Liudmyla Kovalenko a co-editor of "Famine-33," dies (02/07/93)

Liudmyla Kovalenko a co-editor of "Famine-33," dies

KYYIV - Exactly seven months after her husband was killed in a bus accident, Liudmyla Kovalenko-Maniak, a radio-journalist, magazine editor and president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Researchers of the Genocidal Famine of 1932-1933 (AUARGF), died here suddenly of undetermined causes on January 23.

Ms. Kovalenko-Maniak was born on May 5, 1936, in Bochechky, near Konotop in the Sumy Oblast. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Kyyiv University in 1958, and immediately began working at the local radio network.

Later, she joined the staff of the magazines "Ranok" and "Ukraina," where she attained high editorial positions. In recent years, Ms. Kovalenko-Maniak also worked as a deputy editor of the monthly on popular and religious affairs, Liudyna i Svit, and worked as a manuscript editor for numerous publishing houses.

During the perestroika period, she joined her husband, Volodymyr's work in interviewing survivors of Nazi depredations and the Stalinist terror in Ukraine, gathering testimonies and documentary material about the famine of 1932-1933 and other atrocities perpetrated by the Soviet regime. The couple then compiled and co-edited the first volume of the commemorative monograph, "Famine-33," published in 1990.

Following Mr. Maniak's death on June 23, 1992, Ms. Kovalenko-Maniak was elected to replace him as the head of the AUARGF. Vice-President Dmytro Kalenyk will now assume the post.

Funeral services were held on January 27. Ms. Kovalenko-Maniak is survived by her son, Antin, family and friends.

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