Today, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC held the Holodomor Memorial Service.
As Deacon Thomas Stadnik said, “The Service was held to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the Genocide of Ukrainian People by artificially imposed Famine during 1932 and 1933 at the command of the merciless Satanic sociopath and mass murderer Josef Stalin. After imposing a collective farming program, Soviet authorities confiscated all food and beverages and all livestock from vast stretches of Ukraine, leaving people literally to starve to death, while the facts of these events were covered up and denied by Stalin and his henchmen. Whole extended families died out in this horrid genocidal famine. Today we pray for all who died, especially those who have no one left alive to pray for them, and for those few who did survive and live with the terrible memory of that experience.
For those who have not heard of the Holodomor before, it is recommended that you see the recently released movie “Mr Jones”, about the Irish journalist Gareth Jones who visited Ukraine at that time and documented this horror.
The bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox communities presided.
Picture by Jennifer Stadnik
Ukrainian American Veterans attending their 72nd Annual Convention at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019
UNWLA #108 invites all women to a coffee social on Sunday, October 27, 2019 after each Divine Liturgy at St. Michael’s Ukrainian church hall to meet current members and others who may be interested in continuing the vital work of the local, regional, and national Ukrainian women’s organization.
The 2019 Holodomor Remembrance in New York City will take place on Saturday, November 16
