{"id":1483,"date":"2017-05-08T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:12:50","slug":"vaclau-panucevich-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/vaclau-panucevich-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaclau Panucevich Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seven letters have been selected from the Panucevich Papers housed in the IHRC Archives by a long-term IHRC\/A friend, supporter, intern and colleague, Ihar Labacevich, who also transcribed and translated the letters from Belarusian into English, and wrote biographical sketches of the concerned family members. The letters were digitized and included in the DIL project in December 2013. The finding aid for the entire collection, processed also by Ihar Labacevich, can be accessed here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Panucevich (Papucevich), Vaclau <\/strong>(\u0412\u0430\u0446\u043b\u0430\u045e \u041f\u0430\u043d\u0443\u0446\u044d\u0432\u0456\u0447) (1910 \u2013 August 25, 1991)<\/span><\/div>\n
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An editor of the \u201c25 Sakavika\u201d magazine, head of the Belarusian Scout Association in diaspora, vice-president of the Belarusian-American Catholic Association, journalist, publisher, translator, historian, political and cultural activist of the Belarusian diaspora in America.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Born in a town of Malaja Olshanka near Grodno. Studied theology in the Catholic seminary. Was expelled from the seminary for his Belarusian national activities. From 1936 studied law at the Vilnia Stephan Batory (Polish: Wilno, Lithuanian: Vilnius) University. A member of the Belarusian Christian Democracy since 1935. Took part in the activities of the \u201cAcademic circle of the friends of Belarusian studies\u201d (1936 \u2013 1939). From 1935 was a member of the editorial board of the \"Student Tribune\" (Studenckaja Trybuna), the youth supplement to the \u201cBielaruskaja Krynica\u201d newspaper. In An editor of the \"25 Sakavika\u201d magazine (1935-1938).\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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After the split of the BCD in 1936 joined the \u201cBelarusian Front\u201d of the Rev. V. Gadleuski. \u00a0Sentenced to a year in Polish prison for his editorial, \"The state independence of Belarus\" in the issue 8 \u201cBelarusian Front\" published on August 30, 1938.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Was drafted into the Polish Army in September 1939. Was captured by Soviets and soon released. Worked as a school teacher of Belarusian language and literature in the city of Harodnia (Grodno). As a member of the local chapter of the Belarusian National Committee (Bielaruski nacyjanalny kamitet) taught in Harodnia teachers courses. Between 1941 and 1944 worked for the German civil administration of the city of Baranavichy.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Since 1944, in exile - first in DP camps in Germany, and after 1949 \u2013 in the United States in Chicago. He was a head of the Association of Belarusian Scouts in exile, Secretary of the Belarusian-American National Council (1950), Vice-chairman of the Belarusian-American Catholic Association (May 1950).\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Belarusian publishing company\" (\u201cBielaruskaja Vydavieckaja Siabryna) in the early 1960s. Published religious and historical journals \u201cBelaruskaja Carkva\u201d (\"The Belarusian Church\") and \"Litva\".\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Translated various Eastern (Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox) and Western (Roman Catholic) liturgical texts into Belarusian.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Married to Irena Klara Panucevich (nee Budzka)<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Cheslau Budzka<\/strong> (\u0427\u044d\u0301\u0441\u043b\u0430\u045e \u0411\u0443\u0301\u0434\u0437\u044c\u043a\u0430) (June 29,1913, Vilnia \u2013 August 15, 1985, Chicago)\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Belarusian activist, historian, teacher. Son of Edward Budzka (see below). Read history in the University of Stephan Batiry in Vilnia. Was a member of the Belarusian Student Union. In 1939 \u2013 1941 lived in Vilnia working in publishing. From 1944 emigrated to Germany and worked as a teacher of Bealrusian history, language and literature in the Belarusian M. Bahdanovich gymnasium (Displaced Persons camps). Moved to Chicago in 1951.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Bud\u017aka Eduard (also spelled Bud\u017aka Advardy; \u0411\u0443\u0434\u0437\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u042d\u0434\u0443\u0430\u0440\u0434), teacher, economist, political leader. Eduard Bud\u017aka was born in the town of Buds\u0142a\u016d (Vialejka district) on March 22, 1882. Bud\u017aka entered the Belarusian national movement at an early age and was one of the pioneers in organizing the Belarusian colony in Riga at the turn of the century. He frequently contributed to the newspaper Na\u0161a Niva, often visited the editorial offices in Vilna, and was one of the most successful promoters of this newspaper in the countryside. Bud\u017aka lived and studied in St. Petersburg where he founded and edited the Belarusian newspaper, \u015avieta\u010d, in 1916. He maintained close contacts with Belarusians in Miensk and assisted in organizing the Belarusian administration and Belarusian schools in his native region. Eduard Bud\u017aka was among the pioneers who convened the Belarusian political conference in Miensk in March of 1917 and the First All-Belarusian Congress in December of the same year. After the December Congress, he became very actively involved in the organization of Belarusian cooperative enterprises and Belarusian schools. Bud\u017aka was the secretary of the Commission for the establishment of the Belarusian State University by the Government of the BDR in Miensk, June 1918. He was the initiator in establishing the first Belarusian Teachers' Seminary in the town of Buds\u0142a\u016d in 1918. Bud\u017aka moved to Latvia from Poland in the early 1920s and was also involved in the organization of the Belarusian school system, and administered the Belarusian Teachers' Courses in Latvia. He returned to Poland and spent the years prior to World War II there.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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During World War II Bud\u017aka was active in the Belarusian school system and in numerous educational and commercial enterprises. After World War II he emigrated to the United States where he was active from 1950 on in the local Belarusian community. Eduard Bud\u017aka died in Chicago August 14, 1958.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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During his life he was a very prolific contributor to numerous Belarusian journals and his short reminiscences about the events and the personalities of the Belarusian movement during the first quarter of the century are of especial importance.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Letter to Klara and Vaclau Panucevich \u2013 January 1946<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Letter from Klara Panucevich - May 4, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter from Vaclau Panucevich - May 5, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to Klara and Vaclau Panucevich \u2013 May 27, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to Vaclau and Klara Panucevich - May 30-31, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to Klara and Vaclau Panucevich - June 6, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to Klara and Vaclau Panucevich - July 28, 1950<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seven letters have been selected from the Panucevich Papers housed in the IHRC Archives by a long-term IHRC\/A friend, supporter, intern and colleague, Ihar Labacevich, who also transcribed and translated the letters from Belarusian into English, and wrote biographical sketches of the concerned family members. The letters were digitized and included in the DIL project… Continue reading Vaclau Panucevich Letters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[190,191],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belarusian-language","tag-1940-1949","tag-1950-1959","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihrca.umn.edu\/immigrant-letters\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}