Volodymyr Yaniv (born 21 November 1908 in

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, Galicia – 19 November 1991) was a community and scouting leader in the 1930s, an activist in the

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and the

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(UVO), editor of numerous student and community publications, a professional psychologist and sociologist, and a Ukrainian poet. He was a professor of Psychology at the Ukrainian Catholic Seminary in (1947–8), professor of the

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(from 1955) and its rector (1968–86), professor of the

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(from 1963), a publicist, poet, member of the

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(from 1987). Yaniv completed his gymnasium studies in Lviv in 1928 and further studied history and psychology at the

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. After incarceration at the

Bereza Kartuska concentration camp Bereza Kartuska Prison (, "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was operated by Poland's Sanation government from 1934 to 1939 in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship (today, Biaroza, Belarus). Because the inmates were detained without tria ...

he completed his studies in

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with a dissertation on "The psychological changes of political prisoners". In 1946 he moved to Munich where took an active part in the life of the Ukrainian Free University. Yaniv wrote numerous works studying the effect of incarceration on the works of notable Ukrainian cultural figures such as

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Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...

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Plast

In his youth, in 1927-32, Yaniv took an interest in the ''

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'' Ukrainian scouting movement, in which he held various leadership roles. He returned to scouting in 1946 and continued to be active in Ukrainian scouting to the end of his life.

Incarceration

Yaniv was first arrested by the Polish police for a period of two years in 1934-35 at the

. In 1936 he was once again arrested and given a 5-year term before being released in 1938. In July 1941 he was arrested by the Germans and confined in Krakow for membership in the

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, established on 21 June 1941. His prison experiences became the basis for his dissertation and many of the books and studies he published in later years.

His poems

''Battle of Kruty''

The golden blaze has lighten up,
The world has shuddered from sound of trumpets,
The glory widely could be heard
That has arisen for us our country
And Ukraine has stepped out of jails.

The wounds of hundred years has healed
As no more horror was there present
Of tyrants that laid in dew
Our heavy shackles has been torn
And the path into the future has cleared up...
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Awards

* Commander of the

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Sources

* ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'' (in

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), vol. 10, p. 3,973.
The collection of the Ukrainian songs
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