Exactly 65 years after Dr. Raphael Lemkin, known as the “father of the U.N. Genocide Convention,” addressed a Ukrainian rally in New York City that marked the 20th anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, a plaque honoring Lemkin will be unveiled in that great city.
The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLA), with the support of the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA), will unveil the plaque at the UIA on Thursday, September 20, at 4 p.m. Notably, the UCCLA says, it will be “the first English, Ukrainian, Yiddish and Hebrew historical marker in the world.”