Szczepiórno

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Szczepiórno. See Google Map. A village (now a municipal neighborhood of the city of Kalisz) in Poznań voivodeship, Poland, that in 1921–3 was the site of an internment camp for soldiers of the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic. The internees were transferred there from a camp in Aleksandrów Kujawski in December 1921. They continued the cultural and educational programs organized in the first camp and set up some new organizations. At the beginning of 1922 the Chief Military Council of the Brotherhoods of the Holy Protectress was set up to co-ordinate the work of the numerous brotherhoods that sprang up in various army units. The Do Svitla publishing company (est March 1922) published several books, including V. Ern’s book on Hryhorii Skovoroda. The printing press of the Fourth Kyiv Division printed Religiino-naukovyi vistnyk in the camp. A secondary school and a Ukrainian scouts school were supported by the YMCA. The Sadovsky Drama Society was organized in 1922. The Mystetstvo literary and artistic society (est 1922) organized research, publications, and lectures, and the Philosophical Circle (est 1923) held weekly meetings with discussions. The cultural and educational work at the camp was closely co-ordinated with the program of the Kalisz internment camp, which was only a few kilometers away.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]

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1 Army of the Ukrainian National Republic 2 Bilon, Petro 3 Brotherhoods 4 Internment camps 5 Otmarshtain, Yurii 6 Poland 7 Prokopovych, Viacheslav 8 Religious press 9 Szczepiorno

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