Syracuse Branch of Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna is reactivated

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 Lemkiv-shchyna and the president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Lemko Associations (known by the Ukrainian acronym SFULO), met on June 30-July 1 in Syracuse,…

ByAndriy KhomykJuly 20, 20180Comments

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New OOL Branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse

PHILADELPHIA – It was back on September 9, 1933, that a small group of immigrants gathered on 13th Street in New York City with the goal of providing material and moral support to their homeland: Lemkivshchyna, or the Lemko region, a Ukrainian ethnographic area in southeastern Poland. They elected a committee, began activities such as…

ByDiana Howansky ReillyJuly 10, 20180Comments