Olena Teliha
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Olena Ivanivna Teliha was a Ukrainian poet and activist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and later the OUN-M of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity.
Teliha in c. 1929
Olena Teliha together with Ulas Samchuk in Lviv as part of the 1941 OUN-M expeditionary group to Kyiv.
Wooden cross in Babi Yar in memory of Olena Teliha and other Ukrainian nationalists executed there in 1942
Melnykites
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Melnykites is a colloquial name for members of the OUN-M or OUN, a faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists that arose out of a split with the more radical Banderite faction in 1940. The
Olena Teliha
…Іванівна Теліга; July 21, 1906 – February 21, 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and activist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and later the OUN-M of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity. Olena Chovgeniva was born in the village of Ilyinskoye, near Moscow in Russia where her parents spent summer…
Triumphal arches welcoming the Nazi occupation in Western Ukraine. In Cyrillic, they read "Glory to Hitler! - Glory to Melnyk!".
Members of the Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense stationed in Hrubieszów County, 1944
A November 1944 report of Pressburg SD to Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller, informing him about the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee