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25 November 2009 17:43

Ukraine 3000 Foundation Presents Two Unique Publications on Holodomor

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation takes part in national events dedicated to the Day of the Memory of Famine Victims.

November 25, 2009, the Ukrainian House hosted a presentation of two new books on the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933, published by the Foundation, - Raphael Lemkin: The Soviet Genocide in Ukraine and The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest. The event was a part of the all-Ukrainian program of events dedicated to the Day of the Memory of Famine Victims.

The same day, the Ukrainian House hosted a presentation of the renewed Manmade Famine of 1932-1933: Genocide against the Ukrainian People documents exhibition. Also, this year’s Humanity in the Inhuman Time action was summed up, aimed at discovering names of Ukrainians rescuing their compatriots from starvation. As a result of this action, over 100 persons helping others survive the Famine have been discovered.

Also presented were the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a Crime of Genocide: Legal Evaluation by Volodymyr Vasylenko and Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine collection of newly disclosed documents from the archives of Poland’s and Soviet Union’s secret services.

The action was attended by President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and Mrs. Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, First Vice Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Yuri Yekhanurov, Head of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Janusz Kurtyka, Head of the Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine Ihor Yukhnovsky, dissidents Yevhen Sverstiuk and Vasyl Ovsiyenko, representatives of the government and parliament, public organizations, and Holodomor survivors.

The Raphael Lemkin: The Soviet Genocide in Ukraine and The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest were published by Ukraine 3000 Foundation in 2009.

The unique Raphael Lemkin: The Soviet Genocide in Ukraine publication contains Lemkin’s address at the 1953 Ukrainian Famine commemoration in New York in its original English language version, as well as translations into 27 languages: Ukrainian, Arab, Armenian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Farsi, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Hebrew.

Raphael Lemkin was a renowned lawyer, who had coined the term genocide; ideologue of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. 2009 will see the 50th anniversary of the death of Raphael Lemkin.

The translations of the article were made with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as well as Ukrainians’ alliances abroad and foreign embassies in Ukraine.

The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest was published in the Ukrainian language for the first time. Ukraine was the first of the post-Soviet states to publish this unique book. Earlier it had been published in the Soviet territory only in Latvia as samizdat (underground publication).

The Great Terror is a research of Stalin’s repressions in the 1930s, impressive by its soundness and professional level. With the help of academic sources and witness accounts by witnesses and victims of the terror, the author researched one of the most suppressed periods of the Soviet history.

Robert Conquest, who has celebrated his 92nd birthday this summer, is a globally renowned British historian and researcher of the Soviet era. In addition to his The Great Terror, first published in 1968 in Great Britain and the US, his Harvest of Sorrow (1968, Ukrainian version – 2007, by the Ukraine 3000 Foundation) on the manmade famine in Ukraine has also won global recognition. 

The Raphael Lemkin: The Soviet Genocide in Ukraine and The Great Terror will be distributed free of charge among libraries and schools in Ukraine, foreign diplomatic missions, research institutes, etc.

As of today, 9 books on Holodomor have been published with the support of Ukraine 3000 Foundation within the framework of its History Lessons program.

November 28 Ukraine celebrates the Day of the Memory of Famine Victims.