Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust. John-Paul Himka

Hunczak, “Problems of Historiography,” 136-38.

113 Hunczak, “A Reappraisal.” See also the response: Szajkowski, “‘A Reappraisal.’“

114 Hunczak, “Ukrainian-Jewish Relations.” The Deschênes Commission was active in 1985-86 investigating alleged war criminals among the Ukrainian and Baltic communities in Canada. Conflicts arose between these communities and some Jewish organizations over the use of Soviet evidence.

115 Grimsted, “‘Trophy’ Archives,” 6.

116 This is easily checkable in the searchable files of Dilo at libraria.ua.

117 There is a document from 1938 in which Stetsko added in his own hand the words “Pryntsypy ukrains’koi propahandy.” Reproduced in Carynnyk, “‘A Knife in the Back,’“ 7 (point 8a). This document has extensive additions in Stetsko’s handwriting, and they can be compared to the handwritten additions in the small photoreproduction of a passage from the autobiography in Berkhoff and Carynnyk, “The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,” 153. To me the handwriting and method of making insertions look the same, but I am not a specialist in analyzing handwriting and I have seen too little of the original of the Ukrainian autobiography. Stetsko’s widow, Slava Stetsko, shown a copy of the autobiography by Zhanna Kovba, denied that it was her late husband’s writing. Kovba, Liudianist’ u bezodni pekla, 225.

118 On a more abstruse point, Hunczak was exercised about the typewriter, which at first he thought had no g (some Ukrainian keyboards lack them), but then he found examples of g in the autobiography. Thus, he argued, there was no reason for a Western Ukrainian not to be using a g where expected in the ortho-graphy and in the transcription of foreign words and place names. But I myself have used different Ukrainian keyboards, and more than once it has taken me a long time to discover whether the keyboard had a g as well as an h, since the placement of g on the keyboard was not and still has not been standardized. Stetsko was using an unfamiliar typewriter in Berlin and may not have found the g until near the end of his typescript, where the g’s in fact appear.

119 Herasymenko, Orhanizatsiia Ukrains’kykh Natsionalistiv, 28.

120 Berkhoff and Carynnyk, “The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists,” 153-56.

121 The pro-OUN historian Volodymyr Kosyk also accepted the autobiography as genuine. See Berkhoff, “A Power Terrible for Its Opponents,” 199 n. 10.

122 Only three pages of The Book of Facts (Knyha faktiv) were made public at that time. But the whole 60-page text is available on line http://avr.org.ua/index.php/viewDoc/3188/ (accessed 10 December 2018).

123 “U Sluzhbi bezpeky Ukrainy vidbulys’ Hromads’ki istorychni slukhannia.” “Iak tvorylasia lehenda pro Nachtigall” (source of quotation). “Dokumenty SBU.”

124 See below, 169-70.

125 Rybakov, “Marko Tsarynnyk.” Himka, “Be Wary.”

126 Riabenko, “‘Knyha faktiv,’“ 103-08. Riabenko’s study is well researched and at the same time a one-sided polemic.

127 Himka, “The Lontsky Street Prison Memorial Museum,” 146-52.

128 Krentsbakh, “Zhyvu shche zavdiaky UPA.”

129 This was also indicated in her published memoir: Ibid., 349.

130 Friedman, “Ukrainian-Jewish Relations,” 203-04 n. 57.

131 Kordiuk, “Pro liudei.” Kordiuk was one of the Banderites who was arrested and survived Auschwitz.

132 Kovba, Liudianist’ u bezodni pekla, 113-14. She mistakenly wrote that the memoirs had been first published in Israel.

133 V”iatrovych, Stavlennia OUN do ievreiv, 79.

134 http://mosesfishbein.blogspot.com/2009/10/memoirs-of-stella-krenzbach-i-am-alive.html (accessed 11 December 2018). The English translation was by Marta D. Olynyk. Apparently, Fishbein also had no luck in finding an original publication in the Washington Post.

135 Among those who fell for the Krenzbach fabrication was the well-known Sovietologist Paul Goble. Rudling, The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust, 31-32.