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ЇЇ5Ьед by tht Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association| Шrainian WeekI Y Vol. LV No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 25 cent3 Releases labelled propaganda ploy Canada expands war criminals liunt by dissidents and rights monitors Nazi crifnes will not be sole focus JERSEY C1TY, NJ. - A number of He's trying to reduce that damage by Michael Bociurkiw any country, including areas of unrest in Soviet dissidents in the USSR and in without fundamentally changing the the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Central Western exile, as well as several Wes­ system," Mr. Schifter was quoted as OTTAWA - The Canadian govern­ America and Europe where these crimes tern human-rights monitors, have re­ saying in the March 16 issue of the ment's response to the report of a are being committed. cently voiced scepticism over the Soviet Monitor. commission of inquiry on war criminals Besides recommending the amend­ government's motives for the recent In contrast to what Mr. Schifter surprised many observers and commu­ ment of the Criminal Code to allow for releases of some 60 political prisoners labelled as "euphoria'' in Western nity leaders here because the govern­ Canadian trials of all suspected war from labor camps, prisons and exile. reaction to the releases, particularly in ment was not expected to expand the criminals, including Nazis, Judge Des­ Members of this group were allegedly the press and media, dissident sources in hunt for Nazi war criminals to all chenes, in the 1,000-page commission pardoned under two decrees of the Moscow reached by the HRC executive suspected war criminals from around report that was made public on March Presidium of the Supreme Soviet made director Christina 1sajiw in early March the world found living in Canada. 12, also recommended the following: in early February. reportedly said that "almost no one" has The government's decision to amend * streamlining of procedures for the The dissidents and human-rights heard of the releases in the Soviet Union the Criminal Code to prosecute not just revocation of Canadian citizenship and watchers all said they view the select because there has been virtually no accused Nazi war criminals was based deportation of suspected Nazi war releases not as a change in Soviet publicity. on a recommendation of Justice Jules criminals; human-rights policies as the Soviets 'T think that almost no one knows,"a Deschenes, the head of the one-man ^ the allocation of additional re­ have claimed, but strictly as propagan­ source told Ms. Isajiw. "There was a commission that spent 22 months sources to the Royal Canadian Mount­ da aimed at Western consumption. small news item about our release in determining how many war criminals ed Police and the Justice Department to Dissident sources in Moscow and Moskovski Novosti (Moscow News) - live in Canada, how they got here, and (Continued on page 5) contacted by the Human Rights Com­ it comes out in English, French. But this what can be done to bring them to mission of the Wor1d Congress of Free paper is little known here." justice. Ukrainians, an exiled dissident in The Moscow sources stated, echoing Ukrainian community observers Europe who now heads an international Mr. Schifter's sentiments, that the re­ hope the new law will make it possible rights monitoring group, and a human­ leases were indeed a propaganda move, for Canada to bring to trial Soviet war rights watcher in the U.S. State Depart­ also aimed at quieting the Western press criminals who killed Ukrainian patriots ment said they based their opinions upon and media which are interested mainly during the second wor1d war. The wider observing various contradictions and in specific cases of several well-known definition of war criminals under the inconsistencies in official Soviet be­ individual dissidents. They said there new law might also make it possible for havior. was evidence to that effect in the fact Ukrainians to petition the government Richard Schifter, assistant secretary of that Soviet authorities were releasing to demand extradition of perpetrators state for human rights and humanita­ prisoners from what they called "the of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine. rian affairs, told the Christian Science (Continued on page 5) The suggestion to enlarge the net to Monitor last week that although the all war criminals was originally made by changes occurring in the Soviet Union representatives of the Ukrainian Cana­ were meaningful in his opinion, 'Ч More dissidents dian Committee, and was later popula­ would be concerned that there has been rized by Jewish groups and civil-rights too much euphoria in reaction to it." reported released advocates. He said that the changes in Soviet JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Eight more The amendment to the Canadian behavior on human rights have indeed Soviet dissidents, including two pro­ Criminal Code would open the way for benefitted some individuals who have minent human-rights activists of the prosecution of persons suspected of war been released from prison, yet he 1970s, were released — three on March crimes or "crimes against humanity" in Justice Jules Deschenes suspects the releases signaled more of a 16 and five the week before, Elena concern for public opinion than an Bonner reportedly told Reuters on actual reconsideration of Soviet hu­ March 16. Ukrainians praise government response man-rights policies. Reuters reported later on March 19 'Ч think that (General Secretary that Sergei Khodorovich, former ma­ by Michael Bociurkiw ment's controversial Office of Spe­ Mikhail) Gorbachev is aware that the nager of the Solzhenitsyn fund to aid cial Investigations. Soviet Union has been damaged inter­ families of political prisoners, had OTTAWA - Members of Ca­ Wasyl Veryha, a spokesman for nationally by its human-rights policies. arrived in Moscow on March 18 after nada's Ukrainian community, res­ the Brotherhood of Veterans of the being freed from a work camp in the ponding to the release of the public 1st Division of the Ukrainian Na­ northern Siberian city of Norilsk. report of the Deschenes Commission tional Army, said all Ukrainians will be pleased that the government has At Demjanjuk trial: Among those freed the week of of Inquiry on War Crimes, said last week they are happy that the Cana­ decided against creating a unit March 9-15 were Ivan Kovalyov and similar to the OSI. Tatiana Osipova, a husband and wife dian government's response has rid investigator admits Although Judge Jules Deschenes who were serving 10-year sentences for them of the need to fight the esta­ said in his report that it isn't neces­ *'anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ blishment of a permanent Nazi-hunt­ leading witnesses sary to create such a unit in Canada, ganda" for playing a prominent role in ing unit in Canada. he did make it clear in his recom­ Special to Svoboda and The Weekly publicizing Soviet human-rights abuses. They also said the commission's mendations that the government has JERUSALEM - As the fifth week Both have been told they may emigrate, recommendations — and the federal the option of carrying out investiga­ of the John Demjanjuk trial came to a Ms. Bonner told the Reuters reporter government's response — mean they tions against suspected war criminals close, a former police investigator over the telephone. will no longer be regarded as har- by renewing the mandate of the admitted that she had mentioned the Mr. Kovalyov, 32, of Moscow was a borers of hundreds of Nazi war Deschenes Commission, or arming names of John Demjanjuk and Feodor member of the now-disbanded Moscow criminals. the Department of Justice and the Fedorenko to witnesses while ques­ Helsinki Monitoring Group. Ms. Osi­ The Ukrainian community, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted tioning them about the Treblinka and pova, 38, participated in the work of the most vocal East European group Police) with a full-time team of Sobibor camps and seeking photo Moscow Helsinki Group, circulating since the commission was established lawyers, histojians and police offi­ identifications of the two former Ameri­ samizdat and books published abroad. in February 1985, raised hundreds of cers. can citizens. The three apparently freed on March thousands of dollars to persuade Observers said either option would Presiding Judge Dov Levine asked 16 were Halyna Barats, the Ukrainian politicians and other Canadians to be similar to creating a Canadian­ Miriam Radiwker, 80, formerly of the Pentecostal (who The Weekly had steer clear of establishing a perma­ style OSI. Nazi crimes investigation unit of the earlier reported was released), Alexei nent Nazi-hunting agency in Canada, similar to the U.S. Justice Depart­ (Continued oapage 5) (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 10) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 No.12

A GLIMPSE OF SOVIET REALITY Newly freed dissident says releases are political maneuver The Koristivka collision; an analysis by Bohdan Faryma However, said Mr. Timofeyev, many by David R. Marples he was driving at an excessive speed, in political prisoners whose cases are very 1986 on the Odessa railroad, two NEW YORK - Last month's partial sensitive and who feel vulnerable to­ CONCLUSION "wrecks" occurred, 13 trains are known amnesty for Soviet political prisoners ward government abuses were fearful of to have run red signals, and there were must be seen as a political maneuver, being deceived and refused to write The comments of readers in the wake 30 collisions and near misses of moving says a Soviet dissenter freed as part of anything, even in the mildest form. of the Koristivka accident also high­ trains. the group. They are still imprisoned, he said. lighted some major concerns. One The quality of repair work is also said As long as the authorities do not "They have justly expected respect wrote of tiie degeneration of :lie 0ГіСе- to be extremely poor. Many trains are release all political prisoners uncondi­ from the Presidium of the Supreme proud profession of engine-driver. At being sent back for "repeat repair work" tionally and respect their convictions, Soviet, total and unconditional respect one time, payment had been substan­ while others are sent into service in a ulterior motives must be suspected, said [for their convictions], and they are still tially higher than in most other profes­ defective state. 1nspectors reportedly Lev Timofeyev, a dissident journalist waiting," said Mr. Timofeyev. sions, but now a "levelling" had oc­ permit such defective carriages to be who was freed from a labor camp He said that among the individuals he curred, so that it was possible to earn returned "in secret." 1n January, when following the amnesty. He now lives in knows personally from the camp, or the same money working in "more some 177 cases of faulty sections oc­ Moscow. about whom he heard repeatedly, are tranquil" posts. Today, the reader curred under the jurisdiction of the "I am looking for social peace and for Valentin Novoseltsev and Va1ery pointed out, the position of driver was Shevchenko depot, a nervous atmos­ the release of those who chose suffering Sender0V, who still remain in Moscow's being occupied by "raw people," phere was said to pervade the entire for the sake of their convictions," said Lefortovo prison; Vakhtang Zabiradze straight "off the street." Perhaps the transportation system. Train No. 635 Mr. Timofeyev, appealing to the Su­ and Guram Gogbaidze, who are in a most perceptive of the published com­ may also have been in need of repair. It preme Soviet through an open letter to prison in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, ments came from a N. Belousov of had been operating on the two nights the Soviet daily Izvestia. "This is and the Rev. Alfonsas Svarinskas, still Rostov 0blast of the Russian SFSR: previous to the collision, and as Izvestia awaited by many people in our country in a prison in the Lithuanian capital, "Clearly the work of the train driver, noted, "it is difficult to work from night and in the wor1d." Vilnius, after being transferred from a especially at night, is difficult. More­ to night on such a regime." Perm labor camp several weeks ago. over, not every driver can get a proper The release, as official Soviet sources (In a related development, the Finally, workers in the industry — claim, of some 140 prisoners of con­ rest in the daytime because of family or and, it seems, especially in those that fall Lithuanian Information Service of living conditions. It is essential to science — a number disputed by promi­ Brooklyn, N.Y., reported on March 12 under the administration of the Odessa nent Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov guarantee I00 percent attentiveness of region - have been working excessive that two prominent Lithuanian political the dHver at night. Technology has - was the result of the prisoners' own prisoners were moved from Perm labor hours as a result of a labor shortage and convictions and not an expression of the made remarkable progress in the cos­ a high level of absenteeism. In 1985, camps to prison in Vilnius. They were: mos, land can be controlled over great success of Soviet re-education, as the Viktoras Petkus, a literary historian, Odessa railroad brigades worked collec­ Soviet government successfully made distances by flying equipment, and yet tively 1.78 million hours above the founder of the Lithuanian Helsinki our specialists are not in a position to Western reporters believe, said Mr. Group and member of the Ukrainian norm; in 1986, 1.51 million. At the Timofeyev. stop a train at a red signal." (Izvestia, Shevchenko depot, drivers and their Helsinki Group, who was incarcerated According to Soviet reports, the February 5.) assistants have been working three to in Perm Camp No. 36, and the Rev. Generally, the writers of the February political prisoners asked for clemency Sigitas Tamkevicius, a founding mem­ four days of overtime every month. As a and declared they will refrain from Izvestia article did not agree entirely reader pointed out, such a regime is ber of the Catholic Committee for the with such comments, maintaining rather future anti-Soviet activities as a condi­ Defense of Believers' Rights.) endangering lives. It was also a direct tion for their release. that the fault lay not in technology, but cause of the Koristivka accident, and (Continued on page 13) in - the irresponsrbiHty of-offiGials. The explains why drivers such as Mr. Halu- repercussians. of t*he.train collision, have shchenko and Shyshko fell asleep at 22 families to emigrate to Canada been severe,I n addition to Mr. Halush- their posts. chenko and Mr. Shyshko, numerous by Michael Bociurkiw The Soviet decision was greeted by other officials were also removed, In terms of direct casualties, Koris- Mr. Clark as "an indication of the including: the head of the Odessa " tivka almost certainly brought a heavier OTTAWA -- The Canadian govern­ willingness of Soviet authorities to railroad, 1. Shevernaev; the railroad toll than Chornobyl. Its tragedy is that ment announced on March 4 that the move relations between Canada and the inspector. I. Len; the chief inspector for it could have been avoided. Again the Soviet Union has approved exit visas USSR forward along constructive safety of movement with the Ministry of cause was a combination of human for 22 families to come to Canada to lines.'* Communications, G. Nazarov, A.M. error and poor technology. Until re­ rejoin relatives. The external affairs department did cently, it was not possible to ascertain so not indicate when the families will Zhigir, head of the Shevchenko depot The 57 people coming to Canada are was dismissed and thrown out of the many details of accidents in the USSR. arrive in Canada, adding that the Because of the new policy of openness, among 42 families included on a family Canadian government will "monitor party, while a strong reprimand was reunification list presented by External howev^, it'becomes more difficult to these cases closely to ensure that the ; given to U.M. Bibik, first party secre- Affairs Minister Joe Clark to Soviet : tary of the Smeliahsk city committee, p1ace problems in perspectives: is the families receive their passports soon Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze from local Soviet officials and join their Cherkassy region. entire Soviet railroad in such a state of during a recent visit to Canada. Yet major problems continue to chaos as the Odessa region? Is such a relatives in Canada as soon as possible."" plague the railroad. On the very same situation ~ as the Soviets say, of Two of the families are believed to be External affairs officials said they are section of the line on which the collision "criminal irresponsibility" - typical of of Ukrainian origin, said Marijka continuing their efforts to secure an exit occurred (but not the same station), two all Soviet industry? How much would Bandera of the Canadian Ukrainian visa for Danylo Shumuk, who has trains ran red signals shortly after the have been revealed about Koristivka Immigrant Aid Society in Toronto. She recently completed his term of impri­ accident. One driver, V. Severn0V, on but for Gorbachev's current campaign said in an interview that her group was sonment. The case of Mr. Shumuk, who this same section, drove a train "in an for enhanced safety in the workplace? involved in preparing the paperwork for has relatives in British Columbia, was a intoxicated state" while at one work­ Above all, albeit at the most mun­ the Butko and Zablotsky families, topic of discussion during Mr. Clark's place, two fitters and a driver organized dane level, are trains still operating involving six individuals. bilateral talks with Mr. Shevardnadze. a drinking session at work, again today under a regime that places the sometime between November 7 and lives of passengers in danger, that early February. A driver at the Zoloto- depends for safety upon a driver shout­ shna station ran into a cargo train when ing loudly "1 see red" or "1 see green"? ulcrainian WeeI:I1 FOUNDED 1933 Chornobyl perpetrators to be tried An English-ldnguage UkraJnian newspaper published by the Ukrainian National MOSCOW - A Soviet official told press. Mr. Petrosyants declined to say Association Inc., a non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St., Jersey City, N.J. reporters March 13 that those respon­ whether any of the officials would be 07302. sible for the Chornobyl nuclear disaster prosecuted, but reiterated the official will go on trial soon. Soviet stand that the accident was Second-class postage paid at Jersey City. N.J. 07302. Andronik M. Petrosyants, chairman attributed to human error. (ISSN-~0273-9348) of the State Committee for the Utiliza­ The chairman's news conference was tion of Atomic Energy, said at a news Yearly subscription rate: S8; for UNA members - |5. held to discuss the visit of 11 American Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. conference he did not know how many nuclear energy experts who toured the people would be prosecuted, what the Chornobyl plant, other nuclear plants The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: charges would be or when the proceed­ and training institutes. (201) 434-0237, -0807, -30З6 (201)451-2200 ing would begin, reported The New York Times. Fredrick M. Bernthal, the chief of the Postmaster, send address Editor: Roma Hadzewycz The world's worst nuclear disaster on American delegation and a member of changes to: Assistant Editors: Natalia A. Feduschak April 26, 1986, destroyed the No. the United States Nuclear Regulatory The Ukrainian Weekly Chrystyna N. Lapychak 4 reactor of the Chornobyl power plant. Commission stated his group only had a P.O. Box 346 Two people were killed on the spot and brief tour of the nuclear plant. He said Jersey City, N.J. 07303 Canadian Correspondent: Michael B. Bociurkiw at least 29 people have died from the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the four­ radiation-related illnesses. unit station were operating at full The Ukrainian Weekly, March 22, 1987, No. 12, Vol. LV At least six senior plant officials have capacity and met internationai satety Copyright 1987 by The Ukrainian Weekly been dismissed, according to the Soviet standards. No. 1,2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987

