Roselle Park adopts resolution on Famine

ROSELLE PARK, N.J. - The mayor and council of this New Jersey town on November 14, 2005, adopted a resolution (No. 131-05) solemnly remembering the victims of the Communist-engineered Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

The resolution noted that 2005 marked the 72nd anniversary of the Famine-Genocide, "which resulted in the deaths of at least 6 million Ukrainians and was covered up and officially denied by Russian Communist authorities." It also pointed out that "at the height of the Famine, Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day" and referred to the trailblazing work of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine, citing its conclusion that victims "starved to death in a man-made famine" and that "Joseph Stalin and the Russian Community leadership committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932-1933."

The resolution was passed by the governing body of the Borough of Roselle Park in recognition of the fact that "Ukrainian Americans form an integral part of the ethnographic map of Roselle Park and contribute to its rich cultural diversity."

It directed that the Famine should be solemnly remembered by Roselle Park residents and urged that the United Nations and all governments of the world "should recognize the Famine-Genocide "as an act of 'crimes against humanity.' "

The measure further resolved that a copy of the resolution be sent to Board of Education Member Alex Balaban, a Ukrainian American, and Ukraine's Mission to the United Nations.

The resolution was read on the local public access channel on cable television by Mayor Joseph DeIorio; and the reading was broadcast several times.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 1, 2006, No. 1, Vol. LXXIV

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