Lemkivshchyna – illustrated history

by Yulian Tarnovich This book was first published in Lviv in 1936, and only few copies made it to the USA. Even though this book does not cover, with its contents, the entire history...

Lemkos (лемки; lemky)

by Volodymyr Kubijovyč A Ukrainian ethnic group which until 1946 lived in the most western part of Ukraine on both sides of the Carpathian Mountainsand along the Polish-Slovak border (see Lemko region). The name seems to be derived...

Operation Wisla

The code name of the military operation, by Polish military and security units (April 28 to July 21, 1947), that resulted in the deportation of 150,000 Ukrainians from their autochthonous territories (the Lemko region,...

Лемки

Лемки – етнографічна група українців. Мешкали на території, що зветься Лемківщиною – в Карпатах (по обох схилах Східних Бескидів) між ріками Сяном і Дунайцем у межах сучасної Польщі, та на північний захід від ріки Уж...

Akcja “Wisla” Academia in Yonkers 2017

Academia, commemorating 70-th anniversary of Akcja “Wisla” conducted by the Second Branch of OOL in Yonkers 4.30.2017. Full movie ˮ Вічний поклик серцяˮ you can find on YouTube following the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXbvrFx6ykw

70 YEARS AGO – OPERATION “VISTULA”

Askold S. Lozynskyj. Attempted Genocide – “To solve the Ukrainian problem in Poland once and for all” After the establishment of new borders between the USSR and its new satellite the Polish Peoples’ Republic...

Lemko Folk

by ELDER MOUNTAIN DREAMING Lemko (Лемківщина; Lemkivshchyna) and Lemko region is a large territory traditionally inhabited by the Lemko peoples of Ukraine, Poland and Slovak territory since stone age times. After the deportation of Lemkos from the...

Digging into Lemko and Ukrainian Family History in Poland, Ukraine and the U.S.

By Michael Buryk 1852 Austrian Map of Siemuszowa, Galicia Introduction Dobra, Sanok, Lesko, Krosno, Nowy Sacz. These are all places that I had never seen until the last few years, but they captured my...

Ale zdjęcia pozostały…

Ich barwne życie zniszczyła wojna i przesiedlenia, ale zdjęcia pozostały. Poznaj fascynujący świat Bojków i Łemków Waldemar Kowalski Bogata kultura dwóch mało znanych grup etnicznych, które – sąsiadując ze sobą – od pokoleń zamieszkiwały...

The Lost Homeland and Lasting Identity of the Lemko People

By Wojciech Oleksiak Right in the south-eastern corner of Poland, in the Low Beskid Mountains, lies a land called Lemkivshchyna. Nowadays remote and sparsely populated, this territory is the ancestral home of one of Europe’s...