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Samchuk, Ulas : P’IAT’ PO DVANADTSIATII : ZAPYSKY NA BIHU. [FIVE AFTER TWELVE: NOTES ON THE RUN.]

Buenos-Aires; M. Denysiuk, 1954

Original Illustrated Wrappers bound into later cloth 12mo. 230 pages. 18 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainain. Memoir of Ulas Samchuk, a Ukrainian Journalist, writer and member of the Ukrainian Government in Exile as well as the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. During World War II, Samchuk was the head of the civilian police of the Reichskommisariat in Rivne. From 1941-1943, he was editor of the Rivne newspaper Volyn', before fleeing to Germany in 1944, where he founded and headed the literary-artistic organization MUR until 1948. In 1948, he emigrated to Canada and became the leader of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile. The administration's tasks included the pacification of the region and the exploitation, for German benefit, of its resources and people” (Wikipedia). For more see Dieter Pohl, “Schauplatz Ukraine: Der Massenmordan den Juden im Militärverwaltungsgebiet und im Reichskommisariat 1941–1943."Subjects: Refugees -- Ukraine -- Biography. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Tear at top front hinge of later boards, internally Very good condition. (UKR-1-26A)

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