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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Vol. LXIV NOVEMBER 2007 Editor: TAMARA STADNYCHENKO From the D esk o f the President In November, America celebrates Thanksgiving, a holiday that commemorates the early settlers who came to this country in search of a better life. Today, the holiday is observed by families who come together for a wonderful feast. Seated around dining room tables across the country, we will enjoy turkey and all the trimmings, share stories and laughter, and contently retire to our comfortable beds. Some of us will recall that this holiday has its origins in a far more humble feast celebrated by people who endured many hardships and perils in an often hostile wilderness where food was scarce and death was a constant companion. The settlers who shared the first Thanksgiving survived by the grace of God and with the assistance of Native Americans who provided them sustenance in their time of need. Others in other lands were not as fortunate. They perished alone in a world unwilling or unable to help. This issue of Our Life begins with the story of hunger that was not assuaged and commemorates the women who battled the world’s indifference to a genocide. In Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine and the Work of UNWLA The following is a synopsis of a speech made by UNWLA President I. Kurowyckyj at the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States of America during an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine. The first news of the Great Famine in Ukraine arrived in the United States in November 1933, by way of an article in the women’s magazine Zhinocha Dolia published by Olena Kysilewska in Kolomyia. Not long after, the National Council of Women of Ukraine in Prague published a statement directed to all civilized nations of the world, advising them of the terrible situation in Ukraine and asking them to help Ukraine’s people. Soyuz Ukrainok in Lviv sent a similar appeal in several languages, to countries around the world and to various international women’s organizations, asking for help for the starving people of Ukraine. Today, I would like to share with you just the first paragraph of the appeal issued by Soyuz Ukrainok of Ukraine: Ukrainians in the Ukrainian Socialist Republic are enduring an unprecedented situation. We, the women living in Galicia, are asking women of the world to support and help these people. The appeal was signed by Milena Rudnycka, President of Soyuz Ukrainok. Swiftly responding to the horrific news from Ukraine, on November 13, 1933, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America called a meeting of its Branches in New York and surrounding areas to form
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