Taras Borovets
Taras Dmytrowytsch Borovets ( Ukrainian Тарас Дмитрович Боровець called Taras Bulba / Тарас Бульба or Taras Bulba-Borovets ; born February 25 . Jul / 9. March 1908 greg. In Bystrytschi , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire (now in Berezne Raion Ukrainian Oblast Rivne ); † May 15, 1981 in Toronto , Canada ) was a Ukrainian resistance fighter in World War II .
Life
While Western Ukraine was part of the Second Polish Republic , Borovets was imprisoned for years in the Bereza Kartuska internment camp because of his Ukrainian-national sentiments . After the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland , Taras Borovets became the founder and military leader of the Polesische Sitsch ( Ukrainian Поліська Січ / Poliska Sitsch ), renamed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army of Bulba-Borovets from December 1941 and from July 20, 1943 into the Ukrainian Revolutionary People's Army . The military association founded on June 20, 1940 on the instructions of Andrij Liwyzkyj , the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile, fought the Red Army in World War II.
Taras Borovets refused both the German demands to use his troops in massacres of Jews and the union with the organization of Ukrainian Nationalists under Stepan Bandera .
At the end of 1943 he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of the war . After the war he first lived in the Federal Republic of Germany and then emigrated to the United States . In 1948 he went into exile in Canada. He died in Toronto and was buried in St. Andrew's Cemetery in South Bound Brook , New Jersey .
Borovets is the author of his memoir "The Army Without a State, Glory and Tragedy of the Ukrainian Uprising ".
Web links
- Article on Taras Borovets in Ist-Pravda of November 15, 2013 (Ukrainian)
- Taras Bulba-Borowez and his "Polish Sitsch" article on svitlytsia.crimea.ua (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on Borovets, Taras in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies / University of Toronto; English); accessed on August 28, 2016
- ↑ Article on Taras Borowez in libr.rv.ua from August 2, 2008 ; accessed on August 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Biography of Taras Borowez in the Ukrainian Center ; accessed on August 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borovets, Taras |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borovets, Taras Dmytrowytsch (full name); Bulba, Taras; Борове́ць, Тара́с Дми́трович (Ukrainian); Бульба, Тарас (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian resistance fighter in World War II |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bystrychi , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire (now Beresne Rajon , Rivne Oblast ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1981 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Canada |