Konovalets' Rotterdam burial site to be memorialized, monument to come to Ukraine – UINP head
The monument from the grave of Yevhen Konovalets, Colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) and first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), in Rotterdam (Netherlands) will be brought to Ukraine as a memorial object, and the burial site itself will be memorialized, reported Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINP) Oleksandr Alforov.
The grave of Yevhen Konovalets, a Colonel in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will be commemorated and a monument will be brought to Ukraine to honor him, according to Oleksandr Alforov, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINP).
On August 11, a ceremony was held in Rotterdam to exhume the remains of the Ukrainian military and political leader, and they will be temporarily reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery in Ukraine. Eventually, Konovalets' remains will be placed at the Pantheon. The Colonel, who was assassinated by Soviet intelligence agents on May 23, 1938, was a key figure in Ukrainian history, serving as a commander and founder of various organizations.
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