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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced the School of Ukrainian Studies (Ridna Shkola) of St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven, Conn., to close in March 2020, it was able to reopen in April of this year, and the Ukrainian community here has managed to hold various events despite difficult circumstances.
YONKERS, N.Y. – The Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) 74th National Convention will take place on October 21-23, during which time the organization will formally recognize the winners of this year’s UAV Scholarship Awards.
The UAV National Scholarship Committee selects award winners from among matriculated undergraduate and graduate part- and full-time college students. The committee then awards scholarships to help students pay for tuition, books or school supplies.
After trading away their first and second round selections in the 2017 NHL Draft, the Minnesota Wild’s first pick ended up being Ukrainian Ivan Lodnia in the third round. He was deemed their best-case scenario: a second-round-level talent with offensive upside and a right-handed shot – two desperate needs for the Wild at the time.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Ukrainian immigrant Liana Mostrianska, 18, is set to represent Ukraine in the first qualifying round of the 2022 UEFA Women’s Under-19 Championship (UEFA Women’s Under-19 Euro 2022) soccer tournament on October 19-27 in the Netherlands. During the week prior to the tournament, she will be in Ukraine training with Ukraine’s Women’s National U-19 Soccer Team.
KYIV – In what at first appears to be a recreational park in the northwestern part of Ukraine’s capital, lined with tree-canopied serpentine trails, as well as a nestled playground for children, is the site of one of the biggest atrocities of the Holocaust in the country. Nearly 34,000 Jews were executed in the sprawling area of about 200 hectares (494 acres) in the span of just two days on September 28-29, 1941, by invading German military personnel during World War II. The Nazi administration of Kyiv had issued a directive that infamously ordered Jews in the city and the surrounding area to gather their valuable belongings and identity credentials to assemble near the site, called Babyn Yar, or in English Old-Woman’s ravine. They were to arrive by 8 a.m. on September 28 of that year near the Lukianivka freight station “according to rumors for deportation,” historians Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi wrote in “Babyn Yar History and Memory” that was published in 2016. By the time Soviet forces retook Kyiv in fierce battles two years later, approximately 100,000 people had been murdered at the sites, the majority of whom were Jews, who were targeted solely because of their ethnicity.
LVIV – With new COVID-19 cases once again surging in Ukraine, the government announced the country was now in a “yellow” epidemic level. The move, which imposes limits on public gatherings and large events and includes mandates for wearing masks and social distancing, came after a special sitting of the State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies on September 21.
The following statement was released by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America on September 28.
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA), the representative organization of the nearly two million Americans of Ukrainian descent, recalls with deep sorrow one of the darkest chapters in the history of genocide – the Massacres at Babyn Yar. At the end of September 80 years ago, during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, the gruesome slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children began at Babyn Yar (which means “old women’s ravine” in Ukrainian). Although this was but one site among many of the Shoah that terrorized all Europe’s Jews, it is a site of particular tragedy for Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced on September 23 that the Senate’s fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) extends the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and increases funding from $250 million to $300 million per year, including at least $75 million specifically for lethal assistance. These funds are used to help train, equip and provide support for the Ukrainian government in their effort to defend their territory and autonomy against ongoing Russian aggression.
The following is a guest editorial by Alexandra Holyk, editor of Student, a publication of the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (SUSK), third-year journalism student at Ryerson University in Toronto, and online editor at The Eyeopener, Ryerson University’s independent student newspaper.
As Ukrainians around the world mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar, the Ukrainian diaspora community in Canada also honors the victims of yet another tragedy.
Seventy years ago, on October 6, 1951, The Ukrainian Weekly marked the 18th anniversary of its founding. It was at the Ukrainian National Association convention in 1933 in Detroit where it was decided that the UNA must publish for the growing younger generation a weekly publication in the English language as a supplement in the Ukrainian-language newspaper Svoboda.