As we gather here to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the
Ukrainian Genocide Famine, we must recognize a man who made it
his life’s work to be the voice of the 10 million Ukrainians who
perished during Stalin’s Genocide Famine against Ukraine.
Without a doubt this one man contributed more to raising
international awareness of the Ukrainian Genocide Famine than
any single researcher, historian or journalist in the world. The
man I speak of is the late Dr. James E. Mace. Dr. Mace was born
in 1952 in the State of Oklahoma. His heritage was that of
Native American Indian. Yet over the course of his life he
planted his roots in Ukraine, mastering the Ukrainian language,
adopting Ukraine as his homeland, and treating the Ukrainian
people as his own brothers and sisters under God. Dr. Mace
developed his interest in Ukraine during early 1980’s while he
was a post doctoral fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute
at Harvard University. His research at the Institute focused on
the Soviet Ukraine during the period