Alexander ( Oleksa ) Maksimovich Vintonyak ( January 20, 1915 , the village of Strupkov , Kolomyia Uyezd , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - February 9, 2011 , Munich ) - Ukrainian historian, book publisher, public figure of Ukrainian emigration. Founding Director of the Ukrainian publishing house Dnipro Khvilya (1953). The author of source studies of descriptions of the territory of Ukraine of the 18th century in the writings of travelers, as well as studies of Ukrainian historians Bogdan Krupnitsky and Boris Kentrzhinsky [1] .
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Biography
Born in the village of Strupkov, Kolomoisky district of Galicia (now the village of Kolomyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk region) [1] in the family of the Ukrainian peasant Maxim, who died on the fronts of the First World War , leaving his wife with five young children [2] .
Olexa, as he could, helped his family and still managed to study well. Therefore, the director of the Strupkovsky folk school Vasily Simchuk, a former foreman of the Ukrainian army, helped small Lesya in training. The student years of Oleksa also took place in the Carpathian region. The teacher-mentor Simchuk helped him enter the Stanislavovsky gymnasium. Despite the pro-Polish gymnasium atmosphere during the years of study there, Oleksa graduated from it [2] .
In 1938 he enrolled in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in the city of Stanislavova (now Ivano-Frankivsk [1] ), where he studied for a year. In September 1939, the West Ukrainian lands took place; the Bolshevik power was annexed to the Ukrainian SSR and the seminary was liquidated [2] .
Vintonyak was sent to short courses for primary school teachers, after which he returned to his native school in Strupkov, where Vasily Simchuk was still directing. Both Ukrainian teachers were immediately picked up by the NKVD structure. Soon, those residents of Strupkov, who belonged to the Prosvita reading room, were the most active teachers, were listed and subject to deportation to Siberia, and only the hasty retreat of the Red Army from Galicia in June 1941 made it impossible to carry out punitive actions.
On September 15, 1941, Oleksa Vintonyak was arrested by the Gestapo in Otynia , where he was a teacher at that time. After that, his wanderings in prison dungeons began: Kolomyia , Stanislavov , Lvov , Krakow (in the infamous Gestapo prison " Montelunich "). On July 20, 1942, Vintonyak was recognized as a dangerous revolutionary and transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Stepan Bandera's brothers, Vasily and Alexander, were also located. After some time, he was transferred to Auschwitz Camp No. 2, where he worked in quarries or in the construction of a tunnel complex in the mountains. But Oleksa survived until May 6, 1945, when convicts were freed by the US military [2] .
At the end of 1945, recovering from prison, he decided to devote himself to the struggle for Ukraine, remaining in West Germany [2] . In 1946-1950 he studied at the Ukrainian Free University. Since 1950, she has been a doctoral student of the USU in Munich with a degree in history [1] . In 1953 he founded the Dneprov Khvil publishing house in Munich. Being the long-term owner of the publishing house and bookstore "Dnipro Khvilya", he joined the editing and printing of more than 60 Ukrainian books in Germany.
He died on February 9, 2011 at the age of 96 [2] .
Works
- In memory of Bogdan Kentrzhinsky. Ukrainian History, 1969, No. 4
- Kyiv of the 1770s in the description of Academician Guldenstedt. In the book: Naukovy zbirnik for prof. Dr. O. Ogloblin. New York, 1977
- Churches and monastiri in Ukraine in the 18th century. in the description of the academician J. A. Güldenstedt. In the book: Naukovy zbirnik for prof. Dr. c. Yaneva. Munich, 1983
- Boris Dmitrovich Krupnitsky, 1894-1956. Ukrainian History, 1987, No. 1/4
- KC - Avshvіts і yak drove to a new Ukrainian'yaznі. “Dyalogi: Bulletin of the tv of the Hebrew-Ukrainian Zv'yazkіv in Israel”, 1987, No. 13/14
- About Avshvіts і yak bending Vasil Bandera. In the book: In the fight for the Ukrainian state. Winnipeg, 1990
- Anatema on Hetman Mazepa. Ukrainian History, 1990, No. 1/4
- Ukraine in the descriptions of Western European plantains in the other half of the 18th century. Lviv-Munich, 1995.
Literature
- Yas O.V. VINTONYAK Oleksandr // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : at 10 tons: [ Ukrainian ] / editorial: V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. ; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine . - K .: Naukova Dumka , 2003 .-- T. 1: A - B. - 688 p. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0734-5 .
- Zhukovskiy A. І. Vintonyak Oleksa Maksimovich // Encyclopedia of current Ukraine : [ Ukrainian ] : at 30 t. / NAS of Ukraine , Naukova іm partnership. Shevchenko , Institute of Encyclopedic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. - K. , 2001—…. - ISBN 944-02-3354-x .
- Dashkevich Y. Peredmova. // Vintonyak O. Ukraine in the descriptions of Western European plantain in the other half of the XVIII century. Lviv-Munich, 1995.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Yas O.V. VINTONYAK Oleksandr // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : at 10 tons: [ Ukrainian ] / editorial: V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. ; Institute of History of Ukraine NAS of Ukraine . - K .: Naukova Dumka , 2003 .-- T. 1: A - B. - 688 p. : il. - ISBN 966-00-0734-5 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Colony WEB Portal | Died Dr. Oleksa Vintonyak - Associate Professor, Ukrainian University of Universities