Cerkwie łemkowskie budowano przeważnie na niewielkich wzniesieniach i były one zawsze otaczane wieńcem drzew, spośród których wyłaniały się krzyże i wieżyczkowe zwieńczenia, stanowiąc silny akcent krajobrazowy. [img] Łemkowie wznosili świątynie do końca XVIII w. niemalże wyłącznie z drewna. Wyjątek stanowią tylko dwie XVII – wieczne, murowane świątynie – jedna z nich, wzniesiona w Trzcianie istnieje do dzisiaj. Jednak…
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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