INSIDE: • Pulitzer Prize Board statement on Duranty’s prize — page 3. • Ukrainian American officer sends a message home from Iraq — page 4. • Special section on the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 — pages 8-14.

Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXI HE No.KRAINIAN 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine PulitzerT Board declinesUKyiv remembers 1932-1933W Famine-Genocide to revoke Duranty’s prize by Andrew Nynka PARSIPPANY, N.J. – In response to an international campaign which asked that the 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Duranty of The New York Times be revoked, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced on November 21 that, “after more than six months of study and delib- eration,” it would not posthumously take away Mr. Duranty’s award. According to a statement issued by the Pulitzer Board that same day, the portfo- lio of 13 articles for which Mr. Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize, “measured by today’s standards for foreign reporting, falls seriously short.” The statement also said that the board’s view in the matter “is similar to that of The New York Times itself and of some scholars who have examined [Duranty’s] 1931 reports.” The New York Times recently charac- terized Mr. Duranty’s work as “sloven- ly,” and Dr. Mark von Hagen, a Columbia University history professor hired by The New York Times to exam- ine Mr. Duranty’s dispatches from the Roman Woronowycz former Soviet Union, characterized Mr. The scene at Kyiv’s memorial to the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, located in Mykhailivsky Square, where a public com- Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize-winning articles memoration of the Holodomor’s 70th anniversary was held on November 22. as “cynical in tone and apologist in pur- by Roman Woronowycz pose and effect in terms of justifying what the Stalinist regime was up to.” Kyiv Press Bureau However, in explaining the decision KYIV – Candlelight filled the evening Statement from the UNA: not to revoke Mr. Duranty’s award, the on one of Kyiv’s main squares on board said “there was not clear and con- November 22 where earlier in the day vincing evidence of deliberate deception, thousands of people held a peaceful rally Let the healing begin the relevant standard in this case.” and commemorative march as Ukraine Following is the text of a statement America (UCCA) on the same basis “Revoking a prize 71 years after it remembered the victims of the Famine. issued by the Ukrainian National and status as had been established dur- was awarded under different circum- Observations of the 70th anniversary Association’s Executive Committee on ing its original membership. It is our stances, when all principals are dead and of the artificially created famine November 25. sincere hope that this step will serve as unable to respond, would be a momen- occurred in Kyiv in splintered fashion. It an incentive for others to seek com- tous step and therefore would have to was far from the atmosphere of solidarity At the annual UNA General mon ground on which to build mutual rise to that threshold,” the Pulitzer Board and unity that its leaders had called upon Assembly meeting, held November cooperation for the good of our com- statement said. to remember the 7 million to 10 million 21-23, 2003 at Soyuzivka, the General munity. For let us remember, only with The Ukrainian Canadian Civil victims of Stalin’s genocide of the Assembly members came to a historic unity comes strength. Liberties Association, which initiated the Ukrainian population in 1932-1933. decision in passing the following reso- UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj, international campaign to have Mr. Official celebrations were simple, lution. commenting on this decision, which Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize revoked or consisting of a wreath-laying ceremony The Ukrainian National Association, was unanimous, stated, “Recent events returned, responded to the Pulitzer deci- by government leaders at the Great Inc. recognizes the pressing need of regarding the unsuccessful campaign sion in a statement issued on November Famine Memorial that stands before St. our Ukrainian-American community to to revoke Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer stand strong and united. Only from a 21. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral on Prize highlights this need of our com- position of strength and cooperation According to that statement, Dr. Mykhailivskyi Square and a requiem munity to continue working together can we, as a community have a power- Lubomyr Luciuk, research director at the concert attended by hundreds of school- for the good of the community and ful, united voice in the public arena. UCCLA, said: “It is a documented fact age children – but nearly no government Ukraine. How much more can be that Duranty was Stalin’s apologist, a officials. As such, the Ukrainian National Association, mindful of the fact it rep- accomplished if we can put the argu- shill for the Soviets before, during and The most extensive and most widely ments and divisions of the past behind after 1932-1933. For the Pulitzer Prize attended memorial event occurred at the resents a body of over 45,000 mem- bers of diverse and varied viewpoints, us? It is time for the healing process to Committee to render this tartuffish deci- same Great Famine Memorial after gov- begin and divisions among us to sion and announce it on the eve of the ernment leaders had left, where one reli- believes it is essential to foster a coop- erative and unifying spirit within our cease.” fourth Saturday in November, a day offi- gious leader stated that a lack of historic “ This action in no way impacts our cially set aside in Ukraine for national unity by the Ukrainian nation – in addi- community. present memberships and relations mourning, is base.” tion to the brutal and murderous policy The UNA, as a co-founder of the with any other community organiza- The board has repeatedly stated that a towards the Ukrainian nation by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of tion, “ Mr. Kaczaraj underscored. Pulitzer Prize for reporting is awarded Soviet leadership in Moscow – was a America, at its annual general assem- Further details of the General not for an author’s body of work or for reason for the nation’s tragic plight. bly meeting which was held at the author’s character, but for the specif- “Something is missing here,” noted Soyuzivka votes to restore their Assembly meeting will follow in the ic pieces entered into the competition. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, head of the decades-long relationship with the next issues of the UNA’s official pub- Ukrainian Congress Committee of lications. (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 4) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Who is in charge of Ukraine? Rada sets new minimum wage police source. The attackers reportedly by Taras Kuzio bership, which has strong support only beat the journalist and told him that he KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada voted 237- RFE/RL Newsline from the opposition national democrats. will be killed if he continues to write There is broader political support for 46 to approve a new minimum monthly “critical materials.” (RFE/RL Newsline) Recent contradictory events in joining the EU, but membership in that wage at 205 hrv ($38.50) as of December Ukraine force us to choose between two organization is seen as far more unrealis- 2003, 237 hrv as of November 2004, and Kyiv might turn to Hague re Tuzla conclusions. The first is that President tic than of NATO. 262 hrv as of January 2005, Ukrainian news Leonid Kuchma is no longer in control of agencies reported. Some 161 opposition KYIV – Ukrainian Foreign Affairs The pro-presidential center is either Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko told political life in Ukraine and has become ambivalent or, in the case of Mr. lawmakers ignored the vote. Deputies from a puppet of presidential administration the Our Ukraine, Socialist Party and Yulia journalists on November 19 that Kyiv Medvedchuk, even hostile to NATO might ask the International Court of chief Viktor Medvedchuk, who is chair- membership, something that gives him Tymoshenko Bloc caucuses blocked the man of the oligarchic Social Democratic parliamentary rostrum before and after the Justice in The Hague to resolve the added incentive to undermine Ukraine’s Ukrainian-Russian dispute over Tuzla Party-united (SDPU). Mr. Medvedchuk drive toward NATO. Support for NATO vote as a means of protesting this new mini- reportedly relishes playing the same mum wage, which they consider too low. Island in the Kerch Strait if bilateral talks membership is low within the pro-presi- with Moscow prove unsatisfactory, behind-the-scenes role that former dential oligarchic parties. Parliament Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn Russian oligarch Boris Berezovskii did closed the session over the tumult. The cur- Interfax reported. “However, we of The shared preoccupation of Mr. course prefer to find a solution in a bilat- in the last years of Boris Yeltsin’s presi- Kuchma and the pro-presidential center rent minimum monthly wage in Ukraine is dency in Russia. 185 hrv. (RFE/RL Newsline) eral format, which can allow us [to put with blocking a victory by Our Ukraine the issue behind us] much sooner than The second option is to conclude that leader Viktor Yushchenko in the 2004 Kuchma remains in charge of daily polit- Kuchma urges commemoration of Famine any court examination or hearing,” Mr. presidential election could present another Gryshchenko added. (RFE/RL Newsline) ical life in Ukraine, but is simply playing obstacle to Ukraine’s NATO aspirations. A KYIV – President Leonid Kuchma has a game of deception in league with Mr. repeat of Ukraine’s democratic 1994 elec- called on his fellow compatriots to pay trib- Uzbeks want to work with Kyiv Medvedchuk. Under this scenario, tion process, which resulted in a smooth ute to the victims of the man-made 1932- TASHKENT – Uzbekistan wants to President Kuchma is saying one thing to transfer of power from Leonid Kravchuk 33 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine that work jointly with Ukraine on the recon- the European Union, NATO and foreign to Mr. Kuchma, seems unlikely. The cru- claimed the lives of 7 million to 10 million struction of Afghanistan, Uzbek Foreign diplomats, while simultaneously ordering cial difference between 1994 and 2004, people, Interfax reported on November 22. Minister Sodyk Safaev told a news confer- Mr. Medvedchuk to do the opposite. however, is that the issue of presidential “Severe starvation was the apogee of mass ence in Tashkent after a meeting with his Analysts believe this conclusion is more immunity and the fate of the oligarchs and repressions in Ukraine. ... The truth [about likely to be true. the 1932-33 Famine] only became com- visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Konstantyn their assets has only recently become an Gryshchenko, Interfax-Ukraine reported In February, then Secretary of the issue. In 1994 there were no oligarchs, as mon knowledge for the international public National Security and Defense Council in the years since Ukraine’s independence. the same day. Mr. Safaev said that economic reform had yet to begin. The Uzbekistan’s experience with working in Yevhen Marchuk said at a Kyiv confer- issue of immunity from prosecution for In fact, the Famine is today recognized as a ence that “the time for declarations and tragedy of mankind,” President Kuchma Afghanistan, combined with Ukraine’s President Kravchuk simply never came up. industrial and construction potential, could the elaboration of intentions has passed” On November 10 a joint meeting of said in his appeal. (RFE/RL Newsline) with regard to Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic bring tangible results in the industrializa- three parliamentary committees was held integration. Mr. Marchuk became Compensation for downed airliner OKd tion of Afghanistan. He suggested that to discuss alleged violations of the law defense minister in June and is known to Uzbekistan and Ukraine could work by the security forces and the Internal KYIV – Ukrainian First Vice Prime be a strong supporter of cooperation together on the restoration of irrigation Affairs Ministry in Donetsk on October Minister Mykola Azarov and Israeli with, and integration into, NATO. Mr. facilities and building power plants, roads 31, when Mr. Yushchenko’s party was Deputy Prime Minister Yosef Lapid signed Kuchma also complained on the eve of and rail lines. The Uzbek foreign minister prevented from holding a regional con- an agreement in Kyiv on November 20, the annual EU-Ukraine summit in also said that Ukrainian firms should par- gress. At that meeting, leading SDPU whereby Ukraine will pay financial com- October that he is tired of waiting for the ticipate in the process of privatization in member Nestor Shufrych told opposition pensation to the families of Israeli passen- EU to offer Ukraine a timetable for Uzbekistan. (RFE/RL Newsline) deputies, “You are struggling for power, gers who died on October 4, 2001, when a membership. but nobody will transfer this to you.” stray Ukrainian rocket shot down the civil- Pipeline key in Kazak-Ukrainian relations Mr. Marchuk’s problem is that the left It is widely believed that Mr. ian passenger jet in which they were fly- opposition – the Communists and Medvedchuk and the SDP have the most ing, Ukrainian and international news ASTANA – Foreign Minister Socialists – are hostile to NATO mem- to lose from a Mr. Yushchenko victory – agencies reported. The missile, launched Qasymzhomart Toqaev of Kazakstan told as they did during the 1999-2001 Mr. during a military exercise, hit the Russian his Ukrainian counterpart, Kostyantyn Dr. Taras Kuzio is a resident fellow at Yushchenko government. Mr. TU-154 over the Black Sea, killing all 78 Gryshchenko, in Astana on November 4 the Center for Russian and East people onboard, most of whom were that the completion of the Ukrainian Odesa- European Studies, University of Toronto. (Continued on page 15) Israeli and Russian citizens. Mr. Lapid told Brody oil pipeline and its extension to the the Kyiv-based Segodnya newspaper that Polish port of Gdansk is a top priority in relatives of the 40 Israelis killed in the Kazak-Ukrainian relations, Kazinform and Our Ukraine bloc complains of series tragedy will receive a total of $7.5 million. khabar.kz reported. Mr. Gryshchenko heard Mr. Azarov told journalists that a similar a similar message from Kazak President agreement on compensation is expected Nursultan Nazarbaev the same day. Both of campaign disruptions by government between Ukraine and the Russian Messrs. Toqaev and Nazarbaev assessed the by Askold Krushelnycky hold the rally. Federation “shortly.” (RFE/RL Newsline) current state of bilateral relations in the oil- RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and Ukraine Report Mr. Yushchenko says he has no doubt and-gas sphere positively. Kazakstan is the government is responsible for the Journalist attacked in Odesa hoping to use the Odesa-Brody pipeline to Supporters of Ukraine’s largest oppo- export oil to Europe. Mr. Toqaev noted that attempts to wreck his party’s meetings. ODESA – Oleksander Levit, a corre- sition bloc, Our Ukraine, are blaming the He told RFE/RL he has a copy of a confi- the extension of the pipeline to Poland is government for disrupting a series of spondent for the Kyiv-based Fakty i dential document, allegedly originating also in the European Union’s development meetings across the country organized to Kommentarii newspaper, was attacked in from the office of the presidential admin- plans. (RFE/RL Newsline) explain the party’s platform to potential Odesa on November 19 by five unidenti- istration, that includes instructions to voters. fied people, Interfax reported, quoting a (Continued on page 3) local authorities for how to oppose Our Viktor Yushchenko is the leader of Our Ukraine rallies, saying, “This was handed Ukraine, a candidate in next year’s presi- dential election, and – according to polls to us by competent sources from several – the country’s most popular politician. regional authorities – people whom we FOUNDED 1933 Mr. Yushchenko and Our Ukraine accuse trust.” HE KRAINIAN EEKLY regional officials of disrupting a rally two Mr. Yushchenko said the document TAn English-languageU newspaperW published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., weeks ago in the eastern city of Donetsk contains advice on how to disrupt a non-profit association, at 2200 Route 10, P.O. 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Our Ukraine also The document is similar to instruc- Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 644-9510 Tel: (973) 292-9800; Fax: (973) 292-0900 says police and local officials tried to tions alleged to have been distributed by Postmaster, send address changes to: block Yushchenko and his group from the presidential administration to Editor-in-chief: Roma Hadzewycz The Ukrainian Weekly Editors: disembarking from their plane and leav- Ukrainian newspapers, TV and radio. 2200 Route 10 Roman Woronowycz (Kyiv) ing Donetsk airport. Called “temnyky,” the alleged documents instructed the media on how to handle P.O. Box 280 Andrew Nynka Donetsk Mayor Oleksander Parsippany, NJ 07054 Ika Koznarska Casanova (part time) Lukianchenko said Our Ukraine had not the news to cast the government in the “coordinated” with Donetsk police to best light and to besmirch the opposition. 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Pulitzer Prizes, told The Weekly on Pulitzer Board... November 24 that the Pulitzer Board (Continued from page 1) voted not to revoke Mr. Duranty’s award, CIS diplomats meet in Kyiv The board, therefore, said in its statement but he would not say whether the vote that it reviewed only the 13 articles that was unanimous. Mr. Gissler explained to discuss crisis in Georgia actually won the prize, articles written that all proceedings of Pulitzer Prize by Roman Woronowycz manner, to establish normal functioning Board meetings are confidential. and published during 1931. Kyiv Press Bureau government structures that will ensure The statement from the Pulitzer Prize Dr. Luciuk said those 13 articles were civil peace. Towards this end we are Board acknowledged that “the famine of KYIV – Diplomatic representatives “clearly nothing more than a regurgitation ready to take all action and give all help 1932-1933 was horrific and has not received from the 12 countries of the of the official Soviet line.” Dr. Luciuk that is required,” read the statement. the international attention it deserves.” Commonwealth of Independent States, told The Weekly by telephone on It emerged after the meeting of CIS “By its decision, the board in no way including Foreign Ministers Igor Ivanov diplomats that another, perhaps more November 25 that, in focusing only on the wishes to diminish the gravity of that of Russia and Kostyantyn Gryshchenko important issue discussed during the 13 articles, the Pulitzer Prize Board was loss. The board extends its sympathy to of Ukraine, issued a statement calling on meeting was how the “velvet revolution,” “concentrating on minutiae and ignoring Ukrainians and others in the United States democratic principles and rule of law to as the victors in the Georgian civil unrest the greater truth. It’s a sleight of hand.” and throughout the world who still mourn predominate in Georgia as the country have described their ouster of Mr. In his statement, posted on the the suffering and deaths brought on by prepares for new parliamentary and pres- Shevardnadze, took place so quickly and UCCLA website on Nov. 21, Dr. Luciuk Joseph Stalin,” the Pulitzer Board said. idential. so decidedly. That discussion addressed said the Pulitzer Prize Board’s decision Dr. Luciuk said the UCCLA “prayed The statement was released in Kyiv on the methods needed to be developed to not to revoke Mr. Duranty’s prize tar- the Pulitzer Prize Committee would do the November 26 after foreign diplomats make sure that another Georgian scenario nished what the prize is meant to repre- decent thing and revoke Duranty’s ill-got- from the CIS had met in special session does not develop and is not repeated in sent. “All who hold a Pulitzer Prize ten award on the 70th anniversary of the to review the situation in Georgia, where other CIS member-states. should think about whether what was Terror-Famine. They were granted a President Eduard Shevardnadze had once the most prestigious distinction in unique chance to champion truth. Instead resigned three days earlier after weeks of “This was one of the questions we journalism still is. Duranty’s prize soils they have rallied around a liar and by so civic unrest and political turmoil in addressed,” explained Russian Foreign all Pulitzer Prizes.” doing have further slighted the sufferings response to charges that the Georgian Minister Ivanov at a brief press confer- The decision not to revoke Mr. of millions of innocents. They will be leader and his supporters had rigged ence after the special session. “Not only Duranty’s Pulitzer came during a semian- remembered by history for what they have recent parliamentary elections. Ukrainian the matter of Georgia’s situation, but how nual meeting of the 17-member Pulitzer done today. As for Duranty, he will no President Leonid Kuchma, who now not to let this happen again on the territo- Prize Board, held at Columbia doubt be pleased to be in their company.” chairs the CIS and is a close friend of Mr. ry of the CIS. I think we addressed the University’s journalism building in New The UCCLA said it still expects that Shevardnadze, requested the special ses- issue successfully.” York City. The New York Times will return Mr. sion to discuss the topic. Mr. Ivanov did not explain what spe- Sig Gissler, administrator for the Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize. The document the diplomats issued, cific actions had been agreed upon. after a meeting that went an hour longer Mr. Ivanov also underscored that, than had been anticipated, criticized the while rumors abounded about efforts by unconstitutional manner in which the at least one Georgian province to become Georgian leadership was deposed, and part of Russia, Moscow had no intention Pulitzer Prize Board’s statement emphasized that the events “could have of absorbing any part of the beleaguered Following is the full text of the Walter Duranty’s 13 articles in 1931 destabilized not only Georgia but the country. Pulitzer Prize Board’s statement con- submitted for 1932 Pulitzer Prize region as a whole.” “Russia recognizes and will continue cerning its decision not to revoke the “We are not indifferent to the fate of to recognize the sovereignty and territori- 1932 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Eleven-part series in The New York Georgia, and we retain hope that the new al integrity of Georgia. We have no Duranty of The New York Times. The Times: Georgian leadership along with all the desires for any part of Georgia. As we statement was issued on November 21. leaders of the Georgian nation will do all have said before, we want normal diplo- 6/14/1931 that is needed to ensure that political matic and economic relations with that Statement on Walter Duranty’s “Red Russia of Today Ruled by processes continue in a constitutional region,” explained Mr. Ivanov. 1932 Prize Stalinism, Not Communism”

