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New York — Ukrainian American community members and leaders, clergy
and government representatives, gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Saturday to
commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Great Famine-Genocide of 1932-33 in Ukraine.
This little-known cataclysmic event in Ukraine's history as a result of which many millions
died and millions more suffered untold horrors is often either ignored
or misrepresented in Western history books. Historians are still examining the facts
surrounding the causes and effects of this dark period, but enough evidence
has been brought to light proving that the Great Famine-Genocide was humanly engineered
primarily to quash the "rebellious" Ukrainian people. It was a plan
devised by the Soviet regime to bring an entire nation to its knees. Although Josef Stalin
is widely credited for the devastation, complicity on the part of military and other
authorities is unambiguous. Yet no one has ever been brought to justice for the heinous crime
committed against the Ukrainian people.
The Nazi Holocaust in which 6 million Jews perished as a result of genocide
in addition to the more than 9 million other religious and national groups (including some 3 million Ukrainian, i.e., non-Jewish, civilians) *
is an event studied as part of any typical school curriculum.
But few textbooks include an accurate account
of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-33. The precise number of victims is unknown (the
Russian authorities did not keep accurate records as did the Germans during World War II,
and much of the evidence pointing to the atrocities committed in Ukraine was destroyed),
with some earlier estimates ranging anywhere from as low as 2 million to as high as 10 million or more. Today
the consensus appears to have settled on a figure of 7 million deaths attributed to the
man-made famine - one that dramatically exceeds the loss of Jewish life during the Nazi Holocaust.
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America is in the process of developing a plan to
tackle this so-called "white space" in high school textbooks.
Saturday's commemoration was organized by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and led
by it's president, Michael Sawkiw. Guest speakers included
co-celebrants of the ecumenical memorial service panakhyda His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar
(Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), Archbishop Anthony of the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, and H.E. Bishop Basil Losten of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Speakers representing official Ukraine were the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Kostyantyn Hryshchenko, and
Ambassador Valeriy Kuchinsky (Permanent representative of Ukraine to the United Nations).
The "Dumka" choir sang responses to the memorial service.
* Wytwycky, Bohdan. The Other Holocaust. Washington, DC. The Novak Report, 1980.
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