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Urgent Action Item!

Ukrainian Genocide Memorial in Washington, DC

Letter Writing Campaign

The lessons and memory of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933 should be a permanent fixture within

world

history. Just recently, newly elected President Yushchenko stated in Zhytomyr: “When will we learn

of our own

Holodomor?” No matter how painful, the knowledge of this despicable crime needs to be

publicized and passed

on to future generations.

Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI), co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, has introduced a

bill to

construct a memorial in Washington D.C. to honor the memory of the Ukrainian

Genocide of 1932-

1933.

The Ukrainian National Information Service (UNIS) urges the Ukrainian

community to contact their

Member of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives and encourage

them to co-sponsor H.R. 562. It is

critical that each member of the Ukrainian American community

encourage their legislators to support this

critically important project in our nation's capital.

Below please find a sample letter to your Member of Congress. Letters may be e-mailed directly to your

Member of Congress from the following site:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Questions may be fielded to UNIS by phone at (202) 547-0018 or via e-mail at

unis@ucca.org

SAMPLE LETTER

The Honorable (Name):

U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative (Name):

In the 20th century, Ukraine endured several colossal tragedies. Unfortunately, one of the least known

chapters in world history is the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Genocide. The Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933

was

inflicted by the Stalin's regime in order to suppress the national consciousness of the Ukrainian

nation.

At the height of the Ukrainian Genocide victims were dying at a rate of one person every six minutes.

Innocent

children, elders, women, and men starved in the “breadbasket of Europe” while the Soviet

Union exported

over 1.7 million tons of grain to the West. Journalists such as Walter Duranty of The New

York Times

promulgated Soviet propaganda and concealed the facts of the Ukrainian Genocide.

The world must know about the horror survived by the Ukrainian people and the memory of the over 10

million

victims must be honored. As your constituent, I strongly urge you to support H.R.562, a bill to

construct a

memorial to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933. I urge you to make

every effort to

facilitate its passing.

As a champion of democracy, the United States must bring to light the crimes of totalitarianism as part of

its

struggle to end oppression in all corners of the world. I request your support in this vital endeavor.

Sincerely,

(your name)

(your address)