Steven Barna

1st branch OOL member since 1953.Stefan Barna was born on May 14, 1920, in the village of Wola Wyżna near Jaśliska, in the Sanok district in Lemkivshchyna. His parents, named Michael and Paraska, were both peasants. He finished 3 1/2 years of grammar school in his village. In 1947, the family was resettled to…

ByAndriy KhomykFebruary 25, 20130Comments

LemKartka Newsletter

LemKartka Newsletter #3

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ByAndriy KhomykFebruary 15, 20130Comments

Past OOL Events

XII Lemko Vatra in United States

The 2012 Lemko Vatra at Ellenville was an outstanding event. I was at all Vatras starting with 2001 and I can absolutely agree with this. Spiritually, it's all the same annual meeting of the Lemkos of the United States having a festival to remember and socialize. I am saying "USA lemkos", because rare guests arrive…

ByAndriy KhomykAugust 9, 20120Comments

History of Lemkivshchyna

Tozsamosc narodowa Lemkow

ByAndriy KhomykApril 28, 20120Comments

Deportations 1944-1951

Sixty Five Years Later

The operation began at 4AM on April 28, 1947. The result was that over a period of roughly three months some 20,000 soldiers of the Polish People’s Army, the Internal Security Corps, and special personnel of the police Milicija Obywatelska and the Security Service Urzad Bezpieszenstwa forcibly cleansed the ethnic composition of the southeastern regions…

ByAndriy KhomykApril 22, 20120Comments

Today

New life for old cemeteries in the Lemko region of Poland

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ByAndriy KhomykApril 10, 20120Comments

Past LRF Events

The first book about Lemkos.

April 2012 is the 65th anniversary of the Operation Vistula - a tragic event in the life of Lemkos, a Ukrainian ethnic minority in Poland. In 1947 Lemkos were forcibly evicted from their native land by the armed forces of the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia. As early as 1944, the governments of the Ukrainian SSR…

ByAndriy KhomykMarch 28, 20120Comments