www.ukrweekly.com СВ0Б0ДАІ1|8У0В0ВА і | 1 Ж УКРЛЇНСЬКИЙ щоденник ЧИИ^ ЧИЯ Л І Н І ЛН О ЛІІУ і UlcrainianWeekENGLISH-LANGUAGE WEEKLY EDITION l ї VOL. LXXXVII. No. 109 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. MAY 11, 1980 25 CENTS Sira named Mother of Year Chicagoan Julian Kulas named by Ukrainian rights groups to Holocaust Memorial Council JERSEY CITY. N.J. - The United officials merits the admiration and The Weekly reported in its April 13 Ukrainian Human RightsGroups of the compassion of all Ukrainians, and the issue that a U krainian was among the 50 United States and Canada named group urges all Ukrainians to give her persons approved for membership in Valentyna Sira of Odessa the Ukrainian family spiritual, moral and financial the council. The names of the members, Mother of the Year. The honor was support. however, had not been released at that bestowed upon Sira for her tireless and і Among the committees involved in time. valiant struggle with Soviet authorities the United Ukrainian Human Rights According to the Ukrainian National to gain emigration rights for her family. Groups are the Committee for the Information Service in Washington, Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, Sira, the mother of eight children, President Jimmy Carter appointed the the Human Rights for Ukraine Com­ 50-member U.S. Holocaust Memorial wrote an impassioned appeal recently mittee, the Committee for the Defense released by^Smoloskyp in which she Council to carry out the recommenda­ of Human Rights in Ukraine, the tions of the President's Commission on describes constant harassment by So­ Ukrainian Council on Human Rights, viet authorities and continuous threats the Holocaust, which were contained in the Committee for the Defense of a report submitted in the fall of 1979. by the KGB to split up and relocate her Ukrainian Political Prisoners, Ameri­ family. The Commission on the Holocaust was cans for Human Rights in Ukraine, the established in November 1978. The United Ukrainian Human Rights Ukrainian Committee in Defense of The commission's three-part pro­ Groups said Sira is a symbol of all the Human Rights in the Soviet Union, the Committee for Human Rights in posal for a Holocaust memorial called persecuted and repressed Ukrainians in for the establishment of a memorial the Soviet Union. Her devotion to her Ukraine Jind the Toronto Human Rights Committee. museum in Washington, an educational family and her defiance of Soviet Julian Kulas foundation, and a Committee on Con­ JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Julian science which would review cases of Kulas, a Chicago lawyer, has been genocide throughout the world. Sosnovka inmates: Soviet medical care named to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial The chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Council, reported the Philadelphia- Memorial Council is Elie Wiesel, a flaunts 'principles of human dignity' based Ukrainian Anti-Defamation Holocaust survivor and noted author League on Tuesday, May 6. and scholar who was chairman of the NEW YORK - In a 1979 appeal to stated that he was healthy. It is to be Mr. Kulas, 46, is vice president of the President's Commission on the Holo­ Amnesty International, members of the noted that this "doctor" continues to Ukrainian Congress Committee of caust. Helsinki monitoring group in the Sos­ "offer assistance" in the Sosnovka America branch in Chicago and presi­ The newly named council includes 11 novka labor, camp in the Mordovian concentration camp as if nothing hap­ dent of the Ukrainian American Demo­ other members who are survivors of the ASSR documented medical maltreat­ pened, under the protection of the cratic Organization of Illinois. Nazi Holocaust, reported UNIS acting ment and officially sanctioned neglect administration. Alexandra Shwed, league president, director Martha Kichorowsky. within the Soviet prison system. In 1977, Canadian citizen H. Tsini- reported news of the appointment after Among other members are Victor The petition was signed by Balys ridze, who was transferred to Sosnovka learning from Monroe Freedman, the Borge, Danish actor; Set Monjian, Gajauskas, Aleksandr Ginzburg, Svia- after having suffered two heart attacks, council's administrative director, that White House representative to the toslav Karavansky, Edvard Kuznetsov, died in the camp. A person in his the names of the 50 Holocaust council Human Rights Commission in Geneva My kola Rudenko, Bohdan Rebryk and condition should have been released members had been officially released. (Continued on page 2) Danylo Shumuk. immediately on grounds of poor health; The authors assert that the adminis: nevertheless, the administration did not t rat ion of medical assistance in prison act, waiting for Tsiniridze to suffer a camps and places of exile cynically third attack and die in the camp infir­ UNA Supreme Assembly begins "flaunts all principles of human dig­ mary. nity." In 1975, West German citizen Dun- regular annual meeting May 12 The following is the full text of the kel died in Sosnovka; his prison sen­ samvydav document which was releas­ tence was not shortened