45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF COLONEL EVHEN KONOVALECH IN ROTTERDAM. MASS, PROCESSION TO THE GRAVE, FOLLOWED BY A REMEMBRANCE SERVICE
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WORK ID: YFA 7195 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF COLONEL EVHEN KONOVALECH IN ROTTERDAM. MASS, PROCESSION TO THE GRAVE, FOLLOWED BY A REMEMBRANCE SERVICE | 1983 | 1983-05-21 |
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Duration: 2 hrs 02 mins Genre: Documentary Subject: Politics Military/Police |
| Summary This film documents the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the death of Colonel Evhen Konovalets. The event was held in Rotterdam, the place of Konovalets's death and burial. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian. |
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Description
This film documents the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the death of Colonel Evhen Konovalets. The event was held in Rotterdam, the place of Konovalets's death and burial. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian.
Notes from UVAS files:
2. Before mass, a wreath is placed on the altar / main table with flags, the Bradford one was carried by Stefan Mandzij.
3. Mass conducted by Evehn Harabach,...
This film documents the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the death of Colonel Evhen Konovalets. The event was held in Rotterdam, the place of Konovalets's death and burial. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian.
Notes from UVAS files:
2. Before mass, a wreath is placed on the altar / main table with flags, the Bradford one was carried by Stefan Mandzij.
3. Mass conducted by Evehn Harabach, Oleksander Kovalskiy, creed sung by Byzantine choir of Utrecht and followed by singing from Senior members of CYM Nottingham, shots of Yarolsav Stestko, Slava Stestko, Omelyan Koval from Belgium, Svyatoslav Karavanskiy concentration camp survivor, contribution from Mykhaylo Hryniuk from England.
4. People exit church and prepare to walk to Crooswijk cemetery. Bradford is represented by second gen Maria Melnyk, Darka Mandzij and others. Attendees form into a procession with flags coming from both sides, the central wreath is from OUN. The requiem was led by the same three priests. Christ is risen rather than Eternal Memory is sung because of the time of year. Speeches are given Oleksander Kovakskiy, Yarolsav Stestko and Svaytoslav Karanskiy. Alos present are Ilya Dmytrov head of AUGB, Mr Drenikov head of the Bulgarian delegation and member of the Central Committee of ABN, Roman Zvarych from the Freedom Front in the USA, Major Omelyan Koval from central committee of CYM, Stepan Mudryk on behalf of Veterans of UPA, Ivan Ravliuk from London on behalf of the World Congree of Free Ukrainians, Volodymyr Lenyk from the Central Represensatives of the Ukrainian Emigration in Germany. Wreaths are laid including one from AUGB.
5. Akademiya and concert - opened by Stefan Mudryk, keynote speech given by Julian Zablotskiy and Yaroslav Haivas. Programme as follows - Nottingham senior CYM choir sing March of the Ukrainian Nationalists we were born at a great hour; song by Daria Mazuryk-Andriyshyn from France accompanied on piano by Maria Buchok from Nottingham; Nottingham choir accompanied by Maria Buchok; quartet from France - Daria Mazuryk-Andriyshyn, V Dratkivska, N Biloholotsky and Oksana Kuklovska; thanks you from Stefan Mudryk followed by closing performance from Nottingham choir. Also recitals by Oksana Kuklovska and something by Omelyana Kushpety in French.
Context
This commemoration took place on 21st May, 1983 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Konovalets was assassinated on 23rd May, 1938 by a Soviet agent Pavel Sudoplatov. It was organised by the Coordination Centre for Ukrainian Community and National Organisations in Europe and around 600 Ukrainians from the diaspora in Europe, the USA and Canada attended on behalf of religious, political, educational and community associations. The mass held at the church on Rosalia Street was conducted by Bishop...
This commemoration took place on 21st May, 1983 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Konovalets was assassinated on 23rd May, 1938 by a Soviet agent Pavel Sudoplatov. It was organised by the Coordination Centre for Ukrainian Community and National Organisations in Europe and around 600 Ukrainians from the diaspora in Europe, the USA and Canada attended on behalf of religious, political, educational and community associations. The mass held at the church on Rosalia Street was conducted by Bishop Mykhaylo Hrynchyshyn, Exach of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg and Father Evhen Harabach from London, and the gospel was read by Father Oleksander Kovalskiy from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Hannover. Two choirs performed at the service, including the Byzantine choir of Utrecht conducted by Yaroslav Antonovych and the senior CYM choir from Nottingham conducted by Myroslav Buchko.
Evhen Konovalets (14 June 1891 - 23 May 1938) was a military commander and political leader. Born in Zashkiw, Lviv oblast, Halychyna (Galicia), he studied law at the University of Lviv, where he became involved with the Prosvita educational movement and student politics through the National Democratic Party. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War, was captured in 1915 and interred in Prisoner of War camp in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd, Russia). In 1917, he escaped to Kyiv with a number of other officers, including Andriy Melnyk, who together formed the Galician-Bukovynian Battalion of the Sich Riflemen, shortly renamed as the First battalion of Sich Riflemen. Under Konovalets's leadership, the Sich Riflemen committed themselves to the cause of Ukrainian independence, fighting various communist uprisings. By 1921, the Sich Riflemen had been disbanded and Konovalets returned to Lviv to lead the Ukrainian Military Organisation (UVO). In 1922, he emigrated and never returned to Ukraine, living in Berlin, Geneva, Rome and Rotterdam. He worked to win support for Ukrainian independence from West, and in 1929, he set up the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which he led until his death in 1938. He advocated for Ukrainian independence in the diaspora communities and the revival of an underground nationalist movement in Ukraine. These activities led to his assassination by a Russian agent. Konovalets believed that the Ukrainian military was the best guarantor of independence, but he used diplomacy and political connections and was seen as a unifying force in the OUN. After his death, a power vacuum led to the split of the OUN into factions, OUN-M led by Konovalets' old comrade Andrij Melnyk (more moderate) and OUN-B led by Stepan Bandera (more radical). |
