Bandera, Oksana Andreevna

Oksana Andreevna Bandera ( Ukrainian: Oksana Andreevna Bandera , December 22, 1917 , Stary Ugrinov - December 24, 2008 , Stryi ) - Ukrainian teacher, social and cultural activist. Daughter of Andrey Bandera , sister of Stepan Bandera .

Oksana Andreevna Bandera
Oksana Bandera in the 2000s
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In May-September 1919 she was in the Ternopil region . After the death of her mother on April 22, 1921, she was brought up with her aunt Lyudmila, the wife of Chortoryski’s father in the village of Kobylovoloki (now the Terebovlyansky district ). In 1933 she returned to her native village of Old Ugrinov.

Supported the national liberation activities of members of the OUN . On May 22, 1941, the NKVD was arrested along with father and sister Marta Maria . Released from a special settlement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on February 23, 1960, but was not allowed to leave for the Ukrainian SSR for a long time. She returned to her native land only on August 5, 1989.

Thanks to the intervention of the Lviv authorities in 1991, Oksana Bandera received rehabilitation documents and was able to register with relatives. After the application of the Stryi organization of KUHN, Oksana and another sister of Stepan Bandera - Vladimir - were allocated a three-room apartment, providing the old women with everything necessary. Since 1995 - an honorary citizen of the city of Stryi, Lviv region , where she lived. In 2006, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko awarded her the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree . On the occasion of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the UPA, she was awarded a medal. She died 24, was buried on December 25, 2008 at the Stryisky cemetery, where her sister Vladimir rests.