The Golash family name is very well know in the Berezhany
region of Ukraine. Members of the Golash families bravely
enlisted
and fought for it's country so that Ukraine could break away from it's
many oppressors. They partook in the UPA
(Ukrainian Insurgent Army), as well as enlisting with the Divisia
Halychyna. During this adverse period in Ukraine's history,
the
Bolsheviks, Germans, Poles, all were trying to take a piece of this
rich
borderland (Ukraine) and to exploit the Ukrainian people, as was the
case
fore many hundreds of years before. Members of the Golash family who
did
not fight against the enemy, ended up being persecuted, killed off or
sent
off to Siberian labor camps by having connection with the Golash family
name.
Like so many other families throughout Ukraine who sacrificed all they
had for the fight, to see a free independent Ukraine, this
history
has many tragedies to tell as well as many triumphs. Just the
thought
of giving up one's life for a just cause is very hard
to
imagine, even today for so many people.
We see this still happening today in far away places such as Chechnya,
the Balkans, Trans-Dniester region. These events are not
affecting
us or our families directly, but we should ponder and pray for the
souls
of the heroes who were willing to sacrifice their lives too have the
right
to live freely in their home country without any oppressors controlling
their destiny.
Our fore fathers, the brave Ukrainian freedom fighters (UPA) sacrificed
their lives so that we can live in freedom, something so many of us
take
for granted today.
We shall never forget these sacrifices and we celebrate their eternal
memory
and their heroic exploits that these brave freedom fighters had to
persevere
though, during the trying conditions of the Second World War which was
one of the most trying periods in Ukraine's history.
Salvia Ukraini, Slava Heroiam!
Related Links to family Golash:
- Family Golash - (ENGLISH)
- Wolodymyr Golash - 30th Anniversary of his death - (UKRAINIAN)
- Berezhanska Zemlia - (UKRAINIAN)
- Hryhory Golash - "Бульба," "Бей," "Шолом" - (UKRAINIAN)
- Stepan Golash - Death of a gentle partisan - (ENGLISH)
Related Links to Ukemonde:
- Roman Shukevych / Taras Chuprynka - Полководець УПА - (UKRAINIAN)
- Roman Shukevych / Taras Chuprynka - "Commander of the Immortal Army" - (THE MOVIE)
- Yuriy Shukhevych - Hero of Ukraine
- Stepan Bandera / Степан Бандера - Disinformation on Ukraine's Freedom Fighters - (ENGLISH)
- Sviato UPA -
Montreal, Quebec
- Stepan
Bandera
- Symon Petliura
- Evhen Konovalets
- Independenc Day (August 24) - coming soon
- 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army Montreal Chapter - coming soon
Links from InfoUkes Site
- Litopys UPA -- Chronicle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- Insurgency in Ukraine / Counter-Insurgency in Ukraine
- Political Thought of the Ukrainian Underground 1943-1951
- Brotherhood of Veterans of the 1st-Division of the Ukrainian National Army
- World War II in Ukraine by: Andrew Gregorovich
