PARSIPPANY, N.J. – The New York State Assembly on May 16 passed a resolution proclaiming November as a month marking the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide.
The resolution (K01196) notes that “The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933, known as Holodomor, was a man-made famine that caused the deaths of at least 5 million innocent men, women and children in Ukraine, resulting in the annihilation of an estimated 25 percent of the rural population of that country, at the time one of the most productive agricultural areas of the Soviet Union.