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Sunday, November 27, 2005

The Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation is coordinating a nationwide
candle lighting and bell ringing program in the United States.

Churches across the United States will join churches
in Ukraine to remember the
Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933

by ringing their bells at noon, lighting 33 symbolic candles,
and performing a memorial service during their Sunday
service

on Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Letter sent to Reverend Clergy of Ukrainian Churches in the USA

Dear Pastors,

The Ukrainian Genocide Foundation-USA is coordinating a nationwide candle lighting and church
bell ringing program in the United States in conjunction with the Ukrainian Genocide
Remembrance in Ukraine. We encourage the participation of your parish in this effort to keep the
memory of the victims of the genocide, which took place in 1932-1933 in Ukraine alive.

In Ukraine, this event is scheduled for Saturday, November 26, 2005 starting with memorial
services and lighting of 33,000 candles at St. Sophia’s square in Kyiv with a simultaneous ringing
of the bells in all churches across Ukraine. At the height of the Ukrainian Genocide 33,000 people
starved to death each day.

Here in the United States, we ask that your church light 33 symbolic candles and perform memorial
service on Sunday, November 27, 2005. We ask that you take a few moments to ring your church
bells at 12:00 noon local time as a sign of mourning.

As Ukrainian-Americans we will unite on November 27th and proclaim to the world that: “We will
never forget the over 10,000,000 victims of the Ukrainian Genocide”

- Ukrainian Genocide Famine Foundation - USA, Inc.