ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – Speak to a Lemko and the conversation will inevitably turn to the fact that their mountainous homeland, Lemkivshchyna – or the Lemko region in current-day southeastern Poland – and the tight-knit community that lived there was destroyed by a series of deportations organized by the Polish and Soviet governments in 1944-1951 to force assimilation. It is as if someone broke a glass and now is trying to piece it back together, said Yaroslava Halyk, the president of the World Federation of Ukrainian-Lemko Unions (known by its Ukrainian-based acronym as SFULO), during her talk at the Lemko Vatra festival that took place at the Ukrainian American Youth Association camp in Ellenville, N.Y., on July 7-8.