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YURIY SHUKHEVYCH, POLITICAL PRISONER, NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW Yuriy Shukhevych has the unfortunate distinction of being known as the ‘eternal prisoner of the Soviet Union, having spent 30 out of his 48 years in prison. His ‘crime’? The fact that he was the son of Ukrainian guer rilla leader, General Roman Shukhevych. He was first arrested in 1948, at the age of 14, and rearrested in 1968 and 1972. In the years 1968 through 1972 he lived in the Caucasus (exiled from Ukraine). While there, he married and became the father of two children. For the past decade, Shukhevych has been in carcerated in Vladimir prison as a ‘dangerous state criminal.’ His crime was to write down two dozen critical words about the Soviet regime during his incarceration. During the years in Valdimir prison, his health was precarious. He suffered from chronic ulcer, heart, vision, and dental problems, but did not receive the ne cessary medical attention. The latest tragic news about Shuhkevych is that he has lost 99% of his vision after an operation performed in a prison hospital. In effect he has been blinded. The mother of Yuriy Shukhevych wrote a letter on March 25, 1982 describing the heart-rending experience of seeing her son incapacitated by blindness and his ill- treatment in prison. “I visited my son together with my daughter. We waited the entire month of September for a permit. We found him in a deplorable state. He had begun to lose sight in one eye very rapidly, the other was totally blind. He could not even recognize faces. This was in the middle of November and on Christmas day (January 7 by Eastern rite) they performed surgery. One eye was operated for a detached retina and the other for a cataract as well as a detached retina. Following the operation he regained sight in one eye for two weeks after which time he became totally blind. He is a virtual invalid but was designated only as an ‘invalid of the second category.’ How much more incapacitated can one be? He is also in a state of com plete malnutrition and exhaustion. He should undergo a treatment of resuscitation which would restore his general health, if indeed anything at all can help him. An inhuman fate befell him and us...” When my daughter and I came to see him in the hospital (after the operation), they brought him to us. He was feeling his way in order to reach me and I burst into tears. I hugged him, but his chest felt like a ladder — bones covered with skin — it was painful to look at him and even more painful to speak. I had never cried during these past thirty years until now. Soviet regime had completed its task." The Senate and House have passed House Con current Resolution No. 205, proposing that November 9, 1982 be proclaimed as the day honoring the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Helsinki Accords. Most of the 37 members of the group are in prison, labor camps, or exiled. President Reagan’s signature to the Resolution is now required to finalize the issue. The ‘Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine’ committee is coordinating a massive campaign to urge people to write to President Reagan, expressing their opinion as to how important his decision will be to the lives of Ukrainian political prisoners, among them Yuriy Shukhevich. The committe requests that letters to President Reagan be channeled through their group in order to better coordinate the campaign. Contact the commit tee at 43 Midland Place, Newark, NJ 07106, telephone (201) 373-9739. DONATIONS TO THE HELEN LOTOTSKY FUND Donations to the HELEN LOTOTSKY FUND conti nue to “pour in” to the UNWLA Office. Most recently the following letter was received from Anna Dubas, a member of Branch 26 of Newark, stating: “I am enclosing herein my check for $500. for the ‘Fund of Helen Lototska.' I can remember her from my early childhood. She was a great beauty in that time, and a wonder ful leader for the women’s movement here in America. I am making this donation at this time since in November 1982, Branch 28 in Newark will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. My mother was a member of Branch 28 and now I am following in her footsteps.” The UNWLA Executive Board is indeed appreciative of such loyal support. ROSALIE POLCHE UNWLA Secretary DIRECTOR MARIA SHUST AN NOUNCES THAT THE UKRAINIAN MU SEUM RECEIVES $20,053 FROM INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES For a second consecutive year a portion of the Ukrainian Museum’s general operating funds for this fiscal year was provided by a General Operating Support grant from the Insti tute of Museum Services, a Federal agency that administers to the nation’s museums. The allocation of $20,053 is the maximum possible for the Ukrainian Museum under IMS guidelines. The maximum allocations are 10% of an operating budget, not in excess of $35,000. The proceeding year IMS had also awarded the Ukrainian Museum with the possible maximum of $15,932. The Ukrainian Museum was selected from a field of 1141 applications submitted by museums in every state, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. In her closing letter Director of the Institute of Museum Services, Lilia Tower, writes: “I congratulate you on receiving this award. It is an indication of the quality of your museum and of its service to your community and to the nation.” It is with pride The Ukrainian Museum accepts notification of a $20,053 grant from the Institute of Museum Services.
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