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...
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...
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...
President Mark Howansky provided information about the Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) including history, current activities and how to get more involved.
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...
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...
The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna conducted its 29th national convention on October 26, 2013 at the Ukrainian Youth Center in Yonkers, NY, resulting in the election of a new President and National...