Reagan voices opposition to deportations;Statemen t on war criminals issue IVIeese urges lie remain neutral Below is an abridged version of the statement issued by Baltic and Ukrainian community representatives regarding their meeting with U.S. WASH1NGTON - President Ro­ Buchanan "that Linnas should not be Attorney General Edwin Meese on March 5. nald Reagan opposes deporting accused deported." TheKarl Linnas case has brought to a head the controversy surrounding the Nazi war criminal Karl Linnas to the "When I told him it was probably general issue of prosecution of alleged war criminals in the United States. Soviet Union and instead wants him to within his authority to block deporta­ Since this issue is of great significance historically, legally, morally and even stand trial in the United States, reported tion, he said we should go ahead and emotionally, we request and anticipate further meetings with the attorney the Associated Press. block it," Mr. Buchanan's memo said. "He then indicated that we should general and his staff. We would make available experts in the areas of However, the attorney general per­ hold any trials here in the United immigration, constitutional and international law as well as scholars and suaded the president not to interfere in States," the memo concluded in charac­ historians for such meetings. Further, we also request the appointment of a this issue. terizing the president's position. special representative as our liaison with the Justice Department. ^ 1. We are unequivocally opposed to the deportation of anyone from the Sources told the AP that Mr. Bucha­ According to the AP, a February 9 United States to the Soviet Union or to any other Communist country. nan did not misrepresent the president's memo written by Patrick Buchanan, Such a deportation would extend moral and legal equivalency to the views on this matter, as some observers then White House communications Soviet Union through the U.S. justice system, with the grave long-term had stated. They added that though the director, to Attorney General Edwin consequences of lowering the high standards of democratic jurisprudence to memo may have reflected the presi­ Meese recounts a conversation between meet those of a totalitarian system and of negating U.S. moral and ethical dent's views at that time, it was because Mr. Buchanan and President Reagan support for human and religious rights movements. the president had not heard the other earlier that day. The president was With such a deportation, the United States would give a major propaganda side. quoted as suggesting Mr. Linnas not be victory to the Soviets, for it is an important goal of the Soviets to discredit the White House spokesperson Marlin sent to the Soviet Union. emigre communities, not only in the West, but also in Soviet-controlled Fitzwater said he had not asked the territories. The message to the world would be that the United States feels a Mr. Meese is considering the depor­ president for his position on the Linnas fair trial is possible in the Soviet Union. Finally,becauseof its role as a willing tation of Mr. Linnas, who is accused of case and did not know of the conversa­ partner with Nazi Germany and because of its continuing human, national participating in mass murders while tion with Mr. Buchanan. and religious rights abuses, anid systematic anti-Semitism, the USSR is the head of the Tartu concentration camp However, he said, our position is that least acceptable nation to serve as a partner in the cause of justice. during Wor1d War 1L Mr. Linnas, who this is a matter for the legal staff of the Alternatively, we request the attorney general to exercise his authority to ha!s been condemned to death by the Justice Department. He took pains to designate another country for dep6rtation or to ask the State Department to Soviet Union (the trial was held in try to distance the president from the take an active role in finding another venue for depprtatiQfV; ot -.^)^4^^z,ij^ absentia and the verdict was ahnounced episode. # II. Alleged war crihiinals sliduld be triedsijH.Atneticanl^Qurts, сопй^ев^; in the Soviet press even before the In other developments, Mr. Linnas' with Anierican notions of criminal justice. ^ - proceedings had begun),has been trying lawyers, on Monday, March 16, ob­ It may already be possible, under existing laws, to have criminal trials of to find another country that will accept tained a stay of deportation. Mean­ alleged war priminals in the United States. If not, we prppose that a criminal him. ' while, Justice Department officials said statute be passed which would allow such trials to take place in the United According to portions of Mr. Bucha­ that the government would file papers States. Such an approach would have the advantages of: nan's memo obtained March 17 by the to lift the stay on Thursday, March 19. A. Avoiding the situation where a virtual death sentence is issued by our АР, President Reagan during a Fe­ A decision on the deportation is expect­ courts under civil law. The deportation of individuals to the Soviet Union or bruary 9 luncheon with a number of ed by next week and possibly as early as to other Communist countries assures their death or ill-treatment. Given the advisers expressed the view to Mr. Friday, March 20. severity of this penalty, we believe that a criminal trial in the United States would permit an honest trial on the charges, rather than allowing the Soviets Judge wants explanation for "footdragging" to cJ9 so under thdr ;*justice']^^ accus,e^ I)гдсе4іігаI^]Р that,am ne.ce&sary..to..ensui;e*.a;fa4Pi determination оґ guilt or 1nnocence. 1 on John Demjanjuk information request B. Criminal prosecution in the United States would avoid the entire WASH1NGTON ~ A federal judge Demjanjuk Defense Fund. problem of sending the accused to the Soviet Union. Under U.S. criminal has given the U.S. Justice Department The judge, however, noted on Mon­ prosecution, the United States could punish any war criminals adjudged 21 days to explain why it has refused to day, March 16, that Mr. Demjanjuk guilty under its own law within the confines of its own territory. release to the John Demjanjuk Defense would be entitled in this country to any Our concerns all along have been over the use of Soviet evidence in Fund 31 investigative reports regarding government evidence that conceivably American courts; over the lack of procedural protection that we believe the Mr. Demjanjuk, the former Cleveland helps his defense. "The judgement of accused deserves when faced with such serious charges; and over the entire auto worker now on trial in Israel for history will be harsh," Judge Oberdor- notion of sending someone to certain death in the Soviet Union. Nazi war crimes. fer said, if the Justice Department waits Coalition for Constitutional Justice and Security-7 Anthony B. Mazeika, The Associated Press reported that uiitil after the Israeli trial to turn over the Justice Department had asked the documents. president.., .,;.; -'''/\/- '^''V/ '!-././'".'^л: ''\, . /-/^.,,.. Americans for.Due Process - Rasa Razgaitis, coQrdinator' - ',, ^ *'І Judge Louis Oberdorfer to dismiss a Mr. Nishriic had requested the docu­ American Latvian Association - Ojars Kalnins, director Freedom of Information request filed ments last August. Judge Oberdorfer Estonian American National Council - Mari-Ann Rikken, vice-president by Edward Nishnic, Mr. Demjanjuk's said the Justice Department's response Lithuanian American Community, Inc. -- A. Stanley Gecys, president son-in-law and president of the John to the request for access to these documents, made under the Freedom of Ukrainian National Association - Myron Kuropas, Ph.D., vice-president 1nformation Act, showed signs of "foot­ *dragging," and he said that he may have The N.Y. Times' to look at some of the documents himself. missing paragraph Neal Sher, director of the Office of NEW YORK - A paragraph that Special Investigations, the Justice appeared in The New York Times Department's Nazi-hunting arm, said in story about the Deschenes Commis­ a sworn statement that he believes the sion's report on Nazi war criminals in FOIA request was part of an effort to Canada was later deleted, shut down the country's Nazi-hunting The paragraph was about the efforts! Deschenes Commission's findings in regard to the Galicia Division. It HBO movie on Wiesenthal stated: LOS ANGELES — Simon Wiesen- "In one of its more controversial thaFs autobiographical book, "Mur­ On the day of their meeting with Attorney General Edwin Meese, from leiFt findings, the commission said that derers Among Us" will be made into a are: Dr. Myron B. Kuropas, Rasa Razgaitis, Mari-Ann Rikken, 0jars war-crime allegations against the motion picture by Home Box Office Kalnins, A. Stanley Gecys and Anthony Mazeika. Galicia Division, a Germany Arrriy |Pictures and Robert Cooper Produc- unit composed of Ukrainians, 'have 4ions, according to the Jewish Tele­ never been substantiated,' and that graphic Agency. there should be no prosecution of the Monitor rejects Linnas advertisement unit's members *as a group.' Mr. Filmmg will begin in various Euro­ JERSEY CITY, N,J.~ The Ghris- Mr. Linnas was tried in absentia in [So1] Littman [Canadian representa­ pean locations this spring. Actors and tian Science Monitor has declined to the USSR and the verdict was an­ tive of the Simon Wiesenthal Center] the "name director" have not yet been publish a full-page advertisement it had nounced before the proceedings even and others had contended that up to announced. earlier approved that deals with the case began, The sentence handed down was 2,000 members of the unit entered of Karl Linnas, the denaturalized the death penalty. Ряпя(ія 'And that я nresiimntior! of American threatened with dc ^гча1іоп to the Soviet Union. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22,1987 ^0.12

Nishnic travels to Canada to appeal for defense fund UNCHAIN observer comments by Michiiel Bociurkiw As in other countries, the Demjan­ on John Demjanjuk trial juk trial has attracted a lot of media NEWARK, N.J. (UNCHAIN) - Israeli youths uninformed TORONTO - After telling repor­ attention in Canada. But many The trial of John Demjanjuk appears ters here that his family has lost Ukrainian Canadians fear the inte­ to have heightened feelings of Ukrai- The anti-Ukrainian attitudes per­ *'nearly everythi ig" in a 10-year grity of Ukrainians is also being put nophobia that are ,permeating va­ vading the trial proceedings and in battle with the U,S government to on trial in Israel. rious segments of Israeli society, the 1sraeli press seem to be having a keep his father-in-law from,denatu- NataUe Horlatsch, 20, a student at according to a report, released here noticeable impact upon the young ralization;and extradition* Ed Nish­ the University of Toronto who is of recently by the Ukrainian National people watching, the trial. 1n a num­ nic, the son-iif-law of John Demjan-"^^ Ukrainian origin, fears that people Center: History and 1nformation ber of interviews conducted in the juk, depart^ for Northern Ontario may begin labelling Ukrainians as Network. , . court building, young Israelis made to appeal to Ukrainians there for Nazis;'m'"­ UNCHA1N has sent a representa­ statements such as the following: donations for the John Demjanjuk "I am worried that Ukrainians are tive, Roman Kupchinskyi to 1srael "Ukrainians did nothing during Defense Fund. being labelled as Nazis. I'm worried for a two-week period to assess the Wor1d War il^but wait for Stalin t4) "The family now has been going because it's not true.*' gravity of the situation, to meet with liberate them from the Nazis." When through he11 for tIie last 10 years," Ms. Horlatsch said she waS "com­ members of the 1sraeli government, asked if they knew how many Ukrai­ said Mr. Nishnic; 32, following a pletely shocked" when she heard the media and privatec1tizens, and to try nians died during,the war, поле were hastily organized press conference in recent allegations from an Israeli to counter the Ukrainophobia that aware of the statistics,, but i:laimed a Toronto Ukrainian community Parliamentarian that "Ukrainians has been exacerbated by the trial that."20 million Russians had died." center on March 7. "It's a Vегу^ have to repent for their sins Against proceedings. Other young people were angry at\ uncOfnifortable situation to watch a Jews." Although the Israeli |government the defense cross-examining the man - that you know with your "We don't want to become in­ press office has stated that the Dem­ survivors of concentration camps. heart and soul js innocent — being volved in that," she said, referring to janjuk trial rs not intended to be an accused of all these atrocities." the reluctance many Ukrainian Ca­ anti-Ukrainian trial, but merely the Information effort thwarted Mr. Nishnic, who quit his job nadians have to continuing the trial of one individual accused of S(sjling engineering,.eqiiip.ment six strai,ned tensions that have characte­ horrible crimes, this official'gOVern- The UNCHA1N report also ex­ months ago to work full-time on the rized Ukrainian-Jewish relations. ment position appears to have had pressed its concern over the actions iixtef:natipnal defense fund,, said at Borys Sozanski, a 22-year-old little impact on the anti-Ukrainian of 1sraeli State Radio, which invited least another S500,00O is needed for Toronto businessman has also be­ sentiments that are appearing in the :the UNCHA1N representative Mr. MF/~DemfaftjukVdefense;- ~ - come part of the chorus of voices that 1sraeh media and among the public Kupchinsky, to offer his obser­ The fund's 6fficials in Toronto :objects to the apparbmt tendenpy of in various forms, ranging from visce­ vations on how he as a Ukrainian said S120,00O has been raised by the media to associate Ukrainians ral diatribes to subtle innuendos, and perceived the trial, and then pro­ Canada's Ukrainian community in with Nazis. ' even implication by omission. ceeded to edit out major portions of the past two months. Said Mr. Sozanski: "Every time Mr. Kupchinsky's commeInts. Mr. Nishnic said he is turning to you read a newspaper story on John Prejudice and ignorance In the interview on March 12, Mr. Canada's large Ukrainian commu­ Demjanjuk, you see, accused Nazi Kupchinsky expressed his opinion nity for support because the financial Ukrainian camp guard.'That Ukrai­ 1n an article in the March 14 that the trial proceeding seemed very resources of Ukrainian-American nian identification seems to be international edition of the Jerusa­ fair, and that the presiding judge was donor^ has been strained to the limit haunting him. It shouldn4 be. It has lem Post, for example, Alexander fulfilling his duties admirably in a by defending Mr. Demjanjuk in U.S. nothing to do with it. Zvielli, in an article appearing under very difficult situation. Mr. Kup­ ЧНIЙЇ?^0 Cftmt I1О??**'I jR of tjffih-*o^niA Ги1^'very*ccrncerhed with the the headline "Anti-Communist Alibi: chinsky then went on to speak at SЩ> ^ШШЧ^^(і\ T^^^f^^,^,yxipa^^tm^^ Alexander Zvielli on Ukranian [sic] length ^bout the Ukrainophobic . mortgaged her house m Cleveland to nians*'. PeoplD^^^Ie^ migh—u*t u^begi—n t*o^ thin*и.^kь Anti-Semites," cites Chmielnicki campaign being waged in the press bor^ow 550,00а for legal fees and is about Ukrainians as Nazi collabora­ (Khmelnytsky) as "...one of the first around this trial. He stated that it i^ returning to work to pay back the tors." to invent the *Final Solution.'And so unfair to constant]y refer to Mr. 1qan, he said. All of thisxoncern has prompted were Petlura and Bandera..." Demjanjuk's ethnic origin in the When asked by reporters if any of Ukrainian, Canadian leaders to,in­ 1n the Hebrew-language news- press, just as it would be unfair to any the charges against his father-in-law crease their contacts with members p^pei: Ha'aretz of March 6, in an nationality to continually bring up are true, Mr. Nishnip said: "I am not of the media. The Toronto branch of interview, Prof. Shlomo Giora.Sho- references to any accused person's here to protect a Nazi. 1'm 1,000 the Ukrainia.n Canadian Committee, ham accuses Mr. Demjanjuk of being ethnic? origin. ^ .; percent sure that John Demjanjuk is for example, will hire a full-time "another Ukrainian 'Grobian' " an innocent man.^ 1f 1 would have, .;^^;ed7Гrep7es7maїїve-wh^w^^^^ [cham] and adds "There are hun­ - Mr. Kupchinsky stressed that ^Ї5[^Ш?V^*^^^^^^ ^c.^ork 6іїі of Toronto to brief journa- dreds like him." Ukrainians were victims during ^WSt :^lists about the Demjanjuk case for Wor1d War 11, that 7 million.Ukrai­ lave °"%a a (he duration of the trial. Stimulated by trfai nians died during the war, and today pushed my- Other groups of Ukrainians - to find themselves victimized by sejf."^ ' predominated by^ second-generation The anti-Uk'rainian statements other victims is ludicrous and apt to Mr. Demjanjuk's defense lawyer, Ukrainians who аг(Є confronting this being bandied about in the 1sraeli call ,forth even greater anger. 1t is ^ Mark O'Connor of Buffalo, N.Y.,. issue for the first time - are appear­ press echo the generalized anti­ time, Mr. Kupchinsky said, іГог Jews has gone on record as saying that he ing in large numbers on radio talk Ukrainian sentiments expressed by and Ukrainians to begin seeking a ^ will cjpntinue to defend his client to shows to discuss what Peter Grdw- many of the prosecution witnesses in true and meaningful dialogue. the end. sky, a national radio broadcaster, the Demjanjuk trial proeee^ii;igs. For The interview was not broadcast in Sai4 Mr. O'Connor in an interview described as "corning to terms of j\ist. example, on МагсЬ 11, during the full on Jsraeli radio on March 12. in Jerusalem on tl^e eve of the trial: what their historic, roots mean." defense attorneys'cross-examination, Only those remarks praising th,e. , "1've assured'Mr, De.mjanjuk that of Tr^blinka survivor Yehiel. Reich~, fairness^ of the court, were broadcast, even if there isn4 a penny collected Ukrainian Canadians not only man, a 72-year-old Polish Jew, Mr. and all else was ddeted. from the Ukrainian community Ло, have to defend th^m^felves against Reichman was questioned on his 'According to the UNCHAIN re­ cover this I'm morally obligated (to ailegations^4hat they are harboring knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian port, Mr. Kupchinsky called the continue representing him). There's war criminals, said Andrij Semotiuk, language (which he acknowledged he 1sraeh State Radio office and de­ no way that I'm every going to a Ukrainian community leader from does not know) and asked how he manded to know why this wa^ dope abandon John Demjanjuk for any Alberta and a panelist of Mr. Gzow- could state with such forcefulness and if it would be possible to br.oad* j, reason...even if we a11 have to go to ski's show, they also haveto face "the that it was "Ukrainian" guards who cast the full interview. He.was told the poor house." ' Л difficulty-,of the association in the transported him from the Warsaw that the radio had only limited tirne But fund-raising 6fficials here say media to the effect that John Dem- ghetto to Treblinka. for its evening broadcast, but that , they' wil*l" com' e up wit* h' th' e necessary janjuk is Ukrainian-born or of U- Mr. Reichman's response was, "We efforts would be made to soon air the . funds to pay for costs associated with krainian origin. all knew, all the Jews in the entire full interview as a feature. defending Mr. Demjanjuk in 1sraeli "This is a gratuitous ethnic slur wor1d, knew that it was the Germans courts. The Canadian leg of the fund­ that causes some acrimony among and the Ukrainians who were killing Former dissident cordial raising tour has just got off the Ukrainians in Canada." Jews." ground, they say, and there are scores Added Boris Balan, a second However, under further cr,oss­ 1n another development, through of Ukrainians in western Canada panelist: "When you're Ukrainian or examination by John Gill, a member the efforts of Alexander Epstein of who are said to be eager to support of any ethnic background and you of the defense team, Mr. Reichman's Toronto, a meeting was set up the defense fund. see the work 'Ukrainian' naturally supposedly accurate memory of the between former Soviet prisoner of But, cautioned Peter Jacyk, the your interest sort of peaks up. But specific nationality of the "Ukrai­ conscience Josyf Mendelevych and a wealthy Toronto developer who is when that word is always used in a nian" guards contrasted sharply with group of Ukrainian Canadians from running the Canadian defense fund, bad context, it does get after a while his inability to recall in which bar­ the Civil Liberties Commission visit­ "No matter how much we raise it will to get somewhat annoying to most racks he had lived in the lower camp in ing Israel, as well as the UNCHAIN not closely match the financial possi­ Ukrainian-Canadians." Treblinka, and his taiiure to remem­ representative. Mr. Mendelevych bilities of the other side" — referring Ukrainian Canadian youth are ber from mock-ups where the upper expressed his concern for the rise of to the estimated S2O million already beginning to "feel guilty of what camp (the death camp) was located. (Continued on page 15) spent by the 1sraeli government on happened during the Holocaust" the case. 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nian Canadian Committee. "I'm pleased Canada expands... that the Deschenes Commission didn't Slaie seminar on alleged Nazrs (Continued from page 1) confirm what the media was initially NEW YORK - Americans for Due Committee; Rasa Razgaitis, coordina­ facilitate the investigation of suspected promoting — that there were thousands Process will hold a seminar called: tor, Americans for Due t*rocess; Prof. Nazi war criminals; of Ukrainian Nazi war criminals living "Prosecuting Alleged Nazis in I987: A Ron Vastokas of Trent University, # considering whether to extradite in Canada," said Dr. Cipywnyk in a Look At Options," on April 4at Ameri­ Andrew Fylypovych, attorney; Eugene suspected Nazi war criminals to coun­ telephone interview from Saskatoon. can University in Washington. 1wanciw, supreme advisor, Ukrainian tries with which Canada has extradition Jewish groups were generally pleased National Association, Martin Suuberg, treaties (i.e. 1srael). with Judge Deschenes* recommenda­ College students and young profes­ sionals are invited to attend this day­ attorney; Mari-Ann Rikken, Coalition Judge Deschenes reported that strong tions and the government*s response. long information session which will for Constitutional Justice and Security; evidence exists against 20 Nazi war There was some disappointment ex­ examine a variety of topical issues Walter Tun, Ukrainian American Jus­ crimes suspects now residing in Canada pressed by Jewish leaders, however, concerning alleged war criminals and tice Committee; Rad Artukovic and and urged the government to take that the government has rejected the their prosecution. Anu Linnas. immediate judicial action against them. judge*s recommendations that current An invitation to address the partici­ (The names of the key suspects were extradition and deportation and dena* Registration is at 8:30 a.m.; opening pants has also been iextended to Neal included in a confidential report.) turalization procedures be expanded to remarks are slated for 9:IS a.m. Sher, director of the Justice Depart­ Another 238 suspects, which the facilitate transporting suspected war The seminar begins at 9:30 am. with ment*s Office of Special 1nvestigations. judge did not have time to fully investi­ criminals to other countries for trial. an introduction, "Overview of War The cost of attendance, including gate, were referred to the government "There was an amendment of the Crimes Trials, I945 - 1979.'*Other entrance fee, all written materiak and a for further investigation. Canada-Israel extradition treaty which, topics to be covered include: "The OSI breakfast snack is S23. After the semi­ Justice Minister Ramon Hnatyshyn, in fact, Deschenes said should be the 1979-1987," "Current Options in the nar, attendees are invited to attend the who tabled the government's response first step taken in the pursuit of war U.S.,** "Other Solutions (Canada, Baltic Youth Congress Annual Awards in the House of Commons, said the criminals in Canada,*'said David Israel, Australia and Europe)," "De­ Dinner in Rockville, Md., which will government will act soon to amend the Matas, spokesman for the Canadian bating the Issue," and "Communicating honor Los Angeles Times joumalist Criminal Code. He categorized the League for Human Rights of B*nai the Debate." Robert Gillette, as well as outstanding government*s response as a '*made in Brith." And the government is rejecting The seminar will feature the follow­ contributors to the fabric of Baltic Canada** approach to the problem of that." ing speakers: S. Paul Zumbakis, author American life. dealing with war criminals. of "Soviet Evidence in North American More details and registration forms But Liberal Member of Parliament '*We will not, as a first preference, Courts"; Ivars Berzins, defense counsel may be obtained by contacting Ameri­ Robert Kaplan, a Jew and a solicitor export our difficulties,*'said Mr. Hnaty­ for over a dozen OS1 cases; John cans for Due Process at P.O. Box 85, shyn, referring to his reluctance to general in the government of former Gregorovich, president, Civil Liberties Woodhaven, N.Y. Il42l; (516) 67I­ extradite war criminals found in Ca­ Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said the Commission of the Canadian Ukrainian 7975. :-.:-..- . -.;л. ^:^--::. ^:-'..^^^^ ^-^^-^-^^ nada to other countries for trial. "We government's decision to amend the will want to have the prosecutions take Criminal Code is "a lot better" than the prisoners from political camps, prisons p1ace in our ^wn country and we have other two options recommended by Releases labelled... and exile in the first week of February the political courage to understand that, Judge Deschenes. (Continued from page 1) was apparently carried out on the basis the political maturity to carry it out." Spokesmen for both opposition of two decrees of the Presidium of the main camps," and by what they ob­ Mr. Hnatyshyn told the House of parties expressed concern that relations Supreme Soviet: No. 6463-XІ which served as an extreme slowdown in Commons that the government also between several ethnocultural commu­ pardoned a group of persons listed by releases once the Western press began intends t04ighten up border regulations nities have deteriorated since the com­ name, and No. 6462-Х1 which appa­ losing interest after the more pro"minent to prevent people who have committed mission was established in February rently freed another group "from fur­ dissenters were freed. war crimes in other countries from 1983, adding that the report gives these thering their punishment,''according to coming to Canada. groups a new opportunity to mend "They are releasing people from main the Human Rights Commission. Legal experts here said the Criminal fences. camps and the interest is djijni^ishing,'^ one Mdscc|i^saurpe^)y^^qu^^|^lS^^ According to a report from GeiilittP Code amendment being planned could Jewish spokesmen were also not fieri^Wd^J a^rtptiliefitJit?H tfPMe 1sajiw as having stated. "This news is ' take anywhere from two to four years to pleased that the government decided USSR Ministry of Foreign АШиг5, a primarily for Western consumption." go into effect. against establishing a permanent Nazi­ further decree dated February 9, was Spokesmen for the Liberals and New hunting unit similar to the U.S. Justice The State Department's assistant published, the HRC said. However, no Democratic Party said in statements Department's Office of Special Investi­ secretary reportedly also said last week sources contacted by the HRC know df after Mr. Hnatyshyn's announcement gations (OSI). that despite the releases of some promi­ any political prisoner released under the that they will support speedy passage of nent political prisoners, there has been specific decree. '*We do not believe it (a Canadian no official admission that they were an amendment, but they criticized the Mr. Gerasimov also said that I40 government for not having acted on the OS1) would" create ethnic tensions, Mr. wrongly imprisoned, and no change in Matas told reporters, "provided an OSI people had been released and that the Deschenes recommendations in the two the repressive laws used to put them release of approximately the same months that it has had them. in Canada respects civil liberties stan­ behind bars. dards." number would follow. Reportedly at1 (Release of the report was delayed for The release of the group of political those servmg terms for "a|iti-S0yjeV^ several weeks because the government, agitation and jpij:b^aga!ida,*' un^ iearingthat suspects listed in thereport to an end now that the report has Article 70 of the RSFSlt сгітііш1і^^ might be easily identifiable, asked икгвШап8 praise.., been released. were to be pardoned and released, Judge Deschenes 4o^dit the list of (Cpntinued from page 1) Michael Maryn, 28, a Vahcouvcr together with ones convicted under cases). lawyer and vice-president of the Article 64 for "betniyal oIf the mother­ The commission looked at about 880 Йг. Very ha said the media is to blame for the tensions that have Vancouver Ukrainian Canadian land** (actually for **illegaUy cros^g the cases. Of those it recommended that Professional and Business Associa­ border *^ more than 600 be closed. arisen between ethnocultural groups in Canada. When asked whether the tion, expressed relief that the report To date 140 persons have ПІЙ 1^^ One of the most significaM of 1he was йпШу made public. ieleased, aix6rilinj^to sev(^ sources, judge's findings was that Canadians tensions will disappear, Mr. Veryha said: "1t depends on the press. All the "1 feeI partially vindicated, but 1 including the lJ.Sv Helsinki Commis­ who belonged to the Galicia Divistonv a sion. In fact the numbef of known Ukrainian military unit that was or­ hate came from the press. They think the harm that was done was reported 5,(КЮ Ukrainians and later permanent,'' Mr. Maryn said. He dissidents who were indeed freed falls ganized as part of Germany*s Waffen below half the ofliciai Soviet питЬеміі I SS, should not be charged because there 6,(Ю0 Ukrainians are former Nazis added: **1 think we were put on the is no proof th^meitibers committed living in Canada. As long as the press defensive unnecessarily as a commu­ ;^bouv6o.;;^./:,; o.,.-:-..;:'!-- war crinies. Judge Deschenes said that won4 exaggerate numbers...it did a nity by persons like SoI Littman and Mr. Gemimoy іШ members were individually screened for great deal of harm to inter-ethnic various aspects of the media." that all those releasMetf had appealed for gr0i1p relations." security purposes before entering Ca­ Mr. Маг)гп echoed the feelings of a pardon to the Presidium of the nada after Wor1d War U. Dmytro Cipywnykv president of other young Ukrainian Canadians, Supreme Soviet and that their request "Not one case can be made against the Ukrainian Canadian Committee, who said in interviews that they look had been granted, the HRC said. TIie members of the Galicia Division," the said members of the Ukrainian com­ forward to closing the rift between vast nrttjprity, however, according to report said, '*for revocation of citizen­ munity will support the govern­ the Ukrainian and Jewish communi­ Moscow dissident sources, were made ship or deportation, since the Canadian ment's decision to amend the Crimi­ ties. to write and/or sigh statements, many authorities were fully aware of the nal Code so that war criminals can be of which were compromising, which are relevant facts in 19SO and admission to tried in Canada. One of those was Nadia Diakun, a tantamount to an admission of guih of Canada was not granted them because *'This is a suggestion that our Ukrainian in Ottawa who has moni­ having committed a crime. From the of any false representation, or fraud, or group had been advocating," Dr. tored the commission's work since authorities' point of view, what appa­ concealment of material circumstan­ Cipywnyk said in a telephone inter­ day one. 'The most unfortunate rently mattered most about the state­ ces." view from Saskatoon. "We were in aspect is that two communities (the ments was that the political prisoners Two members of the Brotherhood of favor of the RCMP pursuing the Ukrainian and Jewish communities) promised not to commit any crimes in Veterans of the 1st Division of the investigations. There should not be a had been inadvertently pitted against the future. Ukrainian National Army, the only separate OSI-style body in Canada. each other" said Ms. Diakun, who is "The danger is that the Soviet Union Ukrainian community spokesmen that Progressive Conservative Member an assistant to a Conservative mem­ is too skillful in manipulating public attended a national news conference on of Parliament Andrew Witer (Park­ ber of Parliament. "Sometimes the opinion," Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Parliament Hill, said they were jubilant dale - High Park), a member of an media added more fuel to the fire. Soviet dissident and head of the Paris­ over news that veterans of the Galicia all-party committee that has moni­ "I hope that this commission's based Resistance International, was Division were exonerated in the Des­ tored the commission's work, said he report will end this massive fire, and quoted as saying by the Christiaii chenes report. hoped the tensions that have charae- bring about the rapproachment Science Monitor. Their happiness was shared by Droy- tcr-ized Ukrainian-jcw5sh relations between the Ukrainian apd Jew І51| "The question is not how far theses - tro Cipywnyk, president of the Ukrai­ during the past tv/o years will come ^л rnmumties," called chaiiges will go, but how loлg they ШЇЇ continue," he said. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 No. 12

