyt stalo veselei," life has gotten easier, The, children were fed a so-called soup made of recompense for their day's work which was a bit of life has become more fun. During her stay in Russia, water with a little millet thrown in and 100 grams of corn or some barley. mother spent the nights in different villages, at the soggy bre^d daily. Many of these children died, while One spring day on my way to. school, 1 heard the homes of families where she was treated to an others were placed in orphanages where they were cries of a child. Gbing up to the yard where the cries unlimited quantity of bread, cabbage soup, milk, taught to love Father Stalin and the beloved party were coming from, I saw a young mother sitting on a porridge with milk and other kinds of food. I found ;:iwhteh;.J^;^u^^ *^MHg^r. bank of earth against the house. There w^s an infant out that her Russian hosts knew nothing of the The 'pai^ent^iit Ще аіїЙиїЙпЄЙ Ш atid other on her breast which was frantically trying to^iick its situation in Ukraine, and mother told them nothing of villagers went to garbage dumps where the urban mother's breasts which were as dry as empty bags. what was happening there.

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tance is understandable, and it it no trees are radioactive. It has a tremen­ A look at... doubt shared by Ukrainian authorities in 13 excess... dous emotional impact. It's unavoid­ (Continued from page 2) equal measure. But all of this changed (Continued from page 2) able when you see those things that you stop and wonder, however, is the timing after Mr. Chebrikov's disclosure, and of Chornobyl were apparently too low understand the potential dangers of - or rather the lack of timing — the absence of coordination between to cause such problems, reported The radiation," Dr. Gale said. involved in the publication of separate Moscow and Kiev in this instance is Times. The deserted villages within the 30­ materials by Pravda and Radianska obvious. Dr. Gale did state, however, that kilometer safety zone were covered with Ukraina on the same day, January 8. The question is whether this was some women had abortions as a result snow and many are probably safe Thus, when readers of Pravda are purposeful. 1f so, one can begin to think, of the accident, but neither he nor enough to be reinhabited. Dr. Gale said. being told that local KGB officials in in terms of the Ukrainian party leader­ Soviet officials knew the exact number. But, the melting snow in the spring will Ukraine have violated the law and that ship's isolation from important political "WeVe now had a chance to observe be a problem because it will carry the Ukrainian KGB chief has been developments in the center. all the children that have been born radioactive debris when it flows into instructed to take disciplinary action close to Chornobyl," Dr. Gale stated. rivers and reservoirs. The Soviet autho­ against his subordinates, the Ukrainian "Not surprisingly, none of them, at rities have decided to bar villagers from press limits its reporting to the misdeeds Donahue... birth at least, has any detectable abnor­ their homes until after the spring. of the prosecutor's office and the organs (Continued from page 2) malities. We weren't expecting any. "Many people are trying to get back to of internal affairs, leaving the KGB Soviet Union on several occasions since That's an example that no news is good their homes," Dr. Gale said. "People see untarnished. the disaster, stated that the Soviets are news." their homes, and they see no destruc­ If nothing else, this has the effect of not deterred by the accident and are The effects of radiation are most tion, no fire, they just see their houses embarrassing the Ukrainian party planning to expand their reliance on extreme at 8 to 15 weeks of develop­ standing there and they want to go back leadership. Those prone to view Krem­ nuclear power. Their goal, he said, was ment, it is thought. "At the eight week to them. So they sort of sneak in on lin politics largely in terms of skuldug­ to increase nuclear power production of development, the brain cells, which occasion." gery may well interpret this aspect of the from the current 11 percent to 50 are all clustered together, migrate out to Berkhin affair as another blow against percent of all energy generated in the form the structure of the adult brain," Ukrainian party leader Volodymyr Soviet Union. he explained. "If you irradiate an Schifter hears... Shcherbytsky, particularly in view of The risks of nuclear energy, however, animal or human at that stage of (Continued from page 3) the recent rumors that he was about to must be weighed relative to other forms development, you confuse the cells so continued harassment of the Ukrainian be replaced by none other than Mr. of energy, Dr. Gale said. If, for instance, they migrate to the wrong place." minority in Poland was also discussed. Chebrikov. That remains to be seen. the Soviets gave up their nuclear power Dr. Gale first became involved with Within recent months the Jaruzelski In the mean]time, it should be noted program and converted to fossil fuels, the medical care of persons exposed to regime has stepped