Mikola Abramchyk
{{Short description|Jewish-Belarusian exile politician (1903–1970)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mikola Abramchyk
| native_name = {{No bold|Мікола Абрамчык}}
| image = Mikola Abramchyk.jpg
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| order = President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile
| term_start = 1943
| term_end = May 1970
| primeminister =
| predecessor = Vasil Zacharka
| successor = Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|08|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Syčavičy, Vileysky Uyezd, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|5|25|1903|8|16|df=y}}
| constituency =
| party = Independent
| spouse = Nina Laŭkovič
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| profession = Journalist, editor
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| alma_mater = Charles University in Prague
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Mikola Abramchyk ({{langx|be|Мікола Сямёнавіч Абрамчык}}, {{langx|ru|Николай Семёнович Абрамчик}}) (16 August 1903 – 29 May 1970) was a Belarusian journalist and emigre politician and president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile during 1943–1970.
Life
He attended school in Radashkovichy. In 1923, after the civil war in Russia, he emigrated to Czechoslovakia, lived in Prague, and studied agricultural sciences there. He was a member of the Association of Belarusian Student Organization.
In 1930 he went to Paris, where he developed the Belarusian association of workers, Chaurus. He published the magazines Biuleten and Recha. He worked in the emigration for cultural and political organizations. He was a member of the Belarusian Committee of Self-leadership in Berlin. In 1943, he was removed by the Germans from the Committee in charges of conducting prohibited activities and arrested. After being released, he returned to Paris, where he was chosen the president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile. He showed particular concern about the fate of Belarusian refugees. Throughout the time was under surveillance by the Gestapo because of his rumoured Jewish background and suspicion of conspiracy to the detriment of the Third Reich. After the war he was involved in international anticommunist activities.
File:Père-Lachaise - Division 59 - Abramtchik 01.jpg
On 28 November 1947, in Paris, Abramchyk was elected as president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic which became a competitor of the Belarusian Central Council led by Radasłaŭ Astroŭski.Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2016. p. 4. In 1950, in Toronto he has published the brochure I Accuse the Kremlin of the Genocide of My Nation.
In the late 1950s and the 1960s, he chaired the League for the Liberation of the Peoples of the USSR, comprising representatives of the Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarusians and North Caucasians.
Abramchyk is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 59).[http://zbsb.org/node/5891 Як знайсці магілу Міколы і Ніны Абрамчык] {{in lang|be}}
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References
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{{more footnotes|date=December 2012}}
- [http://www.radabnr.org/starsyni/mabramcyk/ Mikoła Abramčyk]'s profile at the Rada BNR's website. Retrieved on April 29, 2007.
- [http://slounik.org/120455.html Абрамчык Мікола (Mikola Abramchyk) at slounik.org]
- [http://rulers.org/indexa1.html Abramchyk, Mikalay (Syamyonavich) at rulers.org (scroll down)]
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Category:People from Maladzyechna district
Category:People from Vileysky Uyezd
Category:20th-century Belarusian Jews
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Category:French male non-fiction writers
Category:Belarusian emigrants to France
Category:Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery