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Dayhoff: Western Maryland College professor Wasyl Palijczuk dies at 90

Wasyl Palijczuk, in his office at Western Maryland College in March 1989, was an art professor at Western Maryland College – now McDaniel College, for over 30 years. Palijczuk has died at the age of 90. Palijczuk was born in 1934 in Dzhuriv, Ukraine, a small village near the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. He came to Baltimore after WWII. He began teaching at Western Maryland College in 1967. (Kevin Dayhoff/Courtesy)
Wasyl Palijczuk, in his office at Western Maryland College in March 1989, was an art professor at Western Maryland College – now McDaniel College, for over 30 years. Palijczuk has died at the age of 90. Palijczuk was born in 1934 in Dzhuriv, Ukraine, a small village near the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. He came to Baltimore after WWII. He began teaching at Western Maryland College in 1967. (Kevin Dayhoff/Courtesy)
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Shortly after his father returned to Ukraine, “He and his father were taken to Germany after the Germans invaded,” according to Snyder. “During the war, he lived first in … labor camps and then in children's homes…”

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