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Sent to the gulag were (fromleft)? Myroslav Symchych, valeriy M a r c h e n k o , Otha H e y k o , Zorian Popa'cHuk,'YtTsyp T e r e l i a and Zinoviy AfffinTUR.v'
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Peter G. Stercho of Philadelphia. The conference at which the com mittee was formed was called on the initiative of Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Mstyslav who had organized a preparatory committee to mark the famine anniversary five years earlier. The national famine committee organized two major events to mark the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine during 1983. The first, a memorial service at the Ukrainian Orthodox Center of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle, was held on St. Thomas Sunday or "Providna Ne dilia" (Seeing Off Sunday), a day traditionally set aside by Ukrainians to honor the dead. Some 13,000 persons participated in the day's events which began with an archpastoral divine liturgy inside St. Andrew's Memorial Church and continued with an outdoor ecu menical requiem service on the church's steps offered by Ukrainian Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant hierarchs and clergy. A memorial concert at the Home of Ukrainian Culture capped the commemora tion. The national famine committee's second major event, held in Wash ington on October 2, attracted 18,000 Ukrainians from all over the United States and Canada. They came to attend a rally at the front of the Washington Monument, a march through the nation's capital, a de monstration near the Soviet Em bassy and a memorial concert at the Kennedy Center in order to mourn the 7 million famine victims and to renew their pledge to never allow the world to forget the holocaust inflicted upon the Ukrainian nation by the Soviet regime. The rally
Scene of the memorial service in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine held on May 15 at trie Ukrainian Orthodox Center.
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The commemorative card issued in Edmonton for the unveiling of a monument to famine victims features the memorial's circular design. tional Red Cross during a luncheon at the Fourth World Congress of Free Ukrainians. Edmonton's Ukrainian commu nity decided to observe the Great Famine anniversary by erecting a monument to its victims. A design called "The Broken Life Cycle" by artist Ludmilla Temertli, whose mother had survived the famine, was selected; dedication ceremonies took place on October 23. The monument stands on city land in front of Edmonton City Hall. Canadians also led the way in preparing documentaries about the Great Famine of 1932-33 RadioQuebec Tv, Quebec's educational television network, presented a documentary titled "10 Million vic tims: Ukraine 1933 - The Unknown Holocaust" on its "Planete" series. Researcher-consultant Taras Hu kalo, director Claude Caron and "Planete" executive producer Karel Ludvik were each given awards for their outstanding work on !he halfhour film by the Ukrainian Cana dian Committee. , CBC-Tv"s award-winning series "The Fifth Estate" presented a 20minute probe into thp events sur round;rg the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 on its April 27 broadcast. The producer of the segment was Oleh Rumak. The Ukrainian Famine Research Committee in Toronto was in the process of preparing a one-hour documentary film on the famine. The committee engaged Slavko Nowytski as Droducer-director, Yuriy Lunovy as associate director and editor, and Marco Carynnyk as chief researcher. The project was initiated by Mr. Carynnyk, and the committee operates under the auspices of the Ukrainian Canadian Committee. At the end of the year, there was more good news from Canada, as the Toronto Board of Education announced that it was preparing a teaching unit on the Ukrainian famine. Directed at students in grades 11 to 13, the unit will be prepared by Dr. Orest Subtelny of York Univer sity. An international commemoration of the Great Famine anniversary was held in conjunction with.the Fourth World Congress o' Free Ukrainians in Toronto f mammoth ecumenical service ana : ' ware nelc at Maple Leaf Gardens on December 1 with some 10,000 persons - Toronto area residents and WCRJ delegates from around the wono - r atten dance The requierr ervce was offered by some 20 ' erar^hs and clergy of the Ukrair.in -'holic, Orthodox and Protestant C hurches. The keynote address was deliver ed by Brian Mulroney, leader of the Progressive Conservative opposi tion in the Canadian Panament, who scored the Soviets for sating the famine that killed 7 mil' on men, women and children in Ukraine The Soviet Embassy responded to Mr. Mu'roney's speech by filing an offi cial protest with Canada's Depart ment of External Affairs and calling Mr Mulroney's statement that 7to8 million had died in a man nade famine a "hundred percent lie "
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News in Ukrainian
19f 3 was a year of expansion and activity for both the Ukrainian Ca tholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. Pope John Paul ll on December 20 announced the formation of a new eparchy for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States, with its seat in Parma, Ohio, it will be headed by
Churches
Bishop Robert Moskal. An extraordinary sobor of the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada took place on November 26-27 during which the membership of the sobor increased to five. Two priests were elevated to bishops, Bishop Wasyl was elevated to archbishop and a bishops' cathedral was
Partial view of the crowd gathered near the Washington Monument on October 2 at the Great Famine memorial rally.
