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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЛИСТОПАД 2007 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 /. 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 “The Emergency Relief Committee for Starving Ukrainians.” Dr. Neonilia Pelecovich was elected chair, and other UNWLA members were elected to serve on the committee. Among them were Pavlyna Avramenko, Petrunella Kostetski, and Julia Jarema. A Committee of Honor was formed, and distinguished individuals within the Ukrainian and American communities were invited to become members of this committee and assist the UNWLA in its relief efforts. Many prominent Ukrainians responded to the UNWLA’s appeal and agreed to serve on the com mittee. Also among those who agreed to serve on the committee were Florence G. Cassidy, Foreign Com munities Secretary of the YMCA, and writer Carveth W^ells. Not all of those invited, however, agreed to help in any formal capacity. Some did not even respond to the invitation. Others, while not interested in being part of the committee, were willing to help. One of the latter was sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who donated one of his sculptures to be raffled off to help the starving Ukrainians. Soon after the committee was formed, Dr. Pelecovich and the committee members prepared a memorandum on the famine in Ukraine. The text of the memorandum follows: “During the past year, several millions of the inhabitants of Ukraine under the Soviets have died from actual starvation, ” so reports Professor Richard Sallet of Northwestern University of Chicago. The existence of the terrible famine in Ukraine has been repeatedly proven by the leading European and American press. Although we are grief-stricken at the realization that millions of our kinsmen have starved to death, and other millions are facing the same terrible doom, ofparticular horror to us is the shocking condition of the children of Ukraine, whose tender years are no defense to the cruelty and rapacity of the Bolshevik oppressors of the Ukrainian people. Perhaps no other children have suffered so terribly and for such a long period of time. Carveth Wells, in his recent book, the “Kapoot, ” states: “We ourselves happened to be passing through Ukraine and the Caucasus in the very midst of the famine in July, 1932. From the train windows, children could be seen eating grass. The sight of small children with stomachs enormously distended is not at all uncommon in Africa or other tropical countries, but this was the first time I have ever seen white children in such a state. ” And therefore , in view of all of these circumstances, so briefly outlined, and further in view of the fact that the Bolshevik authorities in their efforts to screen this terrible famine do not permit the sending of any help whatsoever to the famine-stricken Ukraine, we, American women of Ukrainian descent appeal and beg of you to take measures leading toward the establishment of a Red Cross base in Ukraine, which shall serve as a medium of help sent by Ukrainians and other peoples throughout the world. 16 XXVIII Конвенція СУА www.unwla.org
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