After more than six months of study 6/16/1931 the signing of the agreement by President and deliberation, the Pulitzer Prize Board “Socialism First Aim in Soviet’s NEWSBRIEFS Voronin and separatist leader Igor Smirnov, Program; Trade Gains Second” has decided it will not revoke the foreign (Continued from page 2) according to Infotag. Ukraine said it “fully reporting prize awarded in 1932 to 6/18/1931 Dispute over Moldova’s federalization backs” the Russian plan for Moldova’s fed- Walter Duranty of The New York Times. eralization in its capacity as one of the In recent months, much attention has “Stalinism Shelves World Revolt Idea; To Win Russia First” CHISINAU – Russian President mediators and guarantor-states, RFE/RL’s been paid to Mr. Duranty’s dispatches Vladimir Putin on November 25 canceled a Chisinau bureau reported on November 24, regarding the famine in the Soviet 6/19/1931 visit to Chisinau that the Moldovan presi- citing a statement by Ukrainian President Union in 1932-1933, which have been “Industrial Success Emboldens dency had announced the previous day, Leonid Kuchma. The opposition Our criticized as gravely defective. Soviet in New World Policy” RFE/RL’s bureau in the Moldovan capital Moldova Alliance said on November 24 However, a Pulitzer Prize for reporting reported. No reasons were given for the that if President Voronin signs the federal- is awarded not for the author’s body of 6/20/1931 cancellation, but the bureau said demon- ization plan proposed by Russia, he will work or for the author’s character but “Trade Equilibrium is New Soviet strators blocked traffic on Chisinau’s main “commit high treason by [attempting to for the specific pieces entered in the Goal” boulevard protesting the Russian plan for bring about the] liquidation of the competition. Therefore, the Board Moldova’s federalization. On November 24 Moldovan state” and consequently will focused its attention on the 13 articles 6/22/1931 Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin have to be impeached. Opposition parties that actually won the prize, articles writ- “Soviet Fixes Opinion by Widest announced that Mr. Putin would pay a called on Moldovans to be ready to defend ten and published during 1931. [A Control” “working visit” to Chisinau the next day. the country’s independence and constitu- complete list of the articles, with dates Presidential spokesman Valeriu Renita said tional democracy. Twenty-two parliamen- and headlines, is attached.] 6/23/1931 tary and extra-parliamentary formations In its review of the 13 articles, the “Soviet Censorship Hurts Russia that same day that Moldovan and Board determined that Mr. Duranty’s Most” Transdniester experts have succeeded in announced on November 24 they have set eliminating the last obstacles to approving up a Committee for the Defense of 1931 work, measured by today’s stan- 6/24/1931 dards for foreign reporting, falls serious- the federalization plan Russia proposed Moldova’s Independence and Constitution. “Stalinism Smashes Foes in Marx’s earlier this month. Mr. Putin was to witness (RFE/RL Newsline) ly short. In that regard, the Board’s view Name” is similar to that of The New York Times itself and of some scholars who have 6/25/1931 examined his 1931 reports. However, the “Red Army is Held No Menace to Quotable notes Board concluded that there was not clear Peace” and convincing evidence of deliberate “The conflict around Tuzla is practically wrecking all of Russia’s plans deception, the relevant standard in this 6/26/1931 regarding Ukraine. It is wrecking the ratification of the accord on the Single case. Revoking a prize 71 years after it “Stalinism Solving Minorities Economic Space. It is wrecking the implementation of some military doctrines was awarded under different circum- Problem” that Russia has planned to develop jointly with Ukraine. It is also ruining stances, when all principals are dead and Russia’s international image. ... We can see that, following the outbreak of this unable to respond, would be a momen- 6/27/1931 conflict, Russia has lost its magic influence on a part of Ukraine’s pro-Russian tous step and therefore would have to “Stalinism’s Mark is Party population. In other words, a consolidation of the nation has begun [in Ukraine]. rise to that threshold. Discipline” ... This conflict is detaching the people of Russia from those of Ukraine. ... Therefore, Ukraine should not tremble today and seek to settle the conflict by The famine of 1932-1933 was horrif- Two articles in The New York giving away part of its territory to Russia. Ukraine should take an iron-concrete ic and has not received the international Times magazine : attention it deserves. By its decision, the stand on its frontier and make a fortress of this island [Tuzla]. ... There is no Board in no way wishes to diminish the 3/29/1931 need today to hold talks at any price [with Russia]. We have to build a unity of gravity of that loss. The Board extends “The Russian Looks at the World” the nation around this incident.” its sympathy to Ukrainians and others in the United States and throughout the 12/20/1931 – Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in an interview with world who still mourn the suffering and “Stalin’s Russia Is An Echo of Iron Hromadske Radio on October 31, as cited by RFE/RL Poland, Belarus and deaths brought on by Josef Stalin. Ivan’s” Ukraine Report. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

Tikrbyi Romant-K Woronowyczyiv-Parsiplarly,”pa hen added.y connection Tbhe rWeekly.ing sThe n APew hads sent o fMr. Ua.nyS .other A rUkrainianmy Americansdoct oduringr Kyiv Press Bureau As a result, Lt. Col. Bilynsky doesn’t Lukatsky to Tikrit on assignment only a his time in Iraq, but knew for a fact that get out much nowadays. He has, howev- few days earlier. He was staying at the others had been assigned to the combat KYIV – To his family, relatives and er, been to Kirkuk in the safer, northern, palace and hanging out on a balcony with zone, including the Rev. Ivan Kaszczak, a friends, his wife and three children, his Kurdish area of Iraq. He said the city and fellow journalists the day Lt. Col. former Plast chaplain from New York. brother and sister, his fellow Siromantsi the residents “are very nice.” Bilynsky was taken on a tour after having Asked how he felt about serving in in the Plast fraternity, his fellow gradu- The way The Ukrainian Weekly stum- recently arrived. Iraq, his first tour in combat, Lt. Col. ates of Newark’s Ridna Shkola Class of bled upon Lt. Col. Bilynsky – or more Mr. Lukatsky was introduced to the Bilynsky answered quite professionally: 1982; his friends in El Paso, Texas, where he now lives, in New Jersey, accurately, how he bumped into us – in Ukrainian American lieutenant colonel as “It comes with the job.” where he was raised, and in Chicago, desolate and dangerous Tikrit would a journalist from Kyiv and as happens The Ukrainian American asked us to where he was born: Lt. Col. Roman make a worthwhile addition to any book when two Ukrainians get together, they convey warm greetings to his wife, Bilynsky is healthy and doing fine. Or, as written on unexpected circumstances and began throwing out names of people Tamara; his children, Lesia, Maria and he put it, he’s “wonderful.” strange coincidences, especially for the whom they might both know. The rest, as Dmytro; his brother, Paul; his sister, Lt. Col. Bilynsky is currently stationed chapter “What a small world.” they say, is a paean to the hi-tech age. Lydia; and everybody else who might in Tikrit, Iraq, one of the more searing Lt. Col. Bilynsky explained that, had During a short telephone conversation like to hear from him. He threw in a “hot spots” on the globe, as part of the he not agreed to replace a fellow doctor via cell phone between Kyiv (i.e., this greeting to Martha Lysko, a longtime U.S.-led international stabilization force. at one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in correspondent) and Tikrit, the 39-year- family friend and the first vice-president He is an Army medical doctor with the Tikrit, which U.S. troops often use as old career officer had but one gripe: the of the Ukrainian National Association, 4th Forward Support Battalion, but is bases, he would never have met a photo- extreme weather during his four-month The Weekly’s publisher. currently assigned to the I-22 Infantry journalist affiliated with The Weekly – a stay in the combat zone. He said that in Lt. Col. Bilynsky said he plans to be Battalion. He has been in Iraq since July newspaper he has read since childhood – July and August temperatures hovered at home in February or March. That ruled and, while he has not faced daily combat, who put him in touch with the newspa- 130 degrees Fahrenheit, but noted with out having Thanksgiving turkey or he has seen his share of firepower. per’s Kyiv Bureau. relief that the weather had finally cooled Christmas kutia with his family this year, “I’ve been shot at with mortar and Already stationed at the palace in off and was now a much more reasonable but left hope that on Easter they would with rocket-propelled grenades while part Tikrit at the time was Efrem Lukatsky, a 70 degrees during the day and around 50 decorate pysanky and eat paska together. of a convoy,” explained Lt. Col. photojournalist for the Associated Press degrees at night. Good luck, Lt. Col. Bilynsky, and Bilynsky. “Our base gets rocketed regu- in Kyiv and a regular photo contributor to Lt. Col. Bilynsky said he had not met Gods speed!

“Perhaps this would not have hap- Square about an hour after Prime rary Ukrainian society: “In the 13th year Kyiv remembers... pened if we would have stood together as Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Verkhovna of our independence our people do not (Continued from page 1) one nation as we should be doing before Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn and have a worthy life. The genocidal famine this memorial to those whose lives were Kyiv Mayor Oleksander Omelchenko of 1932-1933 led to the spiritual famine Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, dur- taken from them 70 years ago,” he con- had driven up in their black European we have today,” Ms. Marchenko ing a prayer ceremony in honor of the tinued. limousines and in silence placed wreaths explained victims, which he concelebrated with “This was a chance to show our unity. before the simple granite monument to As the hourlong ceremony, which pro- Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian It would have been better if all of us had the victims of the mass murder planned ceeded under the slogan “Light a Orthodox Church. been here together in the heart of and executed by Stalin and his henchmen Candle,” came to its climax, composer “Today as we stand staring at the rep- Ukraine. We could have all remained – Lazar Kaganovich, Pavel Postyshev Myroslav Skoryk’s “Requiem” began to resentation of death, remembering our silent. There would have been no need to and Stanislav Kossior – and then driven play. Mr. Yushchenko led a group of his compatriots,” Cardinal Husar continued, say a word. Then we could have said we away. fellow politicians to the commemorative “there should be others here. We should properly honored the victims,” Cardinal President Leonid Kuchma did not lead monument, at the foot of which the group all be here: government officials, all the Husar said. the official delegation because he placed votive candles in colorful candle- political parties and representatives of all The hierarch spoke to some 2,000 peo- remains hospitalized recovering from holders. Mr. Yushchenko, who was pres- religious confessions.” ple who had gathered on Mykhailivskyi emergency intestinal surgery last week. ent at the service with his wife and An hour after the state and govern- youngest child, then urged others to add ment leaders had quickly left, National their candles to create a huge memorial. Deputy Viktor Yushchenko, chairman of By nightfall, when Mr. Yushchenko the Our Ukraine political bloc, which reappeared on the square, thousands of organized the memorial service, told the green, red, yellow and blue translucent gathering of his grandfather, who suc- candleholders held lit candles flickering cumbed to starvation in 1933. in the night wind. “My village paid with 600 lives,” said Mr. Yushchenko said he would like to Mr. Yushchenko. “When I come to visit see the practice become an annual event, my mother, she has five or six bags of so that eventually 25,000 candles light up dried bread in the kitchen at all times. I Mykhailivskyi Square each November 22 tell her they are no longer needed, but I in honor of the like number of Ukrainians know they will always be there.” who died daily at the height of the geno- The 70th anniversary commemoration cide. began during a damp late autumn morn- In the afternoon, the Ministry of ing in St. Sophia Square, where people Culture and Art held a requiem concert at from all parts of the country gathered to the Shevchenko Opera Theater, where take part in a memorial demonstration Prime Minister Yanukovych and other and prayer service. As the column of government leaders had been expected. marchers approached the site of the Great The highest-ranking government official Famine Monument, a recording of on hand, as it turned out, was Minister of women and children alternately wailing Culture Yurii Bohutskyi who attended and then gently weeping filled the with a handful of his underlings. square, accompanied by the tolling of a The hall was filled for the most part single bell in the St. Michael’s Cathedral with school age children who had been bell tower. given free tickets and ordered to attend as Over loud speakers, a solemn baritone part of a school assignment. It wasn’t any voice offered a narrative and reminded easy task for them – the performance was the crowd, “We are not only a post- the first-ever playing of Oleksander Communist society, we are also a post- Yakivchuk’s “33rd Symphony,” an unnerving and difficult piece performed genocide nation,” and, “We must ask our- by the Ukrainian Pop Symphony and selves: ‘What happened to us? Who is to sung by the Pochaina Chorus of the blame?’ ” National University of Kyiv Mohyla Among the individuals given an Academy. One high school student in the opportunity to speak after the 30-minute second row spent the better part of the prayer service – in addition to the politi- concert dozing. cal and religious leaders – was Kateryna The 70th anniversary commemorations Marchenko, a witness to the famine. began the previous evening with the open- “We watched as dead people were ing of an exhibition of 70 years of artwork dumped into open pits without a proper and posters on the subject of the Great religious burial or commemoration,” said Famine featuring more than 100 objects. Ms. Marchenko, who was then 7 years The exhibit included paintings and murals, old. She added, “I heard of incidents of with works by Edward Kozak and cannibalism.” Mykhailo Dmytrenko, two well-known Roman Woronowycz She finished her remarks with a state- Kateryna Marchenko, a survivor of the Famine, addresses the solemn gathering. ment describing the state of contempo- (Continued on page 19) No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 5 Ukrainian Catholic University’s THE UNA FORUM history program is accredited by Matthew Matuszak worldwide. We hope, and exert every effort, to be able to admit students in LVIV – The history program of the 2004 for an accredited program at the Humanities Faculty of the Ukrainian Faculty of Philosophy and Theology,” Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv said Father Gudziak received state accreditation last summer. “Today we have witnessed a small That was the topic of a press conference event, which is however an event at the held at the UCU on November 12, with all-Ukrainian scale,” stressed Olena the participation of the rector, the Rev. Dr. Borys Gudziak, and the staff of the Dzhedzhora, acting dean of the UCU faculty. Humanities Faculty. “Our goal is to cre- According to Ihor Pidkova, head of ate a generation of young professionals UCU’s accreditation department, the whose knowledge will be used in accreditation process lasted two years Ukraine.” Ms. Dzhedzhora added that and the UCU can now start joint educa- there is no concern over potential pres- tional projects with other universities. sure from the Ministry of Education try- UCU students will have the opportunity ing to impose its standards. She stated to take courses offered by similar depart- that the process of reform of higher edu- ments in other institutions. One example cation in Ukraine is significant and the of such cooperation is an individualized ministry is not interested in hindering it. humanities studies program arranged The UCU Humanities Faculty, now It is with great sadness that all of us at the Ukrainian National between UCU and Ivan Franko National consisting of the history program, was Association mourn the passing on Sunday, November 23, of our fellow University in Lviv. established in July 2001. In addition to employee, Maria Haluszczak. Our sympathy goes out to her grieving fami- “UCU is an institution in which the courses required by the state standard ly and friends. And her memory will forever remain among us. humanities studies, based on the list for history specialists, the students Christian viewpoint, can seriously, cre- also take basic courses in theology. Maria Haluszczak was a devoted employee for over 10 years at the atively and critically develop,” said Special emphasis has been placed on the UNA, where she served as a claims clerk. Enthusiastic and energetic, she Father Gudziak. “We have our own teaching of intellectual and social history, also served as secretary of UNA Branch 70 in Jersey City, N.J. unique laboratory for integrating the history of Central and Eastern Ukrainian society into the world, and so, Europe, and the teaching of classical and She is survived by her husband Alexander; son Alexander; daughter undoubtedly, we deserve the recognition modern foreign languages. Anya Jacewicz; mother Eva Czekaj; two sisters, Melania Tchir and Anna and support of our government.” The UCU actually received the license Wasko; and two grandchildren. “The potential for UCU that we have authorizing it to grant a bachelor’s degree in history on July 22. The university Visitation: Monday, November 24, 7-9 p.m.; Tuesday, November 25, been nourishing for years can finally 2-4. Parastas at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Riotto Funeral Home, 3205 begin to function in the field of education decided to publicize the information on and research, accredited by the state,” November 12, before Student Day is cel- John F. Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, N.J. The funeral service will take continued Father Gudziak. “For a long ebrated in Ukraine on November 17. As place on Wednesday, November 26, at 10 a.m. at Ss. Peter and Paul time, the state did not recognize our pro- part of the ceremony, the 35 first-year Ukrainian Catholic Church, Jersey City, N.J. grams, but in this we see the providence students enrolled in the UCU’s history – Executive Committee and employees of the Ukrainian National program received government identifica- of God, because from a certain point of Association, Svoboda and The Ukrainian Weekly. view the absence of state accreditation tion to allow them to take public trans- gave us more freedom. Due to a more portation at the student rate. The 190 creative approach to the development of seminarians and 145 general department curricula, the university has accumulated students in the UCU Faculty of many interesting proposals that will Philosophy and Theology do not have undoubtedly influence the reform of such identification, because their pro- RECORDING DEPARTMENT humanities education in Ukraine in gen- gram is still not fully accredited by the eral.” Ukrainian government. MEMBERSHIP REPORT – AUGUST 2003 However, Father Gudziak noted that For further information about the Christine E. Kozak, National Secretary “The problem of the accreditation of the Ukrainian Catholic University readers may UCU’s theology program is yet to be contact the Ukrainian Catholic Education Juvenile Adult ADD Total resolved. For now, while officials in Kyiv Foundation, 2247 W. 