X K z о listed by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! о -і aj O r-. г JB rainianWeelcl if Vol. UN ШNo. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, І985 25 cents Chicago Ukrainians, Jews discuss Horbal gets 11-year term mutual concerns, pressing issues JERSEY CITY, NJ. - Ukrainian human-rights activist Mykola Horbal the two groups first meet, they should has been sentenced to eight years in a get to know each other as people and labor camp to be followed by three CHICAGO-- Ukrainiafiafid Jewish discuss the many issues that are years' internal exile after being Americans should come together in a important to both of them — like convicted of "anti-Soviet agitation and series of 'Snaring sessions" in order to human fights for Ukrainians, Jews and propaganda" at a three-day trial April overcome tensions that face both others in the USSR and elsewhere; the 8-Ю. communities, a Jewish leader told commission and the famine in Ukraine It was first believed that the 43-year- Ukrainian Americans^ here in early (1932-33) and the U.S. Holocaust old dissident would be charged with April. Memorial Council; education for their "anti-Soviet slander." He was arrested At an open meeting on April 1, spon­ young people; social services for their last October in a labor camp in the sored by the newly reorganized Chicago elderly population, and the transmittal Ukrainian city of`Nikolayev just two chapter oT Americans for Human Rights of their cultures to young people. days before he was to complete a five- in Ukraine (AHRU), David G. Roth, Once Ukrainian and Jewish year term for what dissident sources national ethnic liaison of the American Americans have a better understanding have said was a trumped-up charge of Jewish Committee, said that of how the other's history affected its "attempted rape." Ukrainians and Jews must tell each behavior, and realize that they have According to government sources in other about their backgrounds, issues in common, they will be better Washington, Mr. Horbal was tried in histories and feelings in order to build prepared to discuss the difficult issues, Nikolayev, where he had been in an trust between each other. Mr. Roth maintained. investigative prison since his arrest. He "We must come together and get to On one current issue that some see as could have been sentenced to 10 years' mm know each other by telling our stories," problematic, the denaturalization hear­ labor camp and five years' exile because Mykola Horbal he said. "We must ask each other ings for those charged with entering the he hadpreviously been convicted under during which Mr. Horbal was attacked questions like, 'who am 1?,' 'how do I United States illegally by concealing a political rather than criminal statute. and beaten after refusing the sexual feel about myself?,' "what did my wartime activity, Mr. Roth said, "we In 1970, he was sentenced to seven years advances of a woman who worked as a parents expect me?,' `how do you feel have a different view on the need for the for "anti-Soviet agitation and secretary at the Kievah office of about you?,' 'what do you expect of trials, but we can share a common view propaganda." Komsomol, the Communist youth your children?' " on one thing. And this is, we can't stand The sources also said that one factor league. Almost immediately after the "Once we start telling each other by and allow an entire community to be raised by the prosecution at the trial was incident began, a potjee car pulled up these things, it becomes very hard to victimized because of the sins of a few." that some of Mr. Horbal's writings have and Mr. Horbal was jaken to the police hurt each other," Mr. Roth noted. "Jewish Americans can understand been published in the West. Mr. Horbal station, where he was charged with Mr. Roth, whose testimony Ukrainian Americans' fear of being is a musicologist and poet. ) attempted rape. ^ '` After his release from a labor campin encouraging the formation of a U.S. blamed and scapegoated as a group," Found guilty, he was sentenced on commission on the Ukrainian famine Mr. Roth said in an interview after the 1978, Mr. Horbal could not find work as a teacher or composer and was forced January 2K 1980, to five years in a labor was described as instrumental by Dr. meeting. camp, where he was subjected to brutal Myron Kuropas, national ethnic liaison "Likewise, I would hope Ukrainian to take a job as an electrician in Kiev, where he took up residence with his wife treatment. In a statement that reached for AHRU and the panel moderator, Americans can understand this: the West in September 1981, he said acknowledged that if Ukrainian and historians now believe that, without and small child. In 1979. after numerous attempts to that he had never before experienced Jewish Americans come together and relieving Hitler of essential such suffering. He wrote there were immediately discuss political events, responsibility for the Holocaust, it's gain permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Mr. Horbal joined the moments when suicide seemed like the they will encounter conflict. clear that the West abandoned the Jews only way out. Thus, Mr. Roth stressed that when (Continued on page 10) Kiev-based Ukrainian Helsinki Group, set up three years earlier to monitor La-st November. Mr. Horbal's Soviet compliance with the 1975 brother-in-law. Pavlo Siokotelnyj. Helsinki Accords. staged a 12-day hunger strike in front of Shortly thereafter, dissideni sources the United Nations in New York to say, the KGB staged a bizarre street scene protest his re-arrest. Meshko said to be in poor health JERSEY CITY. N.J. Exiled human-rights activist Oksana Meshko was hospitalized three times in 1984 for treatment of hypertension and continues to be in failing health, reported USSR News Brief. The 80-year-old activist, who is scheduled to complete a five-year exile term in April 1986. suffers from diabetes and is blind in one eye. She lives in Ayan, a coastal village in the Khaborovsk Krai, a remote region on the eastern edge of the Soviet Union along the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest of Japan. I SSR News Brief did not say when Ms. Meshko was hospitalized or for | Reiuto Яоіоіо how long. Dr. Myron Kuropas (right) presents AHRU award to David G. Roth as Natalka Ms. Meshko was arrested on October Zavadowycz, president of AHRU's Chicago Chapter, looks on. (Continued on page 13) Oksana Meshko THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No. 16 Swedes want to question Terelia about Wallenberg Chronicle of TORONTO - Swedish officials a heart attack in prison in 1947. investigating the disappearance of However, the Soviets never provided the Catholic Church Raoul Wallenberg, the heroic diplomat proof of his death and there have been taken prisoner by the Red Army in persistent reports, some as late as the in Ukraine 1945, want to talk to fugitive religious 1970sx that Mr. Wallenberg was sighted dissident Yosyp Terelia, w,ho revealed in Soviet labor camps. If alive, he would in an underground journal that he may be 72. have information about the diplomat's Mr. Terelia, an activist in the fate. outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church The following excerpts are from and the host was fined 50 According to an April 9" article by and a former political prisoner, wrote a Issue So. 7 of the Chronicle of the karbovantsi. On May 5, the faithful Maria Bohuslawsky in The Toronto letter in the Chronicle, eight issues of Catholic Church in Ukraine, an gathered at the home of Yu. M. Sun, Ingrid Garde Widemar of which have reached the West, underground publication which Palka, where a similar scenario was Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg describing encounters with people who made-its appearance in January 1984 played out and a fine of SO karbo­ Association said in a telephone had met Mr. Wallenberg. but has only recently reached the vantsi imposed. Regional authorities interview from Stockholm that her He wrote that Mr. Wallenberg and West. Thus far, eight issues have constantly persecute the Pentecostal organization has been trying to his driver were arrested on orders from made their way out of Ukraine. The community in Kushnytsia. Dmytro substantiate Mr. Terelia's claim — the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Chronicle is published in samvydav Yurevych Prodan, the village made in an issue of the clandestine then a major general in the Red Army. form by the Initiative Group for the presbyter, was called to the regional Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Defense of Believers and the Church, procurator's office where regional Ukraine - that Mr. Wallenberg died in Speaking of Mr. Terelia's allega­ which was founded in 1982 to pro­ procurators. Braila officially warned a Soviet labor camp but that his driver tions, Mr. Widemar said: "We've mote the legalization of the Ukrai­ him that he would be dragged to may still be alive. investigated but we can't find out if nian Catholic Church, which has court if he did not stop "deceiving re­ Mr. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, there's any truth to it. We'd love to talk been outlawed since 1946. sidents because everyone knows that is credited with saving about 100,000 to him but its quite impossible because there is no God...and we will not Hungarian Jews from the Germans he's in Russia. tolerate the spread of religious during World War II. Citing The Ukrainian Weekly, the (5od and the truth are with us! fanaticism in our region."On June 25 He was arrested by Soviet troops article goes on to say that Mr. Terelia On May 8 Г.19841 a founding a "community" commission was after they captured Budapest in 1945. has been in hiding since last November member of the Ukrainian Helsinki formed which called Mr. Prodan in Twelve years later the Soviet said he had shortly after authorities searched his Group, Oieksiy Tykhy, was for a conversation and warned that been arrested bv mistake but had died-of borne near Lviv in Ukraine. murdered in a Perm labor camp. force would be used if he did not (Reports indicate that Mr. Tykhy, renounce his faith. On July 3, an who was suffering from cancer, died article appeared in Nove Zhyttia, the after stomach surgery.j` His murder local newspaper, which must be read Uniate activist reported arrested was planned and premeditated... as a signal presaging legal What were Moscow officials prosecution... MUNICH - Vasyl Kobryn, acting hospital in 1979. counting on when they agreed to the " On the night of June 21, in the head of an underground group working The initiative group publishes the . murder of a Ukrainian human-rights village of Pniatyn in the Lviv oblast, for the legalization of the Ukrainian Chronicle of the Catholic Church in activist? They had one aim - to Peremyshlany region, a detachment Catholic Church, was arrested late last Ukraine, an underground journal, eight intimidate, to show that they are not of militia and KGB invaded the year or early this year, according to issues of which have been smuggled to governed by any courts, by any trial village - not unlike the Nazi punitive information received by USSR News the West. proceedings... units of the past — surrounded the Brief here. явннватаашпшгаї Ukrainians! Oieksiy Tykhy and his Catholic Church and destroyed it in friends never took up arms, did not At the time of his arrest, Mr. Kobryn, the course of three hours. All the 47, was chairman of the Initiative call for the overthrow of the regime, church articles were burned. This is Soviets launch but only pointed out to authorities Group for the Defense of Believers and how authorities paid back the the Church, formed in 1982 by former the violations of citizens' rights and villagers because the people did not Afghan offensive demanded that, whenever possible, political prisoner Yosyp Terelia, who is want to accept a Moscow (Russian) reportedly in hiding somewhere in the these violations be corrected... The priest... KGB detachments and Communists don4 need correction of Soviet Union. Mr. Kobryn assumed the NEW DELHI, I ndia-Soviet troops special militia units assigned to fight chairmanship in 1983 when Mr. Terelia their orders, their follies; they want "disorder" have for a long time backed by surface-to-surface missiles, to rule alone... was arrested and sentenced to one year jets and heavy artillery staged their behaved like occupiers in Ukraine! in a labor camp for "parasitism." A similar threat now hangs over Nothing is sacred to these "servants largest offensive against Afghan rebels the head of Ukrainian Catholic Pavlo of the people, faithful Leninists;" Reports indicate that Mr. Kobryn this year, diplomats said on April 16. Kampov," who is serving his illegal they serve — through faith and was arrested in the western Ukrainian According to United Press term in Russia. Kampov is ill; he is righteousness for a piece of city of Lviv on an unknown charge. International, the offensive against a almost blind and the camp horsemeat sausage — the Moscow In 1975, he was dismissed from his large group of Afghan insurgents in the authorities got orders to do all it (Russian) occupiers by destroying job at a television factory, where he Maidan Valley, about 25 miles west of takes to destroy Kampov. A KGB their own faith, culture and worked as a technician, for speaking out the Afghan capital, Kabul, began April official told Yosyp Terelia in one language... in defense of the Ukrainian Catholic 9 or 10, the two Western diplomats said. Church, which was merged with the conversation: "Well destroy you one " On June 22, Vasyl Kobryn, the Foreign reporters are not routinely Russian Orthodox Church in 1946 by by one. They'll make some noise chairman of the Initiative Group for allowed to enter Afghanistan, where an unsanctioned synod orchestrated by about it in the West, and it will end the Defense of Believers and the 115,000 Soviet troops backing the the Kremlin. Mr. Kobryn reportedly with that; well give them all they Church, was called in (by authorities) government of President Babrak joined the underground Church in 1960. need, and those profiteers will go for a chat. The chat took place on Karmal have been battling the rebels For his activities with the Church, he back on all their agreements..." Pidvalna Street in Lviv, where he was since the Red Army invasion in was briefly interned in a psychiatric We only know of two blind hosted by the chairman of the December 1979. Ukrainians that are imprisoned in Church Council of the Council of Soviet concentration camps just for Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, being Ukrainians, but there are many Reshetylo, and his assistant, more, those nameless "zeks" known Savchuic, and a third "co-worker" only to their tormentors... who did not give his name and who ' Long-time political prisoner was clearly a KGB man. The Ukrainian Weekly Vasyl Pidhqrodecky, a former authorities behaved with insolence member of the Ukrainian Insurgent — threats and blackmail. After a FOUNDED 1933 Army, was moved from prison to while, realizing that their threats Ukrainian weekly newsjjaper published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., labor camp VL-315/30 in Lviv... were having no effect, Reshetylo non-profit association, at 30 Montgomery St, Jersey City, N.J. 07302. " Repressions against Christians asked Mr. Kobryn to sign a paper (The Ukrainian Weekly - USPS 570-870) in Ukraine have not quieted down. acknowledging that He had been Also published by the UNA: Svoboda, a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper. On April 14, a group of Pentecostals forewarned about his human-rights gathered for a prayer meeting at the activities in that any Catholic home of I.M. Hetsko in the village of activities are considered "anti- The Weekly and Svoboda: UNA: Kushnytsia in the Transcarpathian Soviet" in the USSR. Kobryn did not (201) 434-0237, 434-0807, 434-3036 (201) 451-2200 oblast. After a short time, the home sign the paper. Reshetylo revealed was raided by a group consisting of that this time the authorities will /early subscription rate: J8, UNA members - S5. local "atheists" and regional militia. finish with the initiative group, The leaders were brutal and noting that those who are with Rome Postmaster, send address changes to Editor: Roma Hadzewycz arrogant; the names of the faithful are against us... THE UKRAINIAN WEEKIY Associate editor. George Bohdan Zarycky vvere taken down, all the Bibles and ' Currently in Ukraine there are P.O. Box 346 Assistant editor: Natalia Dmytrijuk Jersey City. N.J. 07303 Christian literature were taken away (Continued on page I4) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985