up its efforts of that until the appearance of Mr. Che- they could expect 1 million deaths over radiation shortly after the accident forced assimilation of Poland's large brikov's article, Pravda was reluctant to the next 50 years because of increased when he traveled to the Soviet Union to Ukrainian population. The meeting was point a finger at the KGB by fully production accidents and pollution, he do bone marrow transplants on 13 of comp1eted with a discussion on the identifying Mr. Dichenko. Such reluc- said. the most irradiated victims of the Millennium of Christianity in Rus'- disaster. Only two survived. Ukraine and the need to sensitize U.S. "Every kind of energy has its price. Dr. Gale is currently coordinating foreign service officers in Moscow to State Department... Chornobyl is probably going to cost long-term studies of the accident's the Kremlin's public relations ginithicks them 12,000 lives" from excess cancer (Continued from page 3) health effects and has been to the Soviet with respect to the Millennium. deaths in the Soviet Union he said. "If Union several times. He stated that he The Ukrainian American delegation religion which is supposedly widespread they have no more Chornobyls, then among Ukrainians. Indeed, nearly half was stunned by the devastation of the was headed by George Nesterczuk, having switched to fossil fuels will cost areas around Chornobyl. national vice-president of the Ukrainian of the officially permitted religious them almost a million more lives. 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All working tools provided to com­ embroidered costumes. Admission p1ete two pysanky. For more infor­ p1ete two pysanky. For more infor­ TRENTON, N.J.: St. Josephat's for adults is S15 with dinner, S1O mation call the center at (213) 668­ mation call the center at (213) 668­ Ukrainian Catholic Church Parish without; students, retirees, S1O with 0172. 0172. ^^^^^^^ Israeli schools, and there is much Third day's proceedings man archives now in 1srael contain any Dem/aaj'uk... commotion in the hall as spectators mention of an "1van the Terrible." Dr. (Continued from page 1) come and go, and speak among them­ On Wednesday, February 18, Dr. Arad replied that they did not, but that in history.*' The charges against Mr. selves. Arad was grilled by Mr. O'Connor, the one or two documents speak 0fan "1van Demjanjuk are crimes against the During a recess on the first day of the chief defense counsel, who sought to of the gas chamber." Jewish people, crimes against huma­ trial, a spectator and Holocaust survi­ point out the discrepancies in survivors' Mr. Sheftel read out some survivors' nity, war crimes and crimes against vor, Mordechai Fuchs, jumped up and recollections of Treblinka. accounts that the guard in question was persecuted persons. shouted that Ukrainians had strangled "I am trying to show, Dr. Arad, that if killed in an inmates' uprising in 1943. his entire family. you, one of the greatest historians of the This was denied by Dr. Arad, who said The proceedings Holocaust, cannot decide on some Day two of trial his research showed this to be "wishful critical elements in this case, how can thinking" by survivors. ~ In addition to Judge Levin, who is a the witnesses?" Mr. O'Connor said Mr. Sheftel then asked whether such Supreme Court judge, the case is being After the defense's motion to limit during his cross-examination. testimony during the trial to that "wishful thinking" might have caused heardj5y,Zvi ,Та1 and Dalia Dorner, He asked the scholar about discre­ survivors to identify Mr. Demjanjuk as both of the Jerusalem District Court. , dealing only with the issue of identity pancies regarding the camp's layout as was reje,cted by the judges, the entire "1van the Terrible," but the judge The trial is being held in a converted shown in his own book about Tre­ interrupted his question. movie theater that is part of Jerusalem's second day was devoted to testimony blinka, survivors' testimony and a 1943 delivered by Dr. Arad, a historian and The 1sraeli defense lawyer also at­ largest convention center, with the x1rawing by prisoner Jankel Wiernik. tempted to read a description of "1van judges, the prosecution and defense director of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Among the differences were various Museum and Archives. Dr. Arad, a the Terrible" contained in a compen­ teams, and the defendant seated on the locations of a hanging tree, a building dium by Messrs. Grossman and Ehren- stage. The hall can accommodate some Holocaust survivor whose parents died where women disrobed and a barbed in Nazi concentration camps, is also the burg, but the judges sustained the З00 persons. wire fence. prosecution's objection that this should The trial is being conducted in He­ author of a 1983 book about Treblinka. Mr. O'Connor also questioned Dr. He spoke in detail about the evolu­ not be admissible because a book is not brew with simultaneous English trans­ Arad at length about Treblinka's upper a witness. Mr. Sheftel protested, to no lations, although Mr. O'Connor speaks tion of the Nazi "Final Solution," and lower camps. It was the upper camp "Operation Reinhardt" and