Ivan Rohach

From 1933 to 1938, he was the editor of the Novoyi Svobody newspaper in Uzhhorod, in Carpathian Ruthenia, then part of Czechoslovakia and today in western Ukraine.

Between 1938 and 1939, he was the personal secretary to Avhustyn Voloshyn, the nominal Prime-Minister of Carpatho-Ukraine during its several days of independence in March 1939 before it was occupied by Hungary following the First Vienna Award.

[1] Rohach was a prolific writer of political pamphlets and short stories dealing with various aspects of religion, human morality, the national question, and the cause for Ukrainian self-determination.

He moved to Kyiv during the German occupation in order to aid in the re-establishment of a Ukrainian administration in the nation's capital.

"[3] In 1941, Rohach was arrested by the Gestapo during a crackdown on Ukrainian nationalist activities, after he and others refused unconditional cooperation with the Germans.

Ivan Rohach
Ivan Rohach, Ivan Roman and Fedir Tatsynets in uniforms of the Carpathian Sich , 1938
Wooden cross in Babi Yar in memory of Olena Teliha and other Ukrainian nationalists executed there in 1942