Ukraine
Media reports on famine. IV
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The Herald American
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Syracuse Herald American has recently run several items concerning the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33), including two articles on the local Ukrainian community’s 50th anniversary commemorations and a letter by John Hvozda, chairman of the commemorative committee. In the letter, published May 19, Mr. Hvozda said that the nearly 6,000 Ukrainians living in the Syracuse area planned to commemorate the death by starvation of some 8 million people, the result of a “tragic holocaustal policy designed by the Soviet Russian enslavers to force the deeply religious and freedom-loving Ukrainians into submission.” On May 28, the paper ran a short article announcing that former Ukrainian dissident Sviatoslav Karavansky would take part in a June 5 commemorative ceremony at St. Luke’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church. On June 5, the paper ran a feature article by staff writer Renee Graham outlining the commemoration and its significance to the Ukrainian people.