Faces and Places Ukrainian Weerl У by Myron B. Kuropas The Deschenes report 1t took 22 months of work for Quebec Superior Court Justice Jules A meeting with justice...адвіп Deschenes to produce the mammoth document tabled by the Canadian government last week, and another two months for the government to decide What a difference passage of time and been repeated by former OS1 officials what to do with his weighty recommendations. But after Justice Minister cool heads make. and certain American authors. Ramon Hnatyshyn had tabled the government's response to the report on On September 17, 1985, a meeting Rasa Razgaitis of Americans for March 12, there were happy faces in a11 camps. was held at the U.S. Justice Department Due Process reiterated our position that 1t was refreshing10 see U krainian and Jewish leaders agreeing on one thing: between representatives of the Baltic no alleged war criminal be deported to that the tabling of the report represented a golden opportunity for the feuding and Ukrainian communities and offi­ the Soviet Union against his wiU. To do groups to do some long overdue fence-mending. cials of the Justice Department. so, she argued, would attribute legal One individual who had little reason to celebrate the day the report was At one end of the table sat Stephen S. and moral equivalency to the Soviet made public, however, was Canadian Nazi hunter So1 Littman, the Canadian Trott, assistantattorney general, Mark Union, recognizing the Soviet judicial representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who was sharply criticized in M. Richard, deputy assistant attorney system as equal to ours. A way out for the report for wildly exaggerating the number of suspected N^zi war criminals general, and Neal Sher, director of the the United States, she suggested, was to in Canada. Time ?ifter time, Canadians were assaulted by Mr. Littman's Justice Department's Office of Special pass legislation providing for war steadily increasing estimates of the niimber of war criminals who had found Investigations (OSI). crimes trials in the United States. Then she enumerated some of the ]egal refuge in Canada. The total eventually reached 6,000. Facing them were Anthony Mazeika, Moreover, it was Mr. Littman's allegations that Josef Mengele had entered precedents which made such legislation Mari-Ann Rikken, Dr. Victoras Stankus, feasible. Canada that had prompted Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to establish the and Va1 Pavlovskis- a11 representing Deschenes Commission in the first place. Mr. Mulroney decided toset up the CCJS President Anthony Mazeika the Coalition for Constitutional Justice pointed to the numerous press allega­ inquiry against the advice of some of his most senior advisors. But Judge and Security (CCJS) — and I — repre­ tions, especially those that appeared in Deschenes, after spending S4 million to investigate Mr. Littman's assertions, senting Americans for Human Rights in the Los Angeles Times, alleging ob­ concluded that the infamous doctor had not entered Canada and that there Ukraine (AHRU). was never a "shred of evidence" to support such a conclusion. "The struction of justice by OSI officials in As I wrote in my Ukrainian Weekly the case of John Demjanjuk. At this commission must say that it takes a dim view of the attitude of Mr. Littman," column of October 13, 1985, the meet­ wrote Judge Deschenes in his report. point Mr. Trott could no longer contain ing was unproductive. Mr. Trott was himself. Claiming that the charges were Mr. Littman flippantly dismissed suggestions from reporters that his hostile while Neal Sher was arrogant credibility will suffer as a result of the Deschenes report, and he remains unsubstantiated, Mr. Trott leaped up and disinformed. and proceeded to seat himself at the unrepentant for leading the government on a wild goose chase. Said Mr. 1 had gone into the meeting hoping Littman: "We're quite accustomed to this. We get it in the neck. We're seen as conference table. that differences between OS1 officials the bad messenger bringing the message. In every country that we've operated Algimantas Gecys, president of the and our respective communities could in, there's been the same snide comment about the quality of our evidence." Lithuanian American Community 1nc., be resolved without changing or jeopar­ voiced our concern with the deteriora­ dizing the OS1 mandate. I left suspect­ tion of relations between our communi­ ing that those who administer the OS1 ties and the Jewish American commu­ were oblivious to our concerns and had nity as a result of the divisive policies of We're happy to see that the Canadian government elected to prosecute all no intention of working with us to suspected war criminals from around the wor1d living in Canada, not just theOSL change the deteriorating image of the Representing the Ukrainian National accused Nazi war criminals. The earnest pursuit of war criminals in Canada OS1 within our communities. — indeed in a1I Western democracies — should include all persons suspected Association, 1 stated that if the OS1 of war crimes or "crimes against humanity" residing in any country, My suspicions were confirmed during expects to be credible in our respective And the Canadians should be cheered for electing to try suspected war the past year as OSI officials scrambled communities, it is essential that a liaison criminals on Canadian soil, under Canadian standards of justice, rather than to increase their support in the Jewish person outside the OS1 network be accepting Judge Deschenes' recommendation that such persons could be and Polish communities. Polish Ameri­ appointed by the attorney general to extradited to Israel, among other countries. Thus, Canada has bravely can leaders who appeared willing to work with us and immediately begin to decided to handle its own problems and not export them — as the United enter into dialogue with us were quickly address our concerns. States is doing. (At present, some Baltic and Ukrainian community leaders brought into line, and Jewish American After hearing us out, Mr, Meese are promoting the idea of war crimes trials in the United States, and they are leaders, fearful that OS1 opposition was proceeded to discuss the deportation of citing the Canadian government's wise decision in this regard.) mounting, were reassured. A joint Karl Linnas, facing immediate deporta­ In addition, it is highly significant that the Deschenes report cleared the statement by the National Polish Ame­ tion to the USSR. Responding to our Galicia Division of any war crimes allegations. "Charges of war crimes rican-Jewish American Task force was request to find another country, he against members of the Galicia Division have never been substantiated, either issued on October 10, 1986. stated that both 1srael and West Ger­ in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in I984 when they were renewed, or Given my past experience with OS1 many had refused to accept him and no before this commission," the report states. officials and my subsequent observa­ other countries could be found. tion of their divisive behavior, 1 was Significantly, Mr. Meese intimated highly skeptical when 1 was informed that he would look into press allega­ that after 18 months, Attorney General tions against the OS1, voiced no objec­ The response of Ukrainians to the Deschenes report was of great interest to Edwin Meese had finally agreed to meet tion to legislation instituting war crimes members of the national media. They were, after a11, the ones who appeared to with us. trials in the United States, and agreed to have the most to say about the probe. And yet, there were surprisingly few "He's going through the motions," I appoint a Department of Justice liaison Ukrainian community spokesmen available to reporters in Ottawa the day thought. "He's going to allow us an person to work with us. the report was released. While members of Jewish groups were busy handing audience to assuage Patrick Buchanan." Following our meeting with Mr. out press releases and holding slick news conferences on Parliament Hill after Now that our meeting has taken Meese, all of us spent an almost equal the report's release, the few Ukrainian spokesmen that bothered to come to place, 1 am a bit more optimistic. amount of time with Mr. Weld in his Ottawa were somewhere else. We're still trying to find out where they were, At our request, Mr. Meese had no office. and why a group of reporters could find only a correspondent from a OS1 officials present. 1nstead, he in­ Now that the Deschenes Commission Ukrainian newspaper for a Ukrainian response. vited John N. Richardson Jr., his chief has rejected extradition of alleged war The tabling of the Deschenes report was an unprecedented opportunity for of staff, and William F. Weld, assistant criminals to the Soviet Union, other Ukrainian community spokesmen to get their opinions across to an attentive attorney general, Criminal Division. Soviet bloc nations, Yugoslavia and corps of journalists. We would think that Ukrainian leaders would have Mr. Trott sort of hovered in the back­ Israel, and recommended that the 1earned by now the importance of preparing a media response. ground, sitting not at the table with the criminal code "be amended to allow for 1n ignoring the need of the Ukrainian community to get its position across rest of us but on the sofa behind Mr. Canadian trials for all suspected war to the national media, groups charged with the responsibility of coordinating Meese. criminals," (which includes, presu­ the community's response to the Deschenes Commission — such as the 1n contrast to the boorish behavior of mably, Marxists as well as Nazis) our Ukrainian Canadian Committee's Civil Liberties Commission — perform a OSI officials at our 1985 meeting, the position in the United States has been disservice to the community at large. climate on March 5 was positive and strenghtened considerably. We need to constructive. Mr. Meese was attentive, support federal legislation which would He took notes. He appeared interested provide for similar trials in the United in what we had to say. States. Fortunately, this is relatively Want to reprint on orticle Ojar Kalnins of the American Lat­ easy to do. By calling 1-800-325-6000 vian Association emphasized that eth­ and asking for Operator 9091, Ukrai­ from The Weekly? nic identification of alleged war crimi­ nian Americans can have a mailgram If you wouid like to reprint an article from The Weekly in another publi­ nals by the OS1 undermined the human­ condemning forced deportation to the rights campaign in the Soviet Union as USSR and supporting war crimes trials cation, you may obtain permission, in most cases, by contacting the editor well as the United States. The Soviet in America sent to their congressman at: press plays up the existence of "war and two senators. The cost will be added The Ukrainian Weekly criminals" in the Baltic and Ukrainian to their phone bill. 30 Montgomery St, communities of America, suggesting There is every reason to believe that Jersey City, NJ. 07302 that a11 baIt1e and Ukrainian nationa­ Jewish Americans seeking due process (201) 434 0237 lists are iNa/JS. 1his same theme has and justice will support us in our efforts. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 For the record: State Department report on Ukrainian Catholic Church Following is the U,S. State Department's report embrace hundreds of priests, headed by a number of 1971 and 1972) totahng 3,500 copies. The work was titled '*Soviet Repression of the Ukrainian Catholic secret bishops working under the authority of their done by two employees of the Lviv state printing shop Church*/which was prepared by the Bureau of Human primate in Rome. Religious women in orders working who also were arrested in 1973 together with another Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and released in throughout Ukraine number more than 1,000. Many person involved in the distribution of these materials. January. former Catholic and non-Orthodox priests have In the same manner, the clandestine printers aIsp CONCLUSION retained a spiritual allegiance to the pope as well, produced 150 copies of a '*Carol and Church Songs*' while others have taken up civilian professions and book and 150 copies of the **Missal.** continue to celebrate the sacraments in private. A Ukrainian CathoNc Church in Catacombs The most active lay people and clergy of the **illegal** certain number of Ukrainian Catholic priests live in Church have tried to use legal means to defend their Forty years after the official abolition of their exile outside western Ukraine or as free settlers in Church. By 1956-І957, there were cases in which Church,Ukrainian Catholic communities continue to Siberia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and eastern Ukraine, believers had tried to legalize their Ukrainian Catholic exist in the Soviet Union, as even Soviet sources attest. often serving their faithful from afar. Members of communities according to Soviet law by petitioning The most telling evidence of the survival of the religious communities and monastic orders have the proper authorities to permit their parish congrega­ Catholic Church is to be found in Soviet propaganda, maintained close contact with each other, and most tions to operate openly. A number of such petitions which wages a vigorous campaign against the Church have remained faithful to their vows. In 1974, a were sent in the late I960sand early 1970s, including through books, pamphlets, periodicals, television clandestine Catholic convent was uncovered by police an appeal from the Ukrainian Catholics of the city of programs, movies, lectures and exhibits, all designed in Lviv. Stryi, which reached the West in 1972. All of these to falsify the historical record, defame Catholic leaders Almost invariably, these clergymen and monastics petitions were refused. In 1976 a Ukrainian Catholic and clergy, and intimidate Church members. To this hold full-time secular jobs or have retired from such priest named the Rev. Volodymyr Prokopiv was day, the great Metropolitan Audrey Sheptytsky, who employment. The identities of the older clergy seem to arrested for accompanying a delegation of Ukrainians led his Church for four and one-half decades (1900­ be known to the Soviet police, who frequently subject to Moscow with such a petition, signed by a large 1944), saving the lives of thousands of Jews during them to searches, interrogations and fines but stop number of Catholics from the Lviv region. The Soviet Wor1d War II, is maligned by Soviet officials. short of arrests unless they have extended their response to these petitions has been to sharpen At the outset, the priests of the Catacomb Church activities beyond a narrow circle of friends in private repressive measures against the activist clergy, were those who did not rejoin Russian Orthodoxy homes. It appears, however, that Soviet authorities are monastics and lay people and to intensify their during the 1945-1949 period but remained Catholics, much more ruthless in dealing with new, secretly propaganda. giving up any public exercise of their clerical duties. ordained priests. In recent years, the cause of persecuted Ukrainian After 1946, a significant portion of Catholic laymen In 1968, apparently in connection with the legaliza­ Catholics has been taken up by the movement ip continued to depend on the services of these "illegar' tion of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Czechoslo­ Ukraine. Since 1970, the movement^ dfgah;^tl|e priests and monks, whose numbers increased after the vakia, the harassment of "recalcitrant" clergy Ukrainian Herald, has carried'kocrdunts of tile mid" 1940s with the return of what the Soviets called escalated into a large-scale campaign against "illegar' harassment, searches, arrests and trials of Catholics "recalcitrant" clergymen - those who had comp1eted Ukrainian Catholic clergy. Many of these clergymen and has editorially condemned "wanton liquidation" their sentences or had benefitted from the post-Stalin were subjected to searches, interrogations, fines and of the Church as "illegal and unconstitutional." A amnesties. beatings. In January 1969, the KGB arrested an leading Ukrainian dissident, historian Valentyn The hope that de-Stalinization would lead to the underground Catholic bishop named Vasyl Vely- Moroz, devoted part of his "Chronicle of Resistance" restoration of the Ukrainian Catholic Church chkovsky and two Catholic priests, sentencing them to the nation-building ro1e of the Ukrainian Catholic produced a marked intensification of covert Catholic to three years' imprisonment for alleged violations of Church in western Ukraine; he equated the regime's activities. By the later 1950s, however, as more and the "law on cults." anti-Catholic struggle with an attack upon "the more "converts" to the Church began to repudiate Religious activities that are "illegal" when per­ spiritual structure of the nation." Orthodoxy,Communist authorities dispelled any hope formed by Catholic priests or members include Lithuanian Cathplic, dissidents ^also have rais^ for a change in official policy toward the Church by holding religious services; educating children in^ th^ ttheirr VОІСЄ&4П,ТЕЄСІДД^ y^^ arresting even more priests and unleashing a new wave Catholic faith; performing baptisms, wedding rites, authorities and in their underground Chronicle of the of anti-Catholic propaganda. Notwithstanding this and funerals; hearing confessions; anointing the ill; Lithuanian Catholic Church, they have joined widespread anti-religious campaign, the number of copying religious materials; and possessing prayer Ukrainian dissidents in calling for the lifting of the priests increased in western Ukraine in the 1950s and books, icons, church calendars, religious books and illegal ban on the Ukrainian Catholic Church. thereafter, due in part to secret ordinations in exile. In other sacred objects. Soviet sources reveal numerous Likewise, in September 1974, a leading Russian addition, the existence of secret theological "semina­ examples of arrests for such activities. One is the case Orthodox dissident named Anatoliy Levitin-Krasnov ries" in Tem0piI and Kolomyia was reported in the of the Rev. Ivan Kryvy, who was arrested in I973 for appealed to Sakharov's human-rights committee in Soviet press in the 1960s in connection with the arrests organizing the printing of a Ukrainian Catholic prayer Moscow to raise its voice in defense of Ukrainian of their organizers. book (actually a reprint of a prayer book published in Catholics and other persecuted religious groups. "The Today, the underground Catholic Church is said to Canada in 1954) in three consecutive editions (1969, (Continued on page 11) iiiii^ Copies should be sent to William H:Gourtney,^ 1S. GMsliPG^nef^- ACTION ITEMS Designate to Kiev, William H. Courtney and U.S. Ambassador to tha USSR John Matlock, both at the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. After a nine-year hiatus occasioned by the Soviet Union's invasion of 20520. Afghanistan, the U.S. 1nformation Agency is reviving its exhibits to the USSR. The exhibits, which generally portray some aspect of American life, will in this case focus on U.S. communications and technology. The - submitted by The Washington Group Washington Group, an association of Ukrainian American professionals, has Washington learned from private sources that the first six-month leg of this exhibit is to In light of the recent breakthrough in arms control negotiations, Secretary open in Moscow in early May, and then travel on to Kiev and Rostov-na- of State George P. Shultz is to visit Moscow on April 13-16. Human rights Donu. and bilateral exchanges will be on the agenda. In fact, talks with Soviet TWG has also learned that, out of 25 American guides scheduled to go, officials are to take place later this month in Washington, specifically dealing only a small number - perhaps only two — are fluent in Ukrainian. This with human-rights and bilateral issues. appears to be totally inadequate, inasmuch as Kiev is the capital of Ukraine, As Ukrainian Americans, we must acknowledge that the U.S. has been and Rostov, although in the Russian Republic, is close to Ukraine's border raising our issues at various forums, such as Vienna. We need to take this and has a large Ukrainian population. opportunity to urge Secretary Shultz and the State Department to continue As the last exhibit was preparing to depart in 1978, Ukrainian Americans to forcefully raise and give more public attention to the following issues: learned at the last minute that only one Ukrainian-speaking guide was 1) the continued imprisonment of Ukrainian human, national and religious scheduled to go to Kiev, and that President Jimmy Carter's welcoming rights activists, particularly those in camp No. 36-1. remarks — for distribution in Kiev — had been printed in Russian. After a 2) the continued repression of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic barrage of letters from Ukrainian Americans, the USIA added another Churches, and of Ukrainian Baptists and Pentecostalists; Ukrainian-speaking guide and reprinted the President's remarks in 3) the continued policy of Russification and supression of Ukrainian Ukrainian. culture and language in Soviet Ukraine; The Washington Group has initiated a letter-writing campaign in this 4) the continued isolation of Ukraine from the Western media. matter, and asks Ukrainian American organizations and individuals for their It is important for individual Ukrainian American citizens, and help. Time is short. In its letters, TWG is emphasizing the fact that two or so organizations to send letters now; and perhaps telegrams on the eve of Mr. Ukrainian-speaking guides are totally inadequate to serve Ukrainians who Shultz's visit. Write to: will be trave1ling from all over Ukraine at great personal inconvenience and ^ The Hon. George P. Schultz, Secretary of State, Department of State, Tisk to view the American exhibit in Kiev. Washington D.C, 20520. TWG has also pointed out that a U.S. Consulate is about to open in Kiev, * The Hon. Richard Schifter, Assistant Secretary of State for Human with Consul General-Designate William Courtney learning Ukrainian; and Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State, Washington D.C, that the USIA has been encouraging direct cultural ties between Ukrainian 20520. Americans and Ukrainians. * Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Department of State, Washington D.C, In addition, John Matlock, newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the 20520. USSR, has indicated that he believes in using the Ukrainian language in Kiev. We often are frustrated that the media presents the human rights problem Comments on this matter should be sent to the following individuals: as that of Jewish emigration exclusively. Here is our chance to do something Charles Z. Wick, director, U.S. 1nformation Agency; Ambassador Stephen about it instead of complain. ^H. Rhinesmith, Goordinator, President's Unij:ed States-Soviet Exchange 1nitiaiive; and the US1A. OfflGe of Personnel, Special Services, allat301 -4th - submitted by Yuri A. Deychakiwsky ^St. SW, W^shington.,D.C. 20547. . ^ -,:;'T','' "' ..".,' Virginia Beach, Va. iimimriimHiiiiiiHHiitiimiitmiiimmimmimimmmi іііін(ііуііііиігііііітігііііниііинііііиіііііииіинііінііікіі!шіитііітіііііиіігіііііітііпіііі^ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 No.12 IN THE PRESS: Influential publicdtions review Conquest book by Marta Baziuk quotation from an eyewitness to the accounts of Westerners living in the apropos of the deportation of small famine, and writes: Soviet Union, that Robert Conquest nationalities from the North Caucasus, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Times "Thus, an eyewitness... describes a weaves his compelling narrative." that StaUn would have deported 4he Literary Supplement of London and Ukrainian village in 1933 being slowly Prof. Hosking accepts in full Dr. Ukrainians, too, but there were too The New York Review of Books, per­ and systematically starved by deliberate Conquest's thesis that the famine was many of them'. Mass starvation was, haps the two most influential and government decision, as part of a genocide: from his point of view, the next best respected periodicals reviewing scholar­ campaign of 'dekulakization' and 'col­ "The truth is that the Soviet regime thing." ly works, have both in recent weeks lectivization of agriculture' that even­ used rural terror deliberately in order to In his review of "The Harvest of published reviews by wor1d-renown tually claimed 11 million victims. For solve two problems. The first was how Sorrow" in the New York Review of authorities strongly praising "The more than half a century, a pall has Books, Peter Wiles also discusses Harvest of Sorrow." to break the control which private hung over this mass murder. Deligently peasants exercised over the grain crop, changing his views upon reading Con­ concealed from the wor1d at the time by Dr. Robert Conquest's book, spon­ the second was how to destroy the quest's book. Prof. Wiles, who is the Soviet government, it has surfaced sored by the Harvard Ukrainian Re­ strength and independent spirit of the emeritus professor at the London search 1nstitute and the Ukrainian intermittently in fragmentary testimo­ Ukrainian nation. Since the Ukrainian School of Economics, had at one time National Association, has already been nies, only to be forgotten again. farmers held much of the most fertile believed that the famine was caused by reviewed in The New York Times Book "Almost unbelievably, Dr. Con­ overzealous grain collection. Now he Review, Wall Street Journal, Los land, the solution to both problems quest's book is the first full historical could be combined... In the Ukraine writes: Angeles Times Book Review, Washing­ study of what must count as one of the "But irony does not prove a theory, ton Post, Newsweek, Time, The New grain procurement targets were delibe­ greatest man-made horrors in a century rately set so high that the collective and Conquest's explanation is a better Republic, The Spectator and the Eco­ particularly full of them... His new book farms had no hop^ of meeting them one, while it also takes account of the nomist, among other publications. is also an object lesson in the assiduous while still feeding their own members. procurement issue. He describes at What makes these two recent reviews compilation and perspicacious use of length how Stalin became convinced noteworthy, besides the statures of the Special 4roikas' (representatives of the available but not easily retrieved that Ukrainian nationalism was his publications in which they appear, is party, the Soviets and the GPU) were sources." greatest enemy. Nationalism was strong that both reviewers state plainly that sent round to ransack the villages and Dr. Conquest's work has convinced On the matter of sources, Prof. confiscate any food discovered there... in the Ukraine, reaching from intellec­ them that the famine was an act of Hosking writes, "The richest source of "I had been inclined to think that the tuals, priests and peasants, right into the genocide against the Ukrainian nation. information of all, however, is to be particularly high mortality in the U- party itself (the postwar boss of the In accepting Dr. Conquest's explana­ found in the collections of documents kraine was explained by the fact that it Ukrainian Republic, Petro Shelest, was tion of Soviet motivation, they also note issued by Ukrainian emigre organiza­ was the most successful graingrowing even a nationalist Stalinist). Only the their approval of his use of emigre tions in the late 1940s and 50s. The most region, and therefore was subject to proletariat was seen as a healthy ele­ sources to prove, for instance, that important single collection is "The uniquely harsh exploitation by a regime ment — and during the famine it did not borders between Ukraine and Russia Black Deeds of the Kremlin..." Western whose paramount concern was bread. starve. The Ukraine Republic was, I were closed, a proof that has been scholars have been inclined to pass Conquest's research establishes beyond might add, on an invasion path." questioned by some other reviewers. snootily by compilations with such lurid doubt, however, that the famine was He also writes: titles. deliberately inflicted there for ethnic "So, Conquest (and James Mace Geoffrey Hosking, professor of Rus­ "But they are wrong: such records reasons — it was done in order to before him) has adopted the Ukrainian sian history at the London School of represent 'popular history'...the great undermine the Ukrainian nation, which exile view, and he has persuaded this Slavonic Studies and author of "The majority of individual incidents report­ had been enjoying a unique cultural and reviewer. Indeed, a further point may be First Socialist Society: A History of the ed in the hundreds of eyewitness ac­ linguistic flowering during the 1920s. argued that he does not stress: the North Soviet Union from Within" (winner of counts cannot be verified, but their Stalin feared that, as the second largest Caucasus, an area adjacent to the the-Ip^S'Angeks.Times.BQX)k Award for general tenor is amply corroborated by nation in the Soviet Union, it could Ukraine, was the third of the three great History), begins his revfew "in t1ie other sources, and they add a richness of become a rival power center which famine sufferers in 1932-33, and con­ February 20 edition of the Times detail often not available elsewhere. It is might prove difficult to control from sisted of at 1east half Ukrainians or Literary Supplement with a horrifying from these diverse documents and the Moscow. Khrushchev once remarked, (Continued on page 15) NEWS AND VIEWS: A look at Harvard's Millennium project by Tamara Stadnychenko-Cornelison work of previously endowed Chdiis in second period of Ukrainian Christianity cal materials. Initially, the reference Ukrainian history, Ukrainian literature, from 1648 through 1918. This segment work will be published in Ukrainian and Through the concerted effort of the Ukrainian philology and the Ukrainian of Volume I begins with the Church in English, but translations into French, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Research Institute. the Hetmanate and traces the develop­ Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, mem]bers of the Ukrainian clergy, Several scholars have expressed an ment of Ukrainian Catholic and Protes­ Polish and Russian have been commis­ Ukxaipian press and niembers of various interest in heading the department and a tant Churches under the Russian and sioned to make the information in the furi(l-raisirig organizations, most Ukrai­ tentative search for a qualified represen­ Hapsburg Empires. three volumes readily accessible to nians have been at least superficially tative has been initiated by Dr. Pritsak. The third period (Chapters 20through scholars and others in countries with introduced to importance of the Har­ Work on the Monuments of Old 28) covers the history of the Ukrainian large Ukrainian communities. vard Project. Many have already given Ukrainian Literary Works is also in Churches from the rebirth of the Ukrai­ Of all the programs and publications generously to support the Harvard progress. Of the 40 projected volumes, nian Orthodox Church as an Auto- planned for the Harvard Project, the Project. Some have hesitated with the more than 30 have been assigned to cephalous Entity (1918-1930). Indivi­ encyclopedic reference work is of most intent to contribute at a later time. scholars and translators from Europe, dual chapters focus on the development immediate concern, for these three volumes are to introduce and initiate all Many have probably wondered Canada, Australia, and the United of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant States. The first two volumes will be Churches in Poland, Czechoslovakia, subsequent events and publications whether any of the aims and goals of the planned for the Millennium. Although project have been achieved and what published in just a few weeks. Four Rumania, under the Stalinist terror, volumes are undergoing final editorial and an overview of present-day Ukrai­ all who are involved in this endeavor are progress has been made in the four­ optimistic, there can be no guarantee of point agenda established by Dr. Omel- processing and will soon be going to nian Churches in the Soviet Union and print. Four volumes have been written in the diaspora. success unless financial obligations are jan Pritsak and others involved in the met. project. and have been sent to an editorial board Chapters in Volume II and Volume for verification and proofreading. III of.the Reference Encyclopedia, Writing, editing, translating, and Much progress has been made and Sixteen volumes are near completion scheduled for publication in 1988, have publication costs cannot be ignored and the continuing generosity of the Ukrai­ and will soon be ready for editing. Dr. been assigned to writers and translators delays caused by inadequate funding nian community has sparked in all those Pritsak reports that work on the re­ and much of the work on these volumes could cause more damage than the mere who are working on the project an air of maining volumes is also in progress and is also in progress. loss of a few months. The Millennium is optimism and industry. that the energy and enthusiasm of those Volume 11 will provide a synopsis of approaching rapidly; we cannot allow Plans for the Ravenna Conference involved ensures that all projected the fundamental characteristics of ourselves to be unprepared. There are are well under way. An agenda has been volumes will meet 5cheduled deadlines. Ukrainian Churches and will include many who are ready to tell the world drawn up and approved by a committee Publication of the three-volume information on theoretical foundations that the Millennium has nothing to do of three distinguished scholars (Dr. encyclopedic reference work — Millen­ of Ukrainian Christianity, administra­ with Ukraine. No one can refute this Pritsak, Dr. 1hor Sevcenko, Dr. Myro- nium of Ukrainian Christianity ~ is tion, and the reciprocal relationship claim better than we ourselves, but only slav Labunka). scheduled to coincide with the 1988 between Church and culture. if we are ready to back our own claims Delegates from many nations have Millennium celebrations. The deadline Volume HI will provide statistical with credible research and scholarly been issued invitations and will convene for Volume I, which deals with the data on parishes, monasteries and evidence. in Italy in April 1988. Arrangements period of history from the Christianiza- convents in Ukraine and abroad, in­ The Harvard Project can provide the have been made to have conference pro­ tion of Rus'-Ukraine in 988 to the cluding comprehensive lists of Ukrai­ necessary evidence, but only through ceedings, which will be conducted in current status of the Ukrainian nian bishops (Catholic and Orthodox), the financial support of the Ukrainian English, French, and German, recorded Churches (all denominations) in the abbots and abbesses. An overview of community. A sum of S450,00O is in a jubilee volume to be published Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic architecture, furnishings, art, artifacts needed by June if the reference encyclo­ when the conference ends. and in the diaspora, is October 30. music and language associated with pedia is to be published as scheduled. A recently vacated Chair at Harvard Chapters 1 through 10 of this volume Ukrainian Churches and liturgies will Checks made out to the Harvard Ukrai­ University has been reserved for the cover events and personages critical to also be included. 1'he final chapters of nian Studies Fund Inc. ~ мис may or Harvard Project, a,nd the endowment of the early development of Christianity in Volume III will be devoted to indexes, be sent to local Harvard Project com­ a Chair 6f Ukrainian Religious Thought Ukraine^ culminating with the ^g^ of bibliographies and tables: mittees, or to the main office: Millen­ at Harvard Divinity School will fill aft Mohyia and Rutskyi. All three volumes are to includeinaps nium of Hus'-Ukraine, Harvard Project, important need and compliment the Chapters 11 through 19 deal with the and illustrations as well as bibliographi­ 63 Fourth Ave, New York, N.Y. 1000З. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987