Senator calls Soviets "hypocrites" Recommend Demjanjuk extradition

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. and said it would send a "strong signal CLEVELAND - A U.S. federal Demjanjuk's attorney was expected to Gordon J. Humphrey (R-N.H.), called to the Kremlin" that the Soviet terror in judge on Monday, April 15, file a writ of habeas corpus. the leaders of the Soviet Union "cold­ Afghanistan cannot be masked by the recommended the extradition of John The case marks the first time that blooded hypocrites" who talk of arms Soviet "soft-sell" on arms control. Demjanjuk. a retired autoworker from Israel has attempted to gain custody of a control at the same time they wage an "The denial of a visa-to Mr. Ritch, Seven Hills. Ohio, to Israel, where he denaturalized U.S. citizen for war unprecedented war of genocide in coupled with today's grand statements would stand trial for war crimes he crimes prosecution since the , two Afghanistan. by Mr. Gorbachev on arms control and allegedly committed in the course of countries signed an extradition treaty in Sen. Humphrey's remarks on April 8 a possible summit meeting, highlight in purported service as a concentration 1963. were sparked by news reports that the most graphic details the cold-blooded camp guard in Treblinka. Poland. If Mr. Demjanjuk is extradited to Soviet Union has denied a visa toastaff hypocrisy of the leadership of the Soviet The U.S. Justice Department's Office Israel, he would be the second suspected member of the U.S. Senate Committee Union," Sen. Humphrey said. of Special Investigations and the war criminal to stand trial there. The on Foreign Relations because of a' government of Israel allege that Mr. first was Adolf Eichmann, who was critical study of Soviet policy in Af­ Sen. Humphrey, who chairs the Demjanjuk ran the gas chambers at the hanged in 1962 after his conviction as an ghanistan. The staffer, John B. Ritch Congressional Task Force on concentration camp and was known to architect of Nazi Germany's mass 111, had prepared a report on the war Afghanistan, said that the Soviets use the prisoners as "Ivan the Terrible" murder of Jews during World War II. between the Soviets and the Afghan famine, disease, mass execution, rape because of his sadistic behavior. Mr. Demjanjuk's attorney, Mark J. freedom fighters. Mr. Ritch outlined and terror in their effort to conquer The final decision on whether to O'Connor, said Israel has no justifiable recommendations of how the U.S. Afghanistan. The "Nazi-like" tactics of extradite Mr. Demjanjuk will be made claim to Mr. Demjanjuk and that he is should help the freedom fighters. the Soviet Union have resulted in more by U.S. Secretary of State Ge.orge not the war criminal Israel is seeking. Mr. Ritch had applied for the visa than I million.Afghans killed and about Shulu. U.S. District Judge Frank J. Mr. Demjanjuk, who served in the Red recently to be part of a congressional 4 million refugees. The Afghan- Battisti. who recommended Army, says he was captured by the delegation visiting the Soviet Union. Pakistan border now Is home to about 3 extradition, ordered the immediate Germans and was held as a prisoner of U.S. Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R- million Afghan refugees. They arrest of Mr. Demjanjuk. 64, who was war. N.H.), who was to be part of that represent they largest number of taken to a county holding facility and Mr. Demjanjuk's citizenship was delegation, announced on April 8 that refugees in the world today. was expected to be moved shortly .revoked in 1981 when Judge Battisti he would not go to the Soviet Union Sen. Humphrey urged the Soviets to thereafter to a federal prison. Mr. (Continued on page 12) because of the visa denial to Mr. Ritch. leave Afghanistan as a positive sign they Sen. Humphrey termed Sen. are serious about reducing tensions in Rudman's decision as "wise and bold" the world. USIA director faces questions about CSCE Digest: review of problems reprimanding officer who criticized Soviets WASHINGTON - United States criticisms of their own political system facing Soviet Ukrainian leadership Information Agency Director Charles and .with our perceptions of the Z. Wick has been directed to appear transgression perpetrated by that The following analysis of I he Ukrainian nationalists. So as to before a Senate subcommittee to system." recent visit to the United Slates by avoid unnecessary international explain why a program officer was He added that Mr. Stetson's Voloclymyr Shcherbytsky, first friction, most of them were sentenced reprimanded for questioning a Soviet questioning of the Soviet visitor secretary of the Communist Party of for criminal offenses." - Communist Party official about Soviet "reflects a Jack of sensitivity to your Ukraine, appeared in the April 3 ., In late 1982, Mr. Fedorchuk was atrocities in Afghanistan, reported The own professional responsibilities and issue of the CSCE Digest, a promoted to the post of Soviet Washington Times. flawed judgement." publication of the Commission on Minister of Internal Affairs. William Stetson, the USIA`s Mr. Trowbridge later told Mr. Security and Cooperation in Europe. A major concern for many ' program officer in the Bureau of Stetson that the Soviets had lodged a Ukrainians is the Russification of Educational and Cultural Affairs, complaint and that another complaint The visit of a high-level Soviet their culture - the use of Russian is received a letter of reprimand for came from the Hill. parliamentary delegation in early often obligatory in universities and in questioning a visiting Soviet official The Soviet visit was part of an - March at the invitation of the House government. For example, although about atrocities in Afghanistan. exchange program - funded largely by of Representatives marked the first 75 percent of the population of the The reprimand has prompted Mr. the USIA - between the American time since" 1973 that a Politburo Ukrainian republic is Ukrainian, Stetson to seek employment "where Council of Young Political Leaders and member other than Foreign Minister і only 25 percent of the books people aren't afraid to speak up against the Communist .Youth League. Andrei Gromyko has visited published there in 1982 were in the the Soviets." Exchanges were resumed last fall at the.- Washington. Ukrainian language. Many The incident occurred March 13 at a - direction of Secretary of State George The delegation was headed by Ukrainian activists have openly Heritage Foundation meeting with Shultz. "Communist operatives are the Soviet Politburo member criticized such Soviet policies. members of a Soviet delegation under a last people in the world we should be Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, who is In 1976, when the Ukrainian U.S.-Soviet -exchaSge program. making exchanges with," Mr. Stetson also Ukrainian first party secretary. Helsinki Group was organized to Following the session. Mr. Stetson said, adding that he does support Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov is in monitor the Soviet human-rights whose duties include monitoring cultural exchanges. charge of the military participation record, it was treated with particular Soviet-U.S. exchange programs in arms control negotiations for the harshness. Today there are 19 approached the leader of the delegation Soviet General Staff and a third Ukrainians among the 38 imprisoned and presented him with articles from the Buchanan attacked member of the delegation, Boris Soviet Helsinki activists. Washington Times detailing Soviet Stukalin, heads the Propaganda Tragically, in 1984 three of them, atrocities in Afghanistan. for scoring Department of the Central Oleksiy Tykhy, Valery Marchenko Committee. In additio"n to being and Yuriy Lytvyn, died from Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.^.) has asked OSI's methods received by senators and majtreatment while imprisoned. On Mr. Wick to appear before his Foreign received by senators and representa­ October 21, Ukrainian Monitor Relations Subcommittee on Western WASHINGTON - White House tives, Mr. Shcherbytsky had Mykola Horbal was arrested while in Hemisphere Affairs later this month to communications director Patrick followed by afternoon talks with Pre­ a labor camp for "anti-Soviet explain the reprimand. Buchanan has come under attack for sident Ronald Reagan. slander," days before his scheduled Other senators, including Sen. questioning the use of Soviet-supplied Mr. Shcherbytsky's visit provides release. - Richard Lugar (R-Ncb.). arc reportedly evidence by the Office of Special an opportunity to review some of the Another well-known human- concerned about the reprimand and the Investigations in its proceedings against problems confronting Ukraine and rights activist,. Aleksei Nikitin, died exchange program that funds the Soviet citizens suspected of collaborating with the Party leadership. As party chief in 1984 after many years in Soviet visits. the Germans during World War II. of the largest non-Russian republic, psychiatric hospitals. A mining The letter was reportedly drafted by Mr. Buchanan, a syndicated Mr. Shcherbytsky holds a key engineer from the major Ukrainian USIA general consul Tom Harvey and columnist before joining the Reagan regional power position. The coal-producing region of Donetske. originally contained much stronger administration, wrote two columns in Kremlin has long been aware of - Mr. Nikitin was a veteran advocate language than the final version. It was 1983 in which he raised the issue of the and wary of — nationalist feeling of better working conditions for signed - and watered down - by OSI's use of evidence and videotaped among the 40 million Ukrainians. miners. In 1981 he guided two Ronald Trowbridgc. associate director testimony obtained with the aid of the Mr. Shcherbytsky has presided over a American journalists around of the Bureau of Educational and Soviet procuracy against former relentless campaign against Donetske, showing them the bleak Cultural Affairs. citizens of Eastern Europe, the Baltics nationalists and other human-rights lives of many Soviet workers. He was It chided Mr. Stetson for engaging a and Ukraine. activists in Ukraine. In fact, there are arrested four days later. Communist youth organization Rep. Robert Torricclli (D-N.J.) about 4,000 Ukrainians among the Religion is another major concern participant in "contentious conversation" described Mr. Buchanan's past criticism estimated 10.000 Soviet prisoners of for Ukrainians. Even the Soviets about Afghanistan, which the letter of the Office of Special Investigations as conscience. admit that unofficial religious groups went on to say was "extraneous to the "absolutely outrageous." Vitaly Fedorchuk, then Ukrainian flourish in Ukraine. Ironically, this is agenda" and "detracted from the The World Jewish Congress said Mr. KGB chief, reportedly boasted to his partly due to Soviet anti-religious purpose the conference sought to Buchanan's appointment meant East colleagues in April 1981: "A great policies. In the late 1940s, the promote." European emigre groups that have task has been accomplished in the Kremlin outlawed the Ukrainian Mr. Trowbridgc went on to say that vehemently protested 'the OSI's past year: the destruction of (Continued on page 13) the purpose of an exchange visit "is not methods "will have a direct link to the to bludgeon exchange participants with White House." THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No, 16

UNA to sponsor reception For the record as thank-you to Congress CBC Radio commentary on famine by Eugene Iwanciw The reception will have a uniquely Ukrainian atmosphere with a selection Below is the text of a commentary There is a similarity between of Ukrainian foods, music and submitted on a free-lance basis by Zundel, Keegstra and the revisionists WASHINGTON - A congressional Orysia Paszczak Tracz to CBC on one side fwho deny that the . reception commemorating"lOOyears of costumes. Assisting the UNA and the UAC in organizing the evening are the Information Radio of Winnipeg. The Holocaust occurred), and the pro- Ukrainian Immigration to the United commentary was aired on Tuesday, Soviets who deny that the famine States" will be held on May 22 in the Ukrainian National Women's League happened, on the other. We have two of America, The Washington Group morning March 19. Mrs. Tracz is a U.S. Senate. The reception is being Ukrainian activist from Winnipeg. minute groups of radicals denying sponsored by the Ukrainian National and the Ukrainian Association of the that two separate obscene crimes Washington Metropolitan Area. Association (UNA) and coordinated by The Jews are too emotionally against humanity occurred. Both the Ukrainian American Caucus Invitation by Hnizdovsky involved in the Holocaust to speak say: well, yes, some deaths may have ,(UAC). objectively about it. It's too political occurred but, if they did, it wasn't The invitations feature an original an issue. It's too academic, too deliberate, and certainly not on the Thank-you to Congress woodcut print specially designed for the historical to dwell upon now, 40 scale everyone says it did. But while occasion by Jacques Hnizdovsky. The years later. If it happened at all. We Zundel and Keegstra were treated in The purpose of the reception is to print depicts the first Ukrainian church just can't mark every anniversary the media as the dangerous kooks thank members of Congress for their in the United States, St. Michael's in that comes along. We must present they are, the pro-Soviet revisionists support of the Ukrainian American Shenandoah, Pa. Originals of the print both sides of the story. We cannot were treated with respect, given equal community over the years and to will be presented to the congressional preach rage or tolerate agitators who time, and it was the Ukrainians who increase their awareness of Ukrainian sponsors of the reception with the seek modern redress for past wrongs. were treated like kooks. interests and concerns. It will also offer remaining prints to be made available But since they're really badgering us, The outrage of the Auschwitz Ukrainian Americans an opportunity to for sale to the public. let's give them one token story, one survivors is understandable - they meet with their elected representatives The UNWLA publication, three-minute spot — both sides, of had to prove in court that what they in a relaxed social setting. "Ukrainians in America," will be course — and maybe they'll go away. had lived through did happen and presented to all members of Congress If I were serious about what I just was the truth. The Canadian Congressional sponsors ' attending the reception, in addition, a said, 1 would not leave this building community and the media shared brochure about Ukrainian Americans in one piece. And what was left of me that ourtrage in editorials and The congressional sponsors of the prepared by the Washington-based would be prosecuted for promoting commentary. Last year, where was reception are members of the Senate organizing committee and a booklet hatred. But substitute Ukrainian for the outrage of that community for and House. about Ukrainians published by the Jewish, genocide by famine for the survivors of the Ukrainian The Senate sponsors are: Majority Ukrainian National Association of the Holocaust, 40 years for 50 years, and genocide? They were disbelieved, not Leader Robert Dole (R-Kans.), Washington Metropolitan Area are you will have some indication of in a court of law, but in the court of Minority Leader Robert Byrd (D- being sent to all members of Congress. what the Ukrainian community had public opinion. In general, the media W.Va.), Peter Domenici (R-N.M.), to endure from the media last year. chose to ignore the whole thing. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C), Bill Bradley Ukrainian flavor The 50th anniversary of the genocide There is a difference. Nazi (D-N.J.) and Jesse Helms (R-N.C). by famine of between 7 and 10 The reception itself will feature a Germany was defeated. The present" million Ukrainians, planned and German government admitted the selection of Ukrainian cuisine in executed by Soviet Russia, passed The House sponsors are: Speaker of addition to the standard hors d'oeuvers. guilt of its predecessor, and is still with barely a ripple in the general paying reparations^ to the victims^ the House Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.), Ukrainian music will be played in the Minority Leader Robert Michel (R- Canadian community. Not that the But history is written by the victors. background, and guests will be greeted Ukrainians did not try to publicize it. The Soviet Union, as an ally, was a III.), Dante Fascell (D-FlaJ, Don Ritter by Ukrainian bandurists m the foyer of (R-Pa.), FernandSt`. Germain(D-R.I.), They did, but at almost every turn victor. It has denied all along that the the reception room. Hosts and hostesses they were ignored, barely tolerated, calculated famine happened. There Hamilton Fish Jr. (R-N.Y.), James in traditional Ukrainian costumes will Florio (D-N.J.), Benjamin Gilman (R- or just not believed. The whole idea is should' be a Nuremburg trial for welcome congressional guests at the unbelievable — in the breadbasket of those Soviet Russians who murdered N.Y.), Mary Rose Oakar(D-Ohio) and door and escort them into the reception. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.). Europe up to 10 million starved to up to 10 million Ukrainians by ` Admission to the reception is by death because every crumb, every starvation, and it's time'the invitation only. seed of anything edible was taken Canadian media started reporting AH members of Congress, selected away forcibly, while food products staff and individuals from the executive All Ukrainian Americans are urged facts on Ukraine truthfully, and from the same country were available objectively.' , branch, including the White House and to write or call their members of across the border, and were being the Department of State, will be invited Congress encouraging them to attend dumped on world markets. This is Orysia Tracz for Ipforrna- to the reception. the reception. tion Radio.

