Eugene Hlywa

In 1952 the Hlywas moved to Sydney. Eugene Hlywa worked as a lawyer and studied medicine. He chose to specialise in psychology. The reviewers of his doctoral dissertation The Problem of a Personality in the Light of Modern Psychotherapy and the Unconscious were professors Volodymyr Yaniv, Olexander von Kulchytsky and Stanislav Kratohvil. Since then Eugene Hlywa dedicated himself to psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. In addition to his private practice and supervision of young professionals Eugene Hlywa also taught. Thus in 1975 he was invited to lecture Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy at the two-year courses conducted by the Australian Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, now known as The Australian Society of Hypnosis.

In 1951 Eugene Hlywa married Lydia née Kreitzburg. Lydia, who was originally from Kyiv, was able to continue her career as a medical doctor in Australia. Lydia Hlywa died in 1993.

Shortly after his release Eugene Hlywa returned to his OUN activities. His division was responsible for prevention of Moscow's secret services capturing and forcible exportation of the USSR citizens, who became political prisoners and refugees during the war back to the USSR. In 1947, Yaroslav Stetsko, the OUN and ABN (Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations) leader, entrusted Eugene Hlywa with organising the ABN intelligence division, which he headed until disbanding of ABN in 1996 following the dissolution of the USSR.

In 1943 Eugene Hlywa was captured by the enemy. The German military court sentenced him to execution by firing squad, which was to take place within 24 hours. Initially he was awaiting for his execution in Rzeszów prison, then was transferred to Dębica detention center and subsequently to Montelupich Prison in Kraków. The death sentence was replaced by incarceration in concentration camps. Eugene Hlywa was an inmate at such ill-famed Nazi concentration camps as: Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen and Ebensee. Eugene Hlywa was freed from Ebensee concentration camp on 5 May 1945 along with other inmates by the US army.

Eugene Hlywa (5 December 1925, Nosiv village, now Ternopil Raion, Ternopil region, Ukraine – 6 August 2017 Sydney, Australia) was a psychologist, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, public figure.

Eugene Hlywa was born in 1925, in Nosiv village, Ternopil region, Ukraine. His parents Maria née Lutsiv and Leonid Hlywa brought up Eugene and his elder brother Teofil in the spirit of Ukrainian nationalism that was so symbolic of the Ukrainian conscientious society at the beginning of 20th century. In his teenage years Eugene Hlywa joined the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army).