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29 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Липень-Cерпень 2022 and other members of his team from the National Library Ar - chives who had worked diligently to ensure the diaries were prop - erly catalogued and digitized. During my brief time in Wales, I was also able to visit the final rest - ing place of Gareth Jones in Barry. Together with Mick Antoniw, Pro - fessor Luciuk, and Gareth Jones’s great-nephew Phillip Colley, we laid flowers at his grave. An unexpected treat was going to dinner with several members of the Colley family. We had a Dawn Bowden, Chief Whip of the Welsh government and Deputy Minister for Arts and Sport. wonderful meal in an Indian restaurant the evening before the event at the Welsh Parliament. Socializing with various members of Gareth Jones’s family afforded me insight into the passion the family feels for the work of their great-uncle Gareth Jones. We discussed his significant contribution to Welsh history and in par - ticular his documentation of the Holodomor and what his writings mean for Ukrainians. In turn, the family extended sincere thanks to the UNWLA for making the diaries available to the public by funding their digitiza - tion. They also expressed their frustration that Gareth is not well known to the general public – which may well change with the ready availability of the diaries. The diaries are now available online through the National Library of Wales website, the Library of Congress, the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and Cambridge University. Here is the link to the digitized diaries: https://www.library.wales/garethvaughanjones A significant benefit of the event was the recognition by the Welsh Parliament “that the Holodomor was the consequence of the de - liberate actions and policies of the Soviet Union. The Parliament also called on the Welsh Government to initiate a commemora - tion program to remember the victims of the Holodomor and to raise awareness of the suffering of the people of Ukraine.” These resolutions were passed unanimously by Parliament on May 11, the day before the event. Both Professor Luciuk and I thanked members of the Welsh Parliament for their resolutions and called on them to work directly with the Ukrainian government to have the Holodomor recognized globally as a genocide. With the completion of the digitization of the Gareth Jones diaries, the UNWLA continues its decades-long mission to educate the pub - lic about the horrors of the Holodomor and to ensure that the hu - man toll of this tragedy in Ukrainian history is never forgotten. trators, while the world watches in real time. Having arrived in Wales two days before this event, I took the op - portunity to visit Cardiff Castle. During World War II, the castle’s tunnels were used as air raid shel - ters. As one enters the tunnels, Neville Chamberlain’s declaration of war speech is heard, followed by an air raid siren and the sounds of airplanes and bombs falling. For me, this re-enactment served as a chilling reminder of the very real war that is once again taking place on European soil, in Ukraine. Not that reminders are needed, as the Executive Board of the UNWLA and all of our members are work - ing tirelessly to provide desper - ately needed humanitarian aid to Ukraine. I thank the National Library of Wales again for its efforts to commemorate the Holodomor by digitizing Gareth Jones’s dia - ries. We as Ukrainians will always be grateful to Gareth Jones for telling the truth about the atroc - ities inflicted upon the Ukrainian nation during the Holodomor of 1932-1933. We are also grate - ful to the family of Gareth Jones who have made his diaries avail - able to the world. I would also like to thank the Senedd for unanimously passing a resolution yesterday to honor the Holodomor and recognize it as a genocide. We call on Wales to col - laborate with Ukraine to ensure the Holodomor is recognized as a genocide in all countries. For its part, the Ukrainian Nation - al Women’s League of America will continue in its commitment to be a vehicle of awareness and education about the Ukrainian genocide known as the Holodo - mor. Continued from page 27
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