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Semitism." He went on to explain that "Ukraine suffered grievously under Mace's estimate of the number of Chicago Tribune: Ukrainian auxiliary police which Nazi rule because Ukrainians were Ukrainians who perished is overstated collaborated with the Nazis was no Slavs and according to Hitlerite by about half, and his attempt to critique of Ryan different from auxiliary police in other doctrine, Slavs were untermenschen attribute major historical importance to . Nazi-occupied countries and that once who were to be exploited and then the famine is exaggerated. JERSEY CITY, N.J.-An article by- "Ukrainians learned of Hitler's true eliminated. Some 1.5 million Dr. Mace responded in a rather UNA Supreme Vice-President Myron aims in the Ukraine... they quickly Ukrainians were shipped to Germany as technical survey of the known Kuropas' criticizing Allan A. Ryan Jr. turned against-the Nazis and organized slave laborers during the war and demographic data in order to show that and his book, "Quiet Neighbors: a resistance movement that was on a par additional 3.9 million (including .9 his own earlier estimate of 5 to 7 million Prosecuting .Nazi War Criminals in with any underground group then millions Jews) were civilian victims of Ukrainian dead is undoubtedly an America," appeared in the March 23 operating in Europe." the Nazi Holocaust. understatement. By using the most issue of the Chicago Tribune in its The Tribune chose to omit the next conservative demographic assump­ "Voice of the People" section. few sentences of Dr. Kuropas's original tions, it is possible to obtain an Dr. Kuropas wrote thi article, article and concluded with a suggestion "irreducible minimum" estimate of 5.5 headlined "A Ukrainian reply to book that the OSI's credibility be checked. Problems of Communism: million Ukrainian famine victims, but "We have to be convinced that the this estimate is certainly itself too low on Nazis in U.S.," in response to claims famine casualties because it intensionally discounts made by Mr. Ryan while he, a former OSI, which uses KGB-supplied factors which cannot be quantified on di.ector of the Department of Justice witnesses and evidential material CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The the basis of presently available data but Office of Special Investigations, was in extensively, is not on a witch hunt March-April issue of Problems of which must have been significant, Chicago promoting the book. perpetrated by Soviet-initiated Communism^, published by the United factors such as the number of aged Dr. Kuropas wrote: "According to disinformation for no other purpose States Information Agency in individuals who would likely have Ryan, most 'Nazis'settled in America as than to discredit and defame one of Washington, carries a criticism of Dr. perished from natural causes in the a result of the 'brazenly discriminatory' America's strongest anti-Communist James E. Mace's 1983 article "Famine years 1934-39 but died instead because Displaced Persons Act of 1948 which," communities." he wrote. and Nationalism in Soviet Ukraine" of the famine in 1933 and an intensional Ryan argues, 'was written to exclude as The following is the section omitted and a response. According to Dr. S. overstatement of factors which would many concentration camp survivors as by the Tribune: "Conservatively G. Wheatcroft of the University of tend to minimize mortality estimates, possible and to include as many Baltic estimated to be a force of 40,000 by the Birmingham in England, Dr. Mace's such as the reclassificatibn of Kuban and Ukrainian and ethnic German Germans themselves, the Ukrainian attempt to link the famine to Stalin's Cossacks from Ukrainian to Russian refugees as it couid get away with." partisan army (UPA) was second only reversal of Soviet nationality policy in for the purposes of Soviet census- "As an. American of Ukrainian to the celebrated French underground Ukraine has contributed to the taking. descent." he continued "1 a`m incensed which never had more than 45,000 deterioration of the standard of by Ryan's repeated attempts to paint all fighters prior to the June 1944 invasion discussion of the man-made famine. More importantly. Dr. Mace Ukrainians with the brush of anti- of Europe. According to Dr. Wheatcroft, Dr. (Continued on page 13) No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 -- 5

BOOK REVIEW

suffered, and endured while realizing their beginnings looked to involve New Haven parish's jubilee book that the aim of their effort was to themselves deeply in the municipality — become instrumental in life. hard though this was. -With a new by Prof. Wolodvmyr T. Zyla wise craftsman. In the morning, in the Ultimately heavy stress is laid on generation educated in America, light of the day, bow down before your freedom in the United States. Mrs. however, the language barrier began to St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Creator who gave you this day to Burbela writes: "Intrinsic to the disappear and greater cross-cultural ex­ Church of New Haven: 75th Jubilee. lengthen your life." This passage has participation in Ukrainian spiritual and changes began broadening the views of Whiten and compiled by Members of long inspired the Ukrainians of New cultural activities is the knowledge that the New Haven community at large Si. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Haven and led them through difficulties their pursuit is the right of all citizens of with respect to ethnicity. People began Parish. New Haven. Conn. St.Michael's and tears from one success to another. this country. Perhaps Ukrainians, more adapting to new perspectives of ethnic Ukrainian Catholic Church. 1984. 240 Today, on the occasion of the 75th than many other Americans, appreciate contributions. An important pp. jubilee of their chiSch, they want to and respect the freedom of the United organizational step was the share their experience with others and States to which they are absolutely establishment of a branch of the The. impulse behind this interesting provide some refreshing insights from loyal" (p. 49). Ukrainian Congress Committee of and important publication is truly their lives by dedicating this work "to There is a flexible approach to the America in 1949. The UCCA added historical. Its aim is to inform the reader past, present and future generations work's historical emphasis, and stature to Ukrainian organizational life. about the Ukrainians in New Haven, who did and will contribute to the contributors have been able also to It worked closely with the Ukrainian beginning with their pioneering days. It support, perpetuation and growth of St. concentrate on events from the inner Catholic and the Ukrainian Orthodox deals with the ways they have perceived Michael the Archangel Ukrainian spirit which dominated the community Churches and with other organizations, and acted toward each other and Catholic Church in New Haven, in the light of its relations to tradition many of which are its members. toward the world they lived in. Social, Connecticut." and the requirements of the new life in moral and religious values are depicted The most factual article in the book is America. A good example is Mykhajlo The book as a whole consists of five in most of the articles, and the book by Mary Burbela Hazzey on the history ` Bojko's article "Ukrainians in New sections: the commemorative section, accurately portrays the ethnic, national, of the church and the community. She Haven." In which he stresses the the historical section, the jubilee, the and religious activities of the people. shows much of the real life, much of the ecumenical efforts of the, Ukrainian photo album, the memorials and The editors have appropriately close relationship between hard work community that, as early as 1914-16, greetings. It is published in English and selected as a motto for the book a deeply and the success which Ukrainian settlers helped the Greek Orthodox people in in Ukrainian. Its photographs, many in thoughtful passage from the K,ievan sometimes achieved: "A man could finding a church and offered to assist color, are of high quality. Unfortunately Chronicles of 1076 which reads: "When break his heart looking for employment them in other ways. the accompanying descriptions are at night you look at the sky and the — but one never saw a Ukrainian in a The book covers all facets of sometimes confusing, especially when a beauty of the stars, pray to God, the soup line or in a give-away program. Ukrainian life. There is an article on page includes several photographs. The They never applied for city aid or Banduryst, a singing and acting group photo album would have gained much begged for help. They might lend each which had a glorious history in the by numbering each individual picture Wolodvmyr T. Zyla is a professor of' other money or food, but the poverty of community. It performed not only for and by giving a more detailed descrip­ Slavic languages and literatures at their pocketbooks was a family affair" Ukrainians but at international festivals tion in each case. Very useful for the Texas Tech University of Lubbock. (p. 36). On the contrary, they worked. throughout Connecticut. Its general reader are the short informative performance had a great impact on articles on "Our Patron: St. Michael many, people and helped to preserve the Archangel," "The lconostas," "The BOOK NOTES historical traditions. A word should be Name Rus`-Ukraine and Her People," said about the Veselka . Ukrainian "Ukrainian-American." "Facts about Dance Ensemble, which has carried Ukraine" (accompanied by a map of since 1962 the banner of excellence in Ukraine), and "Ukrainian Customs." Encyclopedia's first volume, gazetteer dancing. Not of lesser importance are the women's organizations. To be The binding is handsomely done with Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. I (A - F), entries on individuals, geographic mentioned also is "Ridna Shkola" (the locations, historical, political, juridical a color picture of St. Michael mounted edited by Volodymyr Kubijovic. native school) which was always very on the hard cover. The book's strength Toronto: University of Toronto Press, and economic periods, events and close to the heart of the community. In lies in a good and balanced setting of the 1984. 952 pp. SI 15. institutions, periodicals and fact, if it were necessary to single out material, and particularly in its stress oh publications, and associations and one among the many contributions to According to the preface to the organizations. In most cases, longer this volume, the article on the "Ridna the religious and national nature of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine written by entires include bibliographies. Shkola" would provide a good example 75th jubilee. Ultimately it draws Prof. Volodymyr Kubijovic, the first of analytic and synthetic effort. attention to how much one can do in The first volume is illustrated with order to establish himself successfully volume is part of an updated and The Ukrainians of New Haven from translated version of the 10-volume over 450 photographs. 83 maps and five (Continued on page 10) alphabetically arranged Entsyklope- color plates (art, Byzantine art, diya ukrainoznavstva, a work that was ceramics, Easter eggs, embroidery). initiated in post-war Munich over 35 Explanatory notes include information NEW RELEASE \ years ago by the Shcvchenko Scientific on systems of translation, translitera­ Society, the oldest Ukrainian scholarly tion, abbreviation and the use of association. Over 100 scholars from acronyms. ` Koshetz Choir's new recording around the world have participated in Accompanying Volume I is a 30-pagc the preparation of the encyclopedia book containing geographical names JERSEY CITY, N;J. - The which records virtually every aspect of alphabetically arranged, - as well as a Olexander Koshetz Choir of Winnipeg, Ukrainian culture and history. color map of Ukraine. The gazetteer under the direction of Walter Klymkiw. offers information on the number of recently announced the release of a new The approximately 2,800 subject Ukrainians within the border of the entires in the first volume of the album featuring Ukrainian choral Soviet Union and in the diaspora, and music from the I7thand 18th centuries. English-language encyclopedia, information on the history of Ukraine's according to Prof. Kubijovic, can be Titled "Let God Arise," the album territorial changes. The information is includes works by Bor.tniansky, divided into several groups, which in accompanied by seven easy-to-read and to themselves seem hardly Honcharov. Vedel, Dehtiarev, Dyletsky tables. and Skrypnyk. significant, but do, nevertheless reveal, Prof. Kubijovic is the editor of the the wide scope of information that, The choir was conceived in the mid gazetteer, which was compiled by him­ 1940s as a result of the influences of the when completed, the encylopedia will self and Arkadii Zhukovsky. Prof. offer. world-renowned Ukrainian conductor, Kubijovic is the president of the Shcv­ Oleksander Koshetz. on students The first group includes entries on chenko Scientific Society in Europe and Ukrainian history, natural history, attending Ukrainian Cultural and the author of numerous works on Educational Summer Courses in language, literature, art, theater, music, Ukraine. law and religion. A second group Winnipeg. Early conductors of the the direction of Erich Kunzel. Work on the encyclopedia, which is choir were Pavlo Macenkoand Tetiana Mr. Klymkiw became interested in includes surveys of various scholarly being prepared under the auspices of the disciplines, such as astronomy, Koshetz. Its main objective is the choral music during Mr. Koshetz`s Shevchenko Scientific Society, the maintenance and development of the summer courses and has conducted the chemistry, anthropology, archeology, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian botany and economic studies. A third Ukrainian choral tradition. choir since 1951. A teacher by Studies and the Canadian Foundation Since releasing a Christmas album in profession/ he is- now working on group includes articles on Ukrainian for Ukrainian Studies, began in 1978. cities and georgraphical-political late 1983, the choir has performed at the collecting all available archives on regions and are accompanied by maps. When completed, the four-volume 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Koshetz. A fourth group is made up of entries on encyclopedia will contain close to National Youth Federation of Canada Ukraine's relations with' other 20.000 entries. in Toronto, and in Winnipeg for the Record and tapes of the album will be countries, contacts between Ukrainians A brochure on Volume I, which costs Canadian Choral Association available at all Ukrainian gift and book and other nations, countries and cities SI 15. may be obtained by writing to the Convention Concert, at a 40th stores. To order directly, send S10 to: to which Ukrainians have emigrated, University'of Toronto Press, Marketing anniversary concert for the choir's Yevshan Corp., Box 125 Station and, finally minorities in Ukraine. The Department, 63Л St. George St.. namesake and three times with the St. Michel, Montreal, Quebec H2A last group he cites consists of brief Toronto, Ontario. Canada M5S IA6. Winnipeg Sy/nphony Orchestra under 3L9. іЯл THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No. 16

