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Ulas Samchuk
Born(1905-02-20)February 20, 1905
Derman, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now Derman Druha, Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine)
DiedJuly 9, 1987(1987-07-09) (aged 82)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Monument to Ulas Samchuk in Rivne
Grave of Ulas Samchuk in Oakville, ON

Ulas Oleksiiovych Samchuk (Template:Lang-uk; 20 February 1905 – 9 July 1987) was a Ukrainian writer, publicist, journalist, and a member of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. He was a member of the nationalistic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Biography

Samchuk was born on 20 February 1905, in the village of Derman (now Derman Druha, Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine). From 1917 to 1920 he studied at a four-grade elementary school in Derman. In 1921–1925 he studied at the Kremenets Ukrainian private gymnasium. Before he finished his secondary education, he was called up for service in the Polish Army in 1927, and later deserted in August of that year, escaping to Germany. In Germany he worked delivering coal, and with the help of a supportive German family, Samchuk continued his studies at the University of Breslau.

In 1929, Samchuk moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was attracted by the city's vibrant Ukrainian community and the Ukrainian Free University in which he enrolled, and where he graduated in 1931.

In 1932, while in Prague, Samchuk first heard about the Holodomor famine, and traveled back into Soviet Ukraine to witness the event firsthand. In response, Samchuk wrote the novel Maria (1934), the first literary work about the famine, and village life at the time. In 1937, on the initiative of Yevhen Konovalets, a cultural office of the Ukrainian nationalist leadership headed by Oleh Olzhych was established. Prague became the centre of the Cultural Office, and one of the main institutions was the Section of artists, writers and journalists, chaired by Samchuk.

While Samchuks pre-war works did not appear antisemitic, to the contrary, they had described a childhood with close Jewish friends. During the war period his writings would go in the opposite direction, and would praise Hitler and call for support of the German army, while urging support to fight the "Judeo–Bolshevist" regime of the USSR, also espousing the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine. He wrote: "Where the Ukrainian state will be built, there will be no Jews there."

In 1941 he returned to Volyn as a member of one of the ultranationalist Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists marching groups, where during 1941–1942, worked as chief editor of the newspaper Volyn.

The Jewish Bolshevism theme would run throughout his articles during the war period. As an example On November 30, 1941 he wrote on witnessing the aftermath of destruction in Ternopil, caused during fighting between soviet partisan and Nazi forces, "All this occurred because of the will of the sons of Israel, who could find no better way of saving their native Soviet Union then by setting fire to the town as soon as the German army entered"

He remained the chief editor of the Volyn newspaper until March 1942. In February 1942, after Nazi authorities implemented a stricter media censorship on the subject on Ukrainian independence. In Issue 23 of Volyn on March 22, 1942 Samchuk penned an emotional editorial article "Tak bulo – Tak bude" (This is how it was – That is how it will be) that espoused Ukrainian independence, resulting in him arrested and imprisonment by the Gestapo. He was released about one month later, and then began working for the Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst.

In 1948, he emigrated to Canada and became the leader of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile. Along with publishing several books during his time in Canada, he also contributed articles regularly to the Ukrainian Quarterly. It was also during this time that his works would paint Jewish characters in a positive light, It has been purported by some scholars that his later works were a form of "expiation and atonement". In particular the novel, 'What fire does not heal (Choho ne hoit ohon)', had been called an "act of repentance".

He died in Toronto on 9 July 1987 and is buried at the St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville, Ontario.

Work

Monument to Ulas Samchuk in Zdolbuniv
Ukrainian coin commemorating Ulas Samchuk (reverse)

He published his first short story, "On Old Paths", in 1926 in the Warsaw magazine Nasha Besida. In Samchuk'sVolyn trilogy (I–III, 1932–1937), a collective image of a Ukrainian young man of the late 1920s and early 1930s is derived, which seeks to find Ukraine's place in the world.

From 1929 he began to collaborate regularly with the Literary-Scientific Bulletin, The Bells (magazines published in Lviv), The Independent Thought (Chernivtsi), the Nation-Building (Berlin), and the Antimony (without a permanent location).

Samchuk concurrently wrote the novel Kulak(1932) about the eternal commitment of the Ukrainian peasant to tilling the land and the undying optimism of farmers. His next important work was the two-volume novel The Mountains Speak (1934) which explored Carpatho-Ukraine's struggle against Hungary.

In 1947 he completed the drama Noise of the Mill. The unfinished trilogy Ost: Frost Farm (1948) and Darkness (1957), which depicts the Ukrainian man and his role in the unusual and tragic conditions of interwar and modern sub-Soviet reality.

