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| Telegram To President Dwight D. Eisenhower United Ukrainian Women's Organizations Of America February 26, 1956 500 Ukrainian Women Murdered In Soviet Camp The Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower The White House - Washington, D.C. United Ukrainian Women's Organizations Of America, Inc., at mass rally of protest held Sunday, February 26, 1956 in New York, have resolved unanimously to call your attention to an act of deliberate murder committeed by Soviet authorities upon five hundred Ukrainian women in concentration camp of Kingir Karaganda by ordering heavy tanks against these defenseless women and crushing them to death. We earnestly request that this matter be brought to the attention of the United Nations for proper investigation on motion of the United States delegate to United Nations. Respectfully submitted by United Ukrainian Women's Organizations of American, Inc. of New York (Mrs) Stephania Halychyn President of UUWO Mass Meeting Of Protest held by American Women of Ukrainian Descent on February 26th, 1956 at the Ukrainian National Home in the City of New York, sponsored by United Ukrainian Women's Organizations of America, Inc., unanimously adopted by a standing vote the following resolutions: WHEREAS... by the testimony of recently returnedformer inmates of Soviet slave labor camps as reported by Radio Liberation and impartial international organizations the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics acting through its regular officials, guards, army and security troops, has on certain days of the year 1954 during peace time committed acts of deliberate and wanton murder upon five hundred Ukrainian women prisoners of the Kingir concentration camp in Karaganda by ordering heavy model T-34 tanks to attack these unarmed and defenseless women; WHEREAS... in the armed action of Soviet tanks against 500 defenseless women the latter were brutally killed by the armor and steel tracks of the heavy tanks and their bodies crushed into the ground under the tanks; and WHEREAS... this act of the government and regular organs of the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics committed in time of peace and against unarmed women has all the elements of a deliberate and wanton act of murder committed upon the civilian population of a member of the United Nations; NOW BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED....that the President of the United States of America be requested to delegate the appropriate officials of the Executive Department and in particular the delegates of the United States Of America to the United Nations to present to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations and other bodies of the United Nations the facts of the above crime and demand that the United Nations conduct a proper investigation of all aspects of this crime against humanity and civilization. To Pay Homage To 500 Ukrainian Heroines The United Ukrainian Women's Organization Of America, Inc., In New York Took The Initiative In Holding A Protest Demonstration On Sunday, February 26, 1956. The large hall of the Ukrainian National Home was filled to overflowing by the audience. It included political groups, the young and the old, who had come together to pay homage to the Ukrainian Heroines and to protest Moscow's unparalleled crime in the slave labor camp of Kingir. Information From: "500 Ukrainian Martyred Women" Edited By Stephania Halychyn Published By The United Ukrainian Women's Organization of America, Inc. New York, 1956 Pages 77-78 |