Ukrainian Weekly - , Faces and Places

by Myron B. Kuropas Martyred churchmen New book based on Soviet disinformation This month, Ukrainians in general — and Ukrainian Catholics in particular -- are marking a bleak chapter in the persecution of religion Sooner or later, I suppose, it was means the Ukrainian National in Ukraine. It was on April 11, 1945, that the KGB resumed in earnest inevitable that a book like "American Association) had a membership of its pogrom against the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a ruthless Swastika: The Shocking Story of Nazi 40,000 in 1940 "all operating under campaign that began when Soviet troops invaded western Ukraine in Collaborators in Our Midst from 1933 former leaders of the White Guard, a 1939 as part of Moscow's agreement with Nazi Germany. On that to the Present Day" (Doubleday, 1985) terrorist Czarist organization that April day 40 years ago, Soviet police arrested Metropolitan Josyf had to be published. Without it, the committed acts of violence, murder, and despoliation in Poland and the Slipyj, Bishop Nicetas Budka and Bishop Mykola Charnetsky in Lviv, current KGB-inspired defamation campaign against Ukrainian Americans Balkans." as well as Bishops Hryhoriy Chomyshyn and Ivan Liatyshevsky in would not have been complete. As anyone even vaguely familiar with Stanislav. Later that year, on September 21, Bishop Josaphat Authored by Charles Higham, a Ukrainians and the UNA knows, the Kotsylovsky was arrested in Peremyshl. Just over a year later, on May biographer of Hollywood personalities fraternal organization was never led by 26, 1946, the auxiliary bishop of Peremyshyl, the Rev. Hryhoriy who admits having "received extensive former "tsarists" because almost from Lakota, was also taken into custody. Other bishops and clergymen help for this book from the Simon its inception the UNA had been anti- were also arrested. Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Russian, anti tsarist, and anti- Some of the arrested bishops died in prison, while others were tried Studies," "American Swastika" is a Bolshevik. Nor was the UNA ever in Kiev in May 1946 and sentenced to long terms. Several bishops rather clumsy piece of Soviet disinfor­ involved with the "White Guard." perished in prison or in exile, and two died shortly after they were mation that reveals little that is new. On "In the late 1930s," Mr. Higham writes, "terrorist leaders of the ODWU, released. Only Metropolitan Slipyj survived. the contrary, Mr. Higham's book is essentially a rewrite, an updated verison including leaders of the German army The events of that fateful April four decades ago triggered the official of old canards" pushed by American specializing in espionage operations, liquidation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church the following year at the Stalinists during the 1940s. arrived in the United States and were infamous Lviv sobor of March 8-Ю, 1946. The sobor, which was non- Most of what Higham writes about- granted residency when many Jews had canonical and illegal because it was convened by a non-canonicalgroup, Ukrainian Americans first appeared in difficulty in squeezing through the proclaimed the end of the Union of Brest in 1596, a break with the The Hour, a now defunct Communist- needle's eye of the State Department Vatican and a "reunion" with the Russian Orthodox Church. inspired Popular Front periodical Visa Division." Today, if reports from Ukraine are to be believed, the Church the edited by Albert E. Kahn, and a 1942 It was members of the Organization Kremlin tried to destroy four decades ago with the mass arrest of its book titled "Sabotage! The Secret War of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), not hierarchs is enjoying a marked resurgence in Ukraine. Although it has Against America," written by Kahn and ODWU, who visited the United States. tenaciously existed underground since the Lviv sobor, there are signs Michael Sayers. ODWU was an exclusively American In 1946 Messrs. Kahn and Sayers also organization and there was no reason for that the Catacomb Church has found new vigor. Perhaps bolstered by them to "visit" their own home. No the election of a Polish pope, Ukrainian Catholics in Ukraine have authored "The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia," an OUN members were in the German been emboldened to demand, as one group has done, that the unabashed defense of Stalin and his Army at this time and none of them government restore legal status to the Church. Although the group — policies. "Perhaps Stalin's greatest were granted residency. Few the Initiative Group for the Defense of Believers and the Church — has historic achievement for the unity and Ukrainians were allowed to immigrate been severely persecuted by the regime, its founder, Yosyp Terelia, is power of the Soviet People," one reads to the United States during this period believed to be in hiding, where he has been publishing the underground in their book, "was his matchless work because, like most Jews, they were from Herald. The initiative group was also responsible for another as Commissar of Nationalities. His Eastern Europe, an area which had been underground journal, the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in policies have largely wiped out racial, awarded substantially lower U.S. Ukraine, eight issues of which have been distributed in the West. religious, national and class immigration quotas than northern and western Europe. Mr. Highham`s Despite this renewed activity, the Church and its believers continue animosities, and given to diverse Soviet distortion of this fact, however, fits in to be the targets of official repression and persecution. Churches groups a unity and harmony to fight and die in defense of Leningrad, well with the Allan A. Ryan Jr. thesis continue to be razed, carolers beaten, parishes routed, underground Stalingrad and the Russian Land." As (see "Quiet Neighbors") that Ukrainian clergymen arrested and imprisoned. The campaign to eradicate the might be expected from authors with war criminals were always given Church manifested so dramatically in the mass arrests of 40 years ago that perspective, all efforts by preferential treatment over Jews. goes on unabated. The combined forces of the Soviet atheist Ukrainian nationalists for an "By 1940, following a series of propaganda apparatus, the KGB and the militia have been unable to independent Ukraine are described as clandestine meetings across the nation," absterge religious faith from the souls of Ukrainian Catholic believers. German or Fascist-inspired. So much writes Mr. Higham, "the leader of the As we mark the somber anniversary of the mass arrests of our for the credentials of Mr. Higham's ODWU in the United States was martyred churchmen, we must resolve that we. as a community, will primary source. Monsignor Ivan Buchko" who. continue to speak out against the persecution of all our Ukrainian Mr. Higham also lists certain FBI according to Higham, had been kicked Churches by the Soviet government. One way to do this is to notify our files, suggesting that they corroborate out of Uruguay and Argentina for "his activities on behalf of the Nazis." representatives in Washington that we fully expect that the issue of all of his allegations regarding Ukrainian Americans. This is simply The fact of the matter is that Msgr. religious persecution in Ukraine will receive a prominent place on the not true. My review of FBI files for the U.S. and NATO agenda at the upcoming experts meeting on human Buchko was never the leader of ODWU Organization for the Rebirth of (Continued on page 15) rights to be held in Ottawa in May. We insist that the Soviet Union be Ukraine (ODWU), the United Hetman forcefully and candidly reminded of its commitments under the Organization (UHO), the Ukrainian Helsinki agreement and a host of other international agreements it has National Association and certain signed. Ukrainian American leaders investigated by the FBI as a result of Communist accusations during the 1930s and 1940s clearly indicate that none of the allegations presented by Mr. Higham as "fact" were 'ever Notice regarding mail delivery substantiated. Following an extended and exhaustive investigation, all three of The Weekly organizations and individuals associated with them were formally It has come to our attention that the Ukrainian Weekly is often exonerated in a letter from FBI delivered late, or irregularly, or that our subscribers sometimes Director J. Edgar Hoover. " receive several issues at once. It is not possible in this brief review to We feel it is necessary to notify our subscribers that The address each of the countless Weekly is mailed out Friday mornings (before the Sunday date exaggerations, distortions and half- of issue) via second-class mail. truths disseminated by Mr. Higham and 1933 to the Present Day ^ If you are not receiving regular delivery of The Weekly, we his publisher. For purposes of brevity, urge you to file a complaint at your local post office. This may be therefore, I have selected and rebutted done by obtaining the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Service only the most obvious and outrageous. CHARLES HIGHAM Mr! Higham writes that the Card and filling out the appropriate sections. author of ЇШЮпТТШВШ - The editors Ukrainian National Organization based at 83 Grand St., Jersey City, N.J.. (he No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

