Yevhen Nakonechnyj

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Yevhen Petrowytsch Nakonetschnyj ( Ukrainian Євген Петрович Наконечний , born June 18, 1931 in Czerepin , Poland , † September 14, 2006 in Lemberg , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian historian, library and linguist, Holocaust researcher.

Life

Yevhen Nakonetschnyj was born in Cherepyn in what is now the Ukrainian Pustomyty district of Lviv Oblast . He attended a private Ukrainian elementary school in Lemberg, Poland at that time. After graduating from high school in Soviet Lviv, he was arrested by the Soviet security service at the age of seventeen in January 1949 and sentenced to death for membership in an illegal organization. The sentence was subsequently changed to 25 years in prison. He was sent to the gulag forced labor camp and was employed in logging in northern Russia . He was imprisoned in the camp with the OUN and UPA fighters as well as prisoners from the Baltic countries, German and Japanese prisoners of war.

Thanks to the thaw after Stalin's death , he was liberated in 1955 and returned to Lemberg.

He studied at the philological faculty of Lviv University , after which he was employed at the Lviv Scientific National Vasyl Stefanyk Library, where he headed the Ukrainian department.

Yevhen Nakonetschnyj wrote works on the history of Lviv and the Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Lviv before the Second World War and during the war years.

Nakonechnyj died of cancer at the age of 75 and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery .

effect

The Ukrainian writer Jurij Vynnytschuk dedicated his novel "In the shadow of the poppy blossom" ( Ukrainian Танґо смерті ) to Yevhen Nakonechnyj .

“ Dedicated to Yevhen Nakonechnyj (1931–2006), author of the books The Stolen Name and Shoah in Lviv , the good spirit of the Stefanyk Library of Sciences. He repeatedly and emphatically, at the same time thoroughly engaging, suggested the topic for this novel, provided me with a wide variety of literature and shared his memories with me. "

Works (selection)

  • Євген Наконечний: Украдене ім'я: Чому русини стали українцями (The stolen name. Why the Ruthenians became Ukrainians): Львів: Ла .718-96-9
  • Євген Наконечний: "Шоа" у Львові (Shoah in Lviv): Львів: ЛА "Піраміда", 2006. ISBN 966-8522-47-8 ) - the tragic story of the Jewish population of Lviv during the war years according to the personal memories of the author.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juri Vynnytschuk: In the shadow of the poppy blossom  : Novel: From the Ukrainian by Alexander Kratochvil: Haymon Verlag Innsbruck-Vienna: 2014: ISBN 978-3-7099-7145-1
  2. ↑ http://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Nakonechnyi_Yevhen/Ukradene_imia_Chomu_rusyny_staly_ukraintsiamy_vyd_2004/
  3. ↑ http://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Nakonechnyi_Yevhen/Shoa_u_Lvovi/
personal data
SURNAME Nakonechnyj, Yevhen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Наконечний, Євген Петрович (Ukrainian); Nakonechnyj, Yevhen Petrowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian historian, library and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Czerepin , Poland
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2006
Place of death Lviv , Ukraine