NEWS ANALYSIS: Chicago area organizations promote Soviet ties by Marianna Liss dent. Erwin Salk, is chairman of th^* Instead he addressed the previous though, was highly misleading. It is very Chicago Center for U.S./USSR Rela­ question, saying that there were piles of unlikely that the Ukrainian community CHICAGO - In and around Chi­ tions and Exchanges. He welcomed the requests from Soviet Jews, now living in would support his effort. cago, private organizations are pro­ media and asked that questions be the U.S., applying to return to the First, Mr. Salk actively defends the moting something like an independent restricted to themes emphasizing com­ USSR. Soviet Union, often comparing Soviet foreign policy toward the Soviet Union. mon concerns, or as he termed it, "The immigration figure is smaller," human-rights abuses with problems in From the American Bar Association to "themes of commonahty" between the he contended, "because the applications American society. Second, his involve­ the Chicago Center for U.S./USSR U.S. and the USSR. have died down — the demand has died ment last year with the extremely Relations and Exchanges, many Chi­ Ms. Parshina said she liked Chicago. down. Now we're working on the unpopular tour by Soviet clergy would cago professionals feel a need to have Mr. Chetverikov talked about the new reunification of families left behind. not endear him to the Ukrainian com­ formal contacts with the USSR whether democratization of wanting new Some are still there because of state munity. To the great consternation of through philosophical or because of economic links with the U.S, and the secrets. The question is unfair. We are Ukrainians, the clergy tour stopped by business interests. Chicago is fast need to settle the Afghan situation. doing our best." the Ukrainian Village area. becoming a heartland for U.S./USSR The trouble started when Ms. Par­ Ms. Parshina defended her govern­ On checking Mr. Sa1k's story, one trade and business. shina replied to a reporter that the ment, arguing that with over 100 na­ finds that none of the named Ukrai­ But there is opposition to the trend, incidents in Moscow — during which tionalities in the Soviet Union, "No one nians or Ukrainian institutions men­ evident at a press conference held in demonstrators for losif Begun's free­ is oppressed. We have freedom." After tioned had agreed to go. In fact, one Chicago for Soviet representatives last dom were beaten and jailed, and Wes­ the press conference, in a private man mentioned by Mr. Salk has pub­ February 12. tern TV journalists harassed — were interview, she was asked, if there were licly denounced the sister-city program. On a PR tour to explain internal only minor ones." 'Glasnost'(openness) freedoms in the USSR, why was there a Another person, who had been ap­ changes and to promote U.S./USSR is not just dissent. It is criticism and self­ need for "glasnost." She answe-ed that proached by Mr. Salk, characterized exchanges, a delegation from the Com­ criticism," she said. Mr. Chetverikov "glasnost" was a broad term, and said, Mr. Salk as a name dropper and said munist Party's Central Committee echoed that sentiment, commenting "Yes, we have freedom. But there were there was no such agreement. appeared before the press and a group that the incidents had been blown out of those who did not tell the truth." Mr. Salk is not alone, but represents a of ethnic leaders. At the news confe­ proportion. The host of the affair, Mr. Salk tried network of like-minded organizations. rence a groups of Poles, Jews, Ukrai­ '*Why aren't 40,000 Soviet Jews to steer the discussion back to the The Chicago Center boasts of the nian Baptists, Russian Baptists and applying for emigration able to leave?" agenda at the end of the press confe­ cooperative effort between these groups other groups confronted the delegation someone asked. Mr. Chetverikov, visib­ rence, but by this time activists were in promoting U.S./USSR official rela­ with questions on human-rights abuses, ly irritated, responded: "You want all shouting out questions to the delegates. tions. Apparently business contacts are thus disrupting the event. Soviet Jews to leave. We will not be A woman held up a poster with over 50 of special interest to the Chicago^ Heading the delegation from the deprived of them. They were good small photographs of Ukrainian and Center, but it also cooperates in efforts USSR was Sergei Chetverikov, deputy contributors to our society. And (the Russian Baptists incarcerated because to establish artistic and cultural con­ head of the U.S. and Canada Depart­ question) is under consideration. You of their faith. And the official news tacts between the two countries. Many ment of the Foreign Ministry and have a biased attitude." event ended in chaos with journalists area Ukrainian artists have received formerly of the Soviet Embassy in He further cited what he called a lack taking photos of a Polish man waving a unsolicited invitations to exhibit in the Washington. He was accompanied by of gratitude toward the Soviet Union on finger at Mr. Sa1k's face. Ukrainian SSR. Valentina Parshina, a non-voting mem­ the part of the West for the release of In a minor but interesting incident at With the Soviet/American religious ber of the Central Committee and a Natan Sharansky and other dissidents. the same event, Mr. Salk publicly stated conference held every year in Chicago, brigade leader at a farming complex A Polish man asked the delegation that the Ukrainian community in Chi­ the sister-city program, the East-West near Leningrad, and by Evgeny Z0I0- for guarantees that the Soviet Union is cago is going to participate in his film festival, trade show and the Chi­ tov, the second secretary of the Soviet becoming democratized, listing the war Chicago/Kiev sister-city project. Dele­ cago Center's other activities, the city is Embassy in Washington, who was in Afghanistan and the Katyn Forest gates from Chicago and Kiev are to fast betoming a fo^al pofht^ f6r fWe-^ acting as the translator and guide. massacre as evidence of Soviet dupli­ exchange amenities with each other. movement. 1t seems that one of the At first the event started quietly with city. Mr. Chetverikov angrily accused But, when asked to be more specific, movement's targets is the Ukrainian about 40 people crowding into the foyer the man of having a biased, anti-Soviet Mr. Salk mentioned key figures within community, and it is attempting to of the Salk, Ward & Salk Inc. offices, a attitude and refused to answer the the Ukrainian community who agreed enlist parts of the community into the mortgage banking firm whose presi­ question. to go on such a trip. His statement, exchange program. UNCHAIN is launched; several projects already under way NEWARK, N.J. - 1n an effort to An electronic communications sy­ other news media. translated and abridged in the English provide the American news media with stem developed recently by a computer Also, on March 8, UNCHA1N sent version. 1t is expected to provide the accurate and timely information about consultant for UNCHA1N, enables Roman Kupchinsky as its representa­ news media, government officials and Ukraine and Ukrainians, as well as UNCHA1N'S newly formed informa­ tive to 1srael for a two-week period, in the public with information tiktwbuld combat the defamation of Ukrainians, a tion service to monitor, on a daily basis, order to attend the trial, meet with be difficult to obtain otherwise^ multi-faceted project was recently stories about Ukraine and Ukrainians media representatives in 1srael, and launched. appearing on the press wires and in make efforts to counteract the anti­ UNCHAIN vs. Soviet Lawyers The UNCHAIN project (the ac­ several U.S. newspapers, thereby facili­ Ukrainian sentiments that appear to ronym stands for Ukrainian National tating a timely response to any inaccu­ have been generated by the trial pro­ 1n February 1987, six individuals Center: History and Information Net­ racies. ceedings and therefore, have been representing UNCHA1N went to New work), has long-term goals which Other features of the system include a reflected in the American media's Orleans during the midyear meeting of include extensive monitoring of news computer bulletin board, which enables reporting on the trial to date. the American Bar Association to lobby media for incorrect statements about the information service to make its press The UNCHA1N representative was for the abrogation of the ABA's agree­ Ukraine or Ukrainians, lobbying Con­ releases instantly available to the news to be joined by a delegation from the ment with the Association of Soviet gress and other groups, book publish­ media. (The information service also Civil Liberties Commission of the Lawyers. The lobbying was done under ing, a speaker's bureau, and litigation works through the conventional me­ Ukrainian Canadian Committee, which the auspices of the ABA Task Force where necessary to combat defamatory thod of mailing publicity materials to will spend 10-days in Israel. During this headed by Patience Huntwork and information about Ukrainians. the news media, and following up with time period, several press conferences 0rest Jejna (Arizona) and with the Several projects of UNCHA1N got telephone calls and personal meetings are planned, in order to provide Wes­ cooperation of several Ukrainian and under way in the last few months and with editors). tern reporters with the viewpoint of the non-Ukrainian groups and individuals. others will soon be announced. The The computer bulletin board also Ukrainian community. Many in the UNCHA1N'S efforts toward the abro­ projects already initiated include the offers electronic mail facilities and community feel that Ukrainians as a gation of the ABA/SLA agreement will UNCHA1N 1nformation Service, a discussion forums for users. group are being maligned and unfairly continue. computer bulletin board, lobbying, saddled with collective responsibility publishing, and anti-defamation acuVi­ UNCHAIN observer in Israel for Nazi war crimes and atrocities of a Public m^stings planned ties. few. The UNCHA1N idea was conceived UNCHA1N has engaged a Ukrainian A series of public meetings is being by the late 1hor 01shaniwsky, president observer to attend, on a daily basis, the Book being published held in several Ukrainian communities of Americans for Human Rights in trial of John Demjanjuk now in pro­ in the U.S. in March and April to Ukraine, who first presented the con­ gress in 1srael and to monitor a11 1n yet another aspect of its anti­ introduce UNCHA1N to the commu­ cept to the Ukrainian community in the available information from the trial and defamation work, UNCHA1N will nity and to seek support for its pro­ fall of 1985, and elaborated on it in a the Israeli news media for the shortly release a book titled "Victim of grams. series of articles in The Ukrainian UNCHA1N 1nformation Service. the Holocaust," This book, written by (Continued on page 15) Weekly in March 1986. UNCHA1N was This observer calls in information West German journalist Hans-Peter incorporated in New Jersey in March from the Jerusalem trial to the Ukrai­ Rullman, traces the tortuous process by Correction 1986. nian-language daily newspaper Svo- which an incriminating case against an In Marianna Liss's story about the boda, which then prepares news stories American citizen, Mr. Demjanjuk, was New Orleans protests against the Ame­ Computerized information service based on this information. The Ukrai­ built up. 1t points out the questionable rican Bar Association's agreement of nian Weekly also utilizes these reports. methods used to acquire evidence, and cooperation with the Association of One of the most exciting aspects of The purpose of this monitoring of the the weaknesses in some of the evidence Soviet Lawyers, the Ukrainian Ameri­ UNCHAIN is that it is now geared to Demjanjuk trial by UNCHA1N is to so acquired. can Justice C6mmittee of Chicago was utilize the vast potential of computer ensure an alternate source of informa­ The Rullman material, first released inadvertantly left out of the list bf communications in its daily operations. tion about the trial to that offered by in West Germany in I986, has been participating groups. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 22, 1987 No.12 Cooperative spirit: an overview Rochester school kids learn about Ukraine ROCHESTER - The fourth grade Richard Swerde, will highlight the of the credit union movement class at public school No. 37 will appear class activities and will show their on Rochester's hourlong "Ukrainian drawings and essays on the program, by Tamara Denysenko 196I, they showed total assets of Magazine," thanks to the efforts of which will air March 29. S8,925,637 with a membership of 12,309. Nancy-Hope Melnyk Miles. Ms. Miles' In 19S7 an Association of Ukrainian Born in Munich, Germany, Ms. CONCLUSION class has been learning about the Miles, 33, holds a bachelor's degree in Cooperators (TUK) was formed. 1ts Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, the Krem­ purpose was to coordinate Ukrainian education, English and history from Wor1d War II was a difficult period lin's strategy of Russification as well as Nazareth College and an associate's for the cooperative movement in the credit union activity and to provide Ukrainian Christmas customs. professional advice in the areas of degree in broadcasting from Monroe United States as well as Ukraine. The program, which is produced by Community College. During the war, both the Soviet and lending, promotion and management German forces liquidated cooperatives techniques. It planned to establish a in Ukraine or re-organized them to suit Student Loan Fund and provided the their needs. Cooperative property was initiative and funding for the publica­ confiscated as war booty. The Germans tion of the "History of the Ukrainian permitted some renewal of cooperative Cooperative Movement" by I1lia Vyta- activity under strict supervision and novych, Ph.D., in 1964. The first and mostly for the distribution of rationed long-time president of the association goods. Out of 700 credit unions only 71 was 1van Sheparovych. were permitted to resume limited opera­ 1n 1967, TUK gave way to the pre­ tions. Both forces executed many of the sent-day Ukrainian National Credit cooperative leaders and members, and Union Association with headquarters in deported others to concentration camps Chicago. The UNCUA serves as a in Siberia or Germany. support organization for 30 credit Those who survived rekindled the unions through its promotional activi­ "cooperative spirit" first in the dis­ ties, conferences and seminars. It co­ placed persons camps in Germany, ordinates member loan/ share insu­ Austria and other Western nations. The rance, and publishes a quarterly insert, most interesting of these, Dnipro, was "Cooperative Tribune," in the Ukrai­ 6rg^Rized iri Belgium by Dr. Stepan nian National Association's daily Svo- Bozyk in 1949. 1n Europe, Ukrainians boda. In June of 1986, the 30 Ukrai­ mainly organized consumer coopera­ nian credit unions served almost 60,000 tives, while in Australia, South Ameri­ members with total assets of ca, the U.S. and Canada, credit unions S418,825,00O. were favored. 1n the U.S. and Canada attempts were made at organizing credit unions before Wor1d War II. The oldest such Wor1d War II adversely affected the credit union was the Nova Hromada in growth of credit unions in America for Fourth graders at Rochester's public school No. 37 who are learning about Ukraine Saskatoon, established by Mychailo other reasons. Regulation W, signed by and Ukrainians, Babij in 1939. Such U.S. towns as President Roosevelt in the summer of ShenkWo^^\:*^^lyMt)*hV'0iyphatltV Д941, iFestricted all credit decreasing ^!lSffl5^in:^*A^m^^fei^ffiz^^^ Credit unions^lo;ans by 50 percent: Navajo Indians Iearn to bake kolach Pennsylvania also made attempts at Uncertainty about the future, poor ST. MICHAELS, Ariz. - In a small recent graduate of the College of New organizing Ukrainian credit unions. organizational success, scarcity of Catholic schoolan Indian reservation in Rochelle, explained her hopes in teach­ However, the movement experienced consumer goods, which dried up much of ing: "One of my aims as I teach on the the most dynamic growth after the the traditional source of credit union northeast Arizona, 23 eighth grade influx of the new, post Wor1d War II loans, accelerated liquidation of credit Navajo students had a taste of Ukrai­ reservation is to try to help my class Ukrainian immigration. unions, voluntary and otherwise. nian Christmas traditions this year - value their own traditions. They feel During this period, savings in credit the baking of the kolach. pressured to forsake some of the beliefs The first Ukrainian credit union in "As the school prepared its holiday and customs of their ancestors in their America was organized May 19, 1951, unions, as a percentage.of total savings, decreased from .62 percent to .10 program," said teacher Regina Car- desire to be accepted in the "Anglo' in New York City. Its sponsor/ common mody, "each class chose a different wor1d. One of best ways I can help them bond was the Self-Reliance (Samopo- percent. From 1941 to 1945 member­ ship decreased from 3,304,390 to tradition to represent through song and value their heritage is by showing them rfiichf) 'As^(^tW 0kraini:an^;in deed. The classes then shared these how much 1 value my own. Hmericai That sarfi^ 2,824,989, and the total number of credit unions went from 9,891 to 8,683. traditions with the rest of the school at "One of the high points of my Christ­ Ukrainians organized a credit union in the Christmas concert. Under the super­ mas this year was watching my class Chicago, in 1952 in Detroit and Phila­ After Wor1d War II, a reorganized Credit Union National Association vision of the music teacher, who is proudly p1ace their kolaches under the delphia and in 1953 in Rochester, N.Y., aware of my own Ukrainian heritage, school Christmas tree and knowing that and Chester, Pa. By 1961, 15 U.S. cities (CUNA), under the leadership of Tho­ my class chose the Ukrainian 'Carol of their Christmas offering would shortly had Ukrainian credit unions. They were mas W. Doig, began to implement the Bells.' 1n trying to determine a way be on its way to the local soup kitchen. different from the average American many new promotions to stimulate in which I could help the class under­ credit union in th?t the shares per credit union organization. By 1955 the This effort symbolized the meshing of stand the Ukrainian traditions more member were higher and more loans movement provided almost 6 percent of our cultures, the pride in our back­ were given for mortgages rather than all installment credit, and served 8.1 fully, and share this in a tangible way grounds and the giving of ourselves to for consumer or personal needs. In million Americans. Attempts at orga­ with the rest of the school, 1 decided to others, which is the true spirit of the nizing poor and low-income areas had teach them how to make kolach. These season." Tamara Denysenko is editor of Co­ less substantive success, but the organi­ would then be presented at the Christ­ Ms. Carmody attended the Ukrai­ operative Tribune, a quarterly publica­ zation of military installations in the mas concert and donated to a needy nian Summer Institute at Harvard tion of the Ukrainian National Credit U.S. and overseas was most impressive. cause shortly thereafter. University in 1985. She is a third­ Union Association based in Chicago. By 1969, 459 military credit unions Ms. Carmody, formerly of West- generation Ukrainian on her mother's served almost 2.7 million in the armed chester County in New York and a side. BOOK forces. THE OTHER HOLOCAUST: 1n recent years all credit unions faced More... Soviet agitation and propaganda." Many Circles of Hell increasing competition and pressure (Continued from page 1) The Lithuanian Information Center by Bohdan Wytwycky from large, diversified and more power­ Smirnov, who was servmg 10 years of reported on March 9 that two Lithua­ ful financial institutions. They had to labor camp and exile, and Mikhail nian dissidents, Vytautus Skuodis and Preface by Michael Novak adapt to changing demographics, eco­ Rifkin, serving 12 years — all on Algirdas Statkevicius, were freed and This work brings together for the first time nomic conditions, deregulation and had charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and returned to the Lithuanian capital, in English the sources which document the to withstand an assault on their non­ propaganda." Vilnius. systematic killing of millions of Polish, Mr. Rifkin was closely involved in Ukrainian, Belorussian and Gypsy (Rom) profit, tax-exempt status. Mr. Skuodis, who was born in Chi­ civilians at the hands of the Nazis. Although the However, by adhering to cooperative publication of the underground Chro­ cago in 1929 and returned to the then suffermg of the Jews under Hitler is well-known, ideals, by being people oriented, by nicle of Current Events in the 1970sand independent Lithuania in 1930, was the destruction of nine to ten million - or more believing in the motto ''not for profit, other dissident pubHcations later, and arrested in 1980 for writing a critical - Gypsy and Slavic civilians who were also not for charity, but for service" of the Mr. Smirnov helped publish a dissident study on Soviet atheistic propaganda, singled out for annihilation for racial reasons is journal. virtually unknown in the United States. member, by providing reasonably the center reported. The Other Holocaust: - S8.95 each priced savings and loan services and by Ms. Bonner reportedly told a repor­ Dr. Statkevicius was confined for the Available only through The Novak Report: combining cooperative principles with ter from the Associated Press on March past seven years to a psychiatric hospi­ 1400 Eye Street N.W., Suite 1150 sound business judgement and practices, 13 that Gleb Yakunin. a dissident tal, most recently in Tashkent, for Washington, D.C. 20005 Russian Orthodox priest, had been Ask about bookstore and large quantity 18,300 modern credit unions now serve joining the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. orders. more than 50 million Americans. released from exile in Siberia and Also released in early February was 7f 'is the first study ever to deal in an in- With such a foundation, the credit returned to Moscow. The 53-year-old Liudas Dambrauskas, a 65-year-old fornwd'fndkved:h^aded щапщг with ^n issue,. cuni0a|mov^ment ЛVІ11 ттгтМ Poteiigf, priest ,w^s a founding member of the Lithuanian ,cherrii*itwHb was serving a of such great impoHancen6ton^y to Ukra iniahs, .vi^ble and xxciting^fi,aanciatl fprce a|ul Christiafi Committee for the Defense of five-and-ori^~half-year sentence for : Poles'and oth'er 8Ш: ЬиілI^X) ШеШ:*!.с^' the Rifhts-of Believers in the USSRand The Ukrainian Weekly the 'Cooperative spirit'^ wilf survive' fn writing an aee0у rit of I1i's experiences i"n the future. was serving a I0-year term tor "anti­ Sta1in's concentration camps. No. 12 THE UKRAINSAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 198?

