Bohdan Hermaniuk

Bohdan Vasyliovych Hermaniuk (Ukrainian: Богдан Васильович Германюк; 20 August 1931 – 14 November 2008) was a founder of United Party for the Liberation of Ukraine, Soviet dissident and a victim of Soviet (1959–1968) camps.

Biography Bohdan Hermaniuk was born on August 20, 1931 in the village of Piadyky in the family of farmers Vasyl Hermanyuk and Hafia Paliy.

First, he finished 7 grades of the Piadyky secondary school, later he entered the Chernivtsi Industrial Technical School. After graduating, he asked for a transfer to Ivano-Frankivsk to look after his younger brother and mother, who had become mentally ill due to poverty. He studied in absentia at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.

In 1989, he headed the Kolomyia branch of Ukrainian Helsinki Union, later the URP, was a member of the All-Ukrainian Society of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons and the initiator and organizer of the creation of the Kolomyia city-district branch of the OUN-UPA Brotherhood of the Carpathian Region, which he headed.

He was rehabilitated on November 22, 1991.

Bohdan Hermaniuk died on November 14, 2008 in Piadyky.