Olena Julianivna Zalizniak ( Ochrymovych; March 21, 1886 – June 12, 1969) was an educator and civic leader in Ukraine and Canada. She led the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations from 1956 to 1969.

Life

Olena Julianivna Okhrymovych was born in Senechiv, Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in 1886, one of nine children born to Reverend Julian Okhrymovych and Maria ( Ochrymovych) Kobliansky. In 1912, she attended a meeting, organized by

Konstantyna Malytska Konstantyna Ivanivna Malytska or Rastyk; Vira Lebedova; Chaika Dnistrova ( uk, Костянтина Іванівна Малицька; 30 May 1872 – 17 March 1947) was a Ukrainian educator, writer, and activist. Biography Malytska was bor ...

. For the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were

Olha Basarab Olha Basarab ( uk, Ольга Михайлівна Басараб; 1 September 1889 – 12 February 1924) was a Ukrainian political activist and member of the Ukrainian Military Organization who conducted both charitable and humanitarian work that ...

Maria Biletska Mariia Biletska, sometimes ''Maria Biletska'' (1864 – 30 December 1937) was a Ukrainian teacher. She ran a house in Lviv, where students could stay. She was a leader of the women's movement. Life Biletska was born in 1864 in Ternopil. In 1899 ...

and

Olena Stepaniv Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv (; 7 December 1892 – 11 July 1963; also Olena Iwaniwna Stepaniw, Yelena Ivanovna Stepaniv, and Olena Stepaniw-Daschkewytsch) was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly ...

. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund" they created was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. She moved to Vienna as the second world war started. Her husband, Mykola Zalizniak, was arrested by the Soviets in 1945 and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, where he died. Zalizniak moved to Canada in 1950 where she joined the Ukrainian Women's Organization of Canada. She led the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations as its president from 1956 to 1969. Zalizniak died in Montreal in 1969.

References

1886 births 1969 deaths Ukrainian women educators Ukrainian women in World War I Date of birth unknown People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ukrainian emigrants to Canada {{Ukraine-bio-stub