driven underground following the forced I946 is witnessed by the fact that Pope John Paul II gives For the record... ''reunion" have posed an especiaiiy complicated his support to the emigre hierarchy of the so-called (Continued from page 7) problem for Soviet authorities, Enjoying massive Ukrainian Catholic Church..The current tactic of Union in Western Ukraine," wrote Levitin-Krasnov, support from behevers in the western Ukraine, as well Pope John Paul II and the Roman Curia lies in the "is a massive popular movement. Its persecution as from the strong Ukrainian Catholic diaspora in the attempts to strengthen the position of theChurchin a11 means not only religious oppression, but also West, the faithful have survived despite repeated socialist countries as they have done in Poland, where restriction of the national rights of western Ukraine."^ repressive measure. They have survived both within the Vatican tried to raise the, status^f the Catholic the fofmal Ortliodox Church - so-called secret Church to a state within a state. In the last few years, Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Ukraine Catholics - and as an "illegal" Church with a the Vatican has paid particular attention to the succession of its own bishops and a network of secular question of Catholicism of the Slavonic nations. This At the beginning of 1984, a group of Ukrainian and monastic clergy, performing clandestine religious is poignantly underscore(d by the pope when he states Catholics began to publish and disseminate a samizdat rites ih private homes, at cemeteries and even in that he is not only a pope of Polish origin/]but the fipit publication, the Chronicle of the Catholic Church. To officially "closed" churches. Among young people, in Slavic pope, and he wiUpayparticular|itten|iontothe date, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich particular, there has been a growing acceptance of Ghristianization of a11 Slavic nations. "'^, has received and broadcast nine numbered issues of religious traditions: and symbols as important 1inks These same thenies were sti^es5ed at д 19&1 syinpo- the Chronicle plus one special issue. The lOth edition with the past and 'as integral elements of national sium in Bratislava for specialists in anti-rreligious of the Chronicle was published in June 1986 and had a ;'cult|re. .. ; ..;. - ^ propaganda in the Warsaw Pact countries. One of the significant change in title: Chronicle of the Ukrainian The reaction of the regime has been to renew its papers dealing with Ukrainian Catholicism stated the Catholic Church in the Catacombs. The Chronicle is emphasis on masis, anti-religious propaganda, espe^ following: published by member^ of the Initiative Group for the cially in western Ukraine. Conferences have been "Pope John Paul II has approved certain additional Defense of the Right of Believers and the Church in organized on the subject of perfecting the methodo­ measures, directed in support of the Uniates...[The] Ukraine, which Was established in 1982 and spear­ logy to combat Ukrainian Catholicism in western head of the Vatican underscored his "dedication" to heads the campaign of Ukrainian Catholics for the Ukraine.12 Numerous publications have appeared that the Uniates by approving the claims of Cardinal SUpyj legalization of their Church.^ attempt to discredit the union of the congregations in to represent and speak on behalf of a11 the faithful of 1t wSs the years of abortive demands by believers Ukraine and what is now Byelorussia with Rome in the western province Qf the Ukrainian SSR."^^ that authorities legalize the activities of the Catholic 1596; these go to great pains to prove the allegations However, Ukrainian Catholicism, seen as the Church in western Ukraine that brought about the that the Catholic Church conducted activities that strongest and most representative exponent of cultural emergence of an organized human-rights movement were directed against the population of Ukraine and spiritual ties with the West, remains an obstacle to among believers. In early 1982 the Central Committee during the first half of the 20th century. the Soviet goal of creating a single Soviet people. The of Ukrainian Catholics was formed, and Yosyp Terelia The growth of interest in Ukrainian Catholicism has Soviet regime has officially liquidated the Church and was elected its chairman. In a statement about the to be understood in relation to the general rise of also has attempted to erase it from historic memory. formation of the Initiative Group, addressed to the interest in religion, spiritual values and ethics among To enable Moscow40 achieve its goals, all signs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the younger generation in Ukraine. Complaints by religion's ongoing revival are continuously repressed. Ukraine, Terelia wrote: Soviet officials and their publications attest to this "This was the response of Ukrainian Catholics to revival. A letter by an avowed atheist published as part 8. Ibid., pp. 33-34. increasing repression against the Ukrainian Catholic of an article on religious belief and atheist propa­ 9. Because of the potential for intentionally planted Church. From now on, all information about the disinformation, it is impossible to be certain that all items in ganda in a 1984 issue of Nauka і Religiya(Science and the Chronicle were written by or reflect the opinions of Ukrainian Catholic Church will be passed on for Religion) states: scrutiny by the world public. The Catholics of the Ukrainian Catholics in Ukraine today. However, enough of wor1d should know and be reminded in what condi­ "If you could only imagine how difficult it is for us the facts have been substantiated by other sources to make atheists in Ukraine. For many years now, I have been the Chronicle on the whole a credible source of information tions we exist."'0 about the true status of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The first three issues of the Chronicle are varied, involved in the thankless propagandizing task of Soviet ritualism. I have ploughed through mountains of 10. Yosyp Terelia, "Declaration to the CC CPU on the although they deal largely with the lives of believers — formation of the Initiative Group for the Defense of the Catholics, Orthodox, Baptists, Pentecostals, Jeho­ literature, observed, pondered and spent many hours Rights of Believers and the Church in Ukraine," Arkhiv vah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists - in the churches where religious rites are practiced. I Samizdata (AS) 4897, Radio Liberty, Munich^ IЩ.^ , giving accounts of repressive measures taken against have come to the conclusion that Soviet official 11. Onthe Chronicle, see Radio Liberty 3/Й5, "Chronicle them and naming the camps and psychiatric hospitals statistics are very far from reality."'^ of the Catholic Church in Ukraine," January 7, 1985; in which they are confined. The journals also devote The problem of religious practices in western Bohdan Nahaylo, "The Church Rumbling Beneath the Kremlin," The Times, January 12, 1985; Maxine Pollack, considerable attention to the sociopolitical situation in Ukraine also was raised by the first secretary of the Ukraine and discuss such diverse subjects as the Raoul "KGB Crackdown in the Ukraine," The Sunday Times, Lviv Komsomol, Oleksiy Babiychuk: January 27, 1985; Bohdan Nahaylo, "Persecuted Ukrainian Wallenberg case, Russification, and the Polish "...in this 0bIast, particularly in the rural areas, a Catholics Speak Out," The Wall Street Journal (European workers' movement. Most of the information con­ large number of the population adheres to religious edition), February 18, 1985; Ivan Mhul, "La resistance tained in the Chronicle, however, relates to the lives of practices, among them a large proportion of youth. In tenance des catholiques clandestine8 d'Ukraine," Le Monde, members of the banned Ukrainian Catholic Church, the last few years, the activity of the Uniates March 1, 1985; George Zarycky, "Soviet Journal on especially to violations of their human rights. These [Ukrainian Catholics] has grown, that of representa­ Religious Dissent May Embarrass Kremlin," The Christian journals underscore the needs of the people to worship tives of the Uniates as well as former Uniate priests; Science Monitor, March 6, 1985; Radio Liberty 71/85, freely in their own rite, to have their own churches with there are even reverberations to renew the overt "Moscow Still Putting Pressure on Ukrainian Catholics to free access to them, and to have their own priests and activity of this Church."''^ Break with Rome," March 8, 1985; and Radio Liberty 101/85, "First Issue of New Samizdat Journal Put Out by their own language.'' Another important factor in the steady growth of The founder of the Initiative Group and moving Ukrainian Catholics (Uniates)," March 26, 1985. jnterest in Catholicism in Ukraine has been the 12. In November 1982 a conference was held in Kiev on force behind the Chronicle, Yosyp Terelia, was ar­ proximity of the Solidarity movement and the election the topic "The Anti-Communist Essence of Uniate~ rested on February 8, 1985, and sentenced on August of a Slavic pope. It is worth noting that for some years Nationalistic Falsification of the History of the Ukrainian 20, 1985, to seven years' imprisonment and now the Polish dissident movement — particularly Nation," (Liudyna і Svit, No. 2 February 1983, p. 21). five years' exile for his religious activities. He had members of Solidarity — has supported Ukraine's Toward the end of 1983, in the city of Kalush, Ivano- already spent years in various camps, prisons and quest for self-determination in its official statemeilts Frankivske 0blast, a conference was held dealing with psychiatric institutions. He is currently serving his and publications and, conversely, members of the "Uniatismand Ukrainian Bourgeois-Nationalism,"(Liudyna sentence in Camp No. 36 near Kuchino, the so-called dissident movement in Ukraine, like Vasyl Stus and і Svit, No. 1, January 1984, p. 33). In April 1985 a conference death camp where, since May 1984, four prominent Yosyp Terelia, have praised Solidarity in their was held in Lviv on "Critique of the Catholic Uniate Ukrainian prisoners have died — Ukrainian Helsinki activities. In an open letter, published in 1981 in the Ideology in Atheist Propaganda, "(Nauka і Religiya, No. 11, monitors Vasyl Stus, 01eksa Tykhy, Yuriy Lytvyn November 1985, p. 34). journal of Catholic opposition in Poland, Spotkanie, 13. Nauka і Religiya, Moscow, No. 10, October1984, p. and journalist Valeriy Marchenko. Ukrainian Catholics registered their joy on the 11. Terelia's successor as chairman of the Initiative occasion of the elecUon of Cardinal Wojtyla as pope.'^ 14. Ibid., No. 1, January 1985, p. 10. Group, Vasyl Kobryn, also was sentenced in March At the same time, Soviet authorities have launched a 15. Ivan Hvat, "The Ukrainian Catholic Church, the 1985 to three years' imprisonment for "anti-Soviet related propaganda campaign in Ukraine, disseminat­ Vatican and the Soviet Union During the Pontificate of slander." The plight of Terelia and Kobryn is just one ing publications that criticize the Vatican's support for Pope John Paul II," Religion in Communist Lands, Vol. 11, example of the persecution countless numbers of believers in Soviet-bloc countries. The mass media No. 3, (Winter 1983), pp. 264-280. Ukrainian Catholics who have suffered harassment, also has stepped up its attacks on Pope John Paul П, 16. Ibid., pp. 21l-2l%\ See also L.F. Shevtsov, Sotsializm illegal searches, beatings and arrests solely because of especially his support of Ukrainian Catholics.'^ The і Katolitsizm, (Moscow: Nauka, 1982), p. 39, their attempts to practice their religious beliefs. anti-religious journal Liudyna і Svit (Man and the 17. I. Tykhonov, "Catholic Church: New Trends, Old Grounds for repression G0a18,"(in Ukrainian) Liudyna і Svit, No. 10, October 1982, Wor1d), published in Kiev, stated the following: pp. 53-54. "Proof that the Church is persistently striving to 18. B. Lobovik, I. Myhovic, "Zlopovestne tiene minuIo- Clearly, the Ukrainian Catholic faithful who were strengthen its political influence in socialist countries sti," Ateizmus, No. 4, Bratislava, 1981, pp. 361-469.

