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28 OUR LIFE • July-August 2022 Greetings to all gathered here today to honor Gareth Jones and his incredible legacy. I am here as a representative of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, or UNWLA, one of the sponsors of the digi - tization of the Gareth Jones dia - ries. As a young journalist, Gareth Jones traveled to Ukraine in 1933. During his 40-mile walking tour through various villages in Ukraine, he witnessed the hor - rors of what we now know as the Holodomor. Everywhere he went, he saw death and starva - tion: children with bloated stom - achs, people begging for food or lying dead in the streets. Mr. Jones kept meticulous diaries of what he witnessed and published a press release under his own name in March of 1933, a press release which likely cost him his life. However, he was not one to shy away from the truth, and as the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George once said of him, “he had an unfailing knack of get - ting at things that mattered.” The Ukrainian nation owes a debt of gratitude to this intrepid jour - nalist, who is recognized as the journalist most responsible for exposing the Great Famine. Ga - reth was not afraid to report the truth even as the Soviets and so many in the West were active - ly denying the existence of this man-made famine. The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America was founded in 1925, the oldest and largest Ukrainian women’s organization in the U.S. The involvement of Remarks by Oksana Lodziuk Krywulych, UNWLA Officer-at-Large, at the Gareth Jones Commemoration in Cardiff, Wales, May 12, 2022 the UNWLA in the recognition of the Holodomor spans nine dec - ades. The UNWLA’s extensive archives show that the organization acted quickly and with determination in response to a request for help published in a women’s journal in Ukraine in 1933. Milena Rudnyts - ka, a renowned Ukrainian civic and political activist, wrote “We the Ukrainian women of Galicia (Halychyna) are turning to you, our sisters of the World, for sup - port and help.” The UNWLA re - sponded with a vigorous writing campaign to local representatives and the President to bring atten - tion to the deliberate starvation of millions. They also created the Emergency Relief Committee for Starving Ukrainians, a concrete attempt to help those affected. Through the decades, the UNWLA has continued in its mission to raise awareness of the geno - cide of the Ukrainian people. We funded the translation of A Candle in Remembrance , an oral history of the genocide, and sent copies to leading U.S., Canadian, and British universities. In 2013, the UNWLA was hon - ored as a “Pioneer of Holodomor Studies” during the New York City conference “Taking Meas - ure of the Holodomor,” a con - ference that included more than 50 of the world’s top Holodomor scholars. Representatives from our organ - ization sit on the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor Gen - ocide Awareness. We also have members who are active in trying to overturn Walter Duranty’s Pu - litzer Prize, one he unjustly won for his deliberate attempts to cover up the famine in Ukraine. Our members have hosted and attended various forums dedicat - ed to the Holodomor, attended the unveiling of the Holodomor memorial in Washington, DC, and participate in the annual commemoration mass at St. Pat - rick’s Cathedral in NYC. We have successfully sought to have the Holodomor included in school curriculums in the U.S. So, it was fitting that, when Pro - fessor Luciuk approached a small group of UNWLA representatives with a proposal to digitize the di - aries, to ensure that they would never be lost to the world, the UNWLA eagerly moved forward and agreed to become a principal sponsor of the digitization. This would ensure that the dia - ries would be readily available to the general public, through distribution at various renowned institutions. I am personally grateful to the many individuals who have worked on this project, especially Rob Phillips, Menna Morgan, Nia Dafydd, and Rhian James. It was a pleasure meeting them through our email communications about the project. I truly hope that volunteers will eventually be able to transcribe the diaries, making them even more accessible. It is appropriate that Gareth Jones is honored and remembered here today, even as Ukraine is once again enduring a genocide, at the hands of the same perpe -
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