The Holocaust was genocide, so too the Armenian Genocide, yet the Ukrainian Holodomor was not?

The Holocaust was genocide, so too the Armenian Genocide, and yet somehow not the Ukrainian Holodomor (the artificially created Famine)?

A letter has come to us from France which raises doubts as to whether Europe has really learned the terrible lessons of the Holocaust and other mass-scale instances of genocide in the last century.

Ukrainians in France, themselves citizens of that country, are asking Ukraine to help them in their struggle against anti-Ukrainian forms of negation.
The Professor of Contemporary History at L'Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot - Madame Annie Lacroix-Rize, denies that the Famine of 1932-1933, organized by Stalin, really happened.
This shameful position of negation has aroused legitimate and well-founded protest from associations representing the stand of around 75 000 French citizens of Ukrainian origin.
Since July 2005, neither the Minister of National Education of France, nor the Head of L'Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot have responded to their numerous letters and have refused to meet with representatives of the French-Ukrainian associations.
In this tense situation a meeting finally took place on 2 February 2006 between a representative of the Committee for the defence of democracy in Ukraine and a government official of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however it achieved nothing.
Representatives of French citizens of Ukrainian origin are calling on Ukrainian civic organizations, as well as on political and parliamentary circles and associations to express their protest to the French Ambassador in Ukraine and ensure that an end is put to such disrespect to the memory of the victims of the terrible Holodomor and to the honour of the Ukrainian people.
Signed on behalf of numerous associations by Nicolas Cuzin and Frederic Hnyda
Comite' Ukraine 33 - Comite' de De'fense de la Démocratie en UKRAINE
15 rue de l'Espe'rance - 69003 - LYON ukr-33@wanadoo.fr cddu-pdt@wanadoo.fr

From “Maidan”
Professor Annie Lacroix-Rize does not only deny that Holodomor. took place. She also attacks the Church, accusing it of having collaborated with the Nazis and having giving its blessing to mass murders. We find the logic baffling of this Paris professor who in her publication from 1996 “The Vatican, Europe and the Reich from the First World War to the Cold War” presents “academic” texts about the “Catholic army of Ukraine” and about what she alleges was the involvement of the Greek-Catholic Church in the Holocaust. Here it would be more appropriate to discuss the academic qualifications of the author and her disregard for historical facts. It is possible that she was unable to discover the evidence of the Metropolitan Andrij Sheptytsky’s having risked his own life to save the Lviv Rabbi David Kahane. If so, then Maidan can help her find a reasonably reliable historical source – the memoirs of the Rabbi himself.
However for us, what is also important in this issue is the position taken by the Ukrainian leadership. We know that President Yushchenko, while in France, was not deterred by the possibility of gossip from the anti-Ukrainian lobby from placing flowers on the grave of Simon Petliura. What about other State officials, in the first instance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who should be defending Ukraine’s interests? Is it of no concern to them that defamatory remarks are being spread about the State and the nation that they represent? Are they waiting until the President is called a sympathiser of black-hundred pogroms, before they begin, with the grace of dinosaurs, to react?

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Submitted by pani on Wed, 2006-03-01 03:07.

UKRAINIAN WORLD CONGRESS
CONGRESO MUNDIAL UCRANIO

145 EVANS AVENUE, #207, TORONTO ON M8Z 5X8 CANADA TEL. (416) 323-3020 FAX (416) 323-3250
E-MAIL: congress@look.ca INTERNET: ukrainianworldcongress.org

225 E. 11th STREET, NEW YORK NY 10003 USA TEL. (212) 254-2260 FAX (212) 979-1011

E-MAIL: Askold@verizon.net

February 23, 2006

The Honorable Jacques Chirac

President of the Republic of France

Dear Mr. President:

As the representative organization of citizens or simply residents of more than thirty countries who
are of Ukrainian ethnicity, we write to you in a matter of grave importance. This matter was brought
to our attention by representatives of the French-Ukrainian community and involves an employee of a
state operated educational institution.

Madame le Professeur Lacroix-Riz of the University Paris-7 has written that the famine-genocide in
Ukraine 1932-33 is a German-Polish-Vatican fabrication. Additionally, she has labeled the Ukrainian
Catholic Church fascist and Nazi. The French-Ukrainian community has written letters to Madame le
Professeur Lacroix-Riz, the Universitys Rector and Frances Education Minister with no response.

With consideration for academic freedom as well as freedom of speech, nevertheless we are deeply
concerned with historical revisionism bordering on bigotry. The famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine, as the
world has recognized, was a heinous genocide of some seven million men, women and children perpetrated
by the Soviet regime under Josef Stalin. Ms. Lacroix-Riz dishonors not only the memory of these
innocent victims but also the memories of victims of other genocides. Additionally, her slur against
the Ukrainian Catholic Church brings to focus what can only be described as ethnic enmity.

Given the fact that the reputation of French education and scholarship is at issue as well as the
compassion of the people of France for the suffering of others, we request that you involve yourself
in this matter. We do not seek Ms. LaCroix dismissal nor even her condemnation. We do request that the
President of France issue a statement disavowing the personal bigotry of one of his employees.

Respectfully,

Askold S. Lozynskyj

President Ukrainian World Congress

Copies: The Permanent Representation of the Republic of France

to the United Nations

The Permanent Representation of Ukraine to the United Nations

Embassy of the Republic of France in Canada

Embassy of the Republic of France in the United States

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Maidan comment in French - Commentaire de Maidan
Submitted by Keymaster on Wed, 2006-02-15 20:29.

Commentaire de Maidan:

Le professeur Annie Lacroix-Riz non seulement nie la famine en Ukraine (Holodomor). Elle attaque l'Eglise grco-catholique ukrainienne, qu'elle accuse de collaborationnisme avec les hitlriens et d'avoir bnie des massacres. Nous avons du mal comprendre la logique de cette professeur de Paris, qui dans son ouvrage "Le Vatican, l'Europe et le Reich de la Premire guerre mondiale la guerre froide" (Arman Collin, 1996) avait publi des affirmations "scientifiques" concernant une "arme catholique ukrainienne", compltement invente, et insinuait la participation de l'Eglise l'Holocauste. On peut s'interroger sur les qualifications scientifiques de cette personne qui ignore des faits historiques. Cette dame, bien entendu, ne sait pas que le Mtropolite grco-catholique Andrei Cheptytskyi avait sauv de la perscution hitlrienne le rabbin de Lviv Kahane, au risque de sa propre vie. Maidan peut lui fournir une source irrfutable les souvenirs publis du rabbin en question.

Dans cette question il est cependant important de connatre l'attitude du pouvoir ukrainien. Nous savons que le prsident Iouchtcheno, lors de sa visite en France, bravant les attaques possibles des forces antiukrainiennes, a dpos une gerbe sur la tombe de Simon Petlura. Que pensent, propos des attaques de cette professeur de Paris, les fonctionnaires ukrainiens, notamment ceux du Ministre des Affaires trangres, dont le devoir est de dfendre les intrts de l'Ukraine? Les diffamations envers de l'Etat et du peuple ukrainien qu'ils sont censs de dfendre ne les concernent-ils en rien?

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Proper names are corrected
Submitted by pani on Tue, 2006-02-14 00:20.

We had finally learned how the French names are spelled properly. The text was edited.

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