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Commemoration Year The Uk r ainian community in the Free World now m arks a tra gic anniversary. T hirty years ago seven million Ukrainian pea sants were starved to death by a man-made famine in USSR. This enormous genocide can be compared only with the mass m urder of Jews, during the Nazi regime in Germany. How could it happen, is the first question of every unin formed person. It is hard to un derstand how a whole country could be deprived of food, and especially its villages. But, in USSR, where the population is now cut off from contact with the free world almost entirely, it is possible. Ukrainian peasants resisted the collectivization in 1932. By forceful means food was withdrawn from the farm s, through the levying of natural taxes, several times. Therefore, in the spring of 1933 a famine broke out. Whole villages were depopulated, partly starved to death and partly scattered, in the frantic search for food. P ar ents lost their children, men de serted their wives. Many cases of cannibalism were reported. This blow to our nation emerg ed from the harsh colonial rule of our conquerors; and the h at red of Russians towards Ukraine. U nfortunately it is not well known and examined in the western countries, the news be ing scarce and inadequate. In press and TV you often hear about the ordeal of “Russian p easan ts/’ and of Stalin’s guilt. And, it is already notorious th a t only Ukrainian peasants opposed collectivization, and suffered the UKRAINIAN CERAMICS The interest in Ukrainian ce ramics is grow ing; and many women practice it as their hob by. To foster their knowledge and skill, Mrs. N atalia Stefaniw started a series of articles on this topic. Mrs. Stefaniw is teacher of ceramics in the U krainian A rtistic Studio in Philadelphia, Pa. paralyzing stroke of famine ; and th a t Stalin had m any partners in this deal who are responsible for this genocide. In commemorating these vic tim s of totalitarian rule our best homage paid to their memory will be the spreading of the tru th , in the free world, about their sufferings and death. AMERICAN WOMEN HEAR LECTURE ON “PYSANKY” A m eeting of the A rts and Crafts Group of the Darien Com m unity Assoc i ation, a women’s serv i ce organization, held on the morning of March 13 at its “Meadowlands” headquarters in Darien, Conn., was addressed by its principal guest speaker, Mrs. M ary Dushnyck, Public Rela tions Chairman of the New York “Okruzhna Rada” of the UN WLA. More than eighty members heard Mrs. Dushnyck lecture on “The A rt of Painting Ukrainian E aster Eggs,” and the distinc tive aspects of Ukrainian E aster customs and traditions. They were especially interested in her introductory rem arks on the his tory of Ukraine and its present status. In connection w ith her them e on Ukrainian E aster eggs, Mrs. Dushnyck had made ar rangem ents for Mrs. Patricia Ettele, Program Chairman of the A rts and Crafts Group, to learn the technique of decorat ing pysanky. Consequently, ob serving one of their own group dem onstrating this ancient folk a rt with the speaker, many of the ladies were doubly encour aged to learn it. The program on E aster eggs also included discussions by two members — Mrs. Julian Mc Call, who described jeweled eggs, and one on “view” eggs by Mrs. Dean Evans. A report of the m eeting ap peared in the March 21st issue of The Darien Review, w ith a picture of Mrs. Dushnyck in the Ukrainian costume she wore at the lecture. The paper also had an item about the program in its March 7th issue. Mrs. John Wallace, Chairman of the A rts and Crafts Group, stated the m eeting was the best attended one of the year as well as one of the most interesting. THE TRAVELS OF A PHOTOGRAPHER Recently our magazine inter viewed Sophia Yablonsky, who entered Ukrainian literature in the 1930s, enriching it w ith sev eral travel books. As a photog rapher on documental films she traveled first through Morocco, and later through Indo-China and China, gathering m any im pressions from these countries. Miss Yablonsky now lives in France with her two sons. Hav ing acquired a deep knowledge of Vietnamese and Chinese life and customs, in her travels, she is at present considering a new and much enlarged edition of her form er writings, which will give broader surveys of this little known area of the world. Ceramics made by Mrs. Natalia Stefaniw from Philadelphia 14 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ТРАВЕНЬ, 1963 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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