Plaque recalls 'Father of the UN genocide convention' Dr. Raphael Lemkin
For immediate release (New York City, Ottawa) – Sept. 20, 2018
(sent on behalf of the UCCLF)
On Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, a permanent plaque recalling the pivotal research the world’s first and foremost legal scholar on genocide did with regards to the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine, was unveiled in New York City.
Spearheaded by the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (www.ucclf.ca) in collaboration with the Ukrainian Institute of America, the initiative was made possible by the generosity of Ukrainian and Jewish donors in both Canada and the United States, and was unveiled 65 years to the day on which Dr. Raphael Lemkin labeled the Famine of 1932-33, now known as the Holodomor, as a “classic example of Soviet genocide.”
“He was the first to call it what it was,” said UCCLF’s Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, who was on hand to help unveil the commemorative marker.