www.ukrweekly.com З r I Hr published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! s- - CO CD —X Д З> z я a-e. Ukrainian Weekl o-t o Vol. LI No. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MARCH 6. 1983 25 і cents Catherine Yasinchuk, 86, dies; Historian's wife brutally beaten wrongly committed for 48 years by unknown assailants in Lviv PHILADELPHIA - Catherine Ya­ Russian, German, Austrian dialects, sinchuk, 86, who was wrongly institu­ Polish and Lithuanian. LVIV - The wife of Ukrainian at Lviv University, Mr. Dashkevych tionalized for 48 yeq`rs because she did Then Olga Mychajluk, an employee historian Yaroslav Dashkevych was was a reference specialist at the Aca­ not know English/died here at the in the state institution's personnel hospitalized after she was brutally demy of Sciences in Lviv before his Fairview Nursing Home in Erdenheim department, tried to talk to her in beaten by two men early in the year arrest in 1948. Imprisoned along with on Monday, February 14. Ukrainian. Miss Yasinchuk responded, while on her way home from work, his mother, he was released in 1956. No one had eVer heard of Miss and bit by bit she began to talk. reported the Harvard Ukrainian Re­ Soon after their release, his mother Yasinchuk until 1968, when, during a search Institute. died. It was learned that she had come to Liudmyla Dashkevych, whose hus­ Mr. Dashkevych has since become review ofthe status of patients at the United States alone at the age of IS. Philadelphia State Hospital, it was band is a noted Armenian specialist, one of the Soviet Union's most promi­ She met a young man, fell in love and was returning from her job as an editor nent experts in Armenian and Oriental learned that Miss Yasinchuk had been had a baby. Soon after this, both the committed to the institution 48 years of a local paper when she was attacked studies. He held a number of academic man and her baby died. Miss Yasinchuk, on January 24. When she and a by­ positions, including that of research earlier because she spoke Ukrainian and or as she was known on hospital records, not English. stander tried to report the assault to associate at the Institute of Social Miss Sinchuk, became despondent, local police, the assailants threatened Sciences of the Ukrainian Academy of According to Philadelphia police apparently suffered a nervous break­ records, in 1921 police found a tearful them before the doors of the police Sciences in Lviv. down and wandered the streets, before station. With the campaign against the Ukrai­ young girl wandering the streets. When being placed in the hospital. they tried to question her, she did not This is the second time in recent years nian intelligentsia in the late 1960s, he seem to understand. All she did was Miss Yasinchuk was finally released that Mrs. Dashkevych, who is active in was subjected to increased harassment babble, or so they thought, and at the from Byberry in 1969 under the guard­ Lviv cultural circles, has been attacked. and was not permitted to defend his age of 23, the young woman was com­ ianship of Elizabeth Nelson, the daughter A similar incident on the streets of Lviv doctoral dissertation on the ethno­ mitted to the Philadelphia State Hos­ of Mrs. Mychajluk. When the case was occurred on 1979. graphy of Carpatho-Ukraine. pital at Byberry. According to hospital reported in the news in 1969;-it seems , Her husband, the son of a prominent Because of his prominence in Ar­ records, she continued to babble for six that a woman came forward to say the Ukrainian family, was a research worker menian studies, Mr. Dashkevych was years but in 1927, she stopped talking description of the patient matched that at the state historical archives in Lviv invited by Harvard University in 1980 and only walked around and stared at of a young woman who had lived with before being dismissed in 1979. His to take up a position at the department the walls, reported the Associated her but had disappeared in the 1920s. parents, Roman Dashkevych, a lawyer, of Near Eastern languages and civiliza­ Press. Miss Yasinchuk spent the rest of her and Olena Stepaniv, an educator, were tions. He accepted, but was not allowed For 42 years she did not speak. In life, from age 71, at a home for the both officers in the Ukrainian Sich to leave the Soviet Union. 