Dear Editor:
In his “From Far and Wide” column of December 16, 2018, Marco Levytsky, makes the claim that the first Holodomor monument in the world was unveiled in Edmonton in 1983, on the 50th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide.
The fact is that only 20 years after the Holodomor, in 1955, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church started construction of St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, N.J., which was conceived as a memorial to Ukrainians who died in the quest for liberty and national independence, and especially to victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933.
As then Archbishop Mstyslav said during the October 10, 1965, dedication, “The memorial church is a very modest cross on the graves of the millions of victims of the Great Famine – the graves that were plowed under by the enemy.”
Washington