- Yaroslav Stetsko
Yaroslav Stetsko ("Polish" Jarosław Stećko, "Ukrainian" Ярослав Стецько), (19 January 1912, Tarnopol, Galicia - 5 July 1986, Germany) was a Ukrainian leader of OUN.
In 1929-1934, he studied philosophy at Lviv and Krakow universities. In 1930s, he became one of the leaders of
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).During
World War II , at the beginning of the German-Soviet war, the OUN-B faction (headed byStepan Bandera ) proclaimed Ukraine's independence in Lviv on 30 June 1941, with Yaroslav Stetsko as a prime minister. After twelve days, all members of this government were arrested by Germans. Bandera and Stetsko were sent to Berlin and then into concentration camp Sachsenhausen-Zellenbau, where were held such political prisoners asKurt Schuschnigg ,Edouard Daladier ,Stefan Rowecki , etc. Stetsko was kept there until December 1944, and was freed when Germans decided to formUkrainian National Army led by generalPavlo Shandruk .After
World War II , he lived in Munich.
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