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LETTER TO THE EDITOR THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Another model I support our troops Pulitzer Board wimps out for Ukrainian studies in Iraq 100 percent On November 21, the Pulitzer Prize Board, quite obviously, took the easy way out Dear Editor: Dear Editor: by deciding to let stand the 1932 prize awarded to Walter Duranty of The New York Times. Its members, you see, did not want to set a precedent that could upset the crony- I read your article, “Ukrainian Studies The letter from Karen Bapst, Ph.D., ism of that special world occupied by the news media. Needless to say, no details were Fund raises $750,000 for Columbia’s published in The Ukrainian Weekly of given of just what sort of “study and deliberation” occurred during the six months cited Interdisciplinary Program” with great November 2 truly concerned me. Like by the board in its statement (see page 3). We were not told the findings of the special interest. As a graduate of Columbia Ms. Bapst I am a veteran who for a long committee set up to review Duranty’s work. We were not even told how many yeas or University (1960 BA, 1961 MA), and a time belonged to the Ukrainian American nays were registered. So much for the public’s right to know; that only applies to adver- still active (but retired) member of the Veterans Post 30. I served in the United saries of the news media – not to the news media themselves. The Pulitzer process is department of Slavic and East European States Army during the Korean War secret, so tightly controlled that it is doubtful any board member will tell what hap- languages and literatures at the Ohio which, similarly to the current war in pened in the disposition of the Duranty case. (Do we dare to hope against hope? That State University (OSU), I was pleased to Iraq, did not have the undivided support perhaps there will be one person of conscience who will feel compelled to speak out?) read that my alma mater is going to offer of the American nation. The board explained that a Pulitzer is not given for a correspondent’s character, or a course in Ukrainian History. I was like- One thing I learned at the very begin- for his body of work, but for “specific pieces entered in the competition.” Need we wise touched by the generosity of the ning of my military service: you follow remind our readers that the body of 13 Pulitzer-winning articles was examined by Prof. Ukrainian American community to make orders at all times, you respect the rank Mark von Hagen (along with other examples of Duranty’s 1931 work) at the request of this happen. held by your superior officers. How can The New York Times and that the historian’s conclusion was that Duranty’s dispatches At the same time, I find it dismaying a veteran, therefore, publicly accuse our were disgraceful and a blot on the record of The Times? to learn that the Ukrainian community commander-in-chief, our President The Pulitzer Board also stated that, although it found that Duranty’s work, “meas- has to raise a million dollars before George W. Bush of “exploiting ignorance ured by today’s standards for foreign reporting, falls seriously short,” “there was not Columbia would agree to offer the and post-9/11 fear and hatred to gain clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception, the relevant standard in this course. I guarantee you that there was support for its irrational and nepotistic case.” And what of the documents that quote Duranty himself telling a U.S. diplomat war?” that “in agreement with The New York Times and the Soviet authorities” his dispatches never such a hitch made for introducing Prior to immigrating to the United always reflect the position of the Soviet regime? Isn’t that convincing evidence? a Russian, French or German course. States as a displaced person I lived in And here’s our favorite example of the board’s equivocation: “Revoking a prize 71 Certainly Columbia is one of the most Europe through World War II from years after it was awarded under different circumstances, when all principals are dead heavily endowed universities in the beginning to end. I witnessed first-hand and unable to respond, would be a momentous step and therefore would have to rise to nation (i.e., they own the land under the tremendous atrocities committed by that threshold [clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception].” Really? And Rockefeller Center), and they can afford the Russian secret police (NKVD) and shouldn’t one count among those principals the 10 million who died in the Famine that to do anything they set their minds to. next the German secret police (Gestapo). Duranty denied – including the 150,000 who died in 1931 (yes, 1931 – Pulitzer Board, Just for the information of your read- If American soldiers would not have please note) as a result of Stalin’s collectivization policies? Were they ever given a ers, in the spring of 2004, when sacrificed their lives by the thousands I chance to speak out? Anyone familiar with Duranty’s work knows that they were the Columbia begins offering its first probably would not have been alive subjects of his infamous line: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” They Ukrainian history course, my colleague today. Numerous members of my family were the price that had to be paid for Stalin’s “successes” as chronicled by Duranty. Andrew Fedynsky (director of the Not being privy to the Pulitzer Board’s thinking, we cannot say where we go from Ukrainian Museum Archives in lost their lives after being branded ene- here to get the board to acknowledge what so many others know: that Duranty was a Cleveland) and I will begin our sixth mies of the existing regimes. Did Ms. fraud – he was a fraud in 1932-1933, and he was a fraud in 1931. He is undeserving of year co-teaching “Introduction to Bapst serve in World War II? Did she see the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, or for any year, because he was a toady, a sycophant, an Ukrainian Culture” (Slavic 245) at OSU. the horrible-looking human beings freed apologist for Stalin and his regime – a regime that began its genocidal campaign in With topics ranging from Shevchenko to by the American military from the Ukraine in 1929 with dekurkulization and collectivization. Khvyliovy, videos about the Famine and German concentration camps? Did she As for The New York Times, perhaps there still is some hope. The Times still can act Kozaks, slides of Ukrainian art, record- visit South Korea years after the war like like the newspaper of record it claims to be, like the newspaper that carries “All the ings of Ukrainian music, a wealth of I did in 1998? Did she hear the gratitude news that’s fit to print.” It is in the Times’ power to finally tell the complete story of photographs and other materials, as well expressed repeatedly by South Korean Walter Duranty and how he duped his editors (at least at first), his readers, his nation as a field trip to the Museum in citizens to the Americans for placing and the world. The Times owes this to the public and to the international community. It Cleveland, the course is lively, informa- their lives on the line to secure South owes it to the 10 million who perished in the Famine-Genocide. tive and popular. Our enrollments have Korea’s freedom from communism? The only question is: Will the Times’ hubris – and that all-important tally of Pulitzer ranged from a low of 40 to a high of 60. An Associated Press article published Prizes – allow it to do the right thing? Interestingly enough, at least 90 percent by the U.S. press on November 9, dis- of our students have been of non- closed that “as many as 300,000 Iraq’s Ukrainian heritage. killed during Saddam Hussein’s 23-year As regards the course financing, it is dictatorship are believed to be buried in paid out of the normal Ohio State budg- more than 250 mass graves found so far Dec. et, taken from students’ tuition fees and around the country.” Turning the pages back... from the citizens of Ohio who subsidize Should President Bush have continued higher education with their taxes. Ohio to stand by idly while mass murders were committed? How does Dr. Bapst 1 State includes this course in its list of think our soldiers feel when they read distributive requirements for graduation, Last year at this time we reported on the kick-off to the renais- and they hear their country is not sup- further demonstrating its commitment to 2002 sance of Soyuzivka, the beloved resort owned by the Ukrainian porting what they are risking their lives placing Slavic 245 in its “mainstream” of National Association that has hosted countless Ukrainians from for? subjects. all parts of North America and, indeed, all parts of the globe. I do have a son in the U.S. Army, an Certainly I admire the work of Hundreds of guests accepted the UNA’s invitation to “come home to Soyuzivka” for the officer with 16 years of service. I and my Columbia and applaud Prof. Mark von estate’s 50th anniversary gala on Saturday, November 23, 2002. They learned that there is a whole family support his efforts and Hagen for expanding Slavic studies at promising plan for Soyuzivka’s future as a four-season resort serving the Ukrainian com- those of his fellow soldiers 100 percent. my alma mater to include Ukrainian his- munity. The theme for the celebration was “I Love Suzy-Q,” and that message was evident Does Dr. Bapst support them also? throughout: on balloons, on programs, on wine glasses; it was even spelled out in lights. tory, culture and language. But, I would The resort was booked solid (and many stayed at nearby hotels). Cocktail hour in the like the readers at The Ukrainian Weekly Mykola Holinaty Main House lobby and library was jam-packed with guests, as they mingled with old to know there’s another model. All uni- Manchester, N.J. friends and enjoyed the photo display of people and events from years past at Soyuzivka. versities rely on tuition, taxes and vari- Present at the filled-to-capacity banquet in the Veselka auditorium were: Soyuzivka regu- ous federal, state and private funds. They lars, former employees, UNA officials, participants of Soyuzivka’s sports competitions, certainly should offer courses in leaders of Soyuzivka camps and many others who have come to love this unique resort. Ukrainian history, language and culture Thanks for article UNA President Stefan Kaczaraj noted that “Soyuzivka holds a very special place in our without making them contingent on the hearts.” After giving a capsule history of the significance of Soyuzivka for Ukrainian chil- Ukrainian community raising huge on Bronko Nagurski amounts of money. We’ve done it at dren, youths and parents, for campers, athletes and devotees of Ukrainian culture, he Dear Editor: vowed: “We must and we will do all in our power, with God’s help and the community’s OSU, and successfully, for over five years. Ukrainian courses will support support, to rebuild Soyuzivka, to make sure that it is secure for our children and grandchil- I would like to thank you for publish- dren.” Presentations were also made by UNA National Secretary Christine E. Kozak and themselves of any university because ing that wonderful article, written by UNA Treasurer Roma Lisovich. The keynote address was by Roman Kyzyk, a Soyuzivka they are as important at any other cours- Ingert Kuzycz, on Bronko Nagurski. devotee who grew up at the resort and today brings his children there, who reflected on the es the university offers, including, well, My dad’s brother, Dan Yurkiewich, meaning of Soyuzivka and the connections it has engendered through the years. Russian. A high point of the evening came when it was announced that the Self Reliance (New was married to Bronk’s aunt. York) Federal Credit Union was donating $50,000 to Soyuzivka – the first donation to George Kalbouss I would also like to thank you for pub- what was later dubbed “Soyuzivka Project Renaissance.” Columbus, Ohio lishing “Faces and Places” by Myron B. Kuropas. Keep up the good work. Source: “Soyuzivka celebrates 50th anniversary as plan for its renaissance is The letter-writer is associate professor announced,” by Roma Hadzewycz, The Ukrainian Weekly, December 1, 2002, Vol. emeritus of Slavic and East European Myroslaw (Merle) Jurkiewicz LXX, No. 48. languages and literatures. Toledo, Ohio No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 7

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On Remembrance Day: by Orysia Paszczak Tracz whatBelow is theand speech why by Andrew weweek remember later this opened the door for the Gregorovich, member of Royal Canadian German invasion of Poland by Hitler’s army on September 1, 1939. Legion Branch 360, at Ukrainian “No, I don’t want to. And I can’t. I maps. This can remain a private project Today all of us are sympathetic to the Our memory project – before it’s too late Canadian Memorial Park in Toronto, on just can’t. After all I’ve lived through, I for the family, or can be expanded into a Sunday, November 9. plight of the American soldiers who are want to remember the good times, happi- genealogical record, or an actual book. targeted in occupied Iraq. Some 240 ness, mostly now. My heart could not So many times I have heard people Today we commemorate Remem- have been killed during the Iraq War bear remembering and retelling all that. express regret that they did not listen to brance Day, a day for us to remember and the current occupation. But let us ...” the stories, and did not write them down both as Canadians and as Ukrainian put this most recent war in comparison The elderly woman thanked me for or tape them. “And now it’s too late ...” Canadians. On behalf of John to the losses in World War II. Ukraine’s asking her to record her recollections of Recording and documenting people’s Gregorovich, the president of the Royal Memorial Book for World War II has the Holodomor (the Famine-Genocide of experiences is at a peak right now. There Canadian Legion Branch 360 in 250 volumes and lists the names and 1932-33), but declined. There had been are many memory projects. The Library Toronto, I would like to explain what full biographical details. There were the Holodomor, then the war, then the of Congress has its “American Memory: and why we remember on this the 85th 6,019,000 casualties of Ukrainian sol- Displaced Persons’ camp and the fear of Historical Collections” for the National anniversary of the end of World War I diers killed, wounded and missing in repatriation, then emigration, settling in Digital Library. The Dominion Institute on November 11. action during that war. No country in a new land, and the deaths of her hus- in Canada, in partnership with The It is appropriate that we meet in this the world matches Ukraine’s military band, son and grandson. She wanted to Globe and Mail newspaper, has “The park, the Ukrainian Canadian Memorial loss of 6,019,000. In World War II the experience only the good times with her Memory Project” to provide Canadians Park, at the Ukrainian Canadian United States had 405,399 military with a venue to share oral histories on Cenotaph, since our branch of the Royal killed, Canada had about 42,000 mili- grandchildren, and have no thoughts other than happy ones. While her hus- the Canadian experience; this includes Canadian Legion was responsible for tary killed and Great Britain about separate sections on “Passages to establishing this park and its monument 350,000. Germany lost 6.5 million sol- band was alive, the two of them sat and kept an “aural” journal, as she called it; Canada” and “Peace and War.” The CBC bearing a dedication in English, diers and civilians dead. (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) has Ukrainian and French. Let us not forget We remember that, in addition to 6 they reminisced. But now he’s gone, and she does not want to dredge up heart- begun “Canada’s War: The Lost Colour that Poppy Week in Canada is a sacred million soldiers, Ukraine also lost up to Archives,” and is asking for wartime week to remember all the Canadians who 4 million civilian citizens killed giving a wrenching memories. But someone must. Those experi- diaries, films, photos, letters, to create a died in Canada’s wars. total of 8 million to 10 million killed documentary to coincide with the 60th The first thing we remember as according to the president of Ukraine. ences, those memories are history. In the introduction to the 10 testimonies of sur- anniversary of D-Day. Canadians is the sacrifice and the service Among these were 600,000 Jewish The Ukrainian Canadian Civil of so many Canadian soldiers, including Ukrainians killed by the Nazi German vivors which I translated for the special Holodomor issue of Canadian American Liberties Association (UCCLA) has ini- thousands of Ukrainian Canadians. There Holocaust. But many Jews were saved tiated the “Roll Call Project,” to contact were 10,000 Ukrainian Canadians who by Righteous, Ukrainians making Slavic Studies (Vol. 37, No. 3, fall 2003) I wrote: “All the statistics, documents, the thousands of Canadian families who served in the first world war and 45,000 Ukraine fourth out of 35 countries for are the descendants of Ukrainians and in the second world war. We should not the number of Righteous, according to and studies in the world are worthless without the first-person accounts, with- other Europeans imprisoned as “enemy forget that Ukrainian Canadians have Yad Vashem in Israel. aliens” during Canada’s first national fought for Canada in all our wars since Most Ukrainian soldiers in World out the survivor and eyewitness testi- monies of those living through an event. internment operations of 1914-1920. The the Boer War of 1898, including the War II, over 6 million, fought in the UCCLA’s webpage is www.uccla.ca . In Korean War. Canadian war hero Cpl. ranks of the Red Army and later the There can be no history without the sto- ries of the individuals who were there.” Ukraine, a number of books on wartime Filip Konoval at the age of 19 was Soviet Army. The First Ukrainian Front and Holodomor experiences have been awarded the highest British medal, the Armies captured Auschwitz, freed the This applies to any place and time: first emigration from Ukraine, pioneer published. Over the decades, many Victoria Cross, for bravery and valor in last prisoners, and then went on to help books in the diaspora covered the same the Battle of Lens, France, in 1917. He is capture Berlin together with the Belarus times, the mines and mills, World War I, the inter-war years, the Pacification, the topics. the patron of our branch of the Royal Front Armies. The Concordia University Chair in Canadian Legion. We must remember that Ukraine also Holodomor, World War II – and all that entails, UPA, the underground, repatria- Canadian Jewish Studies in Montreal We are proud of the fact that created two other armies, the Ukrainian launched the “Memoirs of Holocaust Ukrainian Canadians fulfilled their duty Insurgent Army (Ukrainska Povstanska tion, exile to Siberia and Central Asia, Soviet persecution and imprisonment, Survivors in Canada” project, to enable as citizens of Canada to serve in its Armia, or UPA) and the Galicia Division. them to bring these testimonies to a armed forces more than a century. Both UPA and the Divizia were patriotic the Displaced Persons camps, immigra- tion to North America, Soviet times and wider audience. “Therefore, at irregular I was not in the war but as a boy in Ukrainian armies and many in their ranks intervals, time and funds permitting, we Vancouver I heard about it on Canadian fought against both Hitler and Stalin. We Polish post-war times for those who remained back home, dissident experi- are making these memoirs available in radio. In particular, I remember the honor the veterans here today of all three two forms: a small number of copies will famous bombing raid of American and armies, Canadian, UPA and the Divizia. ences... Ukrainians sure have experienced be photocopied and deposited in relevant British bombers in February 1944. What Perhaps you have seen the new docu- libraries and Holocaust Centers; in addi- I did not know then was that those mentary film produced by the Ukrainian more than enough “history” in their lives. tion, the memoirs will be posted on the American bombers were killing Canadian Research and Documentation Internet at the following address: Ukrainians who were slave laborers, or Center titled “Between Hitler and Take out that tape recorder, or video camera, have some coffee or tea, and sit http://migs.concordia.ca/survivor.html Ostarbeiters, in German military facto- Stalin” and narrated by Jack Palance. This is an ongoing project...” ries. Nazi Germany took almost 2.5 mil- For the first time it gives a basic review down with your parent, or your elderly relative or friend, and ask a few ques- When I see these and other memoirs lion slave laborers from Ukraine to of the unknown and untold story of about the Holocaust, and how widely tions. What is Baba’s first memory? Germany to help its war effort. Ukraine in World War II. I think you they are distributed, I cannot help but When did Dido start school? Where did We remember with pride, and sorrow, will agree that this is a film that should think about how few there are about the they live? What did they eat? What that Ukrainians served in many armies in be shown on Canadian and American experiences of Ukrainians during the songs did they sing? How many siblings World War II including those of Canada, TV. 20th century. There is a dearth of were there? How did they wind up in the United States, Great Britain, the Veterans, reverend fathers, distin- English-language material, and this is America, or Canada? That will get them Ukrainian SSR, Poland and Romania. guished guests, consul general of specifically what is needed both for gen- started. It is much easier than expecting Ukrainians were even in the French Ukraine, ladies and gentlemen: eral readers, and for academia. With them to write their story down. For most, Resistance, fighting against the German Very few Canadians and Americans English as the lingua franca, Ukrainian that is too intimidating, or just too diffi- occupation Army. know that Ukrainians fought against material must be available in excellent cult. The tape recorder can just be there, The dress rehearsal for the second both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia English translations. Our stories must be ready to be turned on at any time. world war took place on March 15, 1939, during the war. We remember these sol- out there, published by mainstream pub- when Carpatho-Ukraine declared its diers because they fought for the free- If they realize that the family is inter- lishers and distributed accordingly. The independence from Czechoslovakia. On dom and independence of Ukraine. ested in their life, and