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DMYTRO YAREMCHUK October 18, 1914 August 21, 2010 Peacefully, on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at Concordia Hospital, Dmytro Yaremchuk, aged 95 years of Winnipeg. Dmytro Yaremchuk was born in the village Rivnia, rayon Vyzhnytsia, in Bukovyna, (at that time a Province of Austria), presently the Chernivtsi oblast of Ukraine. The son of Nazari and Evdokia Yaremchuk (nee Semaka) he obtained his primary education in Rivnia, and completed his high school education in Chernivtsi, during the Romanian occupation of Bukovyna in 1934. It was in Chernivtsi, at the Romanian State University, that Dmytro studied science and law, graduating with a Law Degree in 1939. After the occupation of Bukovyna by the Soviet Union in June of 1940, and subsequent investigations of his patriotic activities he was forced to flee Bukovyna. The German occupation of Ukraine, 1941-1944 found Dmytro Yaremchuk struggling against the new occupation forces in Lviv and other cities of Western Ukraine. At the end of the Second World War, he took refuge in Western Europe with eventual immigration to Canada to join his cousin, Phillip Semaka, in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1949, where he settled for several years. Dmytro worked as a general laborer until 1954. Following this he was employed as a bookkeeper by Carpathia Credit Union and Kalyna Ukrainian Bookstore. Читати далі: DMYTRO YAREMCHUK DIED

On June 15, Portland State University professor Ladis Kristof passed away at the age of 91 in Yamhill, Oregon.

Professor Kristof was born outside Chernivtsi into an Armenian and Polish family. At a time of great inter-ethnic tension, he learned to speak Ukrainian and reached out to the Ukrainian community. After spending time in jail and concentration camps in Romania and Yugoslavia in the 1940s, he escaped to the West. In 1955, Professor Kristof earned a B.A. in political science at Reed College (Oregon), where he wrote a senior thesis on Ukrainian nationalism. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago, where he studied the political geography of nation-building. He taught and conducted research at Temple University, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada and Portland State University.

As a scholar, Professor Kristof helped to establish Ukraine as a subject for study in political science. His writings encouraged novel approaches to the formation of Russian national identity and lay the groundwork for contemporary scholarship on nationalism.

Alexandra Hrycak

a column written by Ladis’ son, Nicholas Kristof, that appeared this week in the New York Times.