The Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown will commemorate the 90th anniversary of Holodomor, part of the broader Soviet famine from 1930 to 1933, on Sunday, November 12 at 3:00pm.

During Holodomor, an estimated 3-5 million Ukrainians died as Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime withheld food from 1932-1933.

The event will include special presentations by Michael Sawkiw, Jr., Chairman of the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness, the “When We Starve” documentary describing the physical, psychologic and spiritual suffering of people during the Holodomor, a musical performance, a poem, and a food drive.

The food drive’s most needed items are: rice, pasta, oatmeal, cereal, and non-perishable items.

According Eugene Luciw, president of the Philadelphia Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a similar situation is currently being reflected in Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“It’s a mission to destroy a nation,” Luciw told KYW Newsradio. “The intent is identical: destroy, occupy, create an empire, colonize. It’s all an active colonization.”

“We need to see that if we don’t deter, if we don’t contain evil, it will erupt and threaten us and eventually threaten our allies and ultimately, even us directly,” he said.

For the UECC’s Facebook event, you can click here.

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