Knysh Zinovyi.Two processes: as a result of the activities of the UVO in 1924. Toronto, [n.d.]

Zinoviy Knysh. Two Trials: As a Consequence of the Activities of the Ukrainian Military Organization in 1924.

Toronto: Sribna Surma, [n.d.]. — [96] p. — Printed by Première Imprimerie Ukrainienne en France, 3, rue du Sabot, Paris-6e. Print run not stated.

Binding: cloth-covered printed paper boards, blue-grey; front board bears the author's name, title, and the imprint "Sribna Surma, Toronto" in black print; back board bears a list of "Sribna Surma" publications and the author's works. Endpapers green. Boards slightly yellowed at the edges, most noticeably along the spine; small dark spot on the back board. Text block clean, edges slightly yellowed. On the blank leaf before the title page is an ex-libris sticker with the English inscription "This book belongs to Jerry Hupalo"; its impression shows through on the reverse of the leaf. Condition: very good.

Lifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.

INFORMATION

It all began with a bomb thrown in Lviv on September 5, 1924, at Polish President Stanisław Wojciechowski. It was not the assassin who was brought to trial, but an accidental detainee, Stanisław Steiger, who was tried in a brazen manner just ten days later. Knysh tells of this trial and of the second legal case that arose from it—the case of Korngaber and his accomplices, accused of fraud and extortion. A separate chapter is devoted to the murder in Lviv of police agent Tsekhnovsky and the execution of the assassin.

Zinoviy Knysh (1906–1999) was a lawyer, political activist, and historian of the UVO and OUN. Born in Kolomyia, he earned a doctorate in law from Lviv University in 1930; from 1924 he belonged to the UVO, and in 1931 was sentenced to eight years in prison. From 1946 he lived in Paris, and from 1949 in Toronto, where he published the "Sribna Surma" collections and his own works on the history of the UVO.

The book was published in Toronto under the "Sribna Surma" imprint, but printed in Paris at the Première Imprimerie Ukrainienne en France—as evidenced by the inscription on the reverse of the title page. On the reverse of the boards is a list of this circle's publications: the "Sribna Surma" collections, "On the Prut in the Meadow..." about Kolomyia, "Thus the Pen Writes..." and other works by Knysh.