The Ukrainian Weekly 1991

ubhshed by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association Л- rainian Weekly Vol. LIX No. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1991 50 cents Memorial service commemorates Student leader Oles Doniy arrested internment of Ukrainian Canadians in connection with October strike Stepan Khmara case as the woman who by Andrij Hluchowecky put to rest forever and never will be KIEV - The leader of the October claimed to have been assaulted by Col. Ukrainian Information Bureau repeated," Mr. Bardyn said. 1990 student hunger strike on Kiev's Ihor Hryhoriev of the Interior Ministry According to information packages October Revolution Square was arrest forces. KINGSTON, Ontario - Ukrainian prepared and distributed by the Ukrai ed on January 8 and charged with Respublika also reported that Ms. Canadians from across Canada partici nian Information Bureau in Ottawa for organizing the occupation of buildings Zhyrha, had told one of the students pated in an open air memorial service Canadian parliamentarians and media, at Kiev State University. that she had been threatened with two on Thursday, December 13, 1990, here between 1914 and 1920, approximately The university buildings were taken years' imprisonment for speculation, at the Fort Henry Internment Camp 5,000 Ukrainian Canadians were impri over by students on October 15-17 but that police authorities had promised to remember the incarceration of Ukrai soned in 26 internment camps, while during their hunger strike in the Ukrai not to try her if she agreed to join the nian Canadians during World War I. over 80,000 were stigmatized as "enemy nian capital. hunger strike and report on student In a small room inside the Kingston aliens," disenfranchised and subjected Oles Doniy was arrested following activities. Ms. Zhyma further stated garrison, the chairman of the Ukrainian to other discriminatory treatment. As a interrogation by the Kiev Procurator's that there were many others like her Redress Committee of the Ukrainian result their property and valuables were Office. He was immediately taken to participating in the student strike. Canadian Congress, Ihor Bardyn, re confiscated and never returned. prison, reported the Respublika press called Canada's first internment opera Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, a Ukrainian agency based in Kiev. tions against Canadians of Ukrainian Redress Committee member and a A criminal case involving the occupa origin. native of Kingston, recounted the tion of university buildings had been INSIDE: "The internment must be recorded in hardships that befell those Ukrainian begun on January 5. Students are being Ф Green movement activists our history," he said, "There is no Canadians interned in Fort Henry, charged under Article 187-5 which confer with New Jersey governor record of this in our history books. This "There are no records of exactly how covers seizure of government buildings -- page 2. and property. The case is being inves is part of the reason the redress com many of them were incarcerated at Fort Ш An interview with noted art mittee is on a lonely mission to right the Henry," explained Dr. Luciuk, "but a tigated by the Kiev Procuracy; Mykola Nekrutenko is heading the inquiry. historian Dr. Hryhoriy Lohvyn — injustice - so that, hopefully, it will be (Continued on page 15) page 3. Seventeen students have thus far been Ф Olympic movement in U- interrogated, according to Respublika. In addition, the apartment of Mr. kraine is reactivated — page 3. Jewish family hosts Doniy, who is president of the Ukrai Ф Commentary: "After the nian Student Union, was searched. euphoria... what?" - page 6. 'guardian angel' in U.S. During interrogations, Respublika Ф Music and the arts — cen noted, students were identified by terfold. TRENTON, N.J. - When the the lives of 10 people during the war. Liubov Zhyrri^, who is known from the Nazis occupied Ukraine in 1942, the This should prove that Ukraine is not Zeiger family of Zboriv, like so many an anti-Semite republic, as some Jewish families, feared for their lives. people might think." But unlike the estimated 1,200 The Ukrainian peasant, who has Monument to OUN leader destroyed Jewish families in the area who no formal education and who the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The monu birth with molebens and public meet perished during the two-year Ger Zeiger family recalls was looked ment to Stepan Bandera, leader of the ings, reported the Respublika press man occupation, the Zeigers had a (Continued on page 4) Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists agency based in Kiev. guardian ange^ who stowed them (OUN), in Bandera's home village of. In Staryi Uhryniv, a public meeting away, first hiding them in an attic Staryi Uhryniv, Ivano-Frankivske ob- organized by the all-Ukrainian political and later transferring" them to a last, was demolished by a powerful federation called Independent State tunnel he built under his barn floor, explosion, on December 30, reported hood of Ukraine (DSU), the Carpa where the family lived until the Moscow Central Television. thian Brotherhood of the Ukrai Russians recaptured these western A house and chapel built on the site of nian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Ukrainian lands in 1944. the Bandera family estate were da Association of Independent Ukrainian Over 40 years later, five members maged and windows of neighboring Youth (SNUM) numbered several thou of the Zeiger family, which settled in homes within a 50-yard radius were sand people. Speakers at the meeting, New Jersey after the war, returned to blown out. No one has been charged in which included People's Deputies Ukraine to be reunited with Antosh connection with the incident and an Zinoviy Dyma and Stepan Volkovet- Suchinsky, their guardian angel. investigation is under way. sky, Petro Sichko, leader of the Ukrai And now, Mr. Suchinsky has been The monument to Bandera had been nian Christian Democratic Party, and invited by the Zeigers, an entrepre unveiled on the 31th anniversary of his representatives of SNUM, DSU., and neurial family based in New Jersey, death, October 14, 1990. The monu the Ukrainian Republican Party, con to the United States. ment was in the form of a tryzub with a demned the act of vandalism, encou He arrived in Treriton during the bust of Bandera in the center. raged people not to fall prey to provo feast of Hanukkah, the festival of The explosion of the monument to cations and announced plans for the lights. There he lit the eighth candle Bandera is the second such act of creation of a new monument. on the 16-foot menorah at New vandalism in Ivano-Frankivske in the In Lutske, prior to a public meeting at Jersey's State House, reported a local past several months. Earlier, the build the site of the future Taras Shevchenko New Jersey newspaper. ing which houses the Ivano-Frankivske monument, vandals tore down marble The lighting ceremony, which City Council expfoded several days plates and scattered wreaths of flowers honored the 87-year-old Ukrainian after the destruction of a Lenin monu placed at the monument to commemo Christian who still resides in Zboriv, ment in that city. The vandals left a note rate Bandera's birth. was also attended by Ukrainian at the site of the explosion which read, In Ternopil, close to 5,000 people Ambassador Gennadiy Udovenko of "This is for you for Lenin." No commu gathered at the oblast's Rukh head the Permanent Mission of the Ukrai nication was made after the second quarters to commemorate Bandera's nian SSR to the United Nations. explosion. birth. The commemoration was Mr. Udovenko said: "For me this On January 1, numerous towns in followed by a procession to the is a typical Ukrainian man who saved western Ukraine commemorated the cemetery where soldiers of th^ UPA are 82nd anniversary of Stepan Bandera's buried. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1991 No. 2 Greens of Ukraine confer with New Jersey governor, staff TRENTON, N.J. - Dr. Yuriy Mish- House of Representatives to form a "... Assistant Commissioner Miller authority in Ukraine and whether it was chenko and Dr. Anatoly Panov, two commission to study and record the and I agreed to approach the New proper to conduct business directly with members of Zelenyi Svit (Green World) 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine - a bill Jersey Business and Industry As Kiev, Lviv or Dnipropetrovske, for of Ukraine had a series of productive that was approved by Congress in 1984. sociation and the Chemical Industry instance. The Ukrainian delegation meetings with New Jersey Gov. Jim As a result, the Ukraine Famine Com Council to discuss the aforementioned stated that Kiev is the seat of the Florio and his commissioners on No mission was established with funding possibilities. As the initial step, the government of the republic of Ukraine vember 29, 1990. from the U.S. government (S500,000) assistant commissioner agreed to sup and that it will be the seat of the These conferences were businesslike for its work. ply the Ukrainian group with copies of government of an independent Ukraine. in nature and reflected the serious Following their meeting with the the DEP's environmental standards They added that it would be a good idea ecological and economic concerns of governor, Messrs. Mishchenko and (regulations), and the ICLE laws (sta to establish contacts within Ukraine the top New Jersey officials at the Panov, Mrs. Olshaniwsky and Mr. tutory regulations)," Ms. Kamarino and not to depend on the failing regime meetings with the Ukrainian guests. Bodnar met with Norman Miller, as poulos wrote. in Mosco^v. The conferences that were conducted sistant commissioner of the New Jersey The documents were sent, as pro The memo continued: "The Ukrai in the New Jersey State House were a Department of Environmental Pro mised to the Newark-based AHRU, and nian group also stressed the need for part of a goal-oriented tour sponsored tection (DEP), Lori Golinski and Joan were forwarded to Kiev, to the head technological cooperation.

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