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Hierarchs at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago during famine commemora tions. to Washington on October 2 to take appealed to the WCC members to part in the national famine comme raise "their voices in protest against morations attended by over 18,000 the crass and inhumane persecution Ukrainians. of all religions in Ukraine, particu larly the Ukrainian Catholic and the During the week prior to the na Churches, tional commemorations of the fa- U k r a i n i a n O r t h o d o x mine, a Ukrainian Catholic priest w h i c h have been outlawed in con travention to all written committ from Chicago, the Rev. Peter Ga ladza along w i t h Lutheran Pastor ments of the USSR, including the J o h n Shep and the Rev. Taras Lon Soviet Constitution, w h i c h assures chyna. a Ukrainian Catholic priest all citizens their inalienable rights to from Washington, staged a five-day practice the religion of their choice." fast and prayer vigil for the 7 million During the Fourth World Con victims of the famine in Ukraine. gress of Free Ukrainians just recent T o w a r d the end of the week, the Rev. ly c o n c l u d e d in Toronto, represen Galadza and Pastor Shep were ar tatives of Ukrainian Churches issued rested at the Soviet Embassy gate after a statement in regard t o celebra performing a memorial service there. tions of the millennium of Christia They were charged with disorderly nity in Ukraine. They decided to conduct and fined S10. They did, hold jubilee molebens on the interhowever, manage to slip a Bible national, national and local levels at under the embassy gate. midnight (Kiev time) on August 13, U.S. Ukrainian Catholic bishops issued an appeal to their faithful to c o m m e m o r a t e the 50th anniversary of the holocaust in Ukraine. All of them later joined the national famine committee as part of its honorary presidium. Many Ukrainian parishes throughout the United States and Canada took part in famine commemora tj^ns this year, holding memorial prayer services and panakhydas, as well as organizing f o o d drives and buses to travel to the commemora tions in Washington. The World Congress of Free U krainians sent a lengthy memoran d u m t o t h e W o r l d C o u n c i l of Churches, w h i c h held a three-week c o n g r e s s in v a n c o u v e r in m i d summer. The WCFU document 1988; to hold an ecumenical Ukrai nian c o m m e m o r a t i o n of the millen nium d u r i n g the Fifth W C F U ; and to jointly prepare a Ukrainian edition of the Gospels, Epistles and daily prayers. This was also the year that the Ukrainian Catholic C h u r c h accept ed the painting "Baptism of Rus' Ukraine" by the late Petro Andrusiw as the official millennium painting. An illustrated Bible for^children, published in Yugoslavia, became available in the United States, and "A Byzantine Rite Liturgical Year," published by the Basilian Fathers, was translated into English. All in'-all. the year was full of activity. The Ukrainian, religious were visible in the c o m m u n i t y as shepherds tending their faithful flock.
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The quinquennial World Con gress of Free Ukrainians took place in Toronto on November 30 through December 3 with some 600 delegates representing Ukrainian com munities in North and South Ame rica, Europe and Australia in atten dance. The Fourth WCFU got mixed reviews at best, however. Those who foresaw the impending doom of the organization - a la 13th UCCA Congress emerged from the con gress satisfied that at least the congress did not break up and the existence of the world body was probably guaranteed for another five years. For those who came to the con gress hoping to discuss at least some of the concrete problems that face the Ukrainian nation in the Reps. James Florio (above), Christo diaspora, the congress was a dis pher Smith (below, left) and Don appointment since, thanks to "poli Ritter (below, right) promoted Ukrai tical" conflicts among squabbling nian issues. nationalist organizations and the continuing rift in the Ukrainian American community, there was no time left over to discuss the real issues. The good news was that by ac cepting the Ukrainian American Coordinating Council intotheWCFU as a national central representation of the U.S. Ukrainian community that is, on the same level of mem bership as that held by the Ukrai nian Congress Committee of Ame rica - the WCFU delegates saw to it that all segments of the.disunited U.S. Ukrainian community would be ! represented within the world body. Furthermore, many community ob servers believe that by having both the UACC and the UCCA within the world congress the first step toward the eventual reunification of the Ukrainian American community has already been taken.
Peter Savaryn, new president of WCFU. The best news was that the newly elected president of the World Con gress of Free Ukrainians, Peter Savaryn of Edmonton, a lawyer, longtime community activist and chancellor of the University of Al berta, is not a political animal as far as Ukrainian party politics arecon cerned. His election has already been hailed by many sectors of the Ukrainian community, and the De cember issue of Lys Mykyta, the Ukrainian-language humor maga zine depicted Mr. Savaryn in a manger (messianic hopes?). Whether Mr. Savaryn turns out to be the savior that the WCFU needs to revitalize its activity remains to be seen. But, at least he has five years to put the WCFU machinery into 1 gear - not two and a half like his two predecessors who shared the pre vious five-year term because of a compromise deal between two poli tical factions.
