BRAMA, March 7, 2003, 9:00 am ET
Press Release
Museum Exposition "Not To Be Forgotten"
A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991
Coming to America
The first ever showing in North America of "Not To Be Forgotten" - A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991 will take place in major Ukrainian American centers throughout the US from March through April 2003.
"Not To Be Forgotten" - A Chronicle of the Communist Inquisition in Ukraine 1917-1991 is a museum exposition featuring 70 large panels that create a pictorial and documentary chronicle of the crimes of the communist regime in Ukraine. The exposition contains never before seen materials from KGB archives and unique and provocative photographs that document the tragic events of Ukraine's Soviet past:
- (1917-1920) The Bolshevik Coup and the Beginning of the Terror
- (1921-1923) The USSR Is Born Out of Famine and Violence
- (1924-1931) The Cost of Industrialization and Forcible Collectivization
- (1932-1933) The Ukrainian Holocaust
- (1934-1938) The Collapse of Ukrainianization and the "Great Terror"
- (1939-1941) The Conspiracy of Two Dictators and Its Consequences
- (1942-1952) The Last Decade of Stalin's Dictatorship
- (1946-1947) Famine Strikes a Third Blow
- (1953-1964) The Thaw
- (1965-1985) Bloodless Totalitarianism
- (1986-1991) The Collapse
Also included is a 15 panel display of the Solovetsky Islands, a notorious concentration camp dating back to the early eighteenth century where thousands of the Czar's and, subsequently, during the twentieth century, the commissars' political opponents were incarcerated, tortured and killed.
Accompanying the exhibition will be Roman Krutsyk, Chairman of the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian "Memorial" Society of Vasyl Stus. Mr. Krutsyk, a former member of the Parliament of Ukraine, is the principal driving force behind the exposition.
The exposition brings into stark relief the historical chronology of the fate of an estimated 15 million Ukrainians who died as a direct consequence of the policies of the Soviet Russian occupiers of Ukraine.
"The exposition establishes conclusively the events and facts that must never be forgotten, if Ukrainians are to establish a civil society based on the principles of democracy and humanism",
said Roman Krutsyk.
According to Borys Potapenko, co-Chairman of the exposition's American tour: "
Most Americans know little about the historical circumstance from which Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe in territory and population, emerged as an independent, democratic country in 1991. Americans need to be made aware of the crimes against humanity instigated by the Kremlin rules in Moscow - the deliberate acts that were intended to eliminate Ukrainians as a nation from the face of the earth. Americans also need to be made aware of the unenviable record of the United States government that, at best, constituted benign indifference and, at worst, complicity in the tragic history of Ukraine. Only then will the American people fully appreciate that it is a moral imperative and in America's vital national interest to support Ukraine in its quest to consolidate its hard won independence."
"Not To Be Forgotten" is on permanent display at the Museum and Research Center of the "Memorial" Society in Kyiv. In February 2003, the exposition was displayed in the Ukrainian Parliament in conjunction with observance of the 70th Anniversary of the Famine Genocide in Ukraine.
With the financial support of the Ukrainian American community, five hundred sets of the exposition will be produced for permanent display in all county seats (rayon centers) of Ukraine in 2003. The displays in Ukraine will be held in conjunction with the 70th Anniversary of the Famine Genocide in Ukraine, as a counterpoint to the observance of "The Year of Russia in Ukraine" and to foster a historical perspective for the electorate regarding the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004.
The exposition will be at the following Ukrainian American communities:
- CHICAGO, IL SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2003, 5:00 PM, ST. VOLODYMYR AND OLHA AUDITORIUM
- WARREN, MI SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2003, 6:00 PM, UKRAINIAN CULTURAL CENTER
- PARMA, OH SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2003, 4:00 PM, UKRAINIAN WOMEN'S LEAGUE HALL
- JENKINTOWN, PA FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2003, 7:00 PM, UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER
- NEW YORK CITY, NY SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2003, 2:00 PM, ST GEORGE ACADEMY
- YONKERS, NY TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2003, 6:00 PM, UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSN. (CYM) HALL
- EAST HANOVER, NJ SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2003, 6:00 PM, RAMADA INN (RT.10)
- PASSAIC, NJ SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2003, 3:00 PM, UKRAINIAN CENTER
- NEWARK, NJ SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2003, 3:00 PM, ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH HALL
The "Memorial" Society is a non-governmental organization based in Kyiv, Ukraine. "Memorial's" mission is to unearth, figuratively and literally, the truth about the 7 decade long reign of communist terror in Ukraine and to apprise the world about the historical record. For more information about the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian Memorial Society of Vasyl Stus, visit their web site at: www.memorial.kiev.ua.
To support the work of the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian Memorial Society of Vasyl Stus, please make your tax deductible check out to UAFF/Memorial and send to: Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation (UAFF) P.O. BOX 255, COOPER STATION, NEW YORK, NY 10276
The American tour of '"Not To Be Forgotten" is sponsored by: the Kyiv City Organization of the All Ukrainian "Memorial" Society of V. Stus, Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine, Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation, Conference of Ukrainian Statehood Organizations and is under the patronage of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
For more information contact the Co-Chairmen of the exposition's American tour:
on the East Coast - John Burtyk ph./fax: 973-779-4063, email: j.burtyk@worldnet.att.net
in the Mid-West - Borys Potapenko ph.: 586-757-7910, fax: 586-757-8684, email: bpotapenko@earthlink.net
or write to: Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine (ODFFU), P.O. BOX 304, COOPER STATION, New York, NY 10276.
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