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Volume 28. Maria Savchyn. Thousands of Roads: Memoirs

Editor in Chief IE. Shtendera
Co-editor in Chief P.J. Potichnyj
Author M. Savchyn ('Marichka')
Editor(s) P.J. Potichnyj, IE. Shtendera
Sponsors Dmytro Hajduk
Publication Year 1995
ISBN (Canada) 0-920092-40-3
Pages Count 600
Hard Copy Price $35 USD
Summary

The author describes her experiences beginning with the outbreak of the war (membership in the underground from 1944 to 1953) and ending with her immigration to the West in 1954. In 1945 the author married Vasyl Halasa, deputy head of the OUN in Zakerzonnia, who in 1947 became a member of the Main Centre of Propaganda in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1948 he was appointed OUN leader for North-Western Ukraine. The author was by her husband’s side wherever duty called, and accompanied him throughout Zakerzonnia, the Carpathians, and Volyn, and was with him in the KGB prison in Kyiv. Toronto-Lviv, 1995. Hardcover: 600 pp. Illustrations. This volume was funded by Dmytro Haiduk from the USA.