1968, with the appointment of a new elderly run by Ukrainian-speaking nuns. Riflemen. Mr. Dashkevych has published ex­ director of the Philadelphia State In 1980, she broke a hip and Since losing his post, Mr. Dash­ tensively. He has authored several Hospital in Byberry, her case came was transferred to the Fairview Nursing kevych, who is 56 years old, has been books and over 300 articles which have under review. The new director, Dr. Home. Through the last years, Ms. barred from working in his field. appeared in Armenian, Russian, French, Daniel Blain, declared that the institu­ Nelson said Miss Yasinchuk was con­ A graduate of the philological faculty Ukrainian, Polish and English. tion would no longer serve as a dump­ sidered a part of the family. ing ground to be used by displeased Funeral services were held at St. relatives and irritated officials. Mychail the Archangel Ukrainian Under his orders, linguists tried Catholic Church in Philadelphia. Three OUN members to be shot without success to speak to Miss Yasin­ News of Miss Yasinchuk's death was chuk in a number of,foreign languages carried in most major newspapers in the JERSEY CITY, N.J. -Three Ukrai­ three of them following a trial in Lutske, and dialects. They tried to talk to her in United States. nians, all former members of the Or­ also in the Volhynia region. Mykola ganization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Dufanets, Artem Bubela and Pylyp were recently sentenced to death after a Rubachuk, all in their 60s, were shot The Great Famine trial in the Volhynia region of Ukraine, after being found guilty of membership according to Visti z Ukrainy, a Soviet in the nationalist group. Ivan Rumyha paper. (a.k.a. "Sokil") and Yuriy But`hytsky Symposium slated for Canada The paper, which is published only (a.k.a. "Burlaka") were tried and later for export to the West, said that the shot in the town of Horodenka in the by Zorianna Hrycenko-Luhova universities in Canada, the United three, identified as M. Ohorodnychyk lvano-Frankivske oblast. States and France. It will present a (Kviatkovsky), P. Shpachuk and V. More recently, Vasyl Mazurak (a.k.a range of topics related to the 1932-33 Stasiv, were guilty of being members of MONTREAL - A symposium titled "Buriy"), a former member ofthe OUN, Great Famine, including the affect of "bands of Ukrainian bourgeoise na­ "The Artificially Created Ukraine Fa­ was arrested and sentenced to 15 years' the man-made famine on the destruc­ tionalists," a common reference to the mine of 1932-33" will be held on Friday, imprisonment in the early months of tion of Ukrainian writers, architecture, OUN. They were accused of collaborat­ March 25, and Saturday, March 26, at 1982. Mr. Mazurak, 56, was born in the the Church and the Ukrainian society as ing with Nazi occupation forces during the University of Quebec in Montreal lvano-Frankivske oblast and worked as (UQAM). It is being co-sponsored by a whole, during and after that period. World War II. The paper did not say when they would be executed. a teacher before the war. In 1946, he was the Inter-university Centre for Euro­ The artificial famine, in which 6 to 8 sentenced to an eight-year labor-camp pean Studies in Montreal, which en­ million perished from starvation, was At the time, the OUN was a clandestine term for his activities in the Ukrainian compasses four Montreal universities: executed in secret by Stalin's regime in nationalist group which carried on liberation struggle. the Universite du Quebec, University of an effort to create a centralized and campaigns against the Germans and the Montreal, McGill University and Con- Russianized Soviet Union. The 1932-33 Soviets. The latest executions seem to indi­ cordia University, as well as, the Cana­ Ukraine Famine, discussed in a broad Visti reported that scores of witnesses cate a stepped-up campaign by the dian Institute of Ukrainian Studies of context, will be the first in a series of testified against the defendants, and Soviet authorities to eradicate the last Edmonton. symposiums in Canada marking the that the prosecution introduced several remnants of the OUN and the UPA in The symposium, which was made 50th anniversary of the man-made documents as evidence. Ukraine. It is reported that most if not possible by partial-funding through famine in Ukraine. The outcome of the trial marks the all of the men known to have oeen grants from the Canadian Institute of Organized by Prof. Roman Serbyn second time in less than two years that recently executed or arrested for OUN Ukrainian Studies, University of Quebec (UQAM), it will be held at the Phillips former members of the OUN and the or UPA membership had already served and Concordia University, will feature Square Pavilion of the University of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) have time in Soviet labor camps or exile, and distinguished academics from various (Continued on page 10) been sentenced to death. In November were amnestied or "rehabilitated" in the 1981, five OUN members were executed. mid-1950s. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1983 No.