Ulas Samchuk

Ukrainian coin commemorating Ulas Samchuk (reverse)
Ukrainian coin commemorating Ulas Samchuk (obverse)

Ulas Samchuk (Улас Олексійович Самчук) (20 February, 1905 Derman (now in Rivne Oblast) - 9 July 1987 Toronto, Canada) was a Ukrainian writer, publicist and journalist. He was born to a peasant family and started his education in Kremenets. Before he finished his secondary education, he was called up for service in the Polish Army in 1927, and later deserted in August of that year. He escaped to Germany, where he continued his studies at the University of Breslau and then at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague, where he graduated in 1931.

During Nazi Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II, Samchuk was the head of the civilian police of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in Rivne. From 1941–1943, he was editor of the collaborationist newspaper Volyn', before fleeing to Germany in 1944, where he founded and headed the literary-artistic organization MUR until 1948. In 1948, he emigrated to Canada and became the leader of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile.

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