they are told how self-published, poorly edited and trans- the same day, with Hitler’s approval, it Ukraine is independent today, but per- important it is to the family and to the lated material does no one a service, and was invaded by Hungarian troops. haps its independence is fragile. This is community, the elderly will be encour- barely sees the light of day. Sporadically, Because of this the small Carpatho- why we must preserve the memory of aged to tell their stories. It will be diffi- over the decades, some memoirs have Ukrainian army was the very first army our sacrifices for Canada, for Ukraine cult for them to remember and relive the been collected in the community, but to oppose Nazi Germany. As a result, we and for democracy. horrors. But the good times will also be these have been stored locally and by must remember that those Ukrainian sol- I have told you what we must remem- remembered. Each ordinary life is now have been forgotten. Of course, diers were the first to be killed in armed ber and now I will give you another rea- important, is part of a greater whole – there have been excellent publications in conflict against Nazi Germany and its son why we must remember. We remem- and is not that ordinary. It will be better English by Ukrainian academic presses – allies. ber, we must remember, our part in and easier to tell the stories in small seg- more power to them, and may there be We must remember that just before the Canadian and world history because no ments, over time. The tape can then be many more. My comments are intended second world war on August 25, 1933, one else will do this for us. This is what transcribed, typed out in Ukrainian, and to cover the individual, non-academic Nazi Germany became a partner of we remember and why we remember translated into English. books. Soviet Russia when they signed the this day. A booklet can be prepared for the Nazi-Soviet Friendship Pact. Just one “My pamiatayemo!” (We remember) family, and can include photographs and (Continued on page 23) 8 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Shevchenko Scientific Society hosts conference on Holodomor by Dr. Orest Popovych imposed on Ukraine’s farming communi- minister. Jones had visited rural areas of ed in the 1980s for the U.S. Congress by a ties, whereupon the “delinquent” districts Ukraine at the height of the Famine in group headed by Dr. Mace (to whom she NEW YORK – On November 8, the would be blacklisted and had their food- 1933. The title of Dr. Colley’s talk, “Gareth is married), in which some 200 Famine Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) stuffs confiscated by bands of armed Jones: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness,” survivors were interviewed. Although the held its second scholarly conference this Communist activists, while their popula- reflects the fact that upon his return from polling for the 1990 “Memorial” in year dedicated to the 70th anniversary of tion was prevented from leaving for other Ukraine Jones published a number of arti- Ukraine contained a self-serving spin for the Holodomor – the Ukrainian Famine- areas. To say that such measures were not cles revealing the truth about the horrors of the benefit of the Communist Party (sug- Genocide. The program featured four intended to create a famine is incompre- the Ukrainian Famine, at a time when most gesting that the party was actually aiding speakers from Ukraine and one from Great hensible, said Dr. Mace. The political Western journalists preferred to parrot the the starving people), the publication of this Britain. It was chaired by Dr. Taras rationale for engineering the Famine- Moscow propaganda line, which altogether compilation became a watershed event Hunczak, professor of history and political Genocide was revealed in the August 11, denied the existence of any famine. that opened the floodgates for subsequent science at Rutgers University, himself a 1932, letter from Joseph Stalin to Lazar Using his first-hand observations of the appearance of numerous works on the prolific writer and lecturer on the subject Kaganovich, in which the Soviet dictator Famine, Jones published in The New York Famine-Genocide. of the Holodomor. warned that Ukraine could be “lost,” Times a rebuttal to the notorious lies on the Ms. Dziubenko reminded all The symposium opened with an unless it was made to be the “most inalien- subject by its Moscow correspondent, Ukrainians to light a candle in their win- English-language presentation by Dr. Walter Duranty, while in the Manchester dow on the fourth Saturday of November James Mace of Kyiv, professor at the able part of the Soviet Union.” According to Dr. Mace, the only way to accomplish Guardian he criticized that paper’s pro- in memory of the victims of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Holodomor. Academy, associate editor of Politychna this was to take the national content out of Soviet stance in its editorial support for the the Ukrainian SSR, or to de-Ukrainize Famine deniers. Subsequently, Jones was Volodymyr Lozitskyi, director of the Dumka and former staff director of the Central State Archive of Civic Organization U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Ukraine. accused by the Soviet authorities of espi- The scheme involved the decimation onage and denied a visa for re-entry. in Kyiv, opened his presentation with the who spoke on the topic “Why Was It statement that the archive of the Genocide?” through Famine of Ukraine’s peasant pop- In 1935, while traveling through China, ulation, which represented the bulwark of Jones was kidnapped and murdered on the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) pos- The term “genocide” was coined by sessed all the information pertaining to life Rafael Lemkin, a jurist who formulated the the Ukrainian nation. This was followed, eve of his 30th birthday by “bandits” near however, by the liquidation of the leader- the Mongolian border. Considering that in Soviet Ukraine. It comprised the secret International Convention on Genocide and decrees of the CPU as well as the Central lobbied successfully to have it adopted by ship of the Communist Party of Ukraine this happened in an area where the inter- and much of the patriotic intelligentsia. ests of China, Japan and the Soviet Union Committee of the Communist Party of the the United Nations in 1946 and 1948. USSR; reports of local and regional party Underlying these conventions is the belief Significantly, the mass murder was accom- clashed at the time, Jones’ murder may panied by assault on the Ukrainian lan- have been politically motivated, opined Dr. committees, state security organs, police, as that all groups of the human race con- well as letters from ordinary people. tribute to human civilization and if any one guage as well. You didn’t have to change Colley. Her book “Gareth Jones: A the Ukrainian orthography to help collec- Manchukuo Incident” (2002) tells a fasci- All of this information, however, was of them is destroyed or partially crippled, kept secret until about 1988, when the tivization, commented Dr. Mace. Not coin- nating story of Jones’ travels through the all of humanity is impoverished, said Dr. Famine-Genocide was exposed and con- cidentally, the engineered Famine was Far East, up to his tragic demise. Mace. demned in the “Report to Congress: extended also to the Kuban region of The Ukrainian-language part of the pro- Genocide is defined as an attempt to Commission on the Ukraine Famine” Russia, which at the time was 80 percent gram featured three speakers from Kyiv: destroy, in whole or in part, a national, eth- authored by Dr. Mace. This exposure, as Ukrainian-speaking, where it was accom- Natalya Dziubenko, a writer, spoke on the nic, racial or religious group, with the well as the political thaw of the Gorbachev panied by the de-Ukrainization of Ukraine, “Holodomor: Eyewitness Testimony,” objective of altering the national character era, helped open the Soviet archives to focusing primarily on the compilation of of a given region by criminal methods. the evidence of which is plentiful today. It scholars. Genocide may be perpetrated either by led to the anomaly where today patriotic accounts of the Famine survivors that was Dr. Lozitskyi pointed out that, while outright killing of the members of the vic- Ukrainians are a minority in their own published in 1990 in a book titled “Holod. these archives do contain the mortality fig- timized group, or by the intentional cre- country. Thus, it was genocide against the Narodna Knyha-Memorial” (Famine. A ures for some individual localities, there ation of such conditions that would lead to Ukrainian people, concluded Dr. Mace. Memorial Book of the People). A total of are no hard statistical data on the Famine- the group’s complete or partial destruction. Next to speak was Dr. Margaret Siriol 6,000 survivors were polled for this publi- caused mortality in Ukraine as a whole. According to Dr. Mace, in 1932-1933 Colley of Great Britain, who offered an cation, of whose testimonies 1,000 were The estimates presented by scholars are the Soviet regime showed a pattern of affectionate account of the brief but notable incorporated in the book. based on demographic analyses. intent to destroy the Ukrainian population. life of her uncle Gareth Jones, a Welsh According to Ms. Dziubenko, the impe- Nevertheless, considering that concurrent- Unreasonably high grain procurement quo- journalist and foreign-affairs adviser to tus for this belated project in Ukraine came ly with the starvation the Soviet regime tas, that were impossible to meet, were Lloyd George, the former British prime from the unique study which was conduct- implemented a policy of de-Ukrainization both in Ukraine and in the Kuban region, there is no question that we are dealing here with genocide against the Ukrainian FOR THE RECORD: Remarks by Prof. Mark von Hagen at Columbia people, concluded Dr. Lozitskyi. Following are the opening remarks of ty of the collectivization and famine was police archives – have made possible Volodymyr Danylenko, director of the Prof. Mark von Hagen at the International the Soviet citizenry’s right to a truthful publications that document the Famine State Archive of the Kyiv Oblast, which Conference at Columbia University on and open discussion about all important and break the decades of officially has more than 2.5 million documents, “The Man-Made Great Famine in social or political issues, a trend that had imposed silence in the country for which focused on a few raions (counties) and Ukraine of 1932-1933 (Holodomor)” held been emerging, it is true, from the first this tragic event has the most political, even some specific villages in the Kyiv on Monday, November 10. days after the Bolshevik seizure of power moral and social significance. Restoring region, for which he described the events in 1917. The NKVD rose to a position of the truth about the Famine-Genocide is of the Famine-Genocide period in painful- Welcome to Columbia University, its immense power during the collectiviza- one of the central tasks in reshaping ly graphic detail. Going beyond the cold School of International and Public Affairs tion campaigns and insisted on ever high- Ukrainian historical and civic conscious- statistics, which attested to the loss of up and the Ukrainian Studies Program of the er levels of classification, secrecy and ness and in its de-Sovietization. to 50 percent of the population in some Harriman Institute. We are honored by censorship in all public documents and Accordingly, Ukrainian parliamentary areas, he recited a multitude of family your participation; many members of the speeches, culminating in an important deputies organized hearings earlier this names as well as first names of the victims audience are no less experts on the sub- sense in the 55-year denial of the man- year which resulted in resolutions of persecutions, expropriations, death by ject of our conference than the formal made Famine in Ukraine and elsewhere demanding that the Ukrainian govern- hunger and even cannibalism. panelists, so we look forward to an excit- in the Soviet Union. ment work with the international commu- Illustrative of the brutality of the Soviet ing day of discussions and exchange. Compounding this conspiracy of nity to gain recognition for this tragedy regime, Dr. Danylenko said, was the deci- The Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 silence ruthlessly enforced by the Soviet as a criminal violation of human rights sion of the Kyiv City Council in May 1933 in Ukraine, Kazakstan and parts of government was the complicity of many and lives. to bar any peasants from entering the city Russia was a particularly stark demon- governments of “civilized” peoples and A new generation of North American in order to buy bread. The speaker con- stration of the brutality of the Soviet the reporters of the foreign press in and European historians has been respon- cluded by referring to Ukrainian proverbs regime and how far it had betrayed its Moscow, most notoriously Walter sive to the changes in archival access and that were generated by the people’s experi- Social-Democratic commitment to creat- Duranty of The New York Times. But, to the revision of the historical record by ences during the Famine-Genocide. ing better lives for the peasants and sadly, professional historians reinforced our Ukrainian colleagues and has dramat- The program was closed by the presi- workers of the Soviet Union. this silence with their own denials until ically recast the terms of debate on the dent of the Shevchenko Scientific Society The goal of collectivization, in whose recently, despite the overwhelming evi- Famine. in the U.S., Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, who name the Famine was tolerated and exac- dence of oral history testimonies record- Our conference today is the first full- thanked the speakers, as well as the stand- erbated by consciously murderous meas- ed from survivors and eyewitnesses in fledged exploration of the political, histor- ing-room-only audience. In attendance ures, was acknowledged even by Soviet the Ukrainian diaspora populations of ical and socio-cultural aspects of the were members of Ukraine’s diplomatic sources, at least after Stalin’s death, to North America. Famine-Genocide at Columbia University, corps, who were introduced earlier: have been a colossal economic and politi- Much has changed in the past dozen but ours is not unique. Similar conferences Markian Kulyk, deputy permanent repre- cal failure. Not only did the wasteful and years. Ukrainian state independence and have been held or are being planned at our sentative of the Mission of Ukraine to the ill-prepared collectivization drives set the parallel declarations of independence sister institutions across North America – U.N.; Danylo Lubkivsky, the Mission’s back agricultural productivity and turn by Ukrainian historians from Moscow Harvard, Stanford, the Kennan Institute, second secretary; and the Andrii Nadzos, the peasantry into bitter enemies of the narratives and silences, the opening of vice-consul of the Consulate General of Soviet regime; another important casual- previously classified party, state and (Continued on page 11) Ukraine in New York. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 9

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE International conference at Columbia University examines Famine-Genocide by Roma Hadzewycz “His only crime,” Dr. Colley underlined, “was to tell the truth.” She then recounted NEW YORK – An international confer- how in March 1933 when the young Jones ence at Columbia University’s filed a news reports from Berlin that was International Affairs Building discussed the transmitted by the Knickerbocker news Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in service, the world learned about people in Ukraine, focusing on three main topics: Ukraine dying of hunger. The infamous “the politics of acknowledgment” of the Walter Duranty of The New York Times, Famine, new archival evidence that has she continued, issued a rebuttal two days emerged since the fall of the Soviet Union, later, claiming that there was no famine in and the Famine in people’s memory and Ukraine, perhaps only cases of malnutri- the arts. tion. Jones responded to that rebuttal in a Held on Monday, November 10, the letter to the editor of The New York Times conference was the kick-off to Famine published in May 1933 in which he stood Remembrance Week in New York City, by his story and congratulated the Soviets which also featured an exhibit, a screening and their supporters on their success in of the documentary “Harvest of Despair” concealing the truth about what was hap- and a memorial concert at the United pening in the Ukrainian countryside. Nations, as well as a March of Jones also told the story of what he had Remembrance and requiem service at St. Ukrainian National Deputy Hennadii Udovenko addresses the conference. He is observed in the USSR in a of talks through Patrick’s Cathedral. flanked by Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Nations Valeriy Kuchinsky (right) Europe and the United States. In 1935 he The international conference was and Prof. Mark von Hagen of Columbia University. reasserted his previous observations from opened with remarks by Prof. Mark von 1933 in the Hearst newspapers in the Hagen, a professor of history at Columbia tion refers to the Famine as “a national Commission on the Ukraine Famine that United States. Soon after that he was mur- University, who underscored the relevance tragedy for the Ukrainian people,” he said the Famine was genocide, did not declare dered under mysterious circumstances in of the proceedings being held 70 years it does not, however, call it a genocide. The outright that the Great Famine of 1932- Manchukuo. “For almost 70 years his arti- after 7 million to 10 million people in diplomat added that “this is just the first 1933 was genocide. He added that cles were forgotten. Now he has been Ukraine died as a result of Stalin’s genoci- step” and that Ukraine “will continue to Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada passed a meas- rediscovered and his reporting has been dal policies. Prof. von Hagen, who also press this issue further.” ure in May which declared that the Famine vindicated,” stated Dr. Colley. “Gareth chaired the conference’s first two panels, Next to speak was National Deputy was genocide. Jones’ ghost has come back to haunt those noted that “restoring the truth about the Hennadii Udovenko, chairman of the Dr. Mace then went on to speak about the who stopped at nothing to silence his con- Famine-Genocide is one of the central Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human politics behind the establishment of the U.S. science,” she said. tasks in reshaping Ukrainian historical and Rights, formerly Ukraine’s minister of for- commission, as well as the oral history proj- Dr. Colley concluded with a thank-you civic consciousness.” He also cited similar eign affairs and Ukraine’s former ambassa- ect conducted by the Ukrainian American to Prof. von Hagen “for the honor of conferences taking place at Harvard and dor to the United Nations. Mr. Udovenko Professionals and Businesspersons of New speaking at this prestigious platform, Stanford universities, the Kennan Institute provided some perspective on what he York and New Jersey, which served as the which has allowed me to finally put my in Washington and the University of called “the conservative nature of the basis for the commission’s own oral history uncle’s soul to rest – by recognizing at this Toronto. (For full text of Prof. von Hagen’s U.N.,” which he said makes it “difficult to component of its report, along with the pub- conference his courageous role in [uncov- remarks, see page 8.) get recognition of the Famine as genocide.” lic hearings held at several venues through- ering] one of the great barbaric episodes in Welcoming remarks were delivered also He expressed his hope that the Famine- out the United States to hear survivors’ testi- humanity.” by Andrei Harasymiak, executive secretary Genocide would someday be as well- mony. of the Ukrainian Studies Fund; Victoria known throughout the world as the Dr. Mace said that he “argued to the The Kazakstani tragedy Baranetsky, president of the Columbia Holocaust. “I would like to achieve the commission that there was a pattern of At the conclusion of the morning panel, University Ukrainian Student Society; and stage when the whole world knows what intent which constituted a pattern of geno- Kazakstan’s ambassador to the United Catharine Nepomnashchy, director of the ‘Holodomor’ means, that 10 million people cide” against the Ukrainian nation. Nations, Yerzhan Kh. Kazykhanov, deliv- Harriman Institute at Columbia. died, that it was a genocide.” ered a statement of support and sympathy The conference’s first panel examined The case of Gareth Jones Dr. James Mace, who served as staff for the victims of the Great Famine of “The Politics of Acknowledgment,” that is, director of the U.S. Commission on the “Gareth Jones: A Voice Crying in the 1932-1933. the “National and International Response to Ukraine Famine established by the U.S. Wilderness” was the title of the presenta- “Expressing deepest sympathies to the the Man-Made Famine.” Valeriy Congress and today teaches at the National tion by Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley, niece of victims of the Famine in Ukraine in 1932- Kuchinsky, Ukraine’s permanent represen- University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, the Welsh journalist who exposed the truth 1933, we believe that we should honor tative to the United Nations stated that “The began his remarks by observing that “it is about the Famine in Ukraine. (The full text their memory in a meaningful way: that is, Stalinist regime, in two years, purposely very important for Ukraine to have recog- of her presentation will be published in we should work to raise the awareness of exterminated over 7 million innocent men, nition of the Famine as genocide.” He went next week’s issue.) The speaker is the the world public of the tragic events in the women and children. And the basis of these on to note that one of