75th Anniversary -Ukrainian Genocide-Holodomor
Commemoration Committee - Chicago
"HOLODOMOR"- Ukrainian term for "death by starvation"
Ukrainians refer to the Genocide of 1932-1933 as the Holodomor.  The term "genocide" was not introduced into language until 1947.
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International Holodomor Remembrance Flame Torch
Visits Chicagoland Ukrainian Genocide Monument
St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church Grounds - Bloomingdale, Illinois
Sunday, May 11, 2008
On Sunday, May 11th,
2008 the International
Remembrance Flame
Torch visited the
Chicagoland Ukrainian
Genocide Monument
before On Sunday, May
11th, departing for Detroit,
departing for Detroit,
Michigan for the next
Michigan for the next leg
of the Torch Relay
Lida Tkaczuk and Mykola Kotcherha light the
International Holodomor Remembrance Flame
Torch inside St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Church
General Korzachenko carry the
Torch to the Chicagoland
Ukrainian Genocide Monument
Olha Diachenko of St. Andrew's
parish and UGFF-USA President
Nicholas Mischenko carry a
memorial wreath
Detail of the Kyiv Ukrainian
Genocide Monument depicted on
the International Holodomor
Remembrance Flame Torch
Detail of the Tryzub and wheat
depicted on the International
Holodomor Remembrance Flame
Torch
Detail of the Chicagoland
Ukrainian Genocide Monument in
Bloomingdale, IL
Detail of the Chicagoland
Ukrainian Genocide Monument in
Bloomingdale, IL
Consulate General Korzachenko
speaks at the Monument
Rev. Bohdan Kalyniuk of St. Andrew Ukrainian
Orthodox Church sings Vichna Pamyat (Memory
Eternal)
Ukrainian Genocide Survivor
George Kolomayets
Ukrainian Genocide Survivors George Kolomayets
and Luba Maleshyk along with Consulate General
Korzachenko
Ukrainian Genocide Survivor
George Kolomayets  lights the
torch under the Monument
Ukrainian Genocide Famine
Foundation - USA President
Nicholas Mischenko
Ukrainian Genocide Survivor  Luba
Maleshyk lights the torch under the
Monument
George Kolomayets and Luba
Maleshyk
President of St. Andrew Ukrainian
Orthodox Church John Jaresko
Hrushetsky, daughter of Ukrainian
Genocide Survivors