accusations about John Demjanjuk. an overwhelming evidence of the KGB lies Hungarians, Ukrainians. Jews and Demjanjuk'svlawyer innocent man who was never charged and fraud in this case to the 6th Circuit dozens of other nations - your with, much less convicted of. any crime Court of Appeals, in order to restore conscience sleeps. Yet. all the Glesos answers Ryai as Mr. Ryan well knows. This purveyor John Demjanjuk's citizenship. and Davises can shout and you hear of the big lie is now working feverishly However, powerful psychological them: the press and TV are at their beck Dear Editor: to spread it through every media source pressure is being brought to bear upon and call. Having returned home briefly from available to him. the Ukrainian community, especially "Meanwhile, in the USSR, my friend, the court battle in Cincinnati, Ohio, to . Court records prove that Mr. upon its leadership, to stop or stall Yuriy Shukhevych has just been restore John Demjanjuk's citizenship. I Demjanjuk was captured and interned support for the Demjanjuk family at arrested and he can't shout - they've happened to glance at a letter written to as a Red Army prisoner of war by the this critical stage in the proceeding. sealed his lips. The Weekly on March 31 by former Germans following the battle of Kerch That pressure in large measure has been "1 ,sat with Yuriy in the v^ame U.S. government worker Allan Ryan. in the Crimea. A boy barely out of his successful. Vicious disinformation concentration camp, and he had been In his letter Mr. Ryan attempts to teens, he was later transported to POW about Mr. Demjanjuk and his defense is there for 20 years. And now he has been rehash and justify the pseudo-historical, camps established by the Nazis at Rivne now pouring into the Ukrainian arrested again. And the persecution of dialectical hate-mongering contained in in western Ukraine and Kholm. It is also community from curious sources: his family, again his children without his book. a historical fact that hundreds of Many Ukrainians who could support bread, His "now standardized scapegoa'^ng thousands of Ukrainian prisoners this cause have stood aside or merely- "The sole 'crime' of the Ukrainian. and stereotyping of those freedom perished as a result of the inhuman paid polite lip service to it or worse. St. Yuriy Shukhevych, consists in the fact fighters who participated in the national conditions in these camps. Vladimir's Orthodox Church. John that he is the son of Gen. Shukhevych. independence movements waged Late in the war. Mr. Demjanjuk was Demjanjuk's parish, and a handful of who courageously fought against the against Soviet-inspired genocide and removed from, the Kholm POW death authentic Ukrainian freedom fighters enslavement of the Ukrainians. The sole ethnocide during World War II, is- camp, a starving pathetic figure, and from Cleveland have accepted the 'crime' of Yuriy consists in the fact that getting a little worn around the edges. conscripted into personal guard service greatest part .of the burden in the he loves his country - and in Ukraine This letter, like Mr. Ryan's book, could for Gen. Pavlo Shandruk, commander- economic war being waged by the OSI one cannot be Ukrainian. And so. after just as easily have been written by in-chief of the Ukrainian National in this case. These precious few are 20 years of prison, Yuriy is once again in Michael Hanusiak, Charles Allen or a Army. These facts Mr. Ryan does not answering the call for all free jail. growing host of other "Nazi historians" contest. What he fantasizes is the Ukrainians and for all Americans in the "He is silent. You won't hear him. But in this country and in Canada who incredible charge that the German SS historic struggle to preserve our free 1, , a Jew who is proud of being a support Moscow's 40-year-old high command decided to give this society. nationalist, appeal to you, citizens of "struggle against fascism and anti- "unt?rmenschen" ethnic Ukrainian boy In closing, I am reminded of the` the free world: Help Yuriy Shukhevych! Sovietism." temporary command of its extermina­ prophetic words of the immortal Demanidd that tthh e Soviet authorities let In his column Myron B. Kuropas tion program at Treblinka for an Ukrainian poet-painte-r Taras him go!I " ^4 easily dug up the corrupt dialectical eight-month period, during which Shevchenko, who identified closely with roots of Mr. Ryan's dark game with his time he personally murdered 900,000 the American Revolution when he Irene Sh`ttkiievycll'Strokon marvelously disciplined, intellectual human beings'. Apart from Mr. Ryan's refused to stand aside in the desperate Livermore, Calif refutation, following the lead of Prof, fantasy, no record of this monumental attempt of his beloved Ukraine to gain faras Hunczak`s article. Dr. Kuropas charge exists in any of the vast war independence from Moscow. Taras concluded that Mr. Ryan's letter insults record archives maintained in the free Shevchenko also saw clearly the Kiev consulate the Ukrainian community, and so it world or the Soviet Union. As a matter potential menace from within when he does - but the insult should be viewed of fact this fantasy, which has turned wrote: "...yet, never`ll be the same for needed by U.S. as a- valuable one.. Valuable in that it into a nightmare for John Demjanjuk. me/Should my Ukraine be lulled to lays bare the grim psychological is the laughingstock of every legitimate sleep/By wily foe and then — in Dear Editor: warfare now being waged in order to Nazi war criminal research specialist in grief,/All plundered, robbed - aroused It was with great interest-that I read chill the hearts and check the courage of the world. - iri flames.../God - No! It won't be all your article of March 31 titled Ukrainian Americans and Ukrainian The self-serving comment in his letter the same!" "Ukrainians, State Department Canadians in the struggle to preserve to The Weekly that he apologized to officials discuss president's report on their proud culture, traditions and another "Nazi who never was," Frank Mark J. O'Connor rights." Of particular interest was that, hjstory. Walus. was a chilling statement by the Cincinnati according to State Department 4 As proof of my thesis, every reader is OSI`s former chief witch hunter. It will officials, information contained in the urged to analyze his or her. own be remembered that my client, Mr. Mr. O'Connor is John Demianjuk`s scmiannaul report to the Commission emotional response to the infection of Walus. was also accused by the U.S. attorney. on Security and Cooperation in Europe Mr. Ryan's carefully chosen words. "Nazi hunters" of being a high-ranking (CSCE) had come from the U.S. What psychological seeds were sown "by SS "butcher." His citizenship was Embassy in Moscow. the linguistic patterns of this sycophant? revoked after a horrendous show trial Shukhevych'sfate The blame lor the dirth ot After reading Mr. Ryan's article, did the similar to John Demjanjuk's ordeal in information concerning human-rights reader experience lingering feelings of court. In reality, Frank Walus was a cited by Shjfrln abuses in Ukraine in the Presidents confusion and doubt about the skinny Polish teenager who was 17th Semiannual Report to the CSCE credibility of the "Nazi hunt," perhaps a himself held captive on a German farm. Dear Editor: was placed on the fact that the U.S. measure of anxiety and fear? The truth in this case came out only Congressman Frank Guarini (D- government has no direct contact with If so. Mr. Ryan's disinformation through a vigorous defense and the N.J.) and Matthew Rinaldo (R-N.J.) Ukraine and. therefore, it is more diffi­ exercise was successful. Even crude outrage of the West German are asking their colleagues to sign a cult to obtain information regarding dialecticians like Mr. Ryan know that government, which insisted that the letter to Communist Party Secretary oppression of Ukrainian human- and emotion, not intellect, is the force that case was a gross fraud. Frank Walus`s Mikhail Gorbachev appealing for the national-rights activists. moves us to right action or causes us to citizenship was eventually restored by release from exile and emigration to the This is all the more reason that the react out of fear and do nothing,, the the Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Ryan United States of Yuriy Shukhevych. government of the United States should latter response being Mr. Ryan's thereafter made a statement that there Yuriy Shukhevych turned 52 on open a consulate in Kiev, capital of the desired goal in this case. was "insufficient evidence" to try March 28. He is blind and in ill health. Ukrainian SSR. How can the State A critical stage has now been reached Walus, not that he was innocent of the First arrested in 1948 at age 14. he has Department possibly give a balanced in the struggle of our time, the struggle charges. This man's life was destroyed been in Soviet prisons, labor camps and picture of the Soviet Union while to rid the United States justice system of in one of the greatest travesties of justice internal exile almost continuously since ignoring the largest of the non-Russian the legacy of Mr. Ryan's 1980 in U.S. history - and Mr. Ryan writes then. republics? The State Department OSI/Soviet "marriage in Moscow." that he apologized? Visions of Stalin Following is a letter written about should rectify this situation by pressing Unfortunately, without community and Krushchev apologizing for the Shukhevych by Avraam Shifrin from President Ronald Reagan's support, Mr. Ryan's OSI legatees will 1932-33 "hidden holocaust" in Ukraine Jerusalem on May 1, 1972. administration to expedite the opening win this battle by default. immediately come to mind. "People! You who live in cozy of the U.S. Consulate in Kiev. And let It is indeed ironic that the letter to It is interesting to note in this regard apartments, who eat three meals a day. us not forget that it is the responsibility The Weekly recounts fondly the speech that in John Demjanjuk's deportation You who don't know the terrors of of the Ukrainian community in the given in 1982 to Ukrainian lawyers who hearing, OSI representatives actually arrest and the distress for those who are United States to pressure the State were then counseled by Mr. Ryan to referred to Stalin's infamous forced left behind - family and children. You Department to take immediate action stand aside and not to "give sanctuary" famine in Ukraine as an "irrelevant who express your indignation about the of rectify this deplorable state of affairs. to those Ukrainians who Mr. Ryan and economic, problem of the Soviet persecution of Manolis Glesos and According to Amnesty International the Soviet procurator deemed to be government." It is now apparent that Angela Davis. (AI), anyone can get information from "guilty of bloodshed" as "Nazi the psychological holocaust caused by "I want to shout to your faces: where the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Letters to collaborators." That same psychologi­ the OSI/Moscow "co-prosecution" of is your conscience? Once again arrests the State Department arc not promptly cal message is now effectively being innocent American citizens will live are being conducted in the USSR, once answered, but if you can get a member delivered to the Ukrainian community long after the misdeeds of these lawless again people are being thrown into jails, of Congress to write to the State by the second generation of "Nazi" in- bureaucrats slip into the memory hole. and yet you remain silent. Your Department, there is a rule that they quisitioners in Canada. Hopefully, the The simple reality is that the battle for governments want friendly relations' must answer within a short time — a. resojjt will not be the same. the honor of free Ukraine is being with criminals who tyrannize oyer their week or less. Many AI adoption groups have gotten their Congressional Mr. Ryan's recent psychological waged today in Cincinnati. With own people. `We do not get involved in representatives to write to the State attack on the Ukrainian community, striking similarity to the Walus case, the internal affairs.' How convenient! Let (Continued on page 13) however centers On his defamatory defense is attempting to present the them oppress and murder the Czechs, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No. 16 Washington captures title at Plast basketball fournament

by Oleh Danyluk and Walter Shevchuk Washington. The tournament had a round robin format, and each game BAYONNE, N.J. Orden Khresto- lasted a total of 16 minutes split into two nostsiv. a Plast Iraternity. held its halves. annual basketball tournament for Plast At the end of round robin youths on Sunday, March 31. at competition, Cleveland was awarded an Bayonne High School. Seven teams, uncontested third place with its record composed of I2-io 18-year-old members of four wins, two losses. New York and of Plast. competed. Washington were tied with 5-І records. In the exciting final game, the Washington's loss came at the hands of Washington Plast branch's team New York City, while New York's loss defeated a team from New York City by came courtesy of the Cleveland team. one basket, with a final score of 17-15. This set the stage for the Oleh Zaputowyc/„ leader of the New championship game between the New York. New Jersey and Delaware York City and Washington teams. chapter of Orden Khrestonostsiv, greet­ Several missed opportunities in the final ed the teams and opened the minute gave Washington the win, 17-15. tournament at 10 a.m. with a prayer and Danylo Bazarko. of the Washington the customary Plast greeting. After team was named most valuable player. thanking the counselors for organizing He was the over-all high scorer in the the teams, the parents for providing tournament and his leadership and transportation, the Bayonne encouragement were crucial to Department of Education for the use of Washington's victory. its facilities, and the sponsors — Self- This was the ninth annual Plast Reliance Federal Credit Union of Jersey basketball tournament organized by the City, N.J., and the Ukrainian National local Orden Khrestonostsiv chapter. It Association - the tournament got is the only regularly scheduled under way. basketball tournament held for Teams from Cleveland, Newark and Ukrainian youth in the United States. Passaic, N.J.. and two teams from With seven competing teams, the 1985 Philadelphia competed in addition to tournament had the largest turnout to the teams from New York and date. lOteh Danyluk Danylo Bazarko (No. 34) of Washington controls play in the game against Passaic. Ukrainian Oiler makes headlines ІІІІ1ІІІІІИІІІІІИІІІ і чтжяш 'Щк SUN VOL 7Кб,ИЮа айСЬ...^ХдаЗГ- ':-ШВІ0О0гіЩ ЧОЛСЯУ. t sat-.` APPLE LAST-DITCH OFFER A BAY KEEPS THIS MAY AVERT STRIKE (ЖЕ8 CUPW's 'final' proposal studied'byCanada Post:Page 4

Mike Krushelhyski, a forward on the Edmonton Oilers hockey team, has been making headlines both on and off the ice ever since he was traded to the Oilers by the Boston Bruins. His scoring talents have been the subject of many a sports story, and recently his appearances at Edmonton community functions, too, have been covered by the media. Seen above is a reproduction of the front page of The Edmonton Sun's March 7 issue, which featured a full-color photograph of Mike and his wife, Areta, during a visit to St. Martin Elementary School, where they met with students enrolled in the Ukrainian bilingual program, which boasts an enrollment of 196 students in kindergarten through grade 6. Mike is a former member of the Peter Marunchak Ukrainian dance ensemble of Montreal. Areta (nee Rakoczy) is probably familiar to readers of The Weekly as a former champion of tennis tournaments at the Ukrainian National Association's resort, Soyuzivka. She is also a former Miss Soyuzivka. The Krushelnyskis were married at Soyuzivka in June of last year. The New York City team, second-place finisher. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 Ш 9

- ,. - ' Philadelphia educational/cultural center ШШ Щ^ШШІЇ: celebrates anniversary, mortgage burning Y PHILADELPHIA - The Ukrainian proclamation from the slate of Hit ```'-` ` 1 community here celebrated the fifth Pennsylvania. anniversary of tJie Ukrainian Ш 1 Educational and Cultural Center with a 520,000 pledge mortgage-burning ceremony, a musical if. "'. I program and a banquet on February 23! Olch Chernyk, son of Dr. Chernyk, щ; I д then made a 520.000 pledge on behalf of 1 Some 350 people gathered at a 6:30 f p.m. cocktail party in the library of the his family to the center's building ( center`to watch the unveiling of several - expansion fund, prompting pledges \L ш bronze plaques engraved with the from guests which virtually doubled the names of those who contributed most Chernyk family's contribution. toward the paying of the mortgage, Groundbreaking for expansion of the іш^аЯ ' 1 including the president of the center's cultural center's quarters'will be heid board of directors, Alexander Chernyk/ June I. Ш^тжі^л^' ; the Ukrainian Savings and Loan A benediction offered by the Rev. Association, the Self-Reliance Federal Frank Estocin of St. Vladimir's Credit Union and the George and Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in І Rosalia Lysniak Foundation, each of Philadelphia closed the ceremonies. : (Кгд^.. which donated at least 510,000; some 20 The Ukrainian Educational and ; 5F:` ^ names of 55,000 donors; and 200 which Cultural Center, a non-profit Шк, .-"`. -- ;` ` ",?.,` `- ,\ contributed at least S1.000. The plaques organization founded in 1980, is will be on permanent display in the located in a former school on seven center's hallways. acres of land not far from Manor Junior Р^Иі!– ЩШ 1 College and other Ukrainian Ш ' Л .1 Is (`. Щ ;v ;- `'t: і'-'Л Ш After the brief ceremony, guests community centers. It currently houses - , І .'. 'V Ш гШ S?` 'кі.'їА'гУ retired to the center's auditorium, where the headquarters of over 30 youth, ЯШ they were treated to a musical program educational, scholarly and professional The much-awaited moment of the burning of the mortage of the Ukrainian presented by pianist Irene Pelech- organizations, and a library holding Educational and Cultural Center in Philadelphia: (from left) Dr. Alexander Zwarych, soprano Marta K.ulchycky- some 6,000 volumes and 155 Chernyk, president. Dr. Albert Kipa, master of ceremonies, Orysia Hewka, Andriuk and piano accompanist Rokso- periodicals. chairperson of the fifth anniversary banquet committee. lana Harasymovych, violinist Adrian Bryttan and tenor Bohdan Chaplinsky. Following the 45-minute `program, and an invocation offered by Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the banquet began. Master of ceremonies Albert Kipa greeted the guests and introduced Dr. Chernyk and representatives of the organizations that made the S 10.000 contributions, all of whom were seated at the head table.

Last mortgage payment

Dr. Cfier.nv k then rose to the podium to thank all those present for their support and presented the last mortgage payment in the form of a check to Christine Kulchytsky, chairman of the fund-raising committee who then handed the check to Marta Sheprykevych, president of the Ukrai­ nian Savings and Loan Association, which granted the 5370,000 mortgage. Ms. Sheprykevych then gave the mortgage to members of the committee who burned the roll of paper and offered a champagne toast. State Rep. John Fox (R) then The board of directors of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Alexander Chernyk, presented a congratulatory president, is in the center.

