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14 “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛИПЕНЬ - СЕРПЕНЬ 2009 UNWLA Web News The UNWLA website, lo cated on the Internet at www.unwla.org, is an excellent tool that allows us to keep the public and UNWLA members informed about our organiza - tion and its activities. We invite all UNWLA Branches and Regional Councils to advertise activities, events, and ne ws by posting the data on the website. Please submit your activity calendars and any information that you want to share with the public to the UNWLA Website Committee for review and posting. If possible, please send submissions in Ukrainian and English. Email material to cyawebmaster@UNWLA.org or send by mail to: Zoriana Haftkowycz, 761 W. Foothill Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807. For questions or additional information, please call Webmaster Zoriana Haftkowycz at 908 - 231 - 9158. “ Our Life ” Flashback As OL celebrates its 65th anniversary, it’s interesting to look back at issues of decades past — for ideas, for comparative analyses, and sometimes purely for fun. A previous c olumn on this theme appeared in March of this year and focused on a single issue from 19 79. This month’s focus is a bit broader and explores several of the summer issues published during the 1950s and 1960s. These were the “bad old days” when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union, and many of the articles (in both languages) reflect the geopolitical realities and problems of the times as well as tragedies of earlier decades. The July 1953 issue, for example, includes an article entitled “8 Years of Imprisonment for 8 Corncobs,” a tragic saga of a family that refused to join a collective farm in Zaporizhia and, more specifically, the story of a mother sentenced to a penal camp in Mariupol for gathering corncobs with which to feed her hungry family. In the same issue, we find an article about the Ukrainian woman educator, a wide - ranging pro file of women of the 1800s and 1900s deter - mined to teach Ukrainian children history, geo - graphy, literature, and other subjects in the Ukrain - ian language , often covertly and at their own peril. The article describes the work of two sisters who ran a kind ergarten in their apartment living room, the efforts of women in Eastern Ukraine who taught during the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the determination of those in Western Ukraine who taught despite the numerous constraints im - posed by Polish o ccupation. The article goes on to describe, albeit peripherally, the endeavors of Ukrainian teachers working in dis placed persons camps in Austria and Germany. One reads and marvels. In the July 1956 issue, there is a is an article about the 500 martyrs of Kingir — women crushed under Soviet tanks in one of the infamous labor camps. There is a brief and fascinating sidebar about a joint pastoral letter from the Catholic Bishops of England condemning the persecution of the church in Soviet Ukraine. A few pa ges later, we discover an article about Lesia Petliura, the daughter of the man who was supreme commander of the army of the Ukrainian National Republic and later served as the president of the short - lived republic. It is an ar rest - ing story of a child ra ised in turbulent circum - stances, shuttled from one hiding place to another in Kyiv, Vienna, and Geneva. We read further and see a child devastated by the assassination of a beloved father and tormented by mean - spirited classmates who had heard from their Russophile parents that Petliura was a murderous bandit and worse. The account continues with further travails — tuber - culosis, abject poverty, isolation, and death. The author describes in some detail the grief - stricken mother who is forced to bury her only child in the Pyrenees — in the private burial plot of a generous French family . The gravesite service was performed by a Basque Catholic priest, himself a fugitive from Spanish authorities. Compelling reading that serves Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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