the first recognitions author of “Gareth Jones: A Manchukuo history of Ukraine so that people in every criminal acts had a political purpose.” of this fact came from the autonomous Incident,” a book that details the young part of the globe know about them and feel He went on to explain: “It was neces- Basque region of Spain and that the journalist’s travels and reports from the compassion. We owe it to them,” he stated. sary for the regime to liquidate the wealthi- Basques have raised this issue in the scene, which ultimately took him to “Like our brothers in Ukraine, we do er independent-minded peasants who were European Union’s Parliament. Dr. Mace Japanese-occupied Manchuria, known as not want to settle scores with the past. the backbone of the Ukrainian nation. Due pointed also to resolutions adopted in Manchukuo, where he was murdered by Indeed, you cannot change your past. Yet to state regulations, all trade was prohibited Argentina, Canada and Australia, as well as bandits. According to Dr. Colley, Jones we deeply believe that we should never in rural areas, food supplies were cut off by the Foreign Affairs Committee in “was conveniently airbrushed out of histo- forget all those who perished in that from the villages, the distribution of bread Hungary, and the U.S. House of ry” even though he was the journalist who Famine and that we should be mindful of was ‘unlawful,’ and a system of mass grain Representatives. The latter, though it first told the truth about the Famine- our history. That memory will be a guiding confiscation was implemented. Against this referred to the finding of the U.S. Genocide in Ukraine. light for future generations that will help background, a campaign targeting the them prevent the reoccurrence of similar Ukrainian intelligentsia and priests was human disasters. That can be achieved only carried out as well. Even the slightest through the rule of law, full enjoyment of attempts to resurrect the Ukrainian lan- human rights and the democratization of guage, culture and national consciousness our societies.” were stemmed.” Ambassador Kazykhanov stated: “In fact, the Famine of 1933,” he under- “Kazakstan and Ukraine share the same scored, “was a horrific weapon of mass history, whose tragic pages are part of their destruction which was used by the Soviet heritage. Just as for Ukraine, the 1930s regime in Ukraine. It was not by any were one of the toughest periods in the his- means a natural phenomenon but a cynical tory of our country that witnesses a mass form of state terrorism against its own peo- loss of life of Kazaks during forced general ple.” (The text of Ambassador Kuchinsky’s collectivization that became known as the remarks was published in last week’s Kazakstani tragedy.” He went on to note issue.) that “the people of Kazakstan in reality fell Ambassador Kuchinsky also took some victims to oppression bordering on geno- time in his remarks to explain the signifi- cide,” that the nation’s traditional way of cance of a joint declaration “On the 70th life was destroyed, that Kazakstan “was Anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932- turned into a huge camp for prisoners from 1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor)” that was all over the Soviet Union,” and that “peas- being released that day as an official docu- ants who were supposed to feed other ment of the United Nations signed by 30 Leonard Leshuk speaks on information about the Famine found in declassified member-states. Explaining that the declara- U.S. intelligence archives. (Continued on page 10) 10 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE was a logical consequence of Moscow’s ments in U.S. intelligence archives. Those reach of the USSR ... two-thirds of those International conference... program of forced collectivization.” documents, he related, reveal “wide swings who spoke [to the U.S. Commission on the (Continued from page 9) “In 1929-1933, the Ukrainian village in perceptions of the USSR and its power, Ukraine Famine] demanded absolute groups of the population became them- was dealt a double blow,” he said, from powerful and bent on world domina- anonymity.” Nonetheless, Dr. Mace selves victims of the famine.” Those well “dekurkulization and collectivization. This tion to weak and ineffective.” recalled, “We created a resource that would off, he continued, were exiled and their meant, first, the physical annihilation or He commented that the information in have been lost. Now it should be reviewed; property was seized, mass political repres- deportation of millions of peasants to the the archives leading up to 1932-1933 is the transcriptions should be checked and sions affected practically all segments of north, and, second, the concentration of very significant to the study of the Famine. corrected. But we owe a great thanks to society, as many were shot, sent to prison the rest of the peasantry in Bolshevik-con- In the late 1920s, for instance, he said there those who had the courage to remember.” camps or exiled. “In two years, 1.8 million trolled kolhospy (collective farms).” were reports of resistance and the desire for The panel, which was chaired by Prof. Myroslava Znayenko of Rutgers people, or a third of the general population Mr. Danylenko went on to cite the rec- outside help. “Already one could see all the University, also featured a paper by Roman of the republics lost their lives,” he stated. ollections of Famine survivors. In the conditions developing for a catastrophic Obukhiv region, for example, the Great famine.” These reports, he explained, came Krutsyk, chairman of the Memorial Society New evidence from the archives Famine took 27,000 lives – a third of them from U.S. diplomats in Warsaw and in of Kyiv, who was unable to attend. His children. “These are horrible numbers paper on oral history in post-Soviet The second panel of the conference Berlin. In July 1930, for example, there is a indeed, made more so with the realization Ukraine (read by Marko Suprun) stated that was devoted to “Archival Evidence report from Berlin on a temporary halt to that 6,000 Obukhiv residents died over the collectivization and the danger of millions the first references to the Great Famine Since the End of the Soviet Union,” fea- course of the four years of World War II.” were in official documents from November tured three scholars from Ukraine and of people perishing. He concluded his presentation by In 1931, Dr. Leshuk said, there is a 1987 by First Secretary of the Communist, one from Washington. observing that “Despite the decades-long Party of Ukraine Volodymyr Scherbytsky In his paper, Volodymyr S. Lozitskyi, report from a Belarusian who tells of con- silence of the truth about the Famine- fiscation of foodstuffs, farms and livestock, who referred simply to food shortages. director of the Central States Archives of Genocide of 1932-1933 committed by the “The seminal breakthrough,” he wrote, Public Organizations of Ukraine, who also of deportations in 1929-1931; the inform- Communist authorities, the Ukrainian peo- ant tells of meeting deported Ukrainians “was the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine heads the Society of Archivists of Ukraine, ple have remembered these horrible times. Famine and its report. Also important was noted that there are three types of docu- and of soldiers guarding bread trucks. In village cemeteries today, one can see Also in 1931, a U.S. diplomat reported the documentary ‘Harvest of Despair.’” ments that relate to the events surrounding small bouquets of wheat and rye placed on Today, much work remains to be done, Mr. the Famine-Genocide: documents on the that the USSR’s populace was deeply dis- the graves. This is a monument to the contented, the speaker reported. Then, in Krutsyk said. “Closed archives still need to direction of grain procurements; docu- Great Famine, to its innocent victims.” be researched” and “Soviet documents ments on suffering, deaths and mortality in September 1933, Duranty, while privately Yurii Shapoval, a historian with the saying millions had died, also said the must be examined with a critical eye.” local regions (though no comprehensive Institute of Political Analysis in Kyiv, The Famine researcher also cautioned figures are available); and documents Soviet regime had so alienated the people spoke on documents in the archives of the that it could not embark on a foreign that “even today people are afraid to talk regarding the political disposition of the present-day security services of Ukraine about the Holodomor.” Mr. Krutsyk also peasantry, for example their displacement adventure for at least five years. (SBU) and Russia (FSB). He explained at All these materials, Dr. Leshuk under- expressed criticism of the Ukrainian gov- to collective farms or deportation. ernment, which continues to debate where the beginning of his talk that Ukraine today scored, need to be mined for information Mr. Lozitskyi noted that it was only in in Kyiv to situate a memorial complex ded- finds itself in a triangle that stymies its and their original sources found if possible, January 1990 that the Central Committee icated to the victims of the Famine and work on “that which should not be forgot- before it’s too late. Those comments were of the Communist Party of Ukraine Soviet repressions. He also noted that “pro- ten”: Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the unsure echoed by Mr. Danylenko of Kyiv who issued a decree on previously secret Russian forces are working against educat- attitude of the West and the uncertain lead- stated that Kyiv archives “have been archives that permitted their release. ing the public about the Holodomor.” ership in Ukraine. Furthermore, he noted, almost untouched in terms of Famine “Without exaggeration it is possible to Finally, Mr. Krutsyk stated that, unfortu- “we cannot objectively assess the topic [of research, while Holocaust researchers have say that the truth about the Famine nately, “the international community has the Famine] without looking at Ukraine- made extensive use of them.” played a key role in the national renais- Russia relations at the time.” This effort is not recognized this genocide and no one sance at the end of the 1980s and the hampered by the fact that right now there Survivors’ memories has been brought to responsibility for the beginning of the 1990s and became one are no contacts between Russian and Famine.” of the most important factors in the gain- Ukrainian scholars that would be able to The final panel of the conference At the conclusion of the third panel, in ing of Ukraine’s independence,” he said. support such efforts. focused on the role of memory and the arts an example of literary detective work, Dr. “In archival documentation the per- Dr. Shapoval was critical of Russia’s in telling the story of the Famine Genocide. Larissa M.L. Onyshkevych, president of sonal participation of Stalin, attitude toward the Famine, pointing to the Dr. Mace returned to the previously the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the [Viacheslav] Molotov and [Lazar] Russian Embassy’s statement that U.S. leg- broached topic of oral history noting that, United States, analyzed a drama written by Kaganovich in the excessive application islators do not know what genocide is – although “one of the charges against it is Yurii Yanovsky of Kharkiv titled of the grain procurement plan or Ukraine this in reference to Senate Resolution 202, that Famine research is based on witnesses “Potomky.” Analyzing various versions of in 1932 is clearly traced, as well as the which unequivocally calls the famine a who are unreliable and biased, “it is in fact the play, which ultimately was published in severe methods by which they sought the genocide. He was critical also of the joint “an old methodology pioneered by 1939, Dr. Onyshkevych pointed to clues plan’s unconditional execution and the declaration released that day at the United Thucydides in his retelling of the about the Famine and descriptions of the provision of other districts of the Soviet Nations in which he pointed out “there is Peloponnesian War.” people’s suffering and their thoughts. Union with grain,” he revealed. not a word about condemnation of Oral history, he continued, “can provide Referring to the “hidden information in “Whatever the cost,” he explained, “it Stalinism” and questioned “Is this a step information on what happened, but not his play,” especially in earlier drafts, Dr. was necessary to extract grain from forward for the U.N.?” why,” Dr. Mace continued, going on to Onyshkevych concluded that the writer Ukraine, the northern Caucasus and the The speaker went on to point to new explain the methodology used in obtaining “probably left [these earlier drafts] for the Kuban, where the population was prima- revelations found in Soviet archives. For information from subjects and the difficul- sake of his conscience” and “perhaps, in his rily Ukrainian.” Still other documents, example, he said, it is now known that in ties involved in the process. In the case of own unusual way, Yanovsky was attempt- Mr. Lozitskyi pointed out, focus on the 1931 150,000 people died. “We’ve never the Famine-Genocide, he said “there were ing to restore the truth.” need to stop Ukrainianization and liqui- seen this number before; it was an awful, two realities: the one you were supposed to The conference was sponsored by the date the opposition. concrete signal to the authorities.” repeat, or the official view; and the one you Ukrainian Studies Program and the The speaker concluded his presenta- As proof of the premeditated nature of saw with your own eyes.” Thus, he said, Harriman Institute at Columbia University, tion by commenting that “now that the Stalin’s policies in Ukraine, he also cited a the realities can become confused and Ukraine’s Mission to the United Nations, archives in Ukraine and some in Russia March 15, 1933, letter from Stanislav memories can vary. the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the are open, there is an opportunity to con- Kossior, a leader of the Communist Party At the time of the oral history project on Ukrainian Congress Committee of America duct new and further research.” of Ukraine, to Stalin. The letter reported: the Great Famine, work that began in 1984, and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Volodymyr P. Danylenko, director of “Starvation has not yet taught many kol- “people were still afraid to talk due to the Sciences in the U.S.A. the Kyiv Oblast Archive, explained at the hosp members sense and reason.” outset of his presentation that “over the Dr. Shapoval also reported that Stalin’s course of 60 years no one spoke of the treatment of Ukraine and even its party tragic events of 1932-1933; instead they cadres was particular. Party members’ loy- were hidden from the Ukrainian people alty was questioned at the time of the grain and the international community. ... The procurements, and it was stated that “if we Great Famine was a closed topic for do not correct what is going on we will researchers, and it was not permitted to lose Ukraine.” Fines were applied to both mention a word of this horrible catastro- individuals and collective farms in phe in newspapers or official documents. Ukraine; there was a prohibition against Information from abroad was qualified trading in foodstuffs and livestock; and as insinuations.” there was a halt of deliveries of provisions It was only in November 1987 that to certain areas, he explained. Most nefari- Communist Party officials revealed that ous was a prohibition against fleeing in late 1932 and early 1933 there were Ukraine, a food blockade and a prohibition serious provisional hardships in Ukraine, against delivering food to help the people “and famine in rural localities.” Mr. survive,” Dr. Shapoval emphasized. Danylenko went on to note that eyewit- Dr. Leonard Leshuk, a freelance histori- ness accounts in the Kyiv Oblast do not an and author of “U.S. Intelligence Famine researchers from Ukraine: (from left) Volodymyr Danylenko, Volodymyr constitute a large collection, but they Perceptions of Soviet Power, 1921-1946,” Lozitskyi and Yurii Shapoval during the session on archival evidence since the demonstrate that “the Famine of 1933 spoke on information in declassified docu- fall of the USSR. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 11

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Film screening, memorial concert reflect Ukraine’s suffering by Helen Smindak Witnesses speak of seeing people eating A musical homage Ukrainian World Congress President leaves, dogs and corpses. Askold Lozynskyj, who called for a Solemn evening vespers and an NEW YORK – Two outstanding Emphasizing the deliberate manner in moment of silence to remember the dead, excerpt from the liturgy, both arranged events of “Famine Remembrance Week,” which the famine was engineered and noted that the memorial concert had a by Kyrylo Stetsenko, set the tone for the held on separate days at the United then concealed, “Harvest of Despair” dual significance: it was a requiem obser- reverential presentations offered by the Nations complex, mirrored the horrific explores the roles played in the coverup vance as well as a celebration of life, Dumka Chorus under the direction of images of life and death in Ukraine in the by French Premier Edouard Herriot, because “finally the international com- Vasyl Hrechynsky. 1930s and the sorrowful grieving for George Bernard Shaw and Walter munity has remembered the victims of seven million lost souls that has followed Stetsenko’s “Bless the Lord, O My Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cor- the Great Famine, and a sovereign and since then, just as the loss of a loved one Soul” and his arrangement of “The respondent of The New York Times. democratic Ukrainian state serves as the is followed by a funeral dirge. Lord’s Prayer” were included in the pro- Ukraine’s permanent representative to best guarantee that a similar genocide On Wednesday evening, the award- gram, along with Yatskevych’s “Hail the United Nations, Valeriy Kuchinsky, will never be perpetrated again.” winning documentary film “Harvest of Mary” and Lysenko’s “Cherubic Hymn” stated that “Harvest of Despair” is “a The concert, like the film screening, Despair” was screened at the Dag and his hymn “Your Presence is powerful film that provides insights into was attended by top officials of Ukraine’s Hammarskjold Auditorium, portraying Everywhere, O Lord.” Soloists for the one of the most vicious genocides of the Mission to the U.N. and the Ukrainian the bleak life of peasants in eastern hymn were Eugenia Babenko-Klufas, last century.” Consulate General in New York, as well as Ukraine who defied Stalin’s collectiviza- Larysa Bulyha and Mykhailo Moczula. Mr. Kuchinsky said the Ukrainian visiting dignitaries from Ukraine, includ- tion edicts. A memorial concert which The concert reached its zenith with community hoped to draw the attention ing Hennadi Udovenko, Chairman of the took place Friday evening in the two heart-rending Bortniansky works – a of the world public to the flagrant viola- Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Human Poseidon area of the U.N. Visitors’ slow, stately “Let My Prayer Reach You, tions of human rights so that these crimes Rights, and Volodymyr Yelchenko, vice- Lobby, centering on a presentation of could never be repeated. O Lord” and the triumphant work “O Ukrainian sacred music by the Ukrainian Lord, In Your Strength The King minister of foreign affairs. Leading officers Before the film showing, Dr. James E. of Ukrainian national organizations includ- Chorus Dumka, concluded with a Mace, former staff director of the U.S. Rejoices” from his Concerto No. 3. Solo poignant rendering of Lysenko’s solemn portions in the second piece were per- ed Michael Sawkiw of the Ukrainian Commission on the Ukraine Famine, told Congress Committee of America and Iryna prayer “Vladyko, Neba i Zemli.” the audience that the film was a testimony formed by Ms. Babenko-Klufas, Ms. “Harvest of Despair,” premiered in Bulyha, Klara Lehka, Olena Nowicka, Kurowycky of the Ukrainian National not only of the loss to the Ukrainian peo- Women’s League of America. Toronto in 1984, employs rare archival ple but of the loss to humanity as a whole. Bohdan Kekish, Borys Kekish, Paul Among other honored visitors at the footage to depict the man-made famine Dr. Mace, who currently teaches politics Liteplo and George Shtohryn. concert were Archbishop Antony of the that ravaged Ukraine in the early 1930s. at the National University of Kyiv Ambassador Kuchinsky told the audi- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Millions of Ukrainians, almost one-quar- Mohyla Academy, has devoted his career ence that through the sacred music “we U.S.A., who attended with a retinue of ter of Ukraine’s population, died of starva- to the study of Soviet policies in Ukraine. are paying tribute to those who 70 years clergy from South Bound Brook, N.J. tion – at the rate of 25,000 a day – as the “As you look at this film, I would like ago in devastated Ukraine died in soli- Marta Kokolska, a representative of the result of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s you to realize that we’re not only talking tude, in despair, in irreparable sorrow.” ruthless decree to stop the Ukrainian about genocide, but the collective suffer- Ukrainian sacred music, one of the Ukrainian World Congress to the United nation’s struggle for political and cultural ing of a nation, of a people and, by exten- most striking expressions of the soul of Nations, was mistress of ceremonies. autonomy in the 1920s and 1930s. sion, the collective suffering of humanity, the Ukrainian nation, was always pre- Film viewers included Margaret Siriol- The unforgettable story of a lost gen- which has lost the contributions that served, even in the toughest times in the Colley, niece of Gareth Jones, the Welsh eration is told through haunting images could have been made by the creative fig- nation’s memory, Mr. Kuchinsky said. journalist who is credited with bringing of gaunt people with sunken eyes beg- ures of the 1920s – people like Mykola “Now it helps us to revive and to the earliest reports of the famine to the ging for bread or searching for grains of Khvyliovy, historians who were thinking strengthen our roots.” West, and her son, Nigel Linsan Colley. wheat, of children with swollen bellies of new ways of understanding the and emaciated bodies, of piles of frozen Ukrainian past, artists like Boychuk, for corpses lying in a field. example, who were exploring new ways BOOK NOTES Petro Grigorenko, a former Soviet of artistic expression,” he pointed out. general, the British journalist and author “Harvest of Despair,” a 55-minute Malcolm Muggeridge and Andor color film, was directed by Slavko Hencke, then German consul in Kyiv, are Nowytski and produced by Mr. Nowytski A collection of short stories among survivors who relate the horror of and Yuriy Luhovy under the sponsorship events in Ukraine. There is moving testi- of the Ukrainian Famine Research mony by eyewitnesses, among them Committee of Canada, with the assis- related to the Famine-Genocide Lyubov Drashevska of New York, who tance of the National Film Board of “A Hunger Most Cruel,” Sonia Morris, editor. Winnipeg Language Lanterns describe scenes of death and devastation. Canada. Publications 2002. 