Friday, November 17, 2017

Ukrainians in America: The Holodomor Genocide Commemoration

Holodomor Genocide Commemoration, 2016 


On November 18, Ukrainian-Americans will mark the anniversary of the Holodomor, Stalin's 1932-1933 Famine Genocide in Ukraine, with an annual gathering in New York City reserved for the third Saturday of November.

The day’s events will begin with a solemn procession beginning in the East Village at 11:30 a.m. Participants will proceed from St. George’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on the corner of Taras Shevchenko Place, and then up 3rd Avenue before arriving at St. Patrick's Cathedral, where a requiem service (sung in Ukrainian) will take place beginning at 2:00 p.m.

From 2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., remarks will be made by invited guests: His Grace, Stefan Soroka, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in America; Tamara Olexy, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; Senator Charles Schumer, New York; Jenifer Rajkumar, Executive Chamber, attending on behalf of Governor Cuomo; Ambassador Valery Chaly, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States; a representative from the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations; Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations; and His Eminence Metropolitan Antony, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.

The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the largest grassroots representation of Americans of Ukrainian descent, has confirmed six buses of attendees will arrive from outside of New York, to join the hundreds of local participants in the March of Remembrance. 


Photos of last year's commemoration are available here

Source: The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

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