Mikola Abramchyk

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Mikoła Abramčyk
President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile
In office
1943 – May 1970
Preceded byVasil Zacharka
Succeeded byVincent Žuk-Hryškievič
Personal details
Born(1903-08-16)16 August 1903
Charles University in Prague
ProfessionJournalist, editor

Mikola Abramchyk (Belarusian: Мікола Абрамчык, Russian: Николай Абрамчик, Hebrew: מיקעולא אברמצ'יק) (16 August 1903 – 29 May 1970) was a Belarusian journalist and emigre politician of Ottoman Jewish and Armenian descent and president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile during 1943–1970.

Life

He attended school in

Czechoslovakia, lived in Prague
, and studied agricultural sciences there. He was a member of the Association of Belarusian Student Organization.

In 1930 he went to Paris, where he developed the Belarusian association of workers, Chaurus. He published the magazines Biuleten and Recha. He worked in the emigration for cultural and political organizations. He was a member of the Belarusian Committee of Self-leadership in Berlin. In 1943, he was removed by the Germans from the Committee in charges of conducting prohibited activities and arrested. After being released, he returned to Paris, where he was chosen the president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile. He showed particular concern about the fate of Belarusian refugees. Throughout the time was under surveillance by the

anticommunist
activities.

Grave of Mikola Abramchyk in Paris

On 28 November 1947, in Paris, Abramchyk was elected as president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic which became a competitor of the Belarusian Central Council led by Radasłaŭ Astroŭski.[1] In 1950, in Toronto he has published the brochure I Accuse the Kremlin of the Genocide of My Nation.

In the late 1950s and the 1960s, he chaired the

North Caucasians
.

Abramchyk is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 59).[2]

References

  1. ^ Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2016. p. 4.
  2. ^ Як знайсці магілу Міколы і Ніны Абрамчык (in Belarusian)

External links

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