284 pp. “A Hunger Most Cruel” is a collection of “A Hunger Most Cruel” also includes fictional short stories relating to the Great four stories by Olena Zvychayna: “The grandchildren – has preserved the pre- Famine in the winter of 1932-1933, an artif- Market at Myrhorod,” “Socialist Potatoes,” Remarks by... cious collective memory of these events ical famine orchestrated by Stalin’s govern- “Lucky Hanna” and “Without Doctors and and published research based on the (Continued from page 8) ment in which millions of Ukrainians Priests, Without Graves and Crosses.” Ms. the University of Toronto, and others. All available archives of foreign govern- starved to death. Zvychayna moved to the United States in these institutions have committed signifi- ments and international organizations. The book was edited by Sonia Morris, the 1940s after having been held prisoner at cant resources to Ukrainian studies and all That generation belatedly joined by those and the stories were translated from a Nazi labor camp. Only after her arrival in acknowledge the centrality of the history survivors inside Ukraine itself who could Ukrainian into English by Roma Franko. “A the United States did she begin to publish of the Famine-Genocide to an understand- speak the truth publicly only after inde- Hunger Most Cruel” contains the English her work, since she had refused to publish ing of Ukraine’s fate in the 20th century. pendence, are the human voices that have translations of the work of three Ukrainian while under Soviet censorship. Her work These conferences demonstrate that, kept this tragic history from complete authors: Anatoliy Dimarov, Yevhen Hutsalo focuses on the oppression endured by for all the new documents, indeed thanks oblivion over the decades. and Olena Zvychayna. Ukrainians at the hands of the Soviet Union to the flood of new information, there is These, in short, are the concerns and Anatoliy Dimarov’s story “The Thirties and Nazi Germany. still room for scholars, political and civic issues that we have tried to bring together (A Parable about Bread),” which is con- leaders, and concerned citizens to debate in our conference today and which also tained in the book, first appeared in 1966 important aspects of the Famine- reflect the generous contributions of our and was published in the literary journal Genocide: its relationship to assaults on many partners in this unique collabora- Suchasnist in 1989. During the time of the the Ukrainian cultural and political elites, tion – from the hromada civic and schol- Great Famine, Mr. Dimarov had to flee his its ties to parallel famines in Russian arly organizations, the Shevchenko village with his stepmother because his regions and Kazakstan, even the proper Scientific Society, the Ukrainian father had been labelled a “kulak” – a name for this catastrophe, whether Academy of Arts and Sciences in wealthy farmer seen by the Soviets as a Famine-Genocide, man-made or artificial America, the Ukrainian Congress threat to collectivism. Dimarov’s writing Famine, or some other variant. Committee of America, and the focuses on turning points in the lives of This fact nonetheless testifies to a new Ukrainian Studies Fund; the Ukrainian ordinary people and the emotional effects of phase in our understanding of the history government and its Permanent Mission to these events. of this tragic episode and comes just as the United Nations; leading archivists “A Hunger Most Cruel” also includes the original generation of survivors and from Ukraine’s State Committee on Yevhen Hutsalo’s “Holodomor: Murder by eyewitnesses to the Famine-Genocide are Archives; and the private and non-profit Starvation.” Hutsalo was a member of the themselves becoming silenced through sector, in the persons of Primary Source group of poets and writers known as the death and illness. The Ukrainian hromada Microfilms/Gale Group and the founda- “Shestydesiatnyky,” writers of the 1960s. abroad has been an important, indeed tion of Yaroslav Chelak. He has published more than 30 collections very important, part of the story of Once again, welcome from the faculty, of novellas and short stories, as well as a today’s conference. The persistence staff and students of Columbia trilogy of novels. His work tends to focus on patience, and courage of a generation of University and best wishes for a produc- the psychological aspect of tragedy, with survivors – and now their children and tive conference. additional focus on nature and language. 12 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Holodomor exhibit is presented at the United Nations by Marta Baczynsky Archives. The archival documents made public by the Ukrainian government after UNITED NATIONS – An unprecedent- the break-up of the Soviet Union contain a ed event, the exhibition “Holodomor: The storehouse of information about the Great Man-Made Famine in Ukraine 1932- Famine. 1933” opened in the Visitors’ Lobby of the The actions of government officials that United Nations on November 10. Among had a bearing on the Famine are evident in the hundreds of people who came to the their letters, telegrams, notes, charts and opening were numerous United Nations photos. The officials’ cold analyses con- dignitaries, members of the Ukrainian cerning the scope of the human devastation diplomatic corps, civic leaders, researchers is clearly stated, and the documentation and scholars. The exhibit was one in a series presents a horrifying record of one of the of events during a weeklong commemora- darkest chapters in the history of Ukraine tion in New York of the 70th anniversary of under Soviet domination. The exhibit Ukraine’s greatest tragedy. informs viewers that the most striking docu- The literal definition of the word ments were found in the records of the gov- “Holodomor” is “murder by hunger.” Seven ernment health authority and in the photos million to 10 million men, women and chil- held by the Central Government Video- dren in Ukraine were starved to death Photo-Audio Archives. through an artificially created famine by the The exhibition organizers also utilized as Soviet government in order to achieve a sources the archives of the Ukrainian Julian Hunte (left), president of the 58th Session of the United Nations, with political purpose. National Women’s League of America, the Valeriy Kuchinsky (center), Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N., and Hennadii The Holodomor exhibition was organ- Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Udovenko, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Human Rights. ized by The Ukrainian Museum in New and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and York City at the request of the Permanent Sciences. forced seizure of grains, food and personal The exhibit presents documents of reso- Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. It The Ukrainian Museum’s own archival possessions. It shows the purges of lutions issued by various governments – the will be on view through November 30. collection of photographs and memoirs, Ukraine’s intelligentsia and clergy through Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the United Through photographs, documents and especially those of Vadym Pavlovsky, who mass arrests, deportations to Arctic labor States, Canada, Australia and Argentina. publications the exhibit examines the politi- was a Famine witness and a chronicler of camps and executions, as well as the delib- They show the tragedy of the Holdomor and cal and social climate of Ukraine in the the tragedy, as well as copies of relevant erate destruction of centuries-old churches condemn Stalin’s policies, while honoring decade preceding the Famine and the events newspapers donated by Mykola Panchenko, and cultural institutions. In other words, the the memory of the victims of the Famine. that led to the genocide. It also addresses proved invaluable. The exhibition organiz- aim was to achieve the total obliteration of Simultaneous with the opening of the the aftermath of this tragedy, the meager ers also looked to various books and news- national consciousness. exhibition, the Ukrainian Mission to the attention of the world press to the Famine papers for photographic material and other Photographs of the 1932-1933 Great United Nations presented, as an official and the cover-up and the consistent denial information on the Famine in public and Famine portray the skeletal bodies, the document of the United Nations General of the Soviets as to its existence. The efforts private libraries. sunken eyes and the unbelievable stacks of Assembly, a joint declaration on the 70th of the Ukrainian community to provide The exhibition is presented in chronolog- corpses, carted for burial. Anniversary of the Holodomor that was co- relief to the victims, as well as the attempts ical order on panels discussing the events of A panel discusses the perfidy of Walter sponsored by 50 member-states of the to spread the truth about the Famine the decade preceding the Famine. Viewers Duranty, Moscow correspondent of The United Nations. Genocide to the rest of the world are also are informed also about the development of New York Times, who wrote articles in Valeriy Kuchinsky, Ukraine’s ambassa- recognized. a cultural renaissance, which bloomed in 1933 stating that there was no Famine in dor to the U.N. said at the exhibit opening: The central focus of the exhibit is the Ukraine in the 1920s. Literature, cinema, Ukraine, while privately confiding to col- “The declaration is unique in that it is the devastation wrought by the Famine in terms theater and visual arts flourished but for a leagues that people in Ukraine were dying first of its kind within the United Nations to of human despair, suffering and painful brief period, as did independent farming from starvation. This coincided with the publicly condemn the Soviet totalitarian death. The words of the survivors, witnesses and private enterprise under the Bolshevik Soviet government’s denial of the existence regime for the murder of millions of inno- and chroniclers of the Famine bring out the government’s New Economic Policy. of the Famine. The Soviets blamed the cent victims. We are convinced that expos- full horror of this heinous and monumental Stalin’s ascent to power in 1928 ended weather for a poor harvest, while shipping ing violations of human rights, preserving crime and are presented to the exhibition this independent cultural and political life in thousands of tons of Ukrainian grain to the historical records and restoring the dignity viewer. Ukraine. His five-year plan proposing the West for profit. of victims by recognizing their suffering The exhibit is largely based on Harvard collectivization of farmland was the harbin- The reproductions of front pages of sev- will help the international community avoid University’s catalogue of its 1983 exhibi- ger of the terrible disaster to come. Those eral Hearst newspapers in the United States, similar catastrophes in the future.” tion, “Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932- opposing him soon found themselves which reported about the Famine, are dis- The Ukrainian Museum also published a 1933” and on photographs and documents enveloped in a reign of terror. played on panels, as are pages from the brochure that accompanied the exhibit; via recently made available from Ukraine’s The exhibition panels discuss the collec- Christian Science Monitor of Boston and photos and brief text in the English lan- newly released Central Government tivization of individually owned lands, the the Manchester Guardian of England. guage, the brochure captures the essence of the exhibit. The fact that the Holodomor exhibition was mounted at the United Nations is a great victory for justice. The enormous Visitors’ Lobby is a thoroughfare for thou- sands of people each day – those who have business to attend to and visitors from every corner of the globe. People would pass by and stop by the exhibition panels but for a moment, intending to move on. But few did. Most stayed and became absorbed in panel after panel, and read about the horri- ble crime that was neither recognized nor acknowledged by much of the world for such a long time. Organizing the Holodomor exhibition was an important project for The Ukrainian Museum and reflective of its mission: to preserve the cultural and historical heritage of Ukrainian Americans and share it with the public. It was also in keeping with the museum’s agenda of engaging in coopera- tive endeavors with the cultural and artistic communities in Ukraine, through coopera- tion with and the endorsement and support of the government of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Museum has been a viable member of the greater Ukrainian community and a respected participant in the prestigious circle of New York’s cultural institutions for 27 years. Its successes and accomplishments are underwritten by the generous support of its members and Visitors view the display during the opening of the exhibit at the United Nations. friends. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 13

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE Lobbying by diaspora changes Holodomor stamp’s design by Ingert Kuzych tragedy that to this day continues to be and Morgan Williams glossed over by many Soviet-era holdovers still in government positions. SPRINGFIELD, Va. – Concerted pres- Additionally, the design was terribly clut- sure from Ukrainian Diaspora groups in tered with the word “Holodomor” repeat- the United States and Canada – led in no ed three times. small part by the Ukrainian Philatelic and What was really troubling about the Numismatic Society (UPNS) – caused image, however, was the starving peas- Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s state postal service, ants on the left side of the stamp. Mr. to withdraw the design for a postage Williams recognized the figures of three stamp commemorating Ukraine’s Great women, a baby and a girl with a swollen Famine of 1932 and 1933. belly as having come from a 1921 famine Marka Ukrainy, Ukrposhta’s printing photograph. He then asked two promi- house, canceled plans in late September nent scholars, Dr. James Mace at the to issue the stamp because it not only National University of Kyiv Mohyla erroneously showed victims of an earlier Academy and Dr. Roman Serbyn of the famine in 1921, but also depicted victims University of Quebec at Montreal, to A sheet of the Holodomor stamps released by Ukraine. who were Russian, not Ukrainian. confirm his discovery. Both men have The stamp was intended to commemo- extensively researched the famines that rate the genocidal famine referred to as occurred in Soviet times. Not only did the “Holodomor” (death torture by forced they agree that the photo was taken more starvation). During the Famine, millions than 10 years before the 1930s famine, of peasants starved to death while but they also indicated that it pictured Western markets were flooded with con- Russian peasants from Buzulak in Soviet fiscated Ukrainian grain in order to fund Russia, not Ukraine. the Stalin-era industrialization of the Mr. Williams sent e-mails to anyone Soviet Union. he could, alerting them to the error and The stamp’s introduction was original- trying to get the printing house to contact ly planned to coincide with the Famine- Marka Ukrainy and have them change Genocide commemorations that take the design. On September 29 he contact- place during the fourth weekend of ed Ingert Kuzych, president of the November every year. Postal officials UPNS, with details of the planned stamp had to scramble during October and early (including the stamp design) and with November to redesign and print a new information about its erroneous depic- stamp in time to meet a November 21, tion. That same evening, Dr. Kuzych sent 2003, release date. out a letter – with copies of Mr. Morgan Williams, UPNS member, Williams’ message – to over 100 UPNS senior advisor of the U.S.-Ukraine members who have e-mails urging them Foundation (USUF), and publisher of the to contact Marka Ukrainy and express www.ArtUkraine.com Information their concern (see accompanying box). Service (ARTUIS), obtained a copy of On the following day Mr. Williams The stamp cover marking the 70th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide of 1932- the stamp from an undisclosed source. was able to set up a meeting at his Kyiv 1933 in Ukraine. Several things immediately caught his office with Valentyna Khudoliy, director eye. The first was that three Ukrainian of Marka Ukrainy. Also present at the the U.S.A. (Dr. Mace, internationally rec- late to change the stamp’s design since it famines were being commemorated on a get-together – called with just a three- ognized expert on the Holodomor, was had already received government single stamp (1921-1922, 1932-1933, hour notice – were Ross Chomiak, an tied up teaching a class at that time peri- approval. In addition, she was skeptical and 1946-1947). Such a grouping it was American journalist living in Kyiv; Dr. od.) of Mr. Williams’ claim that the stamp felt would dilute the real reason for issu- Anatol Lysyj, president, Minnesota During the meeting, the gentlemen could be traced to 1921 and Soviet ing the stamp: to concretely recognize Chapter, Coordinating Committee to Aid tried to convey their profound concerns Russia since Ukrinform, the state infor- the immensity of the Holodomor of the Ukraine; and Dr. George Krywolap, about the stamp design. Ms. Khudoliy, 1930s that was imposed on Ukraine – a Secretary, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of however, informed them that it was too (Continued on page 14) FOR THE RECORD: Philatelic society’s letter to its members Below is the text of the letter sent out to all UPNS I am sending this letter to all UPNS members with e- shown on the stamp were Russian peasants from a pho- members with e-mail addresses on the society roster. mail addresses as well as to others who I hope will be tograph of 1921. able to help in a letter-writing campaign to change the In a distinct understatement Ms. Khudoliy allowed Dear UPNS Member or Concerned Citizen: stamp design. Unfortunately, the time is short. The that, “The Americans were very worried about [the anniversary of the Holodomor is commemorated during stamp].” As it turns out, they had every right to be. I have just been informed of the incredibly inappro- the fourth weekend of November every year. I imagine Marka Ukrainy planned to print 200,000 copies of the priate stamp design that Marka Ukrainy has proposed to the stamp would be issued a couple of weeks ahead of Holodomor stamp with a face value of 45 kopiyky. issue in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the this time. That only leaves about six to seven weeks to Whether these had to be destroyed is currently Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor). Although some cancel the present design and undertake a stamp change. unknown. may quibble about details of the overall design, the bla- Please join me in contacting Marka Ukrainy as soon as Nevertheless, some basic information – as well as the tant use of a photo showing a starving Russian family possible! new stamp design – has emerged. The new Holodomor instead of Ukrainian victims cannot be left unchal- The address of the head of Marka Ukrainy is: stamp was prepared by Kost’ Lavro, Marka Ukrainy’s lenged. (Details of the stamp design and verification that Valentyna Khudoliy, Khreshchatyk, 22 Kyiv-1, 01001, highest-paid designer. the persons depicted are Russian appear below.) Ukraine. Unlike the earlier design, the new main image does If such a stamp were to appear it would be an insult The e-mail address I was able to find at the Marka not utilize any historical photos. Instead a simple, pow- to the 7 million to 10 million Ukrainian victims who Ukrainy website (www.stamp.kiev.ua) was: erful, symbolic representation is used. Shown is a were the victims of this Soviet Russian-instigated hor- [email protected] Kozak-style granite cross, out of which emerges the ror. Please send copies of this request to anyone you can ghostly head of a child with a frozen expression that can think of who would be willing to drop a line to Marka be interpreted as grief, regret and/or despair. The expres- Ukrainy to see that the impending philatelic travesty sion is haunting and is somewhat reminiscent of Edvard does not occur. Munch’s “The Scream.” The single word “Holodomor” Thank you in advance for your assistance. says all that is necessary and the blood red year numer- als contrast sharply with the grays and black of the rest Sincerely, of the design. A few spindly stalks of grain add to the Dr. Ingert Kuzych, President poignancy of the image.” All in all, it is a very effective Ukrainian Philatelic and heart-rending design. and Numismatic Society Only 100,000 copies of the new 45-kopiyka Holodomor stamps were reportedly printed, a ludicrous- Attached to this missive was information supplied by The original design for the Holodomor stamp. Morgan Williams documenting the fact that the persons (Continued on page 14) 14 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAMINE-GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE IN THE PRESS: Columbia Journalism Review, New York papers, VOA on Duranty case Columbia Journalism Review Statesman, who heads the special inves- include further leafleting, outside the journalist that he hoped the demonstra- tigative committee. Pulitzer Board’s meeting room at tion would increase international aware- PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The Columbia Mr. McCollum said that in order to Columbia University.” ness of the genocide. “We don’t want to Journalism Review and several New get a clearer picture of the issues facing “This is not a protest against the avenge the history. The main thing is York-based newspapers, as well as the the Pulitzer board, he spent some time Pulitzer Board,” the article quoted that mass human rights violations must Voice of America were among the news researching Duranty and his work in the Askold Lozynskyj, president of the never be repeated. For that, we must media outlets that recently focused on Library of Congress. the case of Walter Duranty and his 1932 UWC, as saying. “It’s a vigil to let the remember,” Mr. Kuchinsky said. “Duranty worked within the [Soviet] Pulitzer Prize. board know that the Ukrainian commu- The New York Daily News reported system, trading softer coverage for con- The November/December issue of the nity is very interested in the decision. on the famine commemorations that took tinuing access. Deciding whether that Columbia Journalism Review dedicated We realize it’s not an easy one for place on November 15 in New York City exchange ended up with the Times sub- over 4,400 words – in an article titled them.” in its November 18 edition. In a subsec- stantially whitewashing Soviet atrocities “Should this Pulitzer be pulled?” – to the The article also reported that, “The tion titled “Protest set for Times,” requires a closer examination of issue of Walter Duranty and the 1932 administrator of the Pulitzer Board, Sig columnist Paul Colford wrote that Duranty’s work,” he added. Pulitzer Prize he won for reporting from Gissler, had not known of the vigil, but “Ukrainian groups gathered in New York The author concluded: the former Soviet Union. said, ‘We’re certainly aware of their con- last week for a memorial service at St. “Taken together the 13 articles (11 The author of the article, Contributing cerns. Our inquiry is ongoing.’ ” Patrick’s Cathedral and other programs were part of a series, datelined from Editor Douglas McCollam, wrote: “In marking the 70th anniversary of the Paris, that ran in June of 1931; the two New York Newsday 1932, at the age of 47, Duranty was Ukraine Famine that killed millions.” others were separate stories), are a some- awarded the Pulitzer for a series of sto- The daily newspaper New York Mr. Colford also reported that the times prescient exploration of a kind of ries that the board thought showed a Newsday reported on November 15 that Ukrainian Congress Committee of totalitarian government the world had ‘profound and intimate comprehension some 3,000 people marched in New America has planned to step up its cam- never seen before. Duranty’s writing of conditions in Russia,’ consistent with York City that day to show the world paign urging the revocation of the 1932 ‘the best type of foreign correspon- style is often stilted, and the stories are they remember the “ ‘hidden holocaust’ Pulitzer Prize won by Moscow corre- dence.’ Next to Duranty’s portrait flawed in many respects, but overall or ‘forgotten famine.’ ” spondent Walter Duranty of The New appears the following note: ‘Other writ- seem sound, and even include notes of Staff writer Elizabeth Cady Brown York Times by protesting outside of The ers in the Times and elsewhere have dis- moral condemnation rarely found else- reported in the article that: “It was crisp Times headquarters building and its credited this coverage.’ ” where in his work. and sunny for the marchers gathered at bureaus around the country. “Another He continued: “Indeed they have, and “The same cannot be said about noon in front of St. George Catholic protest is set for Friday [November 21] this year, more than 70 years after Duranty’s coverage – or lack of coverage Church in the East Village. The proces- at Columbia University, where the Duranty won the prize, both Arthur – of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. sion, a sea of blue and gold Ukrainian Pulitzer Board is due to meet, months After five years of brutal agricultural Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New flags and colorful embroidered head after it was announced a subcommittee collectivization, Stalin increased the York Times, and members of the Pulitzer scarves, moved slowly up Third Avenue would review the Duranty case,” Mr. grain quotas due from Ukraine despite a board have found themselves inundated to Bryant Park, ending at St. Patrick’s Colford wrote. poor harvest year. When it became evi- with letters, postcards, faxes, e-mails Cathedral for a requiem mass. It was at dent that the quotas would not be met, Voice of America and phone calls demanding that once a celebration of Ukrainian culture Soviet troops and party activists swept Duranty’s prize be returned or revoked. and a time of collective mourning.” Voice of America also carried an through Ukraine tearing apart peasant The campaign has left some of its targets The article, titled “‘Forgotten famine’ English-language story on the controver- farms looking for secret grain hordes. mystified. ‘The whole thing is just odd,’ remembered,” quoted several of the sy surrounding Walter Duranty’s 1932 They stripped the people clean and the says Andrew Barnes, chairman and chief Pulitzer Prize. On November 19 Kerry result was catastrophic. Though no reli- marchers who told Ms. Brown how they executive officer of the St. Petersburg Sheridan reported that “A able census data are available, most his- were affected by the famine, either direct- controversy is Times, who has served on the Pulitzer ly or indirectly. Paul Makovski, who heating up over a prestigious journalism board for seven years. David Klatell, torians now estimate at least 5 million people starved to death. Ukrainian lives in Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., but was award given to a reporter whose alleged- who was on the board for a year as inter- born in Ukraine, told Ms. Brown that, ly biased coverage of the Soviet Union in im dean of Columbia’s Graduate School groups put the figure at 7 million to 10 million and passionately believe it “My mother and her sister ate anything to the early 1930s largely ignored the of Journalism, also was a bit stumped stay alive. They would make bread with famine that resulted in millions of when he began receiving the letters last reflects a deliberate campaign by Stalin to break resistance to the Soviets in bark or grass. It was terrible for them.” Ukrainian deaths. More and more mem- fall. ‘It’s been a fairly massive writing Ms. Brown also spoke with Ukraine’s bers of New York’s Ukrainian communi- campaign,’ says Klatell, who estimates Ukraine and obliterate the Ukrainian identity, though not all historians agree permanent representative to the United ty are calling for the Pulitzer Prize to be that he and Sig Gissler, administrator of Nations, Valeriy Kuchinsky, who told the revoked.” the prizes, have received tens of thou- with that interpretation. sands of cards and letters. ‘Whoever “If the case for revoking the prize is funded it has spent a good deal of based solely on the series that Duranty Holodomor had ever occurred. The fear money,’ Klatell says.” won for, then it is less compelling. If it is Lobbying... was that similar allegations would arise if Mr. McCollam wrote further: based instead on the totality of his the stamp design in question was used. “Both Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and his reporting, then the prize should probably (Continued from page 13) Recipients of Mr. Williams’ and Mr. father, Arthur Sulzberger Sr., the previ- be revoked,” Mr. McCollum concluded. mation agency, had been commissioned Kuzych’s e-mail campaign responded ous publisher, declined to be interviewed to provide a historically accurate photo. New York Sun quickly. Ms. Khudoliy later affirmed that for this article, but a Times spokesman, Ms. Khudoliy also mentioned that the Marka Ukrainy started receiving mes- Toby Usnik, did e-mail a statement, say- “Ukrainians are besieging The New photo had recently been published in a sages at about the time that residents of ing, in part, that The Times has ‘reported York Times office in New York City – book on 20th century Ukraine, where it North America’s East Coast were waking often and thoroughly on the defects in and in Los Angeles, Chicago, had been labeled as being from Ukraine, up on September 30. By 4 p.m. that day, Duranty’s journalism, as viewed through Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto and albeit from 1921. She did not realize that just hours after her meeting with Mr. the lens of later events.’ Moscow – to try to persuade the newspa- very few images are available from the Williams, she called to tell him that the “In April the board voted to consider per to end its equivocating over Walter 1933 famine because of the clampdown stamp would be held up and that Marka the question again, forming a special Duranty and his 1932 Pulitzer Prize,” on any photographs being taken that Ukrainy would try to find a new photo. committee to investigate, a step it hasn’t wrote Eric Wolff in a November 18 arti- could verify the tragedy that was taking Ms. Khudoliy acknowledged that pres- taken in the past. Gissler, who became cle published by the New York Sun titled place. sure from “our Ukrainian diaspora” was administrator of the prizes in 2002, says “Ukrainians protest prize to N.Y. Mr. Williams understood how crucial the primary reason for the decision to the committee was not formed in Times.” it was to use an image from the proper hold up the production and sale of the response to the letter-writing campaign, The article went on to report that the famine. In an otherwise excellent 1986 stamp. She admitted that Ukrposhta was which he says didn’t start in earnest until demonstrations would consist mainly of documentary on the Holodomor, “surprised but unimpressed” that the around May of this year, but because the handing out informational leaflets at the “Harvest of Despair,” the filmmakers had stamp’s design had been leaked before its board views the allegations against doors of The New York Times bureaus erroneously used photos from a Russian scheduled release date, an action she Duranty as serious enough to merit an and were timed to allow the newspaper famine. This oversight gave some called a gross violation of the designer’s in-depth inquiry. The special committee to mull over its position before a Pulitzer Russians a pretext to deny that the rights. is scheduled to make a report to the full Prize Board meeting on November 21. board at its November meeting. The According to the article, the leaflets committee’s preliminary findings were “detail Duranty’s coverage of the Soviet cate the populace – and the world – of being calculated as I worked on this arti- Union while he was The Times’ corre- Philatelic society’s... this greatest of Ukraine’s tragedies. One cle, but Gissler declined to make it avail- spondent in Moscow and ask, ‘When (Continued from page 13) can only hope that Marka Ukrainy will able, nor would he comment on the sub- Jayson Blair’s lies were uncovered, The ly small quantity for a nation with a pop- wise up and reprint further quantities. stance of the controversy. New York Times apologized. Why * * * “Most of the 22 other present and past won’t they now?’” ulation of just under 50 million. Why board members I contacted were similar- The article went on to say that, “The such a minuscule amount was produced The authors wish to thank the many ly mum, including William Safire, the two Ukrainian groups [Ukrainian World remains a puzzle. Once an acceptable people who took the time to contact Times columnist who currently co-chairs Congress and Ukrainian Congress Holodomor stamp design was approved, Marka Ukrainy and express their views the Pulitzer board, and Richard Oppel, Committee of America] plan to demon- this particular issue should have been on the unsuitable original Holodomor the editor of the Austin American- strate on [November 21], which will printed in far larger numbers to help edu- stamp. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 15 Who is in charge... (Continued from page 2) CLACLASSSSIFIEDIFIEDSS Medvedchuk, therefore, sees his role as ( ) twofold. 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Ukrainian pro hockey update by Ihor Stelmach

NHL 2003-2004 preview among forwards. Igor Valeev patrols the Hatcher’s Wings? Fedorov’s Ducks? wing in Worcester, while Cody Rudkowsky Kariya’s Avalanche? Oh yes, things are is far down on the goalie depth chart. mighty different this season in Hockeyland. 6. VANCOUVER CANUCKS – Stars And not just because the clock is ticking Todd Bertuzzi and Markus Naslund are away on the NHL’s labor agreement. only a season or two into their primes. Ed There’s new money in Buffalo and Ottawa, Jovanovski is one of league’s best blueline new coaches in Pittsburgh, Boston and cops. Dan Cloutier has to prove himself in New York. Of course there’s new hope in the playoffs or else goaltending will be every locker room, as each team figures questioned. Is the team tough enough? they have a chance to etch their names in Zenith Komarniski and Rene Vydareny sent silver. down for more seasoning in Manitoba. The Detroit Red Wings are the easy 7. COLORADO AVALANCHE – Paul Stanley Cup pick for anyone who puts Kariya and Teemu Selanne come over as stock in the return of the Dominator behind free agents to try and win a Cup with Peter a formidable defense. Who could argue Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Milan Hejduk and oth- with picking Colorado, now that they boast ers. The only things which could hold them such a potent offense? Another good selec- back are health issues and suspect goaltend- tion would be the Devils, the defending ing with Patrick Roy retiring. Andre Stanley Cup champions who have the best Nikolishin acquired in off-season to anchor goaltender, Martin Brodeur, in the game. checking line. Jordan Krestanovich honing But the pick here is the Ottawa Senators, his skills in Hershey while Johnny Boychuk an explosive team, to lift the Cup when this was returned to Moose Jaw juniors. 8. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS – Once season is all said and done. Just like their again a playoff contender, but weak ancestors, the Ottawa Silver Seven, did four between the pipes. Jeremy Roenick leads times and the original Ottawa Senators did the forwards, Eric Desjardins the defense. seven times in pro hockey’s early days. When healthy, new goalie Jeff Hackett is “They’re a young team, and they are pretty solid. These Flyers are the flip side of only going to get better,” Devils’ defense- the Devils, strong at forward, not as strong man Scott Niedermayer says. on defense. Todd Fedoruk is the enforcer on Agreed. In the following preview we the fourth line. Jeff Woywitka should see rate the squads 1-30 with a mention of each NHL ice time for the first time. club’s top players, a scouting report for 9. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING – 2003-2004, and attention to Ukrainian con- Vincent Lecavalier, Brad Richards and tributors. Martin St. Louis are high octane on offense. 1. OTTAWA SENATORS – Marian Dan Boyle underrated as two-way defense- Hossa scores, Wade Redden defends, man. Nikolai Khabibulin needs to re-prove Patrick Lalime knocking on the door of himself. Team has a lot of players on the greatness in goal. Best team in its division, cusp of being at the height of their game. probably in the conference. Very well Great leadership with captain Dave coached with a whole bunch of highlight Andreychuk. This year’s breakthrough forwards. Very good, underrated defense. ‘Bolt could be Ruslan Fedotenko. Brad Curtis Leschyshyn enters the season as the Lukowich moves up to No. 4 on blue line. club’s seventh defenseman in a rotation of Nikita Alexeev begins season in the minors. six. Still valuable guy to have around. 10. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS – Joe 2. DETROIT RED WINGS – GT Nieuwendyk’s signing was a huge move. Dominik Hasek returns after a year of Alexander Mogilny and Mats Sundin are retirement to re-join captain Steve proven snipers. Ed Belfour will face tons of Yzerman, who’s recovering from knee sur- shots due to porous line of defense. Leafs gery. Ray Whitney teams with Brendan seem like an old team of patchwork players Shanahan on the scoring line. Their blue- with little bite. Wade Belak a very valuable line, with the addition of Derian Hatcher, commodity as forward/defenseman with can be as good as any in the league. tons of grit. Rookie Matt Stajan and Youngsters Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Olympian Alexei Ponikarovsky both made Zetterberg must produce. No Ukrainians on the parent club coming out of training camp. roster. 11. ANAHEIM MIGHTY DUCKS – 3. NEW JERSEY DEVILS – Defending Sergei Fedorov and Vinny Prospal come champs play tight trap with Scott Stevens over to kickstart the offense. Team lived and Scott Niedermayer anchoring defense and died with netminder Jean-Sebastien in front of Vezina winner Martin Brodeur. Giguere in the past. Last year Giggy went Nobody really scores a lot here. They have from Who? to Wow! in 21-game playoff a decent group of forwards, but will have to run. Vitaly Vishnevski is one of the best tweak a little with personnel to repeat. body checkers around on D. Will not dupli- Tough guy Rob Skrlac still in Albany cate last year’s surprise in the Western (AHL). Conference. 4. DALLAS STARS – Mike Modano 12. BOSTON BRUINS – Capt. Joe adds the captain’s C to his allround game. Thornton fast becoming an elite player. Sergei Zubov anchors strong power play Glen Murray and Sergei Samsonov are from the point. major scoring threats. Atmosphere should Marty Turco was terrific as starting improve with new coach. Defense is sus- goalie in 2002-2003. This team had one pect on top of two new netminders (Felix down year and then were right back on top. Potvin and Andrew Raycroft). No Lack of physical presence on defense will Ukrainians on training camp roster. be addressed when needed. With Hatcher 13. MINNESOTA WILD – Their only leaving as a free agent, Richard Matvichuk name player, Marian Gaborik, remained moves up into a key role as a top-four unsigned into the start of the season. defender. Dave Bararuk shows promise for Goaltending duo of Manny Fernandez and MAY WE HELP YOU? the future. Dwayne Roloson had a combined 2.10 5. ST. LOUIS BLUES – Chris Pronger GAA in 2002-2003. Coach Jacques To reach The Ukrainian Weekly call (973) 292-9800, and top rookie Barret Jackman are superior Lemaire and his neutral-zone trap yields defensemen. Pavol Demitra and Doug and dial the appropriate extension (as listed below). great results, but a boring looking game. Weight are scorers. These big spenders Chris Bala skating in Houston. slashed payroll to a lower $59 million. Still Editorial – 3049, 3063, 3069; Administration – 3041; 14. WASHINGTON CAPITALS – need a shutdown goalie, but will field deep When he feels like it, Jaromir Jagr can be lineup. Keith Tkachuk still one of the top the best player in the world. Peter Bondra Advertising – 3040; Subscriptions – 3042; Production – 3052 power forwards in the game. Sergei Varlamov very close to becoming regular (Continued on page 17) No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 17

