National Holodomor Commemoration 2017

Video Description

With the assistance and escort of the New York Police Department’s 9th Precinct, marchers lined up behind a pick-up truck carrying a church bell from St. Basil’s Seminary in Stamford, Conn. A color guard of Ukrainian American Veterans from the tri-state area was led by New Jersey State Commander Michael Hrycak and Connecticut State Commander Ihor Rudko, as well as Yonkers, N.Y., Post 301 Commander Nicholas Skirka. Veterans from Posts 14, 15, 17 and 30 participated in the march. An assembly of Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox clergy and seminarians assembled into rows behind the tolling bell and unfurled national flags. They were led by Metropolitan Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Bishop Paul Chomnycky, OSBM, of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford. Other groups identified themselves with banners held throughout the procession, including St. George Academy students and staff, the Self-Reliance School of Ukrainian Studies of New York, the New Ukrainian Wave Saturday School in Brooklyn, Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, the Ukrainian American Youth Association, the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, the Organization for Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine and others.