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Abstract / Summary

(Displaced Persons) Interviews conducted since 1989 with individuals who witnessed the events of the Second World War and immigrated and settled in Canada after the war. Respondents include survivors of German and Soviet concentration camps, members of various World War II military formations, and forced laborers. Ukrainian Canadian community leaders within political, cultural and religious institutions have been identified. Their biographies, as well as their views on the present and future of Ukrainian life in Canada, are recorded. Organizations referred to include the Ukrainian-Canadian Committee (UCC), "Akcia Visa", the Carpatho-Ukraine United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), the Ukrainian Division "Halylchyna", and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Contains references to Rimini, Brody and Babyn Yar, in Ukraine, and to various cities in Canada. This is an ongoing project. Ukrainian, English. Open. Computer listing at the subject level in preparation.

Field of Interest

Letters and Diaries

Content Type

Oral history

Format

Related Web resources

URL

http://www.ucrdc.org/Archive-Oral-History.html

Publisher

Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre

Place Published / Released

Ontario

Subject

Letters and Diaries, History, Armed forces, War, Ucrania, Canada, Europe, North America, Ukraine

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Ucrania