Orest Korchak-Horodys'kyi was a Ukrainian scholar, community activist, and military veteran. He was born on July 15, 1918, in Stanislaviv (today, Ivano-Frankivs'k, Ukraine). He completed his studies at the Ukrainian Free University in 1950. In 1956, he became a naturalized American citizen. In 1939, he was sentenced by the Polish authorities for his Ukrainian nationalist activities. From 1940 to 1941, he served as secretary of a Ukrainian gymnasium in Yaroslav. From 1941 to 1945, he served in the 1st Galicia Division and was active in the prisoner-of-war camp in Rimini, Italy, where he was a member of the Student Community and publisher of the camp newspaper "Zhytia v Tabori" ("Life in the Camp") from 1945 to 1946. He was a co-founder and member of the Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago, as well as a member of Plast and the Ukrainian Veterans of America. He authored the book "Heneral Ivan Vasyl'ovych Turchyn - osobystyi pryiatel' Prezydenta Linkol'na" (1971) and articles on military topics in "Visti Kombatanta" "Kyiv," and other Ukrainian periodicals.