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...
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...
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...