On stage after.the concert segment of the fifth anniversary banquet are the performing artists: (from left) Irene Pelech-Zwarych, pianist; Marta Kulchycky- Oleh Chernyk presents a 520,000 pledge on behalf of the Chernyk family for the Andriuk, soprano; Roksolana Harasymovych, piano accompaniment; featured expansion campaign of the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center.Mis father. artist Adrian Bryttan, violin; Bohdan Chaplinsky. tenor. he president of the UECC, is in the background. 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 r No. 16 --

Children's Easier baskets blessed in New Jersey EDUCATIONAL LOANS A fraternal service to UNA members

The loan will bear a modest interest rate of З”/о a year only on loans made. Interest will accumulate during the period of schooling and be paid during repayment period.

Л/ Children up to 4'Л years of age who enroll for 115,000 of insurance will be guaranteed a 55,000 educational loan. Should they enroll for 525,000 of in­ surance, they will be guaran­ teed a loan of 57,500. Juvenile members age 5 to Children, their families and some parishioners of St. Wolodymyr Ukrainian Catholic Church, in Marlboro, N.J., after 10 enrolled for 115,000 of new the blessing of the Easter food baskets by Msgr. Anthony Borsa. The young parishioners are encouraged to learn insurance will be guaranteed a and preserve the Ukrainian tradition by preparing their own baskets. 54,000 Educational Loan. If enrolled for 525,000 of protec­ tion, they will be guaranteed a Ukrainians, then every little group will by the Nazis and their collaborators, loan of 56,000. Chicago Ukrainians... want something similar," said Dr. and that Polish Americans wanted (Continued from page 1) Kuropas. "But David Roth, who knew justice to be done on that score. The protection herein re­ during World War II. Other things and that a Holocaust Commission had been ferred to must be under UNA P- other people were always more established the previous year, and who After this exchange, however. Polish 20 Certificate. important than saving Jewish lives. A had helped to get a Ukrainian American American leaders told the AJC that^. A formal notice that loan Is failure to prosecute alleged war leader on that commission, interrupted their community was concerned atfout guaranteed will be sent with criminals is frightening in its the State Department official and said the quality of Soviet-supplied evidence. Certificate of Protection when implications, and to Jews it would two things." The two groups discussed the situation it is issued. represent a second abandonment," said Mr. Roth had said that if Jewish and are now making plans for a team of Certificate must remain in Mr. Roth. American groups asked for something Jewish and Polish American attorneys good standing with all Referring to the recent book by Allan in an election year, chances are good to meet with OSI officials. Mr. Roth assessments and dues paid A. Ryan Jr., former director of the that they would get it, because both said. The attorneys wiil review how the until Edu-cational Loan is Justice Department's Office of Special political parties seek the support of Jewish j OSI assembles and uses Soviet-supplied granted and throughout Investigations, which alleged that there evidence. repayment period. Americans, while Ukrainian Americans are as many as 10,000 East European are less visible and less numerous. Another speaker at the meeting, Certificate must be assigned war criminals in the United States, Mr. Yakiv Suslensky of the Association for to UNA during the period of the Roth said, "It is irresponsible.to throw Secondly, Mr. Roth had commented, JewishrU krainian Contacts, a loan and its repayment. Either around figures like that, and it does "I resent the fact that you in the State Ukrainian-born Jew who resides in parents or guardian must little to allay the fears of Ukrainian Department think that the death of 7 Israel, stressed the need for Jews and guarantee repayment of loan if Americans. What's needed are charges million Ukrainians is less important Ukrainians to work together against a juvenile is under age 21 when against individuals, not against entire loan is granted. than the death of 6 million Jews." Dr. common enemy, the Soviet Union. communities." Kuropas said. "The need for peace and understanding Educational Loans' will be "It was an incredibly powerful has never been greater than it is now." made over a four-year period "My people have been historically scapegoated in similar ways. We can statement," the Ukrainian leader he said. only for tuition to the college or recalled. The meeting, which was prefaced by a institution of higher learn-ing. understand your fear and your anger The American Jewish Committee is welcome from Natalka Zavadowycz, Repayment of loan begins and how vulnerable that situation must make you, in a community where so trying to foster greater understanding chairperson of AHRU`s Chicago three months following gra­ by meeting with Polish American chapter, took place at Ss. Volodymyr duation of applicant and must many of you are post-World War II be fully repaid over a maximum refugees. So the trials, in a curious way, organizations about four times a year in and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church. of 20 equal quarterly install­ bring us together," he commented. an ongoing dialogue, Mr. Roth said. ments. Dr. Kuropas noted that a Jewish Last year, the Jewish American community perceived opposition to the Should period of education publication had taken Mr. Ryan and his figures to task recently. "A man like denaturalization proceedings among New Haven..? for which loan was secured be (Continued from page 5) reduced or terminated the re­ Allan Ryan doesn't help the Jewish East European ethnic communities, payment period will begin im­ community at all, because he discredits and, while it could understand their under often adverse conditions. I mediately. all of the other war criminals. All of a skepticism, it was afraid the prosecution believe that our fate was and is in our sudden, everybody is made into a war of alleged Nazi collaborators would be hands and that we have the criminal," he said. stopped entirely. responsibility of using the best Dr. Kuropas presented Mr. Roth instruments time has given us. For information contact with a plaque from Americans for Thus, Jewish Americans approached To sum up: this publication leaves me the UNA main office: Human Rights in Ukraine for his efforts their Polish American partners in the with a feeling of appreciation and I take to help establish the commission to dialogue and asked them to support the pride in the Ukrainian settlers who have study the Ukrainian famine. trials. made clear that they can make tangible n30 Montgomery St. "Some of you may not be aware of it, Polish American leaders agreed to contributions to America. Their Jersey City, N.J. 07302 but the Ronald Reagan State do so, with certain qualifications intelligence and industry are beyond (201) 451-2200 Department said that they didn't think regarding the sources of evidence. They reproach and speak for themselves. The the famine commission should exist, wrote to the Justice Department that book is truly a fine publication, because if we give this to the many Poles, as well as Jews, were killed certainly one of the best on its subject. No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985

Saskatchewan Council of UCC FUNNY TEARS holds annual awards ceremony a collection of short stories by MYKOLA PONEDILOK SASKATOON - The Saskatche­ and Mr. Miquelon for their wan Council of the Ukrainian Canadian participation in the ceremony. Prof. in English translation from the original Ukrainian. Committee held its third annual awards Roma Franko, Head of the department Ilustrations by EKO (Edward Kozak) and Halyna Mazepa. ceremony on Friday, March 1. of Slavic studies, congratulated the To order send S10.00 plus S1.00 postage to: Seventeen awards were presented to students on their academic students enrolled in Ukrainian studies achievements. Svoboda Book Store courses in the Department of Slavic Prof. Franko also took the 30 Montgomery St. Studies at the University of opportunity to congratulate the Jersey City, N. J. 07302 Provincial Council of the Ukrainian Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. INMr Jersey residents айй 6 sales tat I The awards, consisting of the two- Canadian Committee for its role in volume set of Ukraine: A Concise promoting Ukrainian studies in Canada ; Encyclopedia, and letters of and to commend it for presenting congratulations from the Ukrainian students with such an invaluable Canadian Committee, were' presented reference work. by Christine Devrome, the former In conclusion. Prof. Franko ex­ ПАМ'ЯТАЙМО ПРО НАШЕ chairman of the board of governors at pressed her gratitude to the Ukrainian the University of Saskatchewan, and Students' Club, and especially to its СЛАВНЕ МИНУЛЕ! president, Orest Nowosad, for so Dr. Dale Miquelon, associate dean of Нарід, що не знає і не the humanities and fine arts in the capably assuming the responsibility of College of Arts and Science. During the organizing and hosting the awards пам'ятає про своє мину– presentations, Mrs. Devrome made ceremony. пе, не заслуговує на май­ reference to the excellent record of the бутнє! Provincial Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee in promoting Здвигнення пам'ятника Ukrainian language studies in general Ukrainian Club organized Тарасові Шевченкові у and the Ukrainian-English bilingual Вашінґтоні 20 років тому program in particular. at Seton Hall U. належить до найславні– ших діл і досягнень Укра­ The recipients of the Awards were: SOUTH ORANGE, NJ. - A Linda Balon, Laurie Bidulka, Patricia їнської Америки за 100 Ukrainian Club was established here at років її історії! Calyniuk, Laurianne Gabruch, Seton Hall University on March 25. Marusia Kaweski, Roseanne` Koroll, Petro Matiaszek, a biology student at Barbara Markewich, Orest Nowosad, Ця славна історія the university, had approached the документально описана Ivan Nahachewsky, Karen Pylot, school administration with the idea of Corinne Rudy, Patricia Rudy, Tammy creating the club and was given в 138-сторінковій книж­ Slonowski, Karen Sopotyk, Christine permission to do so. ці Rodych, Joanne Sorokan and Patricia Werbicki. The first meeting was held on March А. Драгана: Following the presentations, Leon 25, and the members of the club say they Wowk, executive director of the plan to share their Ukrainian heritage „ШЕВЧЕНКО У ВАШІНҐТОНІ" Saskatchewan Council of the Ukrainian with fellow students through various Committee, thanked Mrs. Devrome cultural and educational activities.

Книжка надрукована у Видавництві Українського Народного Союзу „Свобода." Передмову до книжки про „Другу Статую Я "0MSL- LEONID PLYUSHCH Свободи'”'написав проф. д-р Ярослав Падох. Мис­ ЦІ 8щ тецьку обкладинку і заголовну сторінку оформив HISTORY'S Богдан Титла. CARNIVAL Керуючись бажанням масового поширення цієї І! \^Ш ^^^ -jj необхідної для кожного книжки, встановлено міні­ A DISSIDENT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY мальну ціну за неї в сумі тільки 6.00 долярів. Книжку можна замовити, виповняючи доданий до цього формуляр та висилаючи його, разом із належністю, на EDITED ANO TRANSLATED BY MARCO CARYNNYK подану на формулярі адресу. х– `^^u Мешканців стейту Ню Джерзі зобов'язує б”/о стейтового податку S14 9S Hi, \щЩ )LYl|HC| - DO``taee До Видавництва „Свобода" "SVOBODA" Here is an exceptionally able and attractive personality whose open dissent over з decade involved ЗО Montgomery Street him in ti.z affairs ot human rights activists Ukrainian patriots. Jewish emigrants and Crimean Tatars Here is Jersey City, N. J. 07302 the same man punished by lour years ol captivity, first in ц/ls. then in the toils ol the KGBs corrupt psychiatry And here is the heroic resistance ol his wile and Iriends - the sine qua non lor the Western campaign that eventually springs him Irom a Dmpropetrovske prison - and soor afterward from the Soviet Прохаю переслати мені примірник ,. Union Mr Plyushch tells this whole remarkable story with striking but not false modesty He constantly А. Драгана: „ШЕВЧЕНКО У ВАШІНҐТОНІ' digresses to expound his views on a multitude ol related topics cybernetics, psycnoiogy. psychiatry, pohhcs. history sociology anthropology, nationalism, language, literature, ethics and - perhaps his ultimate concern - philosophy Sometimes his thoughts are conventional, or tantalne one by not being developed More often thev are highly intelligent and stimulating - as when he discusses the Soviet elites trend toward Н?- -"жність у сумі дол. залучую чеком(лбштовим такти itself hereditary or the need lor Ihe democratic movement to widen ils platlorm h. -^жність платна лише в амер. долярах переказом).

PtT(H REDDAWAY The New Уогк Times 8oo' Reviev, May ?O 1979 Ім'я і прізвище

Вулиия місто NOW AT OUR BOOKSTORE : SVOBODA в NEW JERSEY RESIDENTS tfi SALES TAX SVOBODA BOOKSTORE 30 Montgomery Street Jersey City. N.J 07302 стеит зіп ковд. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1985 No. 16 Manor names development director THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Manor Junior College here has announced the We give you the WHOLE picture. appointment of John J. Kirkwo85 as director of development for the college. He will assume direct responsibility for advancement of Manor's recently announced Capital Campaign. Mr. Kirkwood formerly served as assistant to the president for development at Manor. He received a bachelor's degree from St. Francis College and a master's degree in public administration from Penn State University. He serves as vice-president for government affairs for the Northeast Chamber of Commerce and as assistant treasurer, of the Jenkintown Kiwanis. , John J. Kirkwood Manor Junior College is a two-year college offering associate degrees and business, math-science and liberal arts certificates of study in the allied health. fields. Florida Ukrainians recall Shevchenko