The topics of Samchuk's final books are about the struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volhynia (the novel What Doesn't Heal Fire, 1959) and the life of Ukrainian emigrants in Canada (On Hard Land, 1967). Memoirs of Five to Twelve (1954) and On a White Horse (1956) are devoted to the experience of World War II.

Legacy

In April 2023, in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, a street was named in honor of Samchuk.

Works

  • Volyn (1932–1937, 1941-1942)
  • Kulak (1932)
  • Mountains Are Talking (1934)
  • Maria (1934), (English translation, Maria. A Chronicle of a Life 1952)
  • Youth of Vasyl Sheremeta (1946–1947)
  • Moroz's Khutir (1948)
  • Darkness (1957)
  • Escape from oneself
  • People or Servants?
  • Five Past Twelve (1954)
  • On a White Horse (1956)
  • On a Black Horse
  • What Fire does not Heal (1959)
  • Where does the river flow?
  • On Solid Earth (1967)
  • In the Footsteps of Pioneers: The Saga of Ukrainian America (1979)

Bibliography

  • Ułas Samczuk, Wołyń, wyd. 2 (reprint), ISBN 83-88863-14-2 Biały Dunajec — Ostróg 2005, wyd. «Wołanie z Wołynia»
  • Самчук У. Гори говорять. — К., 1996.
  • Самчук У. Волинь: У 2 т. — К.: Дніпро, 1993. — Т.1, 2.
  • Самчук У. Дермань. Роман: У 2 ч. — Рівне: Волинські обереги, 2005. — 120 с.
  • Самчук У. На білому коні. — Львів: Літопис Червоної Калини, 1999.
  • Самчук У. На коні вороному. — Львів: Літопис Червоної Калини, 2000.
  • Самчук У. Темнота. Роман. — Нью-Йорк, 1957. — 493 с.
  • Самчук У. Чого не гоїть огонь. — К.: Укр. письменник, 1994.
  • Самчук У. Юність Василя Шеремети: Роман. — Рівне: Волин. обереги, 2005. — 329 с.
  • Волинські дороги Уласа Сачука: Збірник. — Рівне: Азалія, 1993.
  • Гром'як Р. Розпросторення духовного світу Уласа Самчука (Від трилогії «Волинь» до трилогії «Ost») // Орієнтації. Розмисли. Дискурси. 1997—2007. — Тернопіль: Джура, 2007. — С. 248—267.
  • Улас Самчук. Ювілейний збірник. До 90-річчя народження. — Рівне: Азалія, 1994. 274
  • Тарнавський О. Улас Самчук — прозаїк // Відоме й позавідоме. — К.: Час, 1999. — С. 336—350.
  • Ткачук М. П. Художні виміри творчості Уласа Самчука // Українська мова і література в школі. — 2005. — № 6: — С. 43–47.

References

  1. ^ "Ulas Samchuk Biography". www.languagelanterns.com. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  2. ^ Shkandrij, Myroslav (2015). Ukrainian Nationalism. Yale University Press. pp. 242, Chapter 10. ISBN 9780300206289.
  3. Samchuk, Ulas (November 27, 1941). "Op Ed". Volyn. Rivne, Ukraine.
  4. Dovhanych, Natalia (2019). "9". Narrating trauma: literary strategies in Ukrainian survivor literature of the second half of the 20th century. Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St.Gallen. p. 146.
  5. Himka. "Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust".
  6. "Volyn Publishing House".
  7. samchuk (1954). FIVE AFTER TWELVE: NOTES ON THE RUN. Buenos-Aires; M. Denysiuk.
  8. samchuk, ulas (Summer 1951). "Genocide". Ukrainian Quarterly. VII (3): 216–218.
  9. samchuk, Ulace (January 1950). "The Economic Relations of Ukraine and the Ancient World". Ukrainian Quarterly. VI (4).
  10. Samchuk, Ulas. "Dostoevsky on Leninism". Ukrainian Quarterly. VI (4): 299.
  11. ^ Shkandrij, Myroslav (January 2015). Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956. Yale University Press. p. 242. ISBN 9780300206289.
  12. ^ "Ulas Samchuk". www.myslenedrevo.com.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
  13. "Operational information from the regions of the Active Community network 04/11/2023". ag.com.ua.
  14. Samchuk, U., 1952, “Maria. A Chronicle of a Life, Language Lantern Publications, Toronto, (Engl. transl.)

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