Ukrainian Community Aid in France

Ukrainian Community Aid in France (Українська громадська опіка у Франції; Ukrainska hromadska opika u Frantsii). An organization founded in 1946 in Paris by former members of the Union of Ukrainian Emigré Organizations in France. It had 10 branches throughout the country. It was headed by Semen Sozontiv (1946–54) and S. Kachura (1954–68) and included Yu. Batsutsa and Ilarion Kosenko among its active members. It ceased to exist in the late 1960s. The majority of its membership also belonged to the Society of Former Combatants of the Ukrainian Republican Democratic Army in France.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]