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Still poles apart: John Flis (at left), head of the UACC, and lgnatius Billinsky (at right), acting president of the UCCA, at the WCFU congress
Babyn.Yar
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200,000 views. ;krainians ana others massacref : Babyn r"ar in 1941, was the culmination of a three-year joint effort t "Denver's Jewish and U k r a i n i a n ,J n m u n i l i e s , a c o l l a bo"atiyv, EiMt' overcame some early
T h e long-awaited! dedication of a memorial park in Denver dedicated to the victims murdered by t r ^ l a z i s at Babyn Yar near Kiev took place on O c t o b l e u ? . The 27-acre park, set aside U f a memorial to the some
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in a November 4 response to Rep. Florio, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Richard defended the OSl's procedures, saying that they were " i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h s o u n d American prosecutorial practices p r o v i d i n g f u l l p r o t e c t i o n to t h e accused." in a more positive development, OSl methodology was rejected by a federal district court judge in New Jersey on September 28 when he ruled that the U.S government and the Soviet U n i o n had "collaborated" in efforts to prosecute a Lithuanian emigre accused ot Darticipation in Nazi war crimes. U.S. District Court v j d g e Dickin son Debevoise, in clearing 67-year oid Juozas Kungys. said the charges against the defendant were based on " u n r e l i a b l e " 'estimony f r o m witnesses w h o were " p r e p a r e d " by the K G B . in his ^04-page written opinion, he ruled that the proce dures used in the case, including the methods used to gather evidence and t e s t i m o n y , raise " s e r i o u s d o u b t s " about the credibility of the information. it s h o u l d be noted, however, that J u d g e Debevoise did not rule that Soviet evidence was inadmissible
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tabulations
This was the year that the Ukrai nian community in the United States learned more about itself thanks to newly released tabulations of the 1980 census. Census results show ed that there are 730,056 Ukrainians in the United States - not 2 million as some sources claim - and that they constitute a mere .39 percent of the total U.S. population. Further analysis of these new statistics was provided by demo grapher Oleh Wolowyna of the Uni versity of Wisconsin at Madison. in response to the census ques tion concerning ancestry, 47.8 per cent of the total number of Ukrai nians listed Ukrainian and at least one other ancestry group, while 52.2 percent listed Ukrainian only as their ancestry. These figures reflect the high number of mixed marriages among Ukrainians. The Ukrainian community also learned that its members are highly concentrated in certain regions of the United States, with almost half of them living in the Middle Atlantic region that encompasses New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and another 20 percent in the East North Central region that includes Ohio, lndiana, lllinois. Michigan and Wis consin. The statistics also showed that language retention is closely corre lated with residence in areas with large Ukrainian communities. Thus, the percentage of Ukrainians speak ing Ukrainian is higher in states like New York than in. say, Arizona. The figures clearly demonstrate that
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moving away from large communi ties increases the chances of lan guage loss. Because the 1980 census asked questions about ancestry and lan guage spoken at home other than English, our demographer was able to learn that out of the three-quarters of a million Ukrainians in the United States, 17 percent, or about 123,000, speak Ukrainian. However, among those Ukrainians who listed Ukrai nian only as their ancestry, close to one-third speak Ukrainian. Analysis of the statistics on lan guage retention showed that among East European ethnic groups U krainians have the highest level of language retention and, thus, are the least assimilated in this group. Therefore, though assimilation among Ukrainians is high in abso lute terms, in relation to other East Europeans Ukrainians fare quite well. As Mr. Wolowyna suggests, care ful analyses of the 1980 census statistics would go a long way in aiding the Ukrainian community in planning activities for schools, youth organizations, churches and other organizations.
A Ukrainian
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it was quite a y^ar for a 3-year-old Ukrainian boy frum Poland. Rostyk Cylupa, whose leftjjmnd was crippled as a result of aivaccident, needed surgery if he was ever to regain use of the hand - such surgery was not possible inJ?oJahd, however. The Ukrainian National Women's League qf America took up Rostyk's case and4contacted doctor in the United States tqdetermine thefeasi bility of susivan operation and conducted a fund-raising campaign in order to bring Rostyk and a parent to the United States. Through the efforts of the UNWLA, the United States Catholic Confe rence and the American Red Cross, Rostyk and his father, Emil, arrived in New York on July 15. Arrange ments had already been made for surgery at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., with Dr. Lubomyr Kuzmak serving as the boy's primary physician and Dr. J.J. Keyser of the Peer Group for Plastic Surgery as the main surgeon. All medical services were rendered free of charge and Rostyk underwent complicated reconstructive surgery on September 1.
