Makar, Volodymyr [Макар, Володимир], b 4 January 1911 in Stanyslaviv, Galicia, d 26 December 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Political activist and journalist. As a student at Lviv University (1929–32) he became involved in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was arrested by the Polish authorities in 1932, 1934, and 1936 for his activities. He emerged from prison only after Poland’s defeat in 1939 and remained in the OUN underground during the Soviet occupation of Galicia. Under the German occupation he worked in the press and information agency of the OUN (Bandera faction), and in 1943 he joined the staff of its underground radio station, Free Ukraine. After being stricken with typhus in 1944, he was taken to the West. He served in the OUN network in Austria, Belgium, and Canada. He wrote several books of memoirs—Bereza Kartuz'ka (on his imprisonment in the Polish concentration camp in Bereza Kartuzka, 1956), Boiovi druzi (Comrades in Arms, 1980), and Proidenyi shliakh (The Traveled Road, 1983).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]