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Ross Lupaschuk GM Glen Sather fired the coaches and has returned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of hired himself. Pavel Bure may never see the AHL. At his advanced Mario cannot the ice due to bad knees. This team contin- carry the load. ues struggling for an identity. 29. SAN JOSE – Centers Patrick Compounding this are continuing defensive Marleau, Mike Ricci and Vincent lapses and more chemistry problems. Damphousse make for a stout troika. Maybe its a good thing there are no Ukes Defense is very young which necessitates around. Evgeni Nabokov’s comeback in goal. Two 21. FLORIDA PANTHERS – Franchise Ukrainian prospects in Cleveland: GT goalie Roberto Luongo, unexpected All- Seamus Kotyk tending behind defender Star Olli Jokinen and cream-of-the-crop Tyler Hanchuk. Sharks’ free fall from the rookie D Jay Bouwmeester form strong top of the Western Conference toward the foundation. Power struggle between coach cellar will likely continue. Mike Keenan and GM Rick Dudley must 30. 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The tires of some 30 buses scheduled to Our Ukraine bloc... carry Our Ukraine members to the rally (Continued from page 2) were slashed. Police detained activists made public. distributing Our Ukraine literature. Mr. Yushchenko says the govern- Mr. Vasyliev said he does not believe ment’s actions show why Ukrainians the version of events from Donetsk and need to elect a president that will oversee Sumy that is being put forward by Our a government committed to the demo- Ukraine. He suggested the authorities in cratic rights enshrined in the Ukrainian those cities did not abuse their powers and Constitution. “The Constitution does not that people were merely exercising their work in Ukraine and these fundamental democratic rights to oppose Our Ukraine. rights for [free] assembly and the con- “The streets were filled with representa- duct of meetings, as has been shown in tives of society. The streets were filled with Donetsk, don’t work,” he said. the electorate, which either will or will not Serhii Vasyliev is the head of the pres- vote for Mr. Yushchenko. That’s their right. idential administration’s press and infor- That’s democracy in this country,” he said. mation policy department and is the per- Our Ukraine says such rallies are essen- son accused of authoring the “temnyky.” tial because the country’s mass media gives In an interview with RFE/RL, he denied little or no coverage to opposition parties. that the “temnyky” or the new document Western diplomats and institutions have Mr. Yushchenko claims to have were dis- criticized the campaign disruptions. The tributed by his office. U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, “From the moment the opposition said interference in the campaign efforts of started to attack the presidential adminis- Our Ukraine is a “matter of concern.” tration, there have been so many declara- The Council of Europe, of which tions about various documents, begin- Ukraine is a member, monitors whether ning with those associated with my field governments adhere to democratic stan- of work, the so-called ‘temnyky’ – which dards. Hanne Severinsen is the represen- were written by others but are attributed tative to Ukraine for the Parliamentary to the presidential administration and Assembly of the Council of Europe HAVE YOU HEARD? PURCHASE A PREPAID directly to me – and other so-called doc- (PACE). She told RFE/RL that one of the 20 - YEAR ENDOWMENT POLICY FROM UNA FOR uments referred to by Mr. Yushchenko most important human rights is the right and other members of the opposition. So to peaceful assembly and that if $2,287.26* AND I WILL RECEIVE A CHECK FOR many of them have been mentioned that, Ukrainian authorities do not ensure that $5,000** JUST IN TIME FOR MY COLLEGE in all seriousness, I don’t want to speak right, free elections are impossible. about them,” Mr. Vasyliev said. “If one of the most popular blocs and EDUCATION. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR Mr. Vasyliev said that, in the run-up to one of the most popular politicians can- CALL UNA AT 1-800-253-9862 AND LET’S GET the election, many unsubstantiated allega- not hold a rally without being disturbed, tions have been made by enemies of the then I think we will have really an STARTED. Ukrainian government. He said the accusa- attempt to disrupt this [presidential elec- tions now being made by Mr. Yushchenko tion] campaign,” Ms. Severinsen said. should be viewed with that in mind. “What She said local authorities loyal to * FOR AGES 0 THROUGH 3 1/2 YEARS OLD Viktor Yushchenko says is one thing, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma like- ** MINIMUM FACE AMOUNT OF $5,000 what the truth may be is another,” he said. ly believe that using their powers to dis- He said the document Mr. Yushchenko rupt opposition activities is considered claims to have should be subjected to part of their duty. Ms. Severinsen said Mr. expert examination. He said there are Kuchma must ensure every political party many identifying marks on genuine offi- in Ukraine has the right to hold meetings cial documents that prove they are the freely. “Mr. Kuchma promised [on real thing. “The document that Mr. November 10] the American ambassador Yushchenko displays is not proof that the that there should be both democratic and presidential administration is really transparent elections. So what he says is responsible for what Mr. Yushchenko very fine, but if his authorities do not do accuses it of,” Mr. Vasyliev said. anything, he is responsible,” she said. In addition to Donetsk, similar cam- Ms. Severinsen visited Ukraine to paign disruptions occurred on November speak with journalists and members of 9 in the northern city of Sumy. Our Parliament about censorship during the Ukraine officials claim local authorities election campaign. She said she will mobilized police and paid demonstrators report back to her colleagues at PACE to prevent a rally, which eventually was that the “temnyky” are having a consid- held in the open air instead of in a hall. erable effect. “I will report on the meet- ing I had on [10 November] and about how ‘temnyky’ really seem to be influen- tial in the way media, especially elec- tronic media, now cover everything,” she said. “If you look at the different TV sta- tions, they have the same news in the same order. This is something new and, in a way, more efficient than when some of [the journalists] feared for their lives and then were courageous [enough to defy them]. But now they are uniform.” Mr. Vasyliev, the head of the presiden- tial administration’s press and information policy department, said he believes Ms. Severinsen is being duped by the opposi- tion. “They have made her – Ms. Severinsen – a ‘zaruchnyk’ [an instru- ment] in a political game,” he said. “They have made her an instrument by which opposition groups try to influence the sit- uation beyond Ukraine’s frontiers by exploiting the name of the Council of Europe. Ms. Severinsen obviously does not, because she does not possess com- plete information, or by using information from only one source publicizes things that really do not correspond to the truth.” Ms. Severinsen said PACE is setting up a special commission of observers to monitor the presidential election in Ukraine, which is scheduled for October 2004. She says it will begin its work in February. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 19 Taras Kulish to perform in special holiday concert in Quebec MONTREAL – Bass-baritone Taras various nations in various languages, Mr. Kulish made his European debut Kulish will join three other professional including French, English, Italian, in 2002 touring France and Belgium in opera singers – tenor Michel Corbeil, Ukrainian and German. the title role of “Don Giovanni” to much first soprano Monique Pagé, second For tickets, at $20 (reserved seating), critical acclaim. He has had huge suc- soprano Mariateresa Magisano, with call (514) 955-8370. cesses performing roles such as Figaro in piano accompanist Martin Dubé in a holi- “Le Nozze di Figaro” and Leporello in *** day concert titled “Natale in Canto” “Don Giovanni” with both the (Christmas in Song) on Friday, A native of Montreal, Taras Kulish’s Saskatchewan Opera and the Vancouver December 19, at the Leonardo da Vinci career is flourishing at a quick pace as a Opera. Center, 8370 Blvd. Lacordaire, in St. leading bass-baritone of opera houses A frequent guest at the Lanaudiére Leonard, Quebec, at 8 p.m. and orchestras in North America while International Festival, Mr. Kulish has The concert program will feature arias, being noted by critics for his high-quality performed at American festivals such as Ravinia’s Steans Institute, the Aspen duets, trios and quartets of operaís great- rich voice and charismatic stage pres- Music Festival and Tanglewood, where est hits, as well as Christmas songs from ence. he sang in the anniversary production of “Peter Grimes” under conductor Seiji Famine, the Ukrainian Postal Service Ozawa. Kyiv remembers... issued a special edition commemorative Mr. Kulish’s most recent engagement (Continued from page 4) stamp on November 21. Marka Ukrainy, was with Manitoba Opera in Winnipeg, artists from the Ukrainian diaspora, on dis- the stamp publishing arm of the postal where he sang the role of Leporello in play. A poster released by the Ukrainian service, issued the series, which features a “Don Giovanni” – a role for which he Youth Association (SUM) on 1948, com- traditional Ukrainian cross with the image was hailed by critics, who said he “... lit- memorating the 15th anniversary of the of a starving child’s face imprinted on its erally steals the show in his portrayal of center. The dates 1932-1933 in red type Great Famine, was on view, as was one the Don’s foil. His acting is top-notch and and a few shafts of wheat are found on the published by the Ukrainian Congress his sense of comic timing is impeccable” left, and the word “Ukraina” is embla- Committee of America from the October (Winnipeg Free Press, November 2). zoned on the right side. 2, 1983, a mass demonstration in His engagements for the upcoming The new series was rushed into print to year include singing for the first time the Washington during the 50th anniversary replace one that had to be withdrawn commemorations of the Famine. A Polish role of the wicked stepfather Don after individuals in the Ukrainian diaspo- Magnifico in the opera “La Cenerentola” Robert Tinker poster, also on view, pleaded in four lan- ra had discovered and informed (Cinderella) with the Saskatchewan guages – Polish, Ukrainian, German and Bass-baritone Taras Kulish in the role Ukrainian postal officials that a photo Opera (February 2004), followed by an Russian – for help to “save the starving of Leporello in “Don Giovanni” in a that was to be reproduced as part of the appearance in April with Opera Lyra people of Russia in Ukraine.” production staged at the Manitoba first Famine stamp was in fact a Russian Ottawa, where he will sing the role of the At the center of the exhibition was a Opera this fall. photo from the 1921 Soviet famine. (For assassin Sparafucile in “Rigoletto.” Mr. display of domestic and agricultural tools the complete story of this commemora- Kulish will return to Opera Lyra Ottawa Vancouver operas. He was a district win- and instruments from the Famine period, tive stamp see story on page 13.) in 2005 to sing the roles of Crespel, ner of the Metropolitan Opera National part of a larger collection owned by On November 24 Interfax-Ukraine Shlemil and Luther in “The Tales of Council, a finalist at the prestigious National Deputy Yushchenko. reported that Pope John Paul II had sent Hoffman.” Belvedere International Opera Compe- United States Ambassador John Herbst a letter to the Ukrainian nation through Mr. Kulish received his training at tition in Vienna, a recipient of a Canada joined Canadian Ambassador Andrew Cardinal Husar on the 70th anniversary McGill University and the University of Council grant, and a grant from the Robinson at the opening. Mr. Robinson of the Great Famine in which the pontiff Toronto, and as a member of the young Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation for also attended the memorial service on urged Ukrainians not to forget the artist programs of Montreal and Young Canadian Opera Singers. Mykhailivskyi Square the next day. tragedy in which “millions of people In honor of the victims of the Great died in cruel suffering.” TheThe UkrainianUkrainian WWeeklyeekly 20002000 A SPECIAL OFFER: BOTH VOLUMES OF THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY 2000 FOR ONLY $25! To mark the end of this millennium and the beginning of a new one, the editors of The Ukrainian Weekly prepared “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000,” a two-vol- ume collection of the best and most significant stories that have appeared in the newspaper since its founding through 1999. Volume I covers events from 1933 through the 1960s; Volume II – the 1970s through the 1990s. “The Ukrainian Weekly 2000” is a great resource for researchers, and a keepsake for readers.

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NOTESNOTES ONON PEOPLEPEOPLE Popowicz siblings’ list of achievements CLIFTON, N.J. – After graduating in May 2002 from Seton Hall University with a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice, Mark D. Popowicz was commis- sioned in June as second lieutenant, Field Artillery, in the United States Army. Having successfully completed Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Okla., in April, Lt. Popowicz underwent intensive training at Fort Benning, Ga., and Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and was awarded the distinction of Army Ranger in September. He is presently deployed to Camp Stanley in South Korea. His brother Matthew Popowicz, who graduated from the University of Delaware in 2001 with a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice, has recently become employed by the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department as an investigator and is currently enrolled at the Passaic The Popowiczes: Matthew, Mark, County Police Academy. Natalie and Dana. Natalie Popowicz, who graduated Clifton, N.J., in June 2003 and is current- magna cum laude with a bachelor of sci- ly attending Seton Hall University ence degree in exercise science from the College of Nursing in South Orange, N.J. University of Rhode Island in May, is Matthew, Mark, Natalie and Dana are currently attending Columbia University the children of Joseph and Diane College of Physicians and Surgeons Popowicz of Clifton, N.J., and the grand- graduate program for occupational thera- children of Justyna Popowicz and the py at the Health Sciences campus. late Walter Popowicz of Glen Spey, N.Y. The youngest Popowicz sibling, Dana, The siblings are members of Ukrainian graduated from Clifton High School in National Association Branch 234.

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ßÁ ÒÛÏÓÏ ¥ β·Ó‚’˛: ÓÓ. LJÒËÎ¥flÌË, Ó‰Ë̇ è‡˘‡Í¥‚ Ú‡ Ô‡‡Ù¥fl Ò‚. û‡. No. 48 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 23 Our memory... (Continued from page 7) GeorgetownWASHINGTON Law – GeorgetownCenter establishesdegree program Shandor at Georgetown Scholarship who meet for Humanfor Ukrainian Rights and with studentsthe Committee This may be a naive and optimistical- University Law Center announced the the following criteria: candidates are resi- on Legal Policy and Court Reform of the ly cockeyed view, but why can’t the way establishment of the Ivan Shandor dents of, or have resided in Ukraine; are flu- Ukrainian Parliament and has participated a few Polish combatants’ memoirs have Memorial Ukrainian American Bar ent in the Ukrainian language; and demon- in several independent projects examining been recently. Why would a Holodomor Association Endowed Scholarship Fund on strate a desire to promote democracy and various facets of Ukrainian society, survivor’s story not be as mind-gripping November 14. The scholarship was made uphold the rule of law in Ukraine. including the Ukrainian Parliament and as a Holocaust survivor’s? There may possible through the generous donations of The Ivan Shandor Memorial the educational system. have been resistance (to put it kindly) in Lidia Shandor of Lake Forest, Ill., and the Scholarship was awarded for the first To make a contribution or to obtain the mainstream publishing industry to Ukrainian American Bar Association. time in academic year 2003-2004 to Lilia more information regarding the Ivan the Ukrainian experience, or possibly The Shandor Scholarship was established Ostapenko, a native of and a master of Shandor Memorial Ukrainian American good material had not been submitted up to honor the late Ivan Shandor, a 1973 grad- laws student at Georgetown. Bar Association Endowed Scholarship to now (giving them the benefit of the uate of the Univesity’s Law Center. The Ms. Ostapenko graduated from the Fund, please contact Kara Tershel, doubt). Now that the scholarship is awarded with preference to State University Law School in Lviv in Georgetown University Law Center, Duranty/Pulitzer/Holodomor issue has law students enrolled in the masters of laws 1997. She has worked at the Lviv Center Office of Development, at (202) 662-9506. hit the fan, maybe Ukrainians will be “in” for a while. Our Ukrainian schools and youth and other organizations could take this on as a project, to go into the community – after training – to family and the elderly, to tape the life stories. These could then be transcribed, edited and translated by qualified personnel. This project could be coordinated nationally and interna- tionally by one of our major umbrella organizations, university chairs, or foun- dations. What a project for cooperation and coordination among the many groups. Surely a philanthropist or a foundation could fund this project. And American and Canadian granting agencies could be approached, because these are the mem- oirs of the citizens of these countries. A memoir series could be published – in translation; it could also be posted online. The Ukrainian version could also be published and posted online, for the benefit of those in Ukraine and those learning the language anywhere. This would be a learning experience for us all, while the result would be a teaching experience for the world. We need this individual documentation of Ukrainian 20th century history. We must do this before it’s too late. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2003 No. 48

PREVIEW OF EVENTS Friday, December 5 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, December 7, at 10 a.m.-1 p.m. There will be handmade gifts, PHILADELPHIA: The American Ukrainian Soyuzivka’s Datebook ornaments, paintings, jewelry, embroidery, December 5 p.m., $27.50+per person Youth Association, Mykola Pavlushkov as well as baked goods and a luncheon. Accord Fire Company Christmas overnight package available Branch of Chicago, presents the concert Party “From Us To You,” featuring the eponymous Sunday, December 7 choir, vocal ensemble, and theater group. The December 31 WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian American concert will be held at 7 p.m. at the Ukrainian December 6 New Year’s Eve formal banquet and Youth Association (SUM) Whippany Branch, Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar UNA Christmas Party zabava with Tempo, $85 per invites all good boys and girls to visit with St. Road, Jenkintown, Pa. The “From Us To Eastern Correctional Christmas person. Overnight packages Nicholas at 3 p.m. in the church hall of St. You” concert tour is sponsored by the 1st John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Party available. Stay 3 nights 4th night Security Federal Savings Bank of Chicago South Jefferson Road and Route 10 (east- FREE! (see ad for details). and Philadelphia. December 11 bound). The Heavenly Office will be open Hrydo Aluminum Christmas Party January 6, 2004 Saturday, December 6 from noon to 3 p.m. Admission: $5 per adult; children, free. There will be a charge of $2 per Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner, NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific gift; program organizers ask that gifts be lim- Society will hold a literary evening for Wira December 12 Traditional 12-Course Meal, 6 ited to one per child. Refreshments will be Wowk (pseudonym of Vira Selianska) of UNWLA Branch 95 Christmas Party p.m., $27.50+per person served. For more information contact Brazi – noted writer, literary scholar and overnight package available Christine Rizzo, (908) 322-1840. December 13 translator, professor of comparative literature Micros Christmas Party and February 14, 2004 at the Catholic and Federal universities of Friday, Sunday, December 12-14 Rio de Janeiro – on the occasion of the recent NEW YORK: The Verkhovynky Plast Ulster Correctional Christmas Party Valentines Day Weekend, Dinner publication of the her four-volume collection sorority and Branch 64 of the Ukrainian and Show titled “Poesiyi” (Poetry). Dr. Wowk, who will National Women’s League of America December 14 be reading from her work, writes in three invite the public to an exhibit of linoprints NY Self Reliance Credit Union February 21, 2004 genres: poetry, prose and drama, with poetry and landscapes by noted Ukrainian graphic St. Andrew’s Eve Luncheon, Napanoch Fire Department Banquet being by far the most voluminous in her cre- artist Bohdan Soroka of Lviv. The exhibit 12 noon ative output. The program will be held at the opens Friday, December 7, at the building society’s building, 63 Fourth Ave., (between February 28, 2004 of the Self Reliance Association, 98 Ninth and 10th streets), at 5 p.m. For addi- December 24 SUNY New Paltz Sorority Semi Second Ave. (between Fifth and Sixth tional information call (212) 254-5130. Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner, Formal Banquet streets), at 7 p.m.; exhibit hours: Saturday, Traditional 12-Course Meal, 6 NEW HAVEN, Conn.: The Ukrainian 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. National Women’s League of America, Sunday, December 14 Branch 108, in conjunction with the Connecticut Ukrainian American Historical PHILADELPHIA: The Ukrainian Ameri- Society, is sponsoring a commemorative can Youth Association (SUM), Philadelphia exhibit on the 70th anniversary of the Branch, invites the Ukrainian American Famine-Genocide in Ukraine – community in the Philadelphia area to attend “Holodomor,” to be held at the Ethnic a fun-filled Christmas bazaar and meeting Heritage Center, 270 Fitch St., in the heart of with St. Nicholas which will take place in Southern Connecticut State University. The the church hall of the Anunciation Ukrainian traveling exhibit, which was most recently Catholic Church, Old York Road and on view at Columbia University, includes Cheltenham Avenue, in the Melrose Park archival photos collected by Roman Krutsyk section of Philadelphia, starting at 9:30 a.m. of the Kyiv-based Memorial Society. The There will be plenty of delicious food for exhibit will be on view through Sunday, breakfast and lunch, hot and cold drinks, December 21. Exhibit hours: Tuesday- games and entertainment for children, a Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.- “Wheel of Fortune” and “Basket of Cheer” 8 p.m.; and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. There is no for adults, many items for sale, including admission charge. For more information call Christmas cards, the traditional “kutia,” pop- (203) 269-5909 or (203) 397-2087. pyseeds, books and more. St. Nicholas will pay a visit at 2 p.m.; the Heavenly Office PARMA, Ohio: The American Ukrainian will be open from 1 p.m. Youth Association, Mykola Pavlushkov Friday, December 19 Branch of Chicago, presents the concert – Holiday Greetings 2003 “From Us To You” featuring the a-choir, MONTREAL: Bass-baritone Taras Kulish vocal ensemble and theater group to be will join tenor Michel Corbeil, first soprano Christmas in Ukraine- 1995 • V held at the Pokrova Ukrainian Catholic Monique Pagé, second soprano Mariateresa Continue your tradition... Church, 6812 Broadview Road, at 7:30 Magisano and pianist Martin Dubé in a holi- Use the UNA’s publications to send holiday p.m. The “From Us to You” concert tour is day concert titled “Natale in Canto” greetings and wishes of goodwill, prosperity sponsored by the 1st Security Federal (Christmas in Song) to be held at the Savings Bank of Chicago and Philadelphia. Leonardo da Vinci Center, 8370 Blvd. italiy L and the season’s blessings. 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