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The Ukrainian
National
Being a post-convention year, 1983 was a relatively quiet year for the Ukrainian National Association. The annual Supreme Assembiv and district committee chairmen's meet ings were held at Soyuzivka during June; the yearly grants of scholarships to deserving Ukrainian stu dents in the United States and Cana da were announced: and merger talks with tne Ukrainian Fraternal Association continued. The hot issue 'his year was the UNA'S position in regard to commu nity disunity in the United States. The UNA Supreme Executive Com mittee, at its regular meeting on April 6, unanimously decided to support actions aimed at realizing "the formation of a representative community organization" that would function in the tradition of the pre 13th Congress UCCA. Pointing to the absenceof willingness to com promise and of good will on the part
While Rostyk was in the hospital he became the darling of the press j and was interviewed by both The ! New York Times and the Daily News. of the "Ukrainian Liberation Front On September 3 he was released representatives in the UCCA," the UNA executive noted that "the con tinuation of this state of affairs is and achievers only an unnecessary waste of time Notables that is injurious to our community" Ukrainians left their mark in a it was a vear of mhestones. in and charged its representatives within the Committee for Law and variety of fields during 1983 They FeDruary he marked the 20th anni Order in the UCCA with working made valuable contrioutions in such versarv of nis appointment to Cana toward the formation of a represen areas as politics, education, science- da's Senate, in June he celebrated tative Ukrainian community orgam medicine, military se'vice, sports his 70th birfnday. A retired pro tessor, he aiso marked the 50th and mjsic. zation in the United States. in politics Stephen Terlecky, a anniversary of service in academics. The annual meeting of the Su preme Assembly approved tnis po member of the Conservative Party, The senator was also made a Knight sition of the Supreme Executive won a seat in the British Parliament. of St Gregory by Pope John Paul ll, Committee by adopting a resolution On June 9, he Decame the first one of the highest honors that can that stated: "We approve all efforts Ukrainian to win a seat in the House be conferred on a iayman by the pope. to date of the UNA Supreme Exe of Commons. in the acaoemic world, Prof. Frank in Canada, Laurence Decorewas cutive Committee and charge it with r continuing these efforts until the eiected mayor of Edmonton A U Sysyn j f he Harvard Ukrainian krainian lawyer and businessman, Researcr institute, was promoted successful re-establishment of a representative institution that would he defeated incumbent Cec Purves from assistant to associate professor of history, clearing the way for him satisfy the goals and wishes of the uy a landslide on October 17. For Canadian senator and UNA to succeed Prof. Omeljar, Pritsak as Ukrainian community in the United Supreme vice President Paul Yuzyk, the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor States."
Association
Rostyk Cylupa: doing fine after sur gery. from the hospital and went to the home of Anna Korenec to recupe rate. The operation made Rostyk's left hand functional, but further surgery will be required for the boy to have a normal left hand. Meanwhile, Rostyk began a program of physical therapy and went sightsee ing in t^ew York City
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the UNA, was pictured alongside Ronald Reagan in a photo published in the April issue of M A D magazine. The caption should have read su preme president meets supreme president-to-be. 1983 was a l s o t h e s u m m e r of Mykhailo Bociurkiw, the peripatetic Canadian summer intern w h o literally traversed the Northeast in search of a storv. T r o u b l e was, he used somebody eises car. in more ways than one we got lot of m i i e a g e o u : o? Bociurkiw. When he wasn't ; making enemies, ne filed an im cressive r-jmber of good stories. As far as the staff itself was ron^ cerned. Associate Editor George B. Z a r y c k y was i n c o n s o l a b l e after hitting his 30th birthday in June. He bounced back briefly after we let him cover this year's Miss Soyu . ziyka pageant. Assistant EditorMarta Kbtomayets, refieved of her coffee
1983 was a productive if some what strenuous year at The Weekly. We turned a sprightly 50 this year, but there was little time for fanfare, what with the famine anniversary, special issues, the WCFU and the tike. There were some important milestones Awiida Arzola, our invaluable ; y p e s e t t e r ',nd m o r a l e b o o s er, n a r k e d K" t h i r d a n n i v e r s a r y of "hankiess toil. The only Puerto Rican men er of UNA B r a n c h 25, she continued to be an "-:cis,perfsable asset to our staff, it was also the yeai that our paste-up person. Hilary Zarycky, let: find himself in Rome. There was : talk !^ai he w o u l d return a bishop, but las; we heard he was searching for himself in the seedier underbelly of tne Eternal City. We rny^t also noie that John Fl,is, supreme pre'sid'erit'bf our'publisher.