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During this meeting, Prof. Luciuk presented his idea to digitize the diaries of Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who traveled to Ukraine during the height of the Holodomor. Jones kept meticulous diaries of his visit and reported on the horrors of the man-made famine and the death he witnessed everywhere he traveled. His diaries were discovered in the 1990s, many decades after his untimely death, by his niece Siriol Colley and his great nephew Nigel Colley. The handwritten diaries were later donated to The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. The need to digitize the diaries and thus make them available to a wide audience was impressed upon the group during the meeting with Prof. Luciuk that day in September. The cost of undertaking such a project was prohibitive, and it was the reason Prof. Luciuk turned to outside donors. Once digitized, the diaries would be made available to the general public through distribution at various renowned institutions, such as the Library of Congress, as well as several prominent universities, chosen by Prof. Luciuk. The diaries would then be accessible to anyone wishing to read them or research the Holodomor. Working with Oksana Lodziuk Krywulych (the UNWLA’s representative), Prof. Luciuk submitted his proposal to the executive Board of the UNWLA, which unanimously voted to undertake the project in conjunction with the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation. UNWLA President Marianna Zajac and Social Media Chair Oksana Lodziuk worked out the details of the Memorandum of Understanding with The National Library of Wales representative, James Rhian, and the UCCLF representative, Lubomyr Luciuk. Continued from page 19 Gareth Jones’s report in The London Evening Standard , March 31, 1933 (courtesy GarethJones.org). The UNWLA was to be the primary sponsor of the project, contributing $28,000, and would be accorded public recognition on The National Library of Wales website as well as through a credit page added to the collection, which would be visible on the various sites where the collection was available. A digital copy would be presented to the UNWLA for the organization’s own research and archives. With all the details finalized, a contract between The National Library of Wales, the UNWLA, and the UCCLF was signed in late December 2019. The digitization of the diaries was well under way, with an expected completion date of May 20, 2020, when work was forced to halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, the UNWLA has been assured that the project will be given priority as soon as the Library reopens for onsite work. Digitization of the diaries is yet another important step the UNWLA is taking to ensure that the tragedy of the Holodomor is never forgotten. For a preview of the contents of the Gareth Jones diaries, visit: https://www.library.wales/garethvaughanjones Our Life | Наше життя November | Листопад 2020 Memorial plaque at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales (courtesy Volodymyr Muzychka). 23
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