FOR REMEMBRANCE DAY

 

I have posted this last year, but it's so relevant to Remembrance Day that I'm doing it again.  

http://www.infoukes.com/genealogy/tracz/remember.html

FOR MOTHER'S DAY

My article "Mama's War" had been around for many years now.  I have received comments about it from around the world.  Many people whose parents lived through the same events wrote that parts of this life could have been their mother's or father's story.  

Who knows how that generation survived the war and aftermath?  But they made our lives possible.  

If you haven't yet, write down your parents' and grandparents stories for yourself and your children. Don't let them be forgotten.

UKRAINIAN EASTER IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP, 1945

Time to repost this

 

 

A DIFFERENT EASTER - in 1945

I remembered that ten years ago I had translated a portion of a chapter from Ukrainian Political Prisoners in Nazi Concentration Camps by Dr. Michael Marunchak. It was published in that year's Easter Saturday edition of the Globe and Mail (Toronto). Afterwards, Dr. Marunchak heard from a number of colleagues from around North America who also survived the camps.   It was reprinted in The Ukrainian Weekly here

I was happy that Dr. Marunchak was still around to see and read the translation.  He passed away two years later.   He encouraged me to translate the rest of his book, to tell the world about Ukrainian sacrifice in World War II. 

John Demjaniuk has passed away.  Vichna Yomu Pam'iat'. 

To some, he is a "Nazi war criminal."  To others, a victim of vengeance without evidence.  

Enough that he could not have been a "Nazi" because he was not an "Aryan" -- he was a subhuman, a Ukrainian, and they were considered Untermenschen by the Nazis.  Look into the shameful totally dishonest "investigations" of the US OSI (see review below) and how they captured "war criminals."

I find it beyond chutzpah that Germany would be the country prosecuting WWII war criminals!  Other than German, because they have been exempt from these laws?  Remember the Soviet trumped up evidence against Ukrainians, so thoroughly obvious.

Shame on all involved in these prosecutions.  During WWII, Ukraine fought both the Nazis and the Soviets, and had no one aiding them at all.  Ukrainians had the most human losses during the war.  During that time, there was not even a Ukr. government -- the Nazis considered Ukraine an economic colony -- everything from Ukraine was being removed west to Germany -- people, resources, even the black soil.

Hey, there are still people to catch -- I'm a child of forced labourers -- am I next?  What about the teenagers captured and taken to Germany to work?  See Marsha Skrypuch's book Making Bombs for Hitler

I should not be giving them ideas but, hey, there are still all those who were Displaced Persons in Germany and Austria after the war, the DPs who refused to go back to Uncle Joe Stalin's "paradise."  The Soviets were our allies, weren't they?  So the DPs and their kids and grandkids are next on the lists?   Same logic.

see these sources:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144135#.T2TPcnkyKCV

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/289607.shtml

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/299607.shtml

http://www.alfreddezayas.com/Articles/Demjanjuksehftel.shtml

Remembrance Day

Didn't mean to forget Remembrance Day today. Please see my "Remember" [below].

Also -- as mentioned in "Remember", there were many others in the war:

http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2002/180218.shtml

Dr. Marunchak passed away in Dec. 2004. He was pleased that this appeared in The Globe and Mail. He heard from many friends afterwards. One of these days, will translate more of his experiences (have his permission).