Lapychak, Toma [Лапичак, Тома; Lapyčak], b 17 October 1914 in Nyzhankovychi, Peremyshl county, Galicia, d 2 April 1975 in Houston, Texas, USA. Physician, political activist, and publicist. He studied medicine in Cracow and took part in the work of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Melnykites). In 1941–2 he became a member and then chairman of the Regional Executive of the OUN before being imprisoned by the Nazis in a concentration camp. After the Second World War, in 1945, in Germany, he joined the Leadership of Ukrainian Nationalists (PUN) and edited the monthly Orlyk (1945–9) in Berchtesgaden. Later he edited Samostiina Ukraïna in Chicago (1950–5) and Likars’kyi visnyk (1962–6) and Ukraïns’ke zhyttia (Chicago). Together with Mykola Shlemkevych he founded the Ukrainian Research and Information Institute in Chicago. He is the author of Ukraïns'kyi natsionalism (Ukrainian Nationalism, 1962), in which he criticizes all factions of the OUN. A book on his life’s work was published by Andrii Bilynsky in 1986.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]