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What PUBLIC MEETINGS Trenton center elects officers Why: Preservtation/lecture on: Martynenko, Michael Holowczak; DEFENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS HAMILTON, N.J. -^The Ukrainian National Home and Cultural Center of Cultural and Educational Committee Trial of John Demjanjuk in Israel Trenton, on Sunday, Match 1, held its. — Mr. Sendzik, Мук0Iа Weremijenko, Activities against defamation of Ukrainians annual membership meeting for elec­ Ivan Haftkowycz; Organizational Com­ Whec Amwlcaiw for Hunwn RlgWe In Ukraine - AHRU tion of the board of directors for 1987. mittee - 0rest Senyk, Ihof Bojcun; Ukrainian N*tionai Center Hlrtoiy and Informatk)n Network - UNCHAIN After the presentation of annual Activities Committee - 0rest Nadraga, reports, the menibers re-elected Theo- Ivan Mykytyn, Roman Kuzyk, My­ Where: dosius Sendzik as president of the chailo Hluszok; press liaison - George New York. Sunday, Mareh 22.1987.2:00 P.M national home and chairman of the Miziuk; and member at large - Mark Ukrainian Sporta Chd) Най. 122 2nd Avenue. New York, N.Y. board of directors. Holowczak. ikMrait, Saturday, March 28,1987.7:00 P.M. At the subsequent meeting of the Also, the following committee posi­ liMiMciriste Сопс^іііоп 6пкIв SCIKKN Audltoriuffttr W#stiM'Ook St*, WMTMI* Ml. board of directors on March 4, the tions were f1IIed: Controllers Commit­ B|rflikK Sunday, А|мгіI SJLM7.4КЮ P.M. following offices were nUed by board tee - Мук0Iа Nahirniak, Myron Osa- llkiaiiiian.Amtrica CIVIG Cw1t0r, 209 МШИгу M., Buflilo, N.Y. members: first vice-president - My- dca, Mr. Hluszok; Judicial Committee Tfemofi. Samrdey. A|Iril 11th 19S7 ~. 7 p.m. chailo Bojcun; second vice-president — - Wolodymyr Koropey, Andrij Turc- Uiiislniftii НаНоінй Нолш* 477 Jmiiiikih AvwHMt Trwit0Ht N,J. Oksana Mykytyn; secretary - Leonid zyn. Iwan Hoiowka; Statute Commit­ Speakers: Weremijenko; treasurer — Roman tee - Emil Hrymalak, Mr. Haftkowycz, Bozhtfia Oishantwsky. PresifiMt AHRU Horodvskv: assistant treasurer — Ihor Мук0Iа Weremijenko; Nominating Df. Boh4tn Vttvttsky, Mttlior. attorney, comfflmuty activist Senyk; caretaking committee -~ Mr. Committee - 0me1an Kotsopey, Boh- Anisa Sawycla, Director UNCHAill Infonnatioii Service Bojcun, Panas Didenko, Mychailo dan Pasichny, Ms. Mykytyn.

PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY ~ DISTRICT СОММIПЕЕ THE PR1CE OF FREEDOM UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION announces that ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING Will be held on Sunday, March 29,1987 at 2:00 p.m. at the Church Hall, Aita Vista Place, Perth Amboy, N.J. All memberf of the District Committee, Convention Delegates. Branch Officers of the following Branches шгв requested to attend without fait: 26,104,155,1S8, 209, 294, 312, 332, 342, 349, 353, 372 PROGRAM:

L Opening 2. Election of presidium for annual meeting 3. Minutes of preceding meeting 4. Reports of District Committee Officers v 5. Discussion on reports and acceptance 6. Election of District Committee Officers 7. Address of UNA Supreme Advisor WILLIAM PASTUSZEK 8. Question and answer 9. Adoption of District Program for 1987 10. Discussion and Resolutions U. Adioornment Meeting will be attended by:

Wflliam PaStUSZ*k, UMA Su|rams Mvlior iiidiasl 2acharkc pres, - Sofls Un3^yn, seer - John Babyn, treas. Buffala, NX

UNA DISTRICT COMMITTEE F^nna. Antliraci4e Region UNA Branches imwunces tlmt will hold an ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE ANNUAL DISTRICT COMMITTEE MEETING MEETING Sunday, IIIarcI129.1987 at 2 p.m. wmtthiU Scrsfionl Motai, еопмг З09 ~ 94 H*v, HoriMtoiim. Pa. Sunday, Mareh29.1987at2:30pm. Officers, Convention Oele8ates and Representatives of the following UNA Branches aI wM UkfaMan ятвгісап CMc Ctnlafi IWB. are invited to attend: 2OS MMW)r ad,. aUfFALO. M.V. Bwwiefc. 164,33З mm шщщтш m me v11ine1 іояміпее. voavencMNi ІІЄІІ|ІЯІmmPIIMII MiiMr*viiit, 78,129, 265 Fiaekvili*. 242. 382 MtCarmti,2 Olnceft Шт шщрЛш m Iяе IіIЮVИ|| Вімсйее 0IІ юі|міІео ti аМемI: FrMtond. 429 Shamokin. 1 40,87, І27,149,299, 304 and 3в0 Uhighton,389 ShMiandoah. 98 Mahanoy City, 305 St. Clair, 9. 31.228 PROGRAM: PROGRAM: 1. 6penmg 2. EieCtlon of nfA^irtium for annual meeting 1. Opening 3 Minutes of precedinf meeting 2. Election of presidium for annual meeting 4. Reports of District Committee Officers 3. Minutes of preseeding meeting 5 Discussion on reports and acceptance 4. Reports of DisliioL Comiiiiuee UIIlcers 6. Election of District CommJttee Officers 5. Discussion on reports and acceptance 7. Address of UNA Supreme Vice President, DR. MYRON KUROPAS 6. Election of District Committee Officers 8. Question and answer 7. Address of UNA Supreme Advisor, ANDREW KEYBIDA 9. Adoption of District Program for 1987. 8. Question and answer 10. Discussion and Re.^nlntions 9 Adoption of District Program for 1987 11. Adjournment 10, Discussion and Resolutions 11. Adjournment Meeting wi(l be 3ttended'by: Meeting will be attended by

Andrew Keybida, UNA supreme Advisor Dr. Myron KurOpaS, UNA supreme Vice President J. Sedor, Hon. Chairman Roman kohotopskyj, President ш Wasyl Sywenky, Secretary ш Maria Harawus. Treasurer T. Butrey,.Chairman, A. Slovik, Treasurer, H.,Slovik. Succeta;y^.. No. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22,1987 13

Newly freed%.b soners, but as far as I anx concerned, He said that apparently because of home, without any petition for cle­ there has been a misunderstanding," he this, he was subjected to a particularly mency and without pleading guilty, he (Continued from page 2) said. "Not only did I never ask for harsh regimen in the camp. During his said. In many bthfer cases no 6rie even cleniency and never pleaded guilty, but I first year there he spent almost six speaks about ia possible release, he said, don4 know of any guilt of mine, and months in punishment cells and strict­ "I am a writer and journalist. I was and it is unclear what will happen, for have never known, and have stated this regimen internal prison, he said: arrested for my convictions and this release, without my pleading guilty, is in example, with speciabregim^n priso­ repeatedly;^ beginning with the moment "According to the logic of events, like ners wearing striped uniforms in Perm of my arrest:"^ fact the recognition of щу, right to those dozens before гпеі I had to be ready to convictions, for which they had impri­ Camp No. 36, who include writer A politiqal prisoner is not indifferent be transferred to prison and my future Leonid Borodin. soned people previously," said Mr. as to the circumstances under ^hich he was lost in uncertainty. One should be Titnofeyev. The plighl^^bf Yulian Edtlshteiri, a was release(J, he. said. Those who are prepared for anything, as were those Hebrew teacher imprisoned iri a crimi­ terrified of imprisbnnient ^youїd not who found their 'peace' in prison and ^ ^ The respect of the state for |reedpm of nal camp, is also unclear, said Mr. declare openly their personal beliefs and camp cemeteries," said Mr. Timofeyev. cbhvictuyns &h Offly b^^ Timofeyev. convictibns - this is a direct way to a -'6nly tferi it wiirbe^^ r^ Mr. Timofeyev'^ 4ettef, dated Feb­ He said that during the past two years camp pr prison. ,, . 12 people have died in t|ie P|^rm Camp ti0n ca(ii be btily Шсеі^^'only then it ruary 13 in ^Moscow, 'reportedly was not can'be friiitful, he sMd: - ^ ^ published in lE:vestiu. It was relea^d in Many have been silent, but those who No. 36 alone, where he was imprisoned were incarcerated in camps because rf and which has fewer than 70 iiimates,,, the West by the Cent'er for Denibcr^cy, WHY TAX YOORS;ELf? ~ a New Y6rk-base:d human-rights orga­ the .notorious ArticJe 70 ofihe RSFSR ^ "And suddenly everything changes," Criminal Code ("anti-Soyiet agitation he said. Let exDerience work for yjou. nization1^ " '^ Michael ]^plitny, EA; (birP and propaganda''), were those who^ At the end of January an offieiai from Mn Timofeyev said that at th6 be^^ FIRESIDE TAX CONSULTING ginning of FebfuaFy, Gennadi tjrerasi- could not remain silent, he, said. "Their the procuracy office came to camp No. conscience did not allow,them to remain 909 tiniorl Street, Brooklyn, I4.T. Il2l5 mov, the head of the Information 36 and told him that in two to tiiree (718)622-15в0 ; Department of the..Foreign Ministry, silent." week^ he 'would be free and wouid be^ tried to infli^^nc^\^sternjournalists on , He said ,he jv^as sentenced, in I985 to the issue. \^^ .. six yeap9f strict-regimen labor camp In his briefings he tried "td ptit it into and five yea[rs'iriteiTial exile on charges ; THE UKRAI]NIAN NATWNAL ASSOCIATIOI^^.^ - their heads" that the political prisoners of "anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ wrote petitions for ^lemepcy 4n4.,were , ganda" for^ his. samizdat works. ANNOUNCES X'--^/^Гі'^ pardoned - "i.e., t|ie;j?ori^,;were:'re-^ ''' :, ^i і ./1 K^'^ Ф . educated,' repented and begged for Two of his b0bks4 "The Technology mercy," Ml. Тішо|еуеу said^ "It seteis- of the Ф1аек Market 0| the Peasants' SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS that he has managed to convince re-'* Artbf Stk^viftg'^^nd "The Last Hope to . FOR THE АСАОДЛЛIС YE|^R 1987/83 porters that the dissidents disarmed Survive," were published in the United The scholarships a^e available to students at an.fccreidite(lxQlli^or^iMii^sity. themselves and that,Js why they were States, Italy and Israel. WHO HAVE BEEN Mf MBE1fS OF tHE UKfiJ\INiANifATJdNAL ASS0CiAtiON7dg1^T released," added M"r. T*imofeyev. "Siii[Ce the charges, as well as the LEAST TWO YEARS. Applicants аг6 judged ой tii6 basis of scholastic reeord, fi­ "I am stating quite positively that our investigation and court proceedings, nancial needand iAvolvementin Ukrainian community and student life. Applica­ release is a triumpi^h of ... those very were based on lies and illegalities, I tions are to be submitted no later than APRIL 1,1987. For applicatio6 form write ideas fonwhichpeoplexonscibusly went refused Xq participate in 4be investiga- to: ііщ and trial, and even refused to be to camps and prisons^ said the xlissi--/ UkRAINrAN NATIONAL ASS0CIAT|6N. inc. dent. - ^_: ^. ;- - ^^,^: ---^; -^...-. ^ . ^present , Jn the xourtroom," s^id Mr. Timofeyev. 30 Montgomery Street в Jereey bity, N. J. 07302 "I cannot speak for aUrelease(i pri­ AnENTION! APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED WITHOUT ALL REQUIRE0 OOCUilENTS ATTACHiED wilL HOT BE REVIEWED BY THE СОМІІІЩЕ, ,, Ukrainian National Association SEEKS TO HIRE PART TIME AND FULLtlME йлмти^:^0ми^ ИА Expenenced FEBRtJARY-MAROH -^ FUND-RAISING INSURANCE AGENTS or GENERAL AGENTS ;MONTHS FOR иШШі||і C;pMNIUNITY FUND ,Dear community members, Ukminians;in:th^ 1|.S.: - fluent in Ukrainian and English: . - , I The brutal repression and great suffering endured by our nation in Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, and otKer areas l |Ukraine, including the horrible aftereffects4)f radiation following the nuclear Leads supplied -salary not draw - plus override ^ all benefits. disaster in Chornobyl, У W^l as the migiity campaign of enemy forces, the Write or telephone: defamation of our name and accusations of alleged war crimes, demand from ;;4is a consolidation of a11 our riationarforces^ to counteract this slander. Ukrainian National Association, Inc. ^ In the face of such a ЬсщЄІЄ85^Ш^ 30 IVIontgomery Street, Jet%ey^ity; H. J. 07'З02 Xoordinutitig Council has alwa)^^ stШШd )1Гп|е^^^ Tel.:(201)451-2200 : organization of Ulcrainians in the United States and Tms worked:tm|rad:3Te'' -realization of this goal. Unfortunately, through no fault of the U AGt, ttiese attempts have thus far been fruitless. JHE PERFECT GIFT j ^ The U ACC has studierf ftie ^an)ilities' of establishing, oh'the basis of the ^ Canadian experience, a special cp^mittee wh,ich would take charge of gathering materials and mustering the appropriate manpower to prepare an ^\ analysis of the Ukrainian |mmigratipn to ih^ United Stal:es and publish its GOLD TRIDENT; '-findings."'"^ "І;^ -^"^-^j%-^y fe ,,^J' j?^"' I -;^ ^ " ^'Иа :.. . ^--\ A^ The UACC cooperated in the efforts tQgaiіц New Yock State Education JEWELRY / Department approval of a vf|uA ф genb^fe that contains information about the Great Famine in Ukraine, and which will be incorporated into the . '^ ; Jrom. -;- / ^ curriculum of schools in the state of New York. The UACC executive committee ас|і|е1у participates in the wprk of the EMBLEMS OF THE WORLD National Committee to'Conimemcytate tM Millennium of Christianity in /Ukraine. -^'''- -^-- '' - ;- '"' ^ ^- ....'^--"-^" ^\''..,V"''"' " p.0. Box 2224 Ventnor. N.J. 08406 :І 1n external political matters,4he' executive ^ittihued its contacts with Send for free, broohure . ;Ш free 1-800t872-3600^ [ government officials *as well4as ^thnic44rg;^i^zations^7^id--suppGrted U10se r policies which benefitted the Capti\%N8tlons%nd'esipeciMly'W^^ The executive committee madeiintei*\(ebtioiis in regard tl^ the U.S. Ukrainian National Assocjation . ^ Consulate in Kiev and supported actions of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. A I representative of the UACC participated^ withiri the delegation led by the 'SEEKS TO HIRE Wor1d Congress of Free Ukrainians, in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe that opened in Novernber 198^ in Vдеппа. Experienced In order to enable the UACC to continue ful|illing its goafs, as well as its INSURANCE AGENTS or GENERAL AGENTS financial obligation toward the WCFU,, which amounts to S37,500, the executive committee thanks all its past supporters and appeals to the public to - fluent in Ukrainian and English continue supporting the Ukrainian Community Fund established three years for Chicago, New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, New Jersey, ago to help cover the costs of UACC activity; Up-state New York and New England areas - The Ukrainian Community Fund dues are as follows: S25O from national organizations; S5O from their branches; S25 from employed persons; S15 from to bu1Id and direct agent systems in region retired persons; S5 from students. Leads supplied - salary not draw - plus override - all benefits We ask that, if feasible, you contribute more than these minimal sums. Write or telephone: Checks should be made payable to Ukrainian American Coordinating H.P. Floyd, National Sales Director Council, and mailed to: Ukrainian National Association, Inc. UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COORDINATING COUNCIL 30 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N.J. 07302 142 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003 TeI.:(20l)45l2200 UACC Execuf e C0mmitt2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 No. 12

Ukrainian National Association Monthly reports for December

Death Benefits 38,448.00 RECORDING DEPARTMENT Interest On Death Benefits 21.87 Payor Death Benefits 374.46 MEMBERSHIP RECORD Reinsurance Premiums Paid 3,785.14 Dues From Members Returned . 8.25 Indigent Benefits Disbursed 2,750.00 Juv. Adults ADD Totals Total . . J14i.l5l.45 TOTAL AS OF NOVEMBER 30th, 1986 18,774 50,634 6,843 76.251 G,!\!r:G IN DECEMBER 1986 Operating Expenses: New members 107 116 35 258 Real Estate 164.807.74 Reinstated... 39 59 98 "Svoboda" Operation 121.261.37 . Transferred in. 7 27 5 39 Official Publication - "Svoboda" 80,000.00 Change class in... 2 6 Organizing Expenses: Transferred fromi Juv. Dept - 1 - 1 Advertising J4,125.72 TOTAAL GAINS: 155 209 40 404 Medical Inspections 375.25 LOSSE;SES 1IN DECEMDECEMBEB R 1986 Reward To Special Organizers 9,052.02 Suspended 9 61 40 1І0 Reward To Branch Secretaries ...;.... 2.300.00 Transferred out 9 30 6 45 Reward To Organizers 422.55 Change of (class out).... 2 6 8 Traveling Expenses-Special Organizers . 2,797.20 Transferred to adults.... 3 З Field Conferences 446.14 Died 90 92 Cash surreflder .,.„ 36 30, 66 Total: . J19,518.88 Endowment matored...... 52 68 120 Fully paid-upr.'. '... 50 100 150 PayroN, Insurance Arid Taxes: Reduced paid;up Sal'ary Of Executive Officers ,...... : , ;... -J10,697.90 Extenderfinsurancfe.....'. Salary Of Office'Employee ;...... ;...... 35,364.10 Cert, te"rmihafed ;.... -45 Employee Benefit PIan ...t 153,ll9.62 p TOTAL LOSSES: ^ 16І.' 387 640 Insurance - General' ...... ;...... , 2,424.88 !і INACTIVE MEMBERSHIP:M Taxes - Federal, State & City On Emploee Wages. 20,022.85 n GAINS IN DECEMBER 19^6 ~50­ Tax -^ Canadian W(itfiolding And Pension PIan Paid-up "ТШ~ Т50 ^ On Employee Wages 590.66 Extended insurance І5 З6. 51 TOTAL GAINS: ~б5~ 2О1 -ізг Total . J222.220.01 LOSSES IN DECEMBER 1986 Died 30' ЗО General Expenses: Cash surrender 27 12 39 Actuarial And Statistical Expenses...- Jl,300.00 - Reinstated 4 2 6 Bank Charges For Custodian Account .., , 4,133.51 Lapsed Book And Periodicals ...І,; ^.: 559.00 TOTAL LOSSES: "ІГ ~РГ ! Bank charge - Dividend Account ...... 13,636.90 Furniture 4 Equipment ..*., „.. 248.19 TOTAL UNA MEMBERSHIP AS OF General Office Maintenance ...... ,.,.. 667.44 j! РЕСЕмаЕР!а^ллйшг :г]зс(г.^т: lAa,8(^v. і50,&48; 6,791 76.14І Insuranqe Department Fees ...... "...... 526.97 , Legal Expenses - General ,,. 782.19 WALTER SOCHAN Operating Expense Of Canadian Office 189.69 . Supreme Secretary Postage ..„-..::..;.i::.;;..;...... ;;..:;...... : ;.'.., 1,617.52 FINACIAL DEPARTMENT Printing And Stationery .....:..: ., -6.475.94 INCOME FOR DECEMBER 1986 '^ Rental Of Equipment And SefViees 678.29 Telephone, Telegraph ...... :...... i;...... ;.;. 1.985.94 Dues From Members 1260,491.77 Traveling Expenses T-General ...... і„.., 3.944.67 Income From "Syoboda" Ope*atipn . .122.464.33 Investment Income: Total . J36.746.25 Bonds :... : S356,586.76 Certificate Loans 4,622.34 Miscellaneous: i; Mortgage Loans 33.849.92 Investment Expense - Mortgages ..,...... ;....;.-...... :.;...... :...... :;.= 300.00 !; Banks 1.915.80 Fraternal Activities :...... i. : 100.00 -' Stocks ,, 7.335.64 Doniatioris:i:;..;....s.„..„..;;..,:,.^;..^..,;;. ,.„; u ^....^.. 35і399.00 Real Estate .... 68.185.25 Accrue* Interest On Bonds ...... ,a.,, ,. ., . 25.002.87 Taxes Held In Escrow ;. „...., 20.23 Total . J472,495.71 Amortization Or Premiums On Bonds ,...... 10,887.50 Depreciasion On Equipment ,...... 10,268.96 Refunds: Depreciation On Real Estate 20,194.06 Taxes Federal, State & City On Employee Wag6s.. S16,523-51 Depreciation On Printing Plant ...., 11,780.07 Taxes -^ Canadian Witholding & Pension Plan ..... 601.99 Taxes Held In Escrow 1.408.05 Totab ,....;i...l.;...... :...... ;...... ,...... :...;.;.... „J113.952.69 Employee Hospitalization Plan Premiums . 1.737.66 Bank Charge 25.00 Investments: CasB surrender , ; 338.84 Bonds..,. ....::...... J1.40O,713.18 Scholarship '. :.... , 500.00 Mortgages „, 75,000.00 Stock ....:...... 5,2O7.H Total , J21.135.05 Certificate Loans .. 6,341.18 Real Estate ...... 31,114.90 Miscellaneous: E.D.P. Equipment . 145.64 Donations To Fraternal Fund J27.814.0O Ukrainian Heritage Defense Fund Donations. 8,465.42 Total ..J1.518,522.O1 Profit On Bonds Sold Or Matured :.„....,...... ;;.. 3,182.84 I Sale Of "Ukrainian Encyclopedia" 3,949.01 Disbursements For December 1986 . ;. J2.318.180.4O - Accrual Of Discount On Bonds ...... ,. 31,ll4.88

*Total J74,526.15 BA1ANCE

t Invstments: ASSETS: LIABILITIES: ' Bonds Matured Or Sold J366,459,22 s Mortgages Repaid 94,199.06 Cash . J595,459.O5 Lit6 Insurance . .„^55,172,268.З5 Certificate Loans Repaid 16,554.72 Bonds , 41,521,098.30 Printing Plant n,780:o7 Mortgage Loans . 4,659,421.50 Accidental D.D. ... 1,5l4,3l7.09 Real Estate 20,194.06 Certificate Loans 752,120.91 ^ . Electronic Data Processing Equipment. 10,268.94 Real Estate . 1,l27,652.l-8 Fraternar .„. . ' 80,734.05 Loan To U.N.U.R.C ; 850,000.00 Printing Plant & E.D.P. Equipment ,. 335,051.08 Orphans ...., 354.112.05 Total J1,369.456.O9 Stocks . 1,158,437.50 Loan To O.H. - U.N.A. 0Id Age Home . 43,164.06 Income For December 1986 ..J2,320,569.1O Housing Corp ,. і04.55104 Loan To U.N.U.R.C . 7,000,000 00 Efnergency 89 195S6 DISBURSEMEMTS FOR DECEMBER 1386 Total S57,253,791.'i6 Total ?3,'.25S 791.56 - -it1 To Ги Fo! Members (;s'" Si "pnders . S28,763 73 ..l.4NA ,OIACHUK .' I s Ma*'J!'" ': 7 00Г' -'"~. i. enie T'eas;irer No.12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987

In the press... No. 4018, Self-Reliance Credit Union, Nishnic, UNCHAIN... 558 Summit Ave., Jersey City, N.J. (Continued from page 8) (Continued from page 9) 07306; UNCHAIN, Account No. 13415, (Continued from page 4) Cossacks or — worse — Ukrainian Future plans for UNGHAIN include Self Reliance Credit Union, 108 Second since the heavy coverage of the Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003; or Cossacks. So Stalin chased his Ieast [Demjanjuk trial began, said Michael professionally staffed offices in New favorite ethnic group wherever he could York City and Washington. Currently, UNCHAIN, Account No. 3010, Self Kulyk, a spokesperson for the Ukrai­ Reliance Credit Union, 6108 State find it." nian Canadian Committee's Civil UNCHAIN'S activities are conducted And later, "In ... 1932 food exports out of temporary offices in New Jersey Road, Parma, Ohio 44134. Liberties Commission. "The con­ For further information, contact: should have been stopped... They were stant association of John Demjanjuk and New York. not. Even Ukrainian food was export­ UNCHAIN will cooperate with other UNCHAIN, Box З00, Newark, N.J. as a Ukrainian has had a profound 07101; (201) 373-9729. ed. Offers of foreign aid should have effect on young Ukrainians who were Ukrainian community organizations on been accepted. They were not. Indeed, born here," he said in an interview. various educational and anti-defama- THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM no information on which foreign aid Mr. Kulyk said, however, that tion efforts. For example, an seeks to hire UNCHAIN representative attended a might be based was allowed out. Food Ukrainian Canadian youth have CAPITAL CAMPAIGN - PUBLIC should have been imported on credit or reacted in large numbers to the recent meeting of the Ukrainian Heri­ RELATIONS COORDINATOR for gold. 1t was not..." problem. "People across Canada are tage Council and pledged UNCHAIN's Full-time position cooperation in the council's activities. "Stalin imposed vast grain procure­ calling the local and national media Write or telephone: ment targets on all the new collective to caution them about their frequent Individuals wishing to support The Ukrainian Museum use of the word 'Ukrainian.' Most of UNCHAIN'S programs may send their 203 Second Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003 farms in July I932... But in the Ukraine (212) 228-0110 the targets were higher and the harvest the callers are young Ukrainians who contributions to: UNCHAIN, Account smaller. Did he have famine already in have called here first to ask how they mind then? We do not know, but the can deal with the problem." grain deliveries were not made, and he Observers say the release of a There's no pIace like proceeded to impose further enforce­ report of a Canadian Nazi war crimes ment measures which got the grain and prob1e will give a boast to the Ukrai­ killed 5 million people in the villages. nian community's campaign40 con­ SOYUZIVKA Was this genocide? Nearly everything vince Canadians that the community hangs on the evidence, not new but does not harbor war criminals. No recently insisted upon by the Ukrainian Ukrainians are among the dozen or 1987 SUMMER/FALL community in North America, that he so key suspects listed in the Deschenes set up administrative and police barriers Commission report. CAMPS & WORKSHOPS all along the Russo-Ukrainian border to prevent food from leaking through. That is, not only did he provide no state at SOYUZIVKA famine relief and suppress all mention UNCHAIN observer... of the famine in the press (par for the (Continued from page 4) TENNIS CAMP - June 21 - July 2 Communist course); he also took a anti-Ukrainian feelings in Israel and (Boys and Grrls ages 12-18). Food and lodging S180.0O (UNA members) great deal of trouble to prevent private promised to speak to Natan Sharan­ S210.0O (non-members). Tennis fee: S60.0O. famine relief. That, then, is genocide." sky, to see what his institute can do in George Sawchak, Zenon Snylyk - instuctors Prof. Wiles takes on the critics of Dr. order to combat these hostile emo­ tions. Conquest's use of emigre sources even BOYS' CAMP - July 5 - July 25 more directly than Prof. Hosking: "Craig The Ukrainian group in Israel is Whitney, reviewing this book in The also making attempts to have the Recreation camp for boys ages 7-12, featuring hiking, swimming, games. New York Times Book Review, com­ movie "Harvest of Despair" aired on Ukrainian songs and folklore. plains that, on this last issue, *a few 1sraeli television. UNA members: S100*0O per week; non-members: S12040O 4)ЄР w^^ ' citations from "The Black Deeds of the The UNCHA1N report indicates Maria Olynec - Camp Leader Kremlin" and other exile sources do not that its representative had already make the case.' 1 count 15 citations on met and would continue to meet with a number of Israeli and foreign 6iRLS' CAMP - July 5 - July 25 administrative barriers on pages 379 Similar program to boys' camp; same prices. and 39I. Six are from The Black journalists and try to discourage Deeds.' I must confess that the title of them from reporting in a fashion that Maria Olynec -~ Camp Leader that book has always put me off reading would add fuel to an anti-Ukrainian it, but it is not the 1east of Conquest's campaign being waged in the media UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - July 26 - August 8 in the wor1d today. merits to have ploughed ahead. He also Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate and advanced cites four Ukrainian exiles, including dancers. Leonid Plyushch; the rest are contem­ Instructor: Roma Prima-Bohachewsky porary sources, two of them official. A NEW BOOK Limit 60 students Fifteen is not 'few,'and to require only HAWAIIAN ORDEAL Food and lodging S195.0O (UNA members), S225.0O (non-members). non-Ukrainian exile sources is to close UKRAINIAN CONTRACT WORKERS the case... When we add Sta1in's extre­ 1897 - 1910 Instructors fee: S100.0O mely frank reactions attested to by well­ ByM. EWANCHUK p1aced protesters, we cannot doubt Price |13.95 For more information, please contact the management of Soyuzivka: Conquest's conclusion. Stalin said that Order Autographed copies from the Ukrainian peasants are trying to 828 Borebank, Winnipeg, Man. SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE starve 'us'; but if anyone starves in this R3N 1G4, Canada Foordemoore Rd., Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 ш (914) 626-5в41 'battle' it shall not be 'us.' " Dr. Frank Sysyn, associate director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research 1nstitute, said that the significance of these reviews is the impact they may ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UKRAINE have on future scholarship. "Dr. Conquest's work has received a Edited by V0I0djmyr Kubijovyc remarkable reception in the popular press. Scholars such as Alec Nove in The New Republic and Herbert Ellison VOLUME I(A-F): First of Four Volumes in the Los Angeles Times Book Review have reviewed the book positively. 1t SI I5.()() + shipping & handling S4.5O will still be some months before we see reviews in the specialized journals First volume of a major work of Ukrainian scholarship in the diaspora such as Soviet Studies and Slavic Review, and it is these journals which 968 pages containing app roximately 2,800 entries form scholarly opinion," he continued. Illustrated throughout "Nevertheless, the fact that the two most important general journals of Over 450 illustrations in black and urhite; 5 color plates review have published reviews by noted 83 maps, 6 of them in color scholars who have thoroughly and positively evaluated Dr. Conquest's Large color fold-out map of Ukraine with 32-page gazetteer bound separately in same book demonstrates that Dr. Conquest's binding as book, research is influencing the thought of a great many people." ORI)I R \(П\ AM) SIM) A CHICK IOK S1i9b0 i(^ "Of course, it is gratifying that SVOBODA BOOK STORE through the Harvard Famine Project Я0 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, A.7. О7М)2 the institute was able to facilitate Dr. Conquest's work, the impact of which New Jersey residents add 6% sales tax we are only beginning to see," he added. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1987 No.12

Cross-examination of Mrs. Radiwker At Oemjanjuk trial... began on Wednesday, March 18, with PREVIEW OF EVENTS (Continued from page 1) the defense questioning whether the I March 27 Hrynyszyn-Beskyd, a mezzo-sopra­ memory of an 80-year-old woman was no, who will feature works by Laza- Israeli Police: You mean to say that you good enough to point "a finger from the mentioned the names of Demjanjuk and | NEW YORK: The Millennium of renko, Dankevych, Strauss and Ives grave" at Mr. Demjanjuk by recalling among others. The corxert will take Fedorenko when questioning the wit­ statements by Treblinka stirvivors who Christianity in Ukraine and nesses? Yes, she replied. place at the Ukrainian Institute of had died. Harvard's Millennium project will be This violation of accepted legal America, 2 E. 79th St., at 3 p.m. "Your memory ... is vital, as every j highlighted by speakers Dr. Omeljan procedure came to light on Thursday, witness is now speaking from the grave, Pritsak, Dr. Stephen Woroch and March 19 during cross-examination of Orysia Hanushevsky. The 7:30 p.m. YONKERS, N.Y.: The Chaika U- pointing a finger from the grave, and krainian Dance Ensemble of the the witness conducted by defense attor­ lecture, which is sponsored by the ney Yoram Sheftel. saying, This is 1van.' There is a man's Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. Ukrainian American Youth Associa­ life that is turning on your memory and tion and comedian Ted Woloshyn In other developments at the trial this 79th St,, is presented in both week, the three-judge panel ruled on on your testimony," said chief defense Ukrainian and English languages. will be featured at Saunders Trades attorney, Mark O'Connor. & Technical High School, Palmer Tuesday, March 17, that testimony Suggested donation: S5. from dead witnesses may be introduced Mr. O'Connor concentrated on Mrs. Road, at 2:30 p.m. Adults, S1O, Radiwker's biography in order to students and senior citizens, S7. by the prosecution. The ruling allowed PASSAIC, N.J.: The Seminarians of the prosecution to present evidence that determine how reliable her testimony St. Basil College, Stamford, Cbnn., Tickets are available at Dunwoodie could be. At one point Mr. O'Connor Travel on Yonkers Ave. at least three more Treblinka survivors will sing the responses to a presancti- identified photographs of Mr. Demjan­ asked the witness if she is familiar with fied liturgy to be celebrated at St. juk as "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the the Soviet criminal code article on CLIFTON, N.J.: Holy Ascension Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, death camp. '*anti-Soviet agitation and propa­ Ukrainian Orthodox Church will 217 President St., at 7 p.m. The defense argued that such testi­ ganda." (Mrs. Radiwker had been a March 28 feature a Ukrainian Cultural Day at lawyer in the USSR.) Judge Levine 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the church hall, mony would amount to "hearsay," but Judge Levine said that ahhough such interrupted, stating that such matters \ NEW YORK: The Ukrainian lnsti- 635 Broad St. Artists will exhibit, need not be discussed here because this demonstrate and sell their crafts. testimony would be inadmissable under I tute's "Saturday Concerts" series normal circumstances, a section of could harm relations between 1srael and presents a young artists concert, Guest exhibitors will include: Helen the USSR. Badulak, Andrij Maday, Natalia Israel's Nazi-Nazi Collaborators Acts featuring the talents of mezzo-so­ allows testimony from deceased wit­ During the questioning it was learned prano Kalyna Cholhan, pianist Crest Kormeluk, Wolodimira Wasiczko, that Mrs. Radiwker had emigrated to Marta Schramenko and many others. nesses under certain conditions because Harasymchuk, soprano Lydia Haw- of the amount of time since the alleged 1srael from the USSR in 1964, and that ryluk and violinist Melanie Kupchin- Refreshments will be available. Ad­ before emigrating she had visited the mission: donation. For more infor­ crimes took p1ace. He also noted that sky. The 7 p.m. performance will such testimony had been used during Auschwitzconcentration camp site in underscore all-Ukrainian music. mation contact Irene Halycia (201) Poland and was so moved that she 473-8665. the trial of Adolf Eichmann. The judge Suggested donation: S1O, adults, S6, conceded, however, that the testimony vowed to herself to fight against Nazism senior citizens and students. U1A is MONTREAL: The Ukrainian Cana­ of dead witnesses would not carry as until the end of her life. Mrs. Radiwker located at 2 E. 79th St. dian Professional and Business Asso­ much weight as that of live witnesses began crying as she recalled her vow. ciation of Montreal and the McGill who could be cross-examined by the Mr. O'Connor also read into the SYRACUSE, N.Y.: The St. John the and Concordia Ukrainian Students^ defense. record a Florida judge's statements that Associations will be sponsoring a Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church The ruling on dead witnesses' testi­ Mrs. Radiwker had engaged in coach­ Holy Name Society will be sponsor­ talk by Prof. Jaroslav Rozumnyj, ing and leading witnesses, and he head of Slavic Studies Department mony came after a lengthy debate on the ing its annual card party in the parish issue and a recess during which the questioned the witness on her partici­ school auditorium, 110 S. Wilbur of the University of Manitoba, en­ pation in U.S. court proceedings. It was titled "The Secrets of the Cult of judges considered the issue. It paved the Ave. at 6 p.m. Door prizes will be way for Mrs. Radiwker to testify about revealed that Mrs. Radiwker had stayed given away throughout the evening, Shashkevych."In honorof the 175th at the same hotel in which police anniversary from the birth of Mar- depositions taken in 1976 from Tre­ A IіаВНШіі i^ suggested. blinka and Sobibor survivors. investigators and survivors from Israel kian Shaskevych, it will be held at had stayed as a group. Dim Mo1od, 3260 Beaubien East, at Mrs. Radiwker, a police investigator March 28 and 29 who had also taken depositions in The next day, Thursday, March 19, 3 p.m. Admission S3. For further Mrs. Radiwker was cross-examined by information call (514) 322-7257. preparation for the I960s trials of Nazi MACON, Ga.: The Macon Cherry war criminals in Germany, questioned Mr. Sheftel, who concentrated on Blossom Festival will once again 13 survivors in I976 during the period details about her questioning of 13 feature Ukrainian food and music in CHICAGO: The Brotherhood of St. between May 9 and October 3. She did witnesses in 1976, and about the proce­ the International Section of the Peter and St. Paul, Branch 220 will so on request of the U.S. 1mmigration dures she used in doing so. He ques­ Festival from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on celebrate its 75th anniversary at and Naturalization Service, which was tioned her in detail about the testimony Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Chateau D'Amor (Little Kiev), lo­ seeking information about Mr. Fedo­ of each of the survivors interviewed, The Ukrainian participation is once cated at 6955 W. 79th St. Tickets are renko. and, through this line of questioning, again organized by Pastor and Mrs. S18 per person (includes cocktails). The 1NS sent Mrs. Radiwker three learned that the former police investi­ Stephen Krysalka with assistance Cocktails will begin at 2 p.m., dinner albums of photos with instructions on gator had actually told the survivors the from the Ukrainian Association of at 3 p.m. To order tickets, contact how to conduct the photo identification names of the two men whose identifica­ Georgia, the Ukrainian National Genevieve M. Blidy, (312) 857-7053. sessions. The witnesses were supposed tions she was seeking. Women's League of America, Atlan­ to pick out a photo of Mr. Fedorenko Also on the final day of the week's ta Branch, and the Chervona Ruta ADVANCE NOTICE from among three different photos. court proceedings, testimony was given Bandura Ensemble. For the fourth Mrs. Radiwker said some witnesses by Dr. Yakov Ziegelbaum, a physician year all proceeds will benefit the NEW YORK: The National P1ast were able to pick out Mr. Fedorenko; at Ayalon Prison, who had conducted a Ukrainian Free University. The Command of the United States is others were not. 45-minute photo-examination of Mr. Ukrainian booth will be located organizing a National Volleyball Mrs. Radiwker also testified on Demjanjuk's body in order to identify under the big lent on Mulberry Tournament, open to all Ukrainian Tuesday, March 17, that Treblinka any scars on the defendant's body. He Street. Admission is free. organizations, which will be held at survivors questioned insisted that a testified that" a scar on Mr. Demjan­ Hunter College in New York on May photo of Mr. Demjanjuk was that of juk's lower right back matches the one WASHINGTON, D.C: Ukrainian 2. The registration fee is S6O per team "1van" although "'a document existed described on the Trawniki 1D card and National Women's League of Ameri­ and all teams must be registered by that showed he had served at Sobibor. that Mr. Demjanjuk also had a scar ca Branch 78 is sponsoring an exhibit March 31. For more information, Six out of 11 Treblinka survivors under his left armpit (where a blood- of art works by Kateryna Krychev- contact Iko Danyluk, (718) 699­ identified Mr. Demjanjuk's photo as group mark would have been). ska-Rosandych at the Ukrainian б422, or Ihor Strutynsky, (212) 477­ that of "1van,"V while two Sobibor Under cross-examination, Dr. Zie­ Catholic National Shrine of Holy З629. survivors could not recognize the defen­ gelbaum said there was no evidence of a Family, 4250 Harewood Rd., N.E. dant. (The Trawniki ID card says that scar on the upper back where Treblinka Exhibit hours on Saturday will be ONGOING Mr. Demjanjuk served at Sobibor; survivor Chaim Sztajer had stated he 6:30 - 9 p.m. and on Sunday, 12:30­ there is no mention of Treblinka.) had struck "Ivan" with a shovel with 2:30 p.m. A nominal admission will WINNIPEG: The Art Gallery of the such force that blood had gushed out. be charged. For more information Ukrainian Cultural and Education Defense attorney John Gill also ca1l(703)52l-3048. Center is sponsoring the exhibit asked the doctor whether it was possible "Windows and Black Water" fea­ for a person, as he ages, to become March 29 turing Winnipeg artists Diana Рига smaller in height; the answer was, yes. and William Рига. The exhibit runs NEW YORK: The Young Profes­ until April 26. For tour information In other developments at the trial, sionals present a recital by Tatiana call (204) 942-0218. A UNA Mr. Demjanjuk on Wednesday and PREVIEW OF EVENTS, a weekly listing of Ukrainian community events Thursday, wore his orange prison-issue open to the public, is a service provided free of charge by The Weekly to the insurance policy jacket, instead of his brown suit, in Ukrainian community. 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