Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine

Summary

The Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine or ODFFU is a national member-based organization founded at a gathering of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City on June 15, 1946, uniting the efforts of Ukrainian nationalists who began similar initiatives in both that city and Newark, New Jersey earlier that year. The newly elected steering committee issued a public appeal "To the Ukrainian Citizenship in America" calling on prospective members to commit to the following:To defend the Four Freedoms and the principles set forth in the Atlantic Charter, and applying them to Ukraine; To inform non-Ukrainians about Ukrainian affairs through printed material and other means; To acquaint Ukrainian Americans with the current situation in Ukraine and its struggle for independence; To render moral and material assistance to the liberation struggle of Ukrainians in their native lands towards the goal of establishing a united, independent Ukrainian nation-state