dissident news'commentary'politics"editonals'interwiews"people LAKE WORTH, Fla. - The Hinrichs sang Shevchenko`s "Reve Та reviews 'community news"the arts"scholarship"church affairs Ukrainian American Club of the Palm Stohne." sports"preview of events'special features Beaches on March 25 presented a A biography of Shevchenko was commemorative program in tribute to presented by Natalie Cappadoro, who Can you afford not to subscribe? Taras Shevchenko at the Senior Citizen highlighted his turbulent life from Center here. serfdom to his death and the blossom­ President Michael Vennett greeted ing of his literary talents. the guests and recounted, as a first- "Dumy Moy iv was sung by the duo of generation Ukrainian American, his Ms. Hinrichs and Anne Pleskun and introduction to Shevchenko and how Miss Pleskun then recited "Materi." UKRAINE: his respect and admiration for this Hala Bunce recited the poem "Sadok immortal Ukrainian giant has grown Vyshneviy Kolo Khaty," and to through the years. conclude the program, Amalia A CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA Vice-president Ostap Wengerchuk Wengerchuk gave a piano rendition of followed with a tribute to Shevchenko "Vziav by ya Banduru." in Ukrainian. Shevchenko`s poem the After the singing of the Ukrainian Volume I and II "Testament" (Zapovit) was recited by national anthem, a social hour with Mario Fabry, and soprano Anne The First Volume: General Information, Physical refreshments was held. Geography and Natural History, Population, Ethno­ Court has been asked to expedite the graphy, Ukrainian Language, History of Ukraine, Recommend. hearing and that the plaintiffs briefs Ukrainian Culture, and Ukrainian Literature. (Continued from page 3) will be submitted by the end of the week. ruled that he had lied on his The government response is expected Price: S75.00 immigration papers in order to conceal shortly afterwards and the judge will his past. Mr. Demjanjuk said he lied set a hearing date. "' The Second Volume: Law, The Ukrainian Church, when entering the United States One day after a federal judge Scholarship, Education and Schools, Libraries, Ar­ because he feared being repatriated to recommended Mr. Demjanjuk's the Soviet Union where he might have extradition to Israel, the UPI reported chives, and Museums, Book Printing, Publishing and been executed for desertion because he that the Israeli government said it had the Press, The Arts,, Music and Choreography, had not followed standing orders to amassed a thick file of evidence against Theater and Cinema, National Economy, Health commit suicide when captured. the man who is suspected to be "Ivan the and Medical Services and Physical Culture, the Ar­ The Justice Department is also Terrible." med Forces, Ukrainians Abroad. seeking to have Mr. Demjanjuk deported The UPI story quoted Deputy to the Soviet Union, but deportation is Inspector Menahem Russak, head of a being fought on the basis of insufficient police Nazi war crimes investigation evidence, since denaturalization unit, as telling Israel's Army Radio. Price: S85.00 occurred on the basis of a doctored "Eichmann was a murderer who sat document. behind a desk," and adding, in reference You can obtain both volumes Meanwhile. Mr. Demjanjuk has filed to Mr. Demjanjuk. "here, we have a suit against Judge Battisti and the murderer who murdered Jews with his for only S140.00 Justice Department, charging both with own hands in the crudest manner." Including Postage conspiracy and collaboration with the Mr. Demjanjuk faces at least life Soviets in illegally revoking his" imprisonment and possibly the death citizenship on the basis of a fraudulent penalty if he is found guilty of war piece of evidence - a forged crimes, reported UPI. Fill out the order blank below and mail it with identification card provided by the Israel's Justice Minister Moshe your check or money order. Soviet Union that purports to snow a Nishim welcomed the decision in the USE THIS COUPON! picture of Mr. Demjanjuk as a Nazi Demjanjuk case and said he hoped it guard trainee at a German camp would pave the way for the extradition in Trawniki, Poland. The 6th Circuit of other suspected war criminals. To: UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Inc. Court of Appeals is expected to hear Deputy Inspector Russak said he 30 Montgomery Street. Jersey City. N.J. 07302 this case sometime in May. believes there arc some 250 suspected I hereby order Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia Mr. O'Connor told The Weekly on "major-league murderers" now living in Q Volume I S75.00 Tuesday, April 16, that the Circuit the United States. Q Volume 1! 585.00 Q Volumes I Si. II S 140.00 Enclosed is (a check, M. 6.) for the amount i- NOTICE Please send the book (s) to the following address: THE SVOBODA PRESS ADMINISTRATION hereby informs all organizations and individuals that the administration Name will not accept any advertisements No Street if previous bills are not paid.

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CSCE Digest... intensifying repression. Last October SVOBODA PRINT SHOP and November, five Jews were (Continued from page 3) arrested and seven homes searched in Professional typesetting and printing services Catholic (Uniate) Church. This Chernovtsy. Of these, Leonid Schrier We print Church then had about 6 million was given three years of BOOKS m BROCHURES a LEAFLETS adherents, mostly in western Ukraine imprisonment and Yakov Rosenberg For information and rates contact: which had just been forcibly was given a two-and-one-half-year- SVOBODA incorporated into the Soviet Union. term for "anti-Soviet slander." 30 NonteoAtry Street m Jersey City. N.J. 07302 At about the same time, the formerly ^-Wephone: (201) 434-0237: (201) 434-0M7: independent Ukrainian Orthodox The fate of Yosyf Zisels, previously a prisoner of conscience in Church was also subsumed into the 1978-81, is not known. All three men Russian Orthodox Church. had been monitoring recent anti- Today, this religious vacuum is Semitic incidents such as the beatings There's no place like Soyuzivka filled with many unofficial religious of Jewish schoolchildren and the groups, not only among Ukrainian desecration of a Jewish cemetery. Catholics but also among Yosyf Berenshtein from Kiev was Evangelical Protestants. Last year, victimized in a particularly gruesome S0YUZIVKA evidence of extensive Ukrainian attack. Sentenced to four years' Catholic activity emerged in a new imprisonment on December 10, a few unofficial journal. In May 1984, 72- weeks later he lost the use of his right year-old Ukrainian Catholic activist eye in a beating by prison wardens. Antin Potochniak died while serving his fifth term of imprisonment. Despite Kremlin efforts to quell Of all the Soviet Republics, the dissatisfaction, major social unrest in largest number of Jews live in Ukraine shows no signs of abating. 1985 SUMMER/FALL Ukraine, where a major crackdown Mr. Shcherbytsky, the Kremlin's has been under way since last year. man in Kiev, is charged with CAMPS 8t WORKSHOPS As has been the case with Ukrainians suppressing popular aspirations to seeking to preserve and protect their bring them in line with the stern at SOYUZIVKA religious and cultural heritage, requirements of the centralized Jewish activists have been targets of coercive power which he represents. TENNIS CAMP - June 23 - July 3 (Boys and Girls ages' 12-18). Food and lodging 5180.00 (UNA members), 5210.00 (non-members). Tennis fee: 560.00. important to monitor the work of the Kiev consulate... U.S. Embassy in Moscow vis-a-vis its (Continued from page 7) coverage and reporting of human-rights BOYS' CAMP - June 29 - July 13 Department on a particular case, and abuses in Ukraine. Ukrainian human- Recreation camp for boys ages 7-12, featuring hiking, swimming, games. what they receive through the rights organizations and individual Ukrainian songs and folklore. UNA members: 5100.00 per week; non-members representative is usually a tejex from the activists should write their federal 5120.00 per week. U.S. Embassy in Moscow with legislators and ask them to urge the U, S. information on. the case. In this way, Embassy in Moscow to closely follow GIRLS' CAMP - July 14-27 Ukrainians would be able to monitor human-rights abuses in Ukraine, espe­ the U.S. Embassy's incoming cially in light of the deaths of four Similar program to boys' camp; same prices. information concerning human-rights prominent Ukrainian human-rights abuses. activists in the fast six months. This UKRAINIAN FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP - July 28 - August 10 It appears that it is not enough to would be one small step toward ending Traditional Ukrainian folk dancing for beginners, intermediate, and advanced monitor the various reports that are Ukraine's isolation from the world. dancers. Instructor: ROMA PRIMA-BOHACHEWSKY. Limit 60 students. Food and issued by the U.S. government lodging J195.00 (UNA members), 5225.00 (non-members). Instructor's fee: concerning human-rights abuses in the Walter M. Stadnicki 5100.00. Soviet Union, but it is also now New Haven, Conn.

UKRAINIAN CULTURAL COURSES - August 10-24 Her son, Oleksander Serhienko, now Classes in Ukrainian language, history, geography, literature, arts. Meshko said... 53, was sentenced in 1972 to seven years UNA members 5200.00, non-members 5230.00. (Continued from page 1) in a labor camp to be followed by three 14, 1980. for her activities with the years' internal exile. He was also exiled Ukrainian Helsinki Group, a citizens' to Ayan, where his term expired in 1982. For more information, please contact the management of Soyuzivka: organization she helped establish in Ms. Meshko's memoirs, "Between SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE 1976 to monitor Soviet compliance with Death and Life," were published in the the 1975 Helsinki Accords on human West several years ago. Foordemoore Rd., Kerhonkson, N.Y. 12446 a (914) 626-5641 rights and security in Europe.

After a brief incarceration in a Problems of Communism... psychiatric hospital, where she (Continued from page 4) underwent a battery of tests, Ms. concludes, "to deny (historical and poli­ THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Meshko was sentenced in 1981 to six tical) importance to the deaths of months in a labor camp and five years' millions — and this is equally true We cover it all. internal exile. whether one accepts Wheatcroft`s Can you afford not to subscribe? Ms. Meshko, a school teacher by figures or mine - through the hitherto profession, was previously imprisoned unknown instrumentality of a man- I would like to subscribe to The Ukrainian Week!/ made famine, is simply unconscion­ from 1947 to 1955 for her involvement for year(s) (Subscription rates S5 per year for UNA members S8 able." with the Ukrainian nationalist move­ for non-members) ment during and immediately following Dr. Mace is a research associate at the My name is --- World War II. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. I belong to UNA Branch: Address City ---^-. State „ Zip code „„ GIFT SUBSCRIPTION In addition. I would like to give a friend one years subscription to The Ukrainian Weekly His/her name is L , Address : City - , State Zip code I enclose a check for S

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VLESSIANA Be ( 422 Dublin. Ohio 43017 I With the help of the Atlanta branch of the Ukrainian distributed to those who gathered at the booth to hear National Wornen's League of America, the Krysalka bandura music and Ukrainian songs. Last year's family of Macon sold Ukrainian food at the Macon proceeds, amounting to S700, were donated to the Cherry Blossom Festjyal's.lnternational Food Fair held university. In the photo above are (from left): Mrs. F ead The Weekly in late March. Pamphlets on the Ukrainian Free Stephen Krysalka Jr., the Rev. Stephen Krysalka, Mrs. University in Munich and Ukrainian history were Stephen Krysalka, J. Richard Krysalka, Surelle Krysalka-Pinkston and Mrs. V.D. Couch.

NAZI WAR CRIMINALS IN AMERICA those who burn with the desire to PART ONE - THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED become genuine members of the PART TWO - VON BOLSHWING VS. ALLAN RYAN, JR. (Continued from page 2) living Church of Christ. By LYDIA DEMJANJUK over 200 concentration camps which ' Profit for Moscow is a loss for house 390,000 prisoners, not Ukraine. That is how the "union" of d.- igther of JOHN DEMJANJUK who is facing deportation to the Soviet Union and extra- counting the 10,000 inmates in 29 two equal republics looks in the di'ion to Israel in order to stand trial as an alleged NAZI WAR CRIMINAL psychiatric hospitals and one special Afghanistan war. Lately, the number T order send S 10.00 donation plus S1.00 postage for each Part ordered to: ipsychiatric hospitalj in Dnipro` of funerals of Transcarpathian boys petrovske. Some 750,000 prisoners killed in Afghanistan is increasing. LYDIA DEMJANJUK work on government building On June 3 funerals took place in the P.O. BOX 31424 projects; truly, the party and the CLEVELAND. OHIO 44131 villages of Ilnytsia and Bilka... In government think the same when it addition to crosses, military comes to re-educating the masses. An decorations from the' government, order was issued calling for the emblazoned with red stars, were complete introduction of the Russian placed on the graves. At night, the language in the fpenal?j system of the officer who escorted the coffins Attention, students! Ministry of Internal Affairs in announced in a drunken stupor that Ukraine. Everyone must accept he wasn't even sure which bodies Throughout the year, Ukrainian student clubs plan and hold fRussianJ .as the "all-Soviet were in which casket, and that some ctivities. The Ukrainian Weekly urges students to let us and the language," according to the assistant only contained a leg or a piece of krainian community know about upcoming events. political officer at labor camp VL- charred flesh that may not even The Weekly will be happy to help you publicize them. We will also be 315/30, Capt. Kinazhay. Capt. belong to the deceased. That is why it lad to print timely news stories about events that have already taken Kinazhay could in no way explain was forbidden to open the coffins, he lace. Black and white photos (or color with good contrast) will also be what an all-Soviet nation is. said. ccepted. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD. ' On May 5 of this year in the One hundred and eleven men from village of Olekshytsi in the Hrodnen- the Irshava region perished in sky region of Byelorussia, the homes Afghanistan, 45 were seriously of local Catholics were searched. The wounded and 91 slightly wounded. KGB was looking for "subversive" Fifty-two men from the Svialiava Catholic literature. Of late, authori­ region were killed. From the FOR ONLv 2Ф PER DAY ties have launched a campaign to Mukachiv region, 122 were killed you can te insured for frighten Byelorussian Catholics... and 145 seriously wounded, of which The Byelorussian Catholic Church only 10 received pensions of between S5.000 (Eastern rite) was almost completely 35 and 54 karbovantsi and the rest under an liquidated by Moscow (Russianj are being cared for by parents... pillagers. Beginning in the late 1970s, ACCIDENTAL DEATH five Ukrainian Catholic priests went " "Unknown" persons broke and to Byelorussia and began extensive windows at the home of Ukrainian underground missionary work, artist Panas Zalyvakha on Oleh DISMEMBERMENT CERTIFICATE reviving three deaconates and scores Koshoviy Street in Ivano- of the of individual parishes. The Frankivskein May and June, the last UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Byelorussians have not forgette'n time on June 7. The aim was to The low. low premiums for new ADD Certificates, their native faith nor the fact that unnerve the artist and isolate him issued after Oct. 1, 1983. are as follows: they are Byelorussians. Pray for the from his compatriots and thus pre­ vent him from being able to create S6.50 Annually Byelorussians and their martyred Catholic ChBrch! Ukrainians! and make him scared for his S3.35 Semi-annually Catholics! Help the revival of the canvases. From time to time, KGB- S1.75 Quarterly Byelorussian Catholic Church by men break into the house and walk .60 Monthly both word and deed. God is with us. off with whatever strikes their Premiums are the same for all members, age 16-55. Let His love shine on you and all fancy... No. 16 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, APRIL 21. 1985 15

