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18 “НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 2011 E NCORE FOR UNWLA HONORARY MEMBER OLGA TRYTYAK Olga Wyslocka - Trytyak was born into a patriotic Ukrainian family in Mukachev, in the Carpathian region of Ukraine, on January 20, 1923. Her father Ivan was a freedom fighter in the early 1900s. When Ukraine fell to the Bolsheviks in 1921, he fled with his bride Nadia Oleksiiw to the Carpathian region of Ukraine, then part of Czechoslovakia. In 1936, the family moved to Sambir in Western Ukraine. In 1942, Olga graduated from a teacher’s seminary in Sambir and married music teacher Wolodymyr Trytyak. The turmoil of World War II brought thousands of Ukraini ans, including the Trytyaks, to Germany. Following the war, most of these Ukrainians ended up in displaced persons camps, eventually emigrating to far corners of the world. In 1948, Olga and Wolodymyr Trytyak and their two young children, Jurij and Marta, emigrated to Paraguay. Four years later, in 1952, they arrived in the United States of America and settled in Trenton, New Jersey. Olga began working for the old Bell Telephone Company; she also devoted herself to raising her children and instilling in the m the values of their ancestral Ukrainian heritage. Both children became professionals and active members of the Ukrainian American community. Olga Trytyak joined the UNWLA in 1961. Initially a member of UNWLA Branch 11, she later transferred to UNWLA Bra nch 86. During the past 26 years Olga has served the UNWLA in many positions on branch, regional council, and national levels, always seizing the opportunity to promote Ukrainian cultural heritage. For the past twelve years she has held the post of UNWLA a rchivist on the National Board. This enormous task included sending 93 boxes of catalogued UNWLA archival material to the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Olga is also a member of the Ukrainian Museu m in New York, the Ukrainian Museum Archives in Cleveland, Ohio, and St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Newark, New Jersey. She currently resides in Matawan, New Jersey. 1986 Immigration Museum at Statue of Liberty. From left: UNWLA VP Lidia Hladky, UNWLA NJ RC President Olga Trytyak, Immigration Museum curator Lonnie McGuire, UNWLA Br. 32 member Mary Machera. In supporting the mission and goals of the UNWLA Olga Trytyak found similarities to her own convic tions regarding her ancestral homeland Ukraine, its history, culture, and its fight for freedom. She knew and understood that in her adopted country, the United States of America, Ukraine was basically unknown; as part of the USSR (until 1991) Ukraine did not officially exist as a geopolitical entity, and few non - Ukrainians were aware of its history. She dedicating herself to raising awareness about Ukraine, participating in and promoting efforts to teach others in a “show and tell” method that would help p eople understand the country and its people. Accepting a leadership position in Branch 11 in Trenton, New Jersey, she encouraged young soyuzianky of UNWLA Branch 19 (a branch she founded) to participate in a demonstration and exhibit of an ancient Ukrainia n art form — pysanky — at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. It was a very successful ex - hibit, and Olga received a letter of gratitude and appreciation from the Executive Assistant to the Director Karen Gasco Cummins for her endeavors. As president of U NWLA New Jersey Regional Council from 1985 to 1986, she grasped the opportunity to renovate the Ukrainian exhibit at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York. She and her committee members visited the homes of pre - WW II immigrant Ukrainians and collec ted items for the museum’s “Treasures from Home” exhibit. An inscription on the museum wall ack now - 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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