manpower avail, that neither is a map a witness but in English, which is translated into (located uphill from the other section) two days earlier a map by a deceased Hebrew. The proceedings are translated in the death camps. Also covered in Dr. that was the death camp; it was sur­ Arad's testimony was the physical Treblinka survivor had been admitted into Ukrainian for Mr. Demjanjuk by rounded by a barbed wire fence more as evidence. two Israeli interpreters. However, when layout of Treblinka (illustrated with than two meters high that was inter­ huge photographs of a mode1 of the Mr. O'Connor also cross-examined the defense complained that the quality woven with tree branches in order to Dr. Arad during the Thursday, Fe­ of translations was poor, Mr. Demjan- camp), its killing process, the prisoners' hide what was happening inside. uprising in 1943 and the razing of the bruary 19, proceedings, quizzing him on juk's 21-year-old son, John Jr., was Mr. O'Connor's purpose in pursuing whether specific books by Treblinka permitted to sit nearby to help with camp by the Germans. this line of questioning was to ask: How, The historian also noted in his testi­ survivors mentioned an "1van the Ter­ translations. then, could survivors from the lower rible" or 1van Demjanjuk. Dr. Arad In a departure from accepted proce­ mony that among the Ukrainian camp see inside well enough to identify guards at Treblinka were 1van, who was replied for the most part that he did not dure, television and still photographers guards, among them "Ivan the Ter­ remember, although he did concede have been permitted to record the nicknamed "the Terrible," and Nikolai, rible," who served in the upper camp? and he denied that "Ivan the Terrible" that one book by Gippa Sereny con­ proceedings; TV crews are accommo­ Another issue raised during the cross­ tained no mention of "1van the Ter­ dated on a balcony in the hall. The trial was killed by inmates during their revolt. examination was the nationality of the rible." is being broadcast live by 1sraeli radio, guards to whom Dr. Arad had repeated­ Before Dr. Arad testified, however, The court then recessed for the and videocameras are recording it for ly referred as "Ukrainians."Mr. O'Con­ Mr. Demjanjuk's Israeli lawyer object­ weekend. On Monday, February 23, the classroom use. nor's questions led up to the point: Why ed that there was no need to introduce first of the Treblinka survivors is would a Ukrainian guard have a Rus­ historic evidence about Treblinka, since expected to testify. The trial is held Monday through sian nickname, "1van Grozny" ("Ivan this was not the issue. Mr. Sheftel Thursday in two sessions, 8:30 a.m. to 1 the Terrible"); why would another charged, "The prosecution attemptsI0 Orthodox Church represented p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. (Israeli time is seven "Ukrainian" guard have the Russian turn this into a show trial for the news hours ahead of Eastern U.S. time.) name, Nikolai, and not fts Ukrainian media." He added, "This is just like the Bishop Antony of the Ukrainian The proceedings are being attended equivalent, Мук0Iа? by news reporters from around the Moscow trials of Jewish dissidents." Orthodox Church is present at the Demjanjuk trial as the officiai observer world- including a Soviet TV crew - Supreme Court Justice Levin re­ Week's final session as well as children and youths from buked Mr. Sheftel for his remarks. of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Mstyslav. The The cross-examination of Dr. Arad bishop has attracted much media atten­ PIan table tennis tourney continued throughout the fourth and tion, particularly from the 1sraeli news SECAUCUS, N.J. - George Chra- international umpire in the sport of final day of the week's proceedings. Mr. media. newycz, director of the table tennis table tennis. Sheftel questioned Dr. Arad at length Metropolitan Mstyslav, meanwhile, section of USCAK (Ukrainian Sports He noted that table tennis has now about depositions provided b various on February 13 sent a telegram to Mr. Central of the U.S. and Canada), has been des^ignated an Olympic sport Treblinka survivors in an effort to find Demjanjuk, stating: "1n these difficult announced that the organization will through the efforts of several countries out why the historian accepts some of days of your life 1 beseech Almighty God hold championship competition in that and the International Table Tennis these as valid, while questioning others. to keep you in His care and to grant you sport this spring. Federation. He asked what had led Dr. Arad to strength to pass this most trying test of Persons and teams interested in discard testimony that "1van the Ter­ your life. 1 have deep faith that the Lord The event will probably take place in competing in the USCAK tournament rible" was killed and believe testimony will help those entrusted with the task of the Metropolitan New York area, said should write to: George Chranewycz, that he was still alive. Mr. Sheftel also judging you to go down in history as Mr. Chranewych, who hoIds the rank of 474 Tea1 Plaza, Secaucus, N.J. 07094. queried Dr. Arad on whether the Ger- honest instruments of God's will."