than the first of three installments of an the Soviet Union. will be more. The reality is that with its New book... article by James G. Mandalian "American Swastika" should also increasingly irresponsible behavior, the (Continued from page 6) outlining the ancient history of please bigots in the Jewish and center serves neither the cause of finding nor was there a need for him to indulge Armenia, its emergence as a modern Ukrainian communities. Jewish bigots and prosecuting Nazi war criminals nor in clandestine meetings. Hated by the nation-state under the Dashnag will love it because it will confirm their the cause of Ukrainian-Jewish Soviets for his energetic and . open nationalist party and its subsequent prejudices regarding Ukrainians as Nazi understanding. The only beneficiary, support of the OUN and ODWU, Msgr. brutal suppression by the Soviets. pogromists. Ukrainian bigots will quite frankly, is our common enemy, Buchko was warmly and openly According to Volodymyr Riznyk, appreciate it because it will reinforce the Soviet Union, which has welcomed by' Ukrainians wherever he ODWU national secretary during this their biases regarding the Jewish- consistently strived to drive a wedge went. The Hour accused Msgr. Buchko period, anti-Soviet articles by Bolshevik conspiracy. between our two peoples. of being a Nazi terrorist and, as in all Armenians were printed in the Nationa­ Regardless of how we feel about Mr. Finally, we Ukrainians need to take a matters related to Ukrainians, alerted list but there was never any effort to co­ Higham and his motives, however, we firm, united and unequivocal stand the FBI. There is absolutely nothing in ordinate activities. "There was simply Ukrainians need to be aware of the fact regarding the current defamation the FBI files, however, to substantiate no need," says Mr. Riznyk. that the Simon Wiesenthal Center for campaign which appears to be gaining this outrageous charge. The head of Mr. Higham's incredible ignorance of Holocaust Studies in Los Angeles momentum. We can no longer afford to ODWU during this period was Dr. East European history is revealed when (which is now in the forefront of the remain apathetic in the hope that our Alexander Granovsky, a renowned he writes that Ukrainian nationalists Ukrainian defamation campaign in troubles will somehow disappear if we entomologist at the University of were supported by "Romanian groups both Canada and the United States) just wait long enough. We can no longer Minnesota. connected with the Iron Guard." In does not represent all Jews in North afford to snipe at each other in order to Mr. Higham writes that in 1940, "the view of the fact that the Iron Guard was America. The center has come under gain a temporary political advantage or Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists some criticism in Jewish circles recently, to salve a bruised ego. If we don4 unite a Fascist organization dedicated to the now, then we deserve what we get. moved to Rome, where a correspondent eradication of Ukrainian, national and 1 have reason to believe that there of the official Ukrainian Fascist consciousness in Bukovina (where newspaper Svoboda, of Jersey City, was OUN leadejs such as Denys the paymaster of funds supplied in the Kwitkowsky were actually arrested by SOYUZIVKA - UNA ESTATE United States." the Iron Guard), the idea of an ODWU- Svoboda, the UNA daily, was Iron Guard alliance is, in the words of consistently branded a Fascist Stephen Kuropas, an ODWU activist HELP WANTED for SUMMER newspaper by The Hour and its since 1931, "simply ridiculous." Communist supporters. Svoboda editor Mr. Higham also resurrects such GENERAL WORKERS, WAITERS ft WAITRESSES, Luke Myshuha was accused of being a Popular Front hoaxes as ODWU KITCHEN HELP and MAITENANCE Nazi agent because he traveled to involvement in the sinking of "several Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938 to support British ships" and the sabotage of the Salary negotiable. Interested persons please contact that republic's short-lived indepen­ Pennsylvania Railroad Cleveland-to- dence. All of these charges against the Pittsburgh express, both of which were SOYUZIVKA UNA ESTATE UNA, Mr. Myshuha and Svoboda were first "revealed" in The Hour. Foordemoore Rd., Kerhonkson. N.Y. 12446 Tel.: (914) 626-5641 thoroughly investigated by the FBI and Fortunately, the FBI was not found to be totally without foundation. deceived. Reviewing all of the data "The Ukrainians had friends supplied by confidential informants on SECOND PRINTING BY POPULAR DEMAND. everywhere," Mr. Higham writes. October I, 1941, FBI Director Hoover LEARN TO READ. WRITE AND SPEAK UKRAINIAN. GET: "Even so distinguished a publisher as informed Lawrence M. Smith, chief of the Yale University Press published a the Department of Justice's Special A UKRAINIAN GRAMMAR for BEGINNERS, book, Michael Hrushevsky`s 'A History Defense Unit, that there was reason to SELF-TEACHING of Ukraine,' which praised the German believe that The Hour "is definitely Ukrainian fifth column in the most affiliated with the Communist Party By Martha Wichorek extravagant terms and praised Hitler A 3M page (8to x 11) introduction to the Ukrainian language, fall of instruction and information, although thic fact it rarefully concealed jcrcd сіртіині, tothoic who Ішов littleor no Ukrainian, ineasy-to-understand English. Cost. 110.00. outright." from the public." Furthermore, wrote The only truly beginners Grammar published so far. It is obvious that Mr. Higham never Mr. Hoover, "the campaign carried on If it is not available in your local Ukrainian store, send tll.50 (Canadian - S12.00 in American saw a copy of Prof. Hrushevsky`s by The Hour against Ukrainian Funds) (price includes postage and packing envelope) to: book, which was financed by the organizations seems vastly exagge­ Martha Wichorek, 13814 Vamr Dr.. Detroit. Mich. 48235 Ukrainian National Association and rated." contained a preface by the distinguished Given these facts, what can one Russian studies scholar Dr. George conclude regarding the purpose of Mr. Vernadsky. What Mr. Higham wrote he Higham's book which, in addition to its gleaned from The Hour which on slurs against Ukrainians, attacks Pope November 1, 1941, condemned Yale Pius XII, the Catholic Church and There's no place like Soyuzivka University for publishing a book distinguished American senators, "praising the pro-German Ukrainian publishers and heroes for the principle Fifth Column" and "presenting Nazi reason, it seems, that most of them were SOYUZIVKA racist myths about the Ukrainian openly opposed to Communist people as a whole." What really galled infiltration of American institutions. In ^SU MMER The Hour was that the book presented every instance the implication is that all the Ukrainian nationalist position in a of them, in one way or another, were also scholarly manner. Prof. Hrushevsky, it anti-Semitic. ^^ 1985 should be pointed out, died in Soviet Moscow should enjoy this book Ukraine in 1934 and probably never because it represents one more link in heird of Adolf Hitler let alone praised the disinformation chain which was first THIS SUMMER, him. The final chapter of his book was established in this country in 1933, the treat yourself to the breathtaking beauty of the Catskill Mountains at the written by the Svoboda editor, Mr. year Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized Myshuha, who mentions Hitler twice — year-round resort of the ` first with reference to the 1938 Munich UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Agreement (p. 571) and secondly with HELP WANTED regard to Hitler's invasion of Poland SOYUZIVKA and his alliance with Stalin (p. 573). MEDICAL SECRETARY wanted for position In major Now York Hedical a Newly renovated Ukrainian-style buildings/lodges nestled in the lush Catskill Mr. Higham doesn't stop with Center. Command of Ukrainian Іапціаіе de­ sired. 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CHICAGO: A benefit concert for the HARTFORD, Conn.: Branch 93 of Chamber Ensemble's Spring 1985 The evening's flutist, Mr. Schlefer, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art the Ukrainian National Women's concert at the Ukrainian Institute of holds a master's in rausicology from the featuring bandurists Julian Kytasty League of America will hold a tea, or America on Thursday, April 25. Graduate Center at the City'University and Ken Bloom of New York will "Chayny Vechir," to benefit The The Nova Chamber Ensemble, of New York. He has had master classes begin with a wine and cheese Ukrainian Museum.; at the Ukrai­ founded in January 1984, has with J.P. Rampel, Paula Robison and reception at 7 p.m., followed by the nian National Home, 961 Wethers­ performed at the Ukrainian Institute of Bernard Goldberg, and currently program at 8 p.m. and a post-concert field Ave., at 4 p.m. The program will America on numerous occasions in the performs with the Powell Quartet and buffet. Tax-deductible donations: include a lecture by Lubow Wolynetz past year, bringing a variety of the New York Festival Orchestra and is S25; students, SI 5. For more of The Ukrainian Museum and a per­ instrumental combinations to its the principal flutist for the Haydn- formance by dancers Nusha information, please call Oleh concerts. Mozart Chamber Orchestra. Kowerko at (312) 878-2442. Martynuk and Carter. McAdams. Refreshments will be served and do­ Consisting of a core group of Mr. Friedlander, the concert's cellist, nations will be accepted. musicians, including pianist Laryssa is a music graduate of Columbia JENKINTOWN, Pa.: Manor Junior Krupa, flutist James R. Schlefer and University. He is a recipient of the 1985 College will hold an open house for PHILADELPHIA: A benefit cellist Erik Friedlander and members of "Meet the Composer Grant" as well as prospective students, their parents the Westfield (N.J.) String Quartet, the of a fellowship at the Aspen Music and friends at 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the concert for the Ukrainian Human Rights Committee and tribute to ensemble will also call upon various Festival. He has performed with the Academic Building. Presentations other musicians as its program requires. Spoletto Festival in Italy, the National will be given on admissions Ukrainian political prisoner Mykola Horbal will be held at the Ukrainian The April 25 performance will Orchestra of New York and the procedures and career options. A include a piece for flute and piano by National Chamber Orchestra. tour of the campus will be offered, Cultural and Educational Center, 700 Cedar Road, at 6 p.m. Mykola Lysenko titled "Fantasia on Soprano Marjorie Patterson, a native Sftd lunch will be served in the Ukrainian Themes," Ravel's of Canada, has sung with the Stratford cafeteria. Participants in the program will be former political' prisoner Nadia "Chanssons Madecaises" for soprano, Shakespeare Festival. A graduate of Svitlychna, pianist Bohdan Sperkacz flute, cello and piano, and Carl Maria Brooklyn College, she currently teaches HARTFORD, Conn.: Branch 106 of and Lydia Krushelnytska's theater Weber's "Trio For Flute, Piano and at the Preparatory Center there. She has the Ukrainian National Women's' ensemble. For more information call Cello." performed in the United States, League of America will hold its (215) 782-1019. The evening's performance will Canada, Germany and England. annual children's masquerade at St. incorporate the talents of pianist Ms. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. at the Michael's Ukrainian Parish School IRVINGTON, N J.: The Ukrainian Krupa, who is well known in the UIA, 2 E. 79th St. (near Fifth Avenue). hall, 126 Wethersfield Ave. Athletic-Educational Association Ukrainian community. She holds a Suggested donation is S7 for adults, Admission: SI.50. For more Chornomorska Sitch Inc. will hold master's degree in music from the S4 for senio`r citizens and students. For information call Halya Balaban at its 60th anniversary jubilee banquet Peabody Conservatory, and in 1983 more information, please call (212) 924- (203)659-1935. and ball at Club Navaho Manor, 239 debuted at Carnegie Recital Hall in 8152 or 777-7675. — 40th St. A free pre-banquet cocktail PHILADELPHIA: Dr. Ivan hour will begin at 5 p.m., and music Holowinsky of Rutgers University will be provided by the Tempo band. Ukraina dancers to perform at benefit will give a lecture on the "Develop­ Donations: S30; students. S25. For of the church with the painting of ment of the Intellect and Its reservations call (201) 373-8783. CHICAGO - The Ukraina' Folk Measurement"at the Ukrainian Cul­ Dance Ensemble will perform at a beautiful icons on the ceiling and walls tural and Educational Center. 700 concert benefitting St. Joseph's in the ancient traditions of the Cedar Road, at 6 p.m. For more in­ PLEASE NOTE: Preview items Ukrainian Catholic Church on Byzantine Rite. The work is very time formation call (215) 663-1166. must be received one week before Saturday, April 27, at 7 p.m. at the consuming and very costly, and is desired date ol publication. No Ridgcwuuil High ЗіЛіииІ ttuUilorium, expected to be completed, in time for April 27 - May 21 information will be taken over the 7500 W. Montrose Ave., Norridge, III. the celebration of the millennium of phone. Preview items will be publish­ The ensemble's fast-paced and Ukraine's conversion to Christianity NEW YORK: Recent paintings by ed only once (please note desired date colorful interpretations of Ukrainian in 1988. Roxolana Luchakowsky Armstrong of publication). All items are publish­ folk dance have captivated audiences of The 50-member group is under the will be on display at the Ukrainian ed at the discretion of the editorial all ages throughout the United States artistic direction of choreographer Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. An staff and in accordance with available and Canada. Ukraina recently return­ Evhen Litvinov, formerly of the Virsky opening reception will be held April space. ed from an 11-day engagement as Dance Ensemble of Kiev, Ukraine. This 27 at 2 - 6 p.m. Gallery hours: 2-6 "ambassadors-in-residence" at Walt concert is the first in a series of spring p.m. daily, except Mondays. PREVIEW OF EVENTS, alisting Disney World's EPCOT Center. concerts to be presented in five cities. of Ukrainian community events open St. Joseph's Ukrainian Catholic Tickets may be obtained from the St. April 27 - June 2 to the public, is a service provided Church, 5000 N. 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