By Diana Howansky Reilly *Originally printed in the Ukrainian Weekly newspaper YONKERS, NY – “Lemkivshchyna may have been destroyed as a geographic entity and others may have tried to stamp out the fire of...
“Don’t forget who we are – proud Lemkos!” – speech of newly re-elected President of OOL Mark Howansky. Yonkers, NY. March 7, 2020
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
