Petro Mirchuk
Petro Mirchuk (Ukrainian: Петро Мірчук) (1913–1999) was a Ukrainian writer living in the United States and a leading member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Mirchuk headed the OUN's propaganda apparatus in 1939.[1] He was an activist of the Bandera faction of OUN (known as OUN-B).[2] During World War II, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and other concentration camps. He entered the United States as a displaced person after the war.[3] He authored several books about the OUN and UPA, and wrote the first biography of Stefan Bandera.[1]
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- ^ a b Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz (2012). "Debating, obfuscating and disciplining the Holocaust: post-Soviet historical discourses on the OUN–UPA and other nationalist movements". East European Jewish Affairs. 42 (3). Routledge: 204. doi:10.1080/13501674.2012.730732. S2CID 154067506.
- ^ Holian, Anna (2015). Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism: Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany. University of Michigan Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-0472036394.
- ^ Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz (2016). "Holocaust Amnesia. Ukrainian Diaspora and Holocaust of Jews". In Schlemmer, Thomas; Steinweis, Alan E. (eds.). Holocaust and Memory in Europe. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. pp. 132, 138. ISBN 978-3-11-046680-5.
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