Bender street in kiev

UKRAIN WONDERED author OF THE ‘OUN-UPA’ — A COOPER IN THE FORM OF THE UKRAIN 14th DIVISION OF THE GRENADIER SS

Israeli paper “Jerusalem Post” notes that 1 of the streets in Kiev may shortly bear the name Volodymyr Kubiowych,
co-operating with the authorities of the 3rd Reich of the German nationalist, who was 1 of the originators of the creation and who actively participated in the formation of Ukrainian
14th Division of Grenadiers SS.
Volodomir Kubiivovich, a supporter of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (UN-M),
On April 18, 1941, he handed over to politician Hans Frank a memorial in which he demanded to be separated from the General Government of the Lemkov Region,
from which Poles and Jews were to be displaced.
In 1943, he played a key function in forming the division
Waffen-SS ‘Galizien’. After the war, he entered the West, where he stayed in 1949.
Chief Editor of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, then publisher of that encyclopedia.
He was besides editor of the bivolume “Encyclopedia”
Ukraine” (part of the Encyclopedia of Ukraine). Volodomir Kubiivovich
died in 1985 in Paris.
By many Ukrainians he is valued for
for their nationalist work, despite
The Nazi past.

Toronto Voice No 15. 04.2023