Kordiuk, Bohdan

Kordiuk, Bohdan [Кордюк, Богдан; Kordjuk], b 17 January 1908 in Lviv, d 22 February 1988 in Munich, Germany. Geologist; political figure and publicist. He studied at Lviv University and Berlin University. An active member of the Ukrainian Military Organization and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), he headed the latter’s Home Executive in 1932–3 before being imprisoned by the Polish police. For most of 1941–5 he was imprisoned in German concentration camps. After the Second World War he lived in Munich, where he headed the Political Council of the OUN Abroad faction (1958–79), was the chief editor of the monthly Ukraïns’kyi samostiinyk (1958–75), and was a professor at the Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute and the Ukrainian Free University from the 1960s. In 1976 he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance. He is the author of many publicistic articles, mainly on Ukrainian-Jewish relations and the need for mutual dialogue.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]