Mikola Lemik

Mikola Lemik was born on the 4th of April 1914 in the village of Soloviy of Peremishlyany district in Galicia. After finishing gymnasium he studied at the uni9versity in Lviv. He was an active participant of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. On the 21st of October 1933 he killed Maylow, the Russian representative of the Soviet Embassy in Lviv. Lemik wanted to attract attention of the whole Europe to hunger and hollocust, which were artificially made by the Soviet authorities in Eastern Ukraine. In 1933 Lemik was sentenced to death. In some months his verdict was changed and Lemik had to be in jail forever. At the beginning of the Second World War he was released and became one of the organizers of the so-called moving groups of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the whole Ukraine.
In October 1941 Mikola Lemik was arrested by Gestapo and executed for his attempts to declare the independence of Ukraine.