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...

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...

Lemkos: 70-th anniversary of Operation Vistula and 17th Lemko Festival in the United States

by Lidia Korsun, New York. Our mountains, our mountains, our mountains the Carpathians, I would not change you, Not for any amount of money. (From Lemko hymn) I was lucky enough to recently be...

OOL and CYM Partner on Akcja “Wisla” Educational Project

by Mark Howansky (May 16, 2017) The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) and the Ukrainian-American Youth Association (CYM) have partnered to help educate people about the 1947 forced resettlement of the...

OOL Information Session by M.Howansky in Pittsburgh, PA. May 2017

President Mark Howansky provided information about the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) including history, current activities and how to get more involved.

Interview with the head of the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna, Mark Howansky

We decided to do a series of interviews with the heads of Lemko organizations which are members of the World Federation of Ukrainian Lemko Associations (SFULO). First we decided to talk with the newly...

Leadership of Lemko Organizations Passes to Next Generation

by Diana Howansky Reilly Clifton, NJ — At the national conventions of two U.S.-based Lemko organizations this month, elections resulted in the selection of new Presidents, signaling the organizations’ continuing growth and development as...