Ukrainian Red Cross

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Ukrainian Red Cross (Ukrainian: Український Червоний Хрест, Ukrainian Red Cross Chrest) is a Ukrainian branch of the International Red Cross, formed in April 1918 at the initiative of the All-Ukrainian Doctor's Convention in Kiev, based on the local circles of the Russian Red Cross.

The main organizers were J. Łukasewycz and W. Matiuszenko. UCzCh has worked with the ICC International Committee in Geneva, represented by Julijan Baczynskiy. Representatives of the UCU also worked in Vienna (A. Okopenko), Belgrade (Dmytro Doroshenko), Italy and several other countries.

After the collapse of both states, Ukrainian UCSChs were active in emigration, but did not belong to the ICC. Local circles were taken over by the Soviet Red Cross.

In the 1930s, a charity was set up in the United States to help Ukrainian political prisoners in Poland and the USSR. It was called the Ukrainian Golden Cross (UZCh). August 30, 1941, UC Berkeley resumed its activity, its chairman was Dr Leonid Kurczaba (who was arrested by the Gestapo in August 1941, died in the Montelupi prison in Cracow), Dr Halina Bilenka-Wreciona (typhoid), and then Dr. Tom Worobeć. Headquarters were in Kiev (F. Bohatyrchuk) and Rivne (C. Kononenko).

In 1942, the German authorities liquidated the UCSCh, and its function was taken over by the welfare department of the Ukrainian Central Committee.

Between 1943 and 1949, under the name of the Ukrainian Red Cross, the Ukrainian Army's Insurgent Army was under the command of Katerina Zaryć.

After 1945 in Germany and Austria several attempts were made to reactivate UCZCh. At the congress of October 10, 1945 in Munich, his administration was elected (chairman Viktor Andrijewskyj, chairman of the board T. Worobeć), but under Soviet pressure, the authorities of the US occupation zone forbade the use of the name Ukrainian Red Cross. Therefore, the organization was renamed to the Sanitary and Charitable Service (SChS), and in 1949 to the Ukrainian Medical and Charitable Service (UMChS).

After the war, the USRR also operated humanitarian organizations which, after regaining independence through Ukraine, merged with the Ukrainian part of the Soviet Red Cross in 1992 to form the new Ukrainian Red Cross. Literature

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