It seems that not much has changed since I wrote the following after the 50th commemoration of the Holodomor in 1983:
http://www.infoukes.com/hi
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The neverending story of Holodomor issues
It seems that not much has changed since I wrote the following after the 50th commemoration of the Holodomor in 1983:
http://www.infoukes.com/hi
Friday, December 10, 2010
YouTube from the ROM
My thanks to Bill (Vasyl') Szuch for filming -- Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?
in 4 parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?in 4 parts
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Re the ROM event
My thanks to all the folks in Toronto -- the Ukrainian Heritage Day at the ROM on Sunday was wonderful. Full house, standing room only, plus sitting room in front for the many kids. The concert was great. Prolisok and the Bandurist Capella were super. Many dance groups, very nice dancing, but I wish the directors of various dance groups would not have the females in the ensemble squeal and yelp and scream out. Very offensive, not traditional, not elegant, just totally not right. Some dance group in Ukraine started doing this in the last few years, and many ensembles in North America think this is "nice" or traditional! Awful. Does not belong, detracts from the performance, and is not at all Ukrainian. How do we get the message out to stop this?
End of rant.
Back to the events at the ROM. Museum was packed from Sunday morning. Young people in Ukrainian embroidered shirts volunteering at the desk, in the kids' activity centre, and just all over. My lecture on origins of Ukrainian Christmas was in the theatre after the concert, and I was pleased that so many attended. And relieved at the positive response! There was not that much time for discussion, because just down the street at Koerner Hall at 4 P.M., the Ukrainian Art Song project gala concert was beginning. http://www.uasp.ca/indexMusica.cfm
I was so delighted that I could attend. Amazing. For anyone interested in beautiful music, check out the website.
My thanks to my hosts in Toronto, and to all my friends whom I was able to meet -- some from long ago, even!
Have lectures, will travel!
End of rant.
Back to the events at the ROM. Museum was packed from Sunday morning. Young people in Ukrainian embroidered shirts volunteering at the desk, in the kids' activity centre, and just all over. My lecture on origins of Ukrainian Christmas was in the theatre after the concert, and I was pleased that so many attended. And relieved at the positive response! There was not that much time for discussion, because just down the street at Koerner Hall at 4 P.M., the Ukrainian Art Song project gala concert was beginning. http://www.uasp.ca/indexMusica.cfm
I was so delighted that I could attend. Amazing. For anyone interested in beautiful music, check out the website.
My thanks to my hosts in Toronto, and to all my friends whom I was able to meet -- some from long ago, even!
Have lectures, will travel!
War, women, and
Some food for thought -- especially in the letter to the editor in response to the article.
Esp. on this anniversary of John Lennon's death. His wishful thinking about peace was one thing, but somehow the fact that someone is an aggressor did not enter the picture. Giving peace a chance only works if EVERYONE is peaceful.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/health/maybe-its-time-to-let-women-rule-world-111257384.html
Women rule
Dr. W. Gifford-Jones again had an excellent article in your paper, Maybe it's time to let women rule world, on Dec. 3. As George McGovern, during his 1972 presidential campaign, put it, "I'm sick and tired of old men dreaming up wars in which young men do the dying."
When Dan Rather, the former CBS news anchorman, was on a hospital ship off the coast of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, he went into the hold of the ship and heard only one word from the lips of those wounded young soldiers, some with multiple amputations.
What was the word? It was "mother." As Rather put it, "None called for father, or for doctor or nurse. Only mother." Mothers the world over, are you listening?
Stan Penner
Landmark
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Ukrainian Christmas at the ROM - join me!
Please join me at the ROM -- Royal Ontario Museum -- Ukrainian Heritage Day -- Christmas celebrations on Dec. 5, 2010
I will be speaking at 2:30 P.M. about the meaning behind the special Ukrainian Christmas traditions
There will also be performances -- choirs and dancers
I will be speaking at 2:30 P.M. about the meaning behind the special Ukrainian Christmas traditions
There will also be performances -- choirs and dancers
UKRAINIAN HERITAGE DAY
Rizdvo: A Christmas Celebration
Sunday, December 5
10 am to 4 pm
10 am to 4 pm
Bring the whole family for a fun filled day of Ukrainian heritage celebration!
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· Special Lecture: Join us at 2:30 pm for a thought provoking lecture on Ukrainian traditions by Orysia Tracz, Ukrainian-Canadian Folk Art Scholar
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
For Remembrance Day -- Remember
Remember
Orysia Paszczak Tracz
In addition to those war dead whose memory we honour on Remembrance Day, I wish to remember those whom very few in Canada will think of -- not the soldiers, but the ordinary people, the innocent victims of war. I was born right after the war, but my family and I still bear the scars.
