He was an activist in the OUN and the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), editor of numerous student and community publications.
After incarceration at the Bereza Kartuska concentration camp he completed his studies in Berlin with a dissertation on "The psychological changes of political prisoners".
In July 1941 he was arrested by the Germans and confined in Kraków for membership in the Ukrainian National Committee, established on 21 June 1941.
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...