{{Short description|Ukrainian writer, activist}} {{Family name hatnote|Yuriiovych|Mirchuk|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox person | name = Petro Mirchuk | image = Petro Mirczuk-Auschwitz.jpg | alt = | caption = Official Auschwitz photo, 1942 | native_name_lang = uk | native_name = Петро Мірчук | birth_date = June 26, 1913 | birth_place = {{ill|Dobrivliany|uk|Добрівляни (Стрийська міська громада)}}, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|5|16|1913|6|26}} | death_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | other_names = | occupation = Writer }}

'''Petro Yuriiovych Mirchuk'''{{efn|{{langx|uk|Петро Юрійович Мірчук|{{transliteration|uk|ukrainian|Petro Yuriiovych Mirchuk}}}}}} (June 26, 1913 – May 16, 1999) was a Ukrainian writer living in the United States and a leading member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Mirchuk headed the OUN's propaganda apparatus in 1939.<ref name=Liebe>{{cite journal |last1=Rossoliński-Liebe |first1=Grzegorz |title=Debating, obfuscating and disciplining the Holocaust: post-Soviet historical discourses on the OUN–UPA and other nationalist movements |journal=East European Jewish Affairs |date=2012 |volume=42 |issue=3 |page=204 |publisher=Routledge|doi=10.1080/13501674.2012.730732 |s2cid=154067506 }}</ref> He was an activist of the Bandera faction of OUN (known as OUN-B).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holian |first1=Anna |title=Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism: Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany |date=2015 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0472036394 |page=145}}</ref> During World War II, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and other concentration camps. He entered the United States as a displaced person after the war.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Schlemmer |editor1-first=Thomas |editor2-last=Steinweis |editor2-first=Alan E. |last1=Rossoliński-Liebe |first1=Grzegorz |title=Holocaust and Memory in Europe |date=2016 |publisher=De Gruyter Oldenbourg |isbn=978-3-11-046680-5 |pages=132,138 |chapter=Holocaust Amnesia. Ukrainian Diaspora and Holocaust of Jews}}</ref> He authored several books about the OUN and UPA, and wrote the first biography of Stefan Bandera.<ref name=Liebe/>

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==External links== *[http://exlibris.org.ua/mirchuk/author.html Biography] *[http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1999/229912.shtml Obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301214855/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1999/229912.shtml |date=2012-03-01 }}

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