On this day
- Remember those who died in the flames of their own homes, bombed by one side or the other.
- Remember those who were left hanging for days on Gestapo gallows in so many Ukrainian villages, as a reminder to others not to oppose foreign authority.
- Remember those who were herded into cattle cars from village and city markets, into forced labour, who died in German factories and railroads from Allied bombs.
- Remember those who were forced into the German army, to die in internment camps from starvation and typhoid without fighting for or against anyone.
- Remember the concentration camp inmates, not only the Jews, but the clergy, the Ukrainians, Poles, Balts, Gypsies, and the homosexuals.
- Remember those who were executed on the spot for harboring or even feeding Jews.
- Remember the political prisoners who were executed in their cells or left for dead by the retreating Soviet army.
- Remember the underground and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who fought both the Nazis and the Soviets, with no aid from anyone else.
- Remember the refugees who died fleeing their homes, who were killed as they rode or walked the roads west -- shot down by low-flying Soviet planes who could see whom they were shooting.
- Remember those who died after being forcibly repatriated from the Displaced Persons camps to the Soviet Union -- and those who committed suicide rather than return.
- Remember those who massively deserted the Red Army, to fight for independence, who were sent to dig ditches instead, only to die in them.
- Remember the orphans, and the helpless elderly.
- Remember the babies, who died of hunger and lack of medical care. There were no doctors for the untermenschen, the "subhuman" Slavs.
- Remember the survivors, some of whom are the living dead, whose minds and emotions have departed to another time and place because of what they lived through then.
- Remember the millions -- victims of war, conquest, hunger -- who lie in unmarked graves throughout Eastern Europe, whom the West has forgotten or chooses to ignore.
- Remember, then dare look me in the eye and tell me about war crimes, collaboration, and atrocities.
- Remember, and thank God the war was not fought on North American soil.
© 1999 Orysia Tracz, Winnipeg. - Remember those who died in the flames of their own homes, bombed by one side or the other.
- Remember those who were left hanging for days on Gestapo gallows in so many Ukrainian villages, as a reminder to others not to oppose foreign authority.
- Remember those who were herded into cattle cars from village and city markets, into forced labour, who died in German factories and railroads from Allied bombs.
- Remember those who were forced into the German army, to die in internment camps from starvation and typhoid without fighting for or against anyone.
- Remember the concentration camp inmates, not only the Jews, but the clergy, the Ukrainians, Poles, Balts, Gypsies, and the homosexuals.
- Remember those who were executed on the spot for harboring or even feeding Jews.
- Remember the political prisoners who were executed in their cells or left for dead by the retreating Soviet army.
- Remember the underground and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, who fought both the Nazis and the Soviets, with no aid from anyone else.
- Remember the refugees who died fleeing their homes, who were killed as they rode or walked the roads west -- shot down by low-flying Soviet planes who could see whom they were shooting.
- Remember those who died after being forcibly repatriated from the Displaced Persons camps to the Soviet Union -- and those who committed suicide rather than return.
- Remember those who massively deserted the Red Army, to fight for independence, who were sent to dig ditches instead, only to die in them.
- Remember the orphans, and the helpless elderly.
- Remember the babies, who died of hunger and lack of medical care. There were no doctors for the untermenschen, the "subhuman" Slavs.
- Remember the survivors, some of whom are the living dead, whose minds and emotions have departed to another time and place because of what they lived through then.
- Remember the millions -- victims of war, conquest, hunger -- who lie in unmarked graves throughout Eastern Europe, whom the West has forgotten or chooses to ignore.
- Remember, then dare look me in the eye and tell me about war crimes, collaboration, and atrocities.
- Remember, and thank God the war was not fought on North American soil.
I wrote this at the height of the Dechene Commission hearings in Canada -- http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/873-e.htm
Sol Littman, self-proclaimed Nazi hunter, had lied to the media and the Government by stating that Mengele had gotten into Canada at one point. He then proceeded to defame the Ukrainian and other Eastern European communities by practically saying there were Nazis under every bed and in every basement of these communities. Some people wanted to believe this.
http://www.ukemonde.com/luciuk/serbyn.htmhttp://lib.galiciadivision.com/veryha-eng/d02.html
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Seifert -- not a Ukrainian
Seifert back in the news -- he died yesterday. Again, AP called him "Ukrainian-born." Some other news services did not mention this at all.
this is re my older post:
this is re my older post:
Friday, February 15, 2008
What a difference a place of birth makes
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