despite the fact JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The Regular Askold Lozynskyj, Taras Szmagala, ed here by the press service of the that he had cancer. Annual Meeting of the Supreme As­ Anna Haras, Helen Olek, Wasyl Di- Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council In 1977, 23-year-old Sosnovka sembly of the Ukrainian National diuk, John Odezynsky, Myroslaw Kal- (abroad). prisoner Volobuiev died of tuber­ Association will begin May 12 at the ba, Mykola Chomanczuk, Roman In spite of the fact that the Constitu­ culosis, after contracting the disease Soyuzivka resort in Kerhonkson, N.Y. Kuropas, Mychajlo Soroka and Eugene tion of the USSR guarantees its citizens from a fellow inmate, Tsvetkov, who The deliberations will continue through Repeta; free medical care and that the correc­ was already in an advanced stage of TB May 17. Honorary members of the Supreme Assembly Roman Slobodian, Maria tive-labor legislation states that the and had died a year earlier, in 1976. Expected to attend the meeting are: same medical attention is to be accord­ In 1975, V. Pecharev died as a result Chuchman, Walter Didyk, Stephen Supreme President John O. Flis, Su­ Kuropas, John W. Evanchuk, Jaroslaw ed to prisoners as to the rest of the of delayed surgery. preme Vice President Myron В. Kuro- citizens of the USSR, we attest to the During the seven years of the Sos­ Padoch, Joseph Lesawyer, Genevieve pas. Supreme Director for Canada Sen. Zerebniak, Anna Chopek, Bohdan fact that medical care is only formally novka torture chamber's existence, Paul Yuzyk, Supreme Vice President accorded and that, in fact, it is nothing there have been 15 deaths; this consti­ Zorych and Walter Zaparaniuk, as well Mary Dushnyck, Supreme Secretary as editor-emeritus Anthony Dragan. but a cruel flaunting of human dignity. tutes 50 percent of the general number Walter Y. Sochan, Supreme Treasurer We will cite several examples. In our of inmates. Ulana M. Diachuk, Supreme Organizer open letter to the readers of the Soviet Currently, at this death-factory, Wasyl Orichowsky; propagandist ic press, we brought up the "Doctor" Denisova continues to "ad­ INSIDE: case of political prisoner Oleksa minister medical care" using the afore­ Supreme Auditing Committee mem­ Tykhy, which serves as a striking mentioned methods. bers Bohdan Futey, John Teluk, the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Stephan "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in example of medical aid in places of As a sign of protest against such the Ukraine" — read about this new imprisonment and exile. The cancer- medical practice, the political prisoners Bilak, Bohdan Hnatiuk and John Hew- ryk; Broadway comedy in Helen stricken Tykhy, who was conducting a of Sosnovka have refused to consult Smindak`s "Panorama of Ukrainian hunger strike, was placed in (solitary) with "Doctor" Denisova; in so doing Supreme Advisors Anatoly Doro- culture in the Big Apple," page 9. confinement - "Doctor" Denisova (Continued on page 2) shenko. Tekla Moroz. Andrew Jula, THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1980 No. 109 Student Lawyer magazine focuses Ohittiarv on illegalities in Lukianenko case Dr. Alexander Kulchytsky, JERSEY CITY, N.J. - The case of A year later, in December 1977, he lawyer Lev Lukianenko, an imprisoned was arrested. He was finally brought to outstanding psychology scholar member of the Ukrainian Public Group trial in July 1978, and was sentenced as to Promote the Implementation of the an "especially dangerous recidivist" to SARCELLES, France - Dr. Alex­ Helsinki Accords, was brought to the 10 years of imprisonment and five years ander Kulchytsky, an outstanding attention of;American law students by of exile. U krainian scholar in the field ofpsycho- legal writer Andrew Sorokowski in a "The Lukianenko case is especially loev. died here on April 30 at the age of recent issue of Student Lawyer, a instructive, for it involves a two-fold 85. publication of the student division of illegality: arbitrary suppression of a Prof. Kulchytsky was born in Galicia. the American Bar Association. people's civil and political rights; and Upon the completion of his studies, he taught at various Ukrainian high Writing in the December 1979 issue arbitrary punishment of an individual for publicly asserting those rights on its schools. During World War II, he of the magazine, Mr. Sorokowski, a emigrated to West Germany; thereafter, 1979 graduate of the University of behalf," wrote Mr. Sorokowski. The 1978 trial of Lukianenko went he took up permanent residence with his California Hastings College of the Law, wife in Sarcelles. pointed out that the Lukianenko case largely unnoticed by the American legal profession, he noted. He was a member of the Shevchenko was unusual because the defendant Scientific Society, a long-time dean of "belonged to a profession that, by its "The average American lawyer is not likely to pay attention to any but the the philosophy department as well as very nature, has an interest in preserv­ rector of the Ukrainian Free University, ing the established order." most sensational foreign criminal trials.