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IN MEMORY OF TETIANA KARDYNALOWSKA On June 23 of this year, an extraordinary person, loving mother and tireless advocate of human goodness — Tetiana Kardynalowska, passed away in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Tetiana was born into the Ukrainian family of ge neral Mychaijlo Kardynalowskij. Her father’s occupation forced their family to move around quite a bit, to such places as Moscow, Siberia and the Caucuses. Before World War I the Kardynalowskij family settled perman ently in Kyyiv, where Tetiana finished high school. Later she entered the Kyyiv Polytechnic Institute to study engineering, but did not obtain a degree due to the uncertain political climate of the time. Tetiana’s first husband was Vsevolod Holubovych, prime minister of the Central ‘‘Rada." He was arrested by the Bolshevik army during the “vyzvolni zmahania” (struggle-for-freedom) and almost killed. Tetiana tried to save Vsevolod, but he had been moved to a jail in Kharkov. She, too, was arrested and served a nine month jail sentence. When she was set free, Tetiana found work on the editorial staff of the “Selanska pravda” (Peasant Truth) newspaper. The editor at that time was Serhij Pyly- penko, an eminent writer, political figure and founder of the peasant writer’s league — “Pluh.” In 1924 she mar ried Pylypenko, but they hardly had a life together, since in 1933 he was arrested. Shortly thereafter he died, unknown how, where or why. Tetiana and her two young daughters, Asia and Mirtala, were sent beyond the borders of Ukraine. They settled in Kalinini, which is now once again referred to as Tver. Here she found work as a publisher at the Institute, and her daughters began attending school. Before the War, without permission, they returned to Ukraine, where they encountered German occupa tion of Vinnytsia. In 1943 the Germans took Tetiana and her daughters to Austria for forced labor. However, before the War was over, all three escaped from the pri son camp, with the dream of getting to France. Asia and Mirtala were captured and taken back to work at a penal camp. After searching for her children, Tetiana learned where they were held and managed to get them out of the prison camp. The excuse she used was that her daughters were needed right away for an important vil lage project. This was only one of the many heroic acts in the life of this extraordinary woman. Instead of France, the family settled in Italy, where they stayed at displaced persons camps. In 1947 they were able to travel to England and from there emigrated to America, where they finally settled. At first, Tetiana and Asia worked in a factory in New Haven, Conn., while Mirtala married and settled with her husband in New Haven. She also went on to finish art school and obtained a Master’s Degree in arts ar Tufts University. Asia also successfully finished Albertus Magnus Col lege and traveled to Cambridge, Mass. to study the Slavic languages. Tetiana also moved to Cambridge to teach Russian language at Harvard University. She was definitely just as fluent in Russian as in Ukrainian, since for 15 years in Ukraine she worked as a translator from the Russian to Ukrainian, (translating 34 books and arti cles.) She was also one of the authors of the first Ukrainian dictionary of chemistry terms and taught Russian to high school teachers at the Kalininsky Uni versity in Moscow. "НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 1993 21
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