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Every summer at the Ukrainian American Youth Association (CYM/SUM-A) camp in Ellenville, New York, the Org. for the Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine (ODFFU), an OUN-B front during the Cold War, sponsors a "Heroes' Holiday"—an "old tradition" honoring UPA veterans & the OUN-B. 
OUN-B deputy leader Yaroslav Stetsko who declared loyalty to Hitler in 1941 on behalf of Bandera was an honored guest at the "Heroes' Holiday" in Ellenville, NY in 1975+1981, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the UPA leader's death & 40 years since Stetsko's 1941 declaration
Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, "The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine's Past," was an honored guest at the 2015 CYM-ODFFU "Heroes' Holiday" in Ellenville, NY. Three days later, ODFFU hosted him at the Ukrainian Nat'l Home in NYC.
Earlier that year at the NYC Ukrainian National Home, the ODFFU hosted Andriy Parubiy, a co-founder of the 1990s neo-Nazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) and the Commandant of the 2013-2014 Maidan protest militias. Today he's the Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine.
Stopping in New York City amid an extensive tour of the United States in 2015, Andriy Parubiy, a neo-Nazi party co-founder and longtime champion of the rehabilitation of Ukraine's fascist "Heroes," met with the OUN-B affiliated CYM/SUM and other Ukrainian American youth.
Pictures from the 2014 annual CYM-ODFFU "Heroes' Holiday" in upstate NY — greetings were received from the Society of UPA Veterans, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, World Congress of Ukrainians, Center of Ukrainian-American Relations, and a People's Front MP, among others
More photos from the "Heroes' Holiday" at the Ukrainian American Youth Association camp in Ellenville, NY celebrating western Ukraine's Nazi collaborators. Pictured below, is that not a veteran of the 1st Division of the Ukrainian National Army (the successor of the Galician SS)?
@UkrNatio has called the CYM/SUM-A "Heroes Monument" in Ellenville, New York "one of the most important memorials in the [Ukrainian nationalist] emigration." Established in 1962, could it be the oldest monument to honor the UPA? And/or the oldest busts of Bandera and Shukhevych?
