2020. XXXI OOL Convention slide show

“Don’t forget who we are – proud Lemkos!” – speech of newly re-elected President of OOL Mark Howansky. Yonkers, NY. March 7, 2020

2020. XXXI OOL Convention Banquet. Part 2

2020. XXXI OOL Convention Banquet. Part 1

Head of Organization for Defense of Lemkivshchyna visits HURI

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The national president of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym as OOL), Mark Howansky, met with Profs. Lubomyr Hajda and Roman Szporluk at...

OOL – Participant of XI World Congress of Ukrainians in Kyiv

Report of Mark Howansky – President of OOL about the recent OOL activity in XI World Congress of Ukrainians, which was held in Kyiv on November 24-27, 2018

Piecing Back Together a Community at the ХVІІІ-th Lemko “Vatra”

By Diana Howansky Reilly Ellenville, NY – Speak to a Lemko and the conversation will inevitably turn to the fact that their mountainous homeland, Lemkivshchyna — or the Lemko region in current-day southeastern Poland...

New OOL Branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse

Lemko organization reinvigorating branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse By Diana Howansky Reilly PHILADELPHIA – It was back on September 9, 1933, that a small group of immigrants gathered on 13th Street in New...

Syracuse Branch of Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna is reactivated

By Lida H. Buniak Participants of the OOL Information Session in Syracuse, N.Y. Picture by Tatiana Galinskaia SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Representatives from Canada and the United States of the Organization for the Defense of...

OOL Information Session by M.Howansky in Philadelphia, PA. April 2018

Many thanks to Ivan and Anna Yavorsky and Basia Barna Andrushko from OOL Branch # 6 for organizing the OOL Information Session in Philadelphia, PA on April 22, 2018 conducted by OOL National Board...

Yurij Kowalczyk Memorial Fund Press Release

On January 29, 2018 the Yurij Kowalczyk Memorial Fund was formally ratified by the National Board of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL). The fund was made possible by a generous combined...