TABLE OF CONTENTS
Members of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine……………………….ii
Table of Contents……………………………………………………………..iii
Public Law 99-335 Establishing the Commission on the Ukraine Famine…v
Organizational Meeting, April 23,1986……………………………………….1
Commissioners and Staff Present…………………………………………….2
Proceedings……………………………………………………………………. 3
Opening Statement…………………………………………………………….3
By-Laws of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine………………………..8
Budget for FY 1986…………………………………………………………..14
Memorandum of Chairman Mica……………………………………………..19
Memorandum of Dr. Oleh Weres on the Work of the Commission……….33
Memorandum of Bohdan Fedorak……………………………………………35
Memorandum of Daniel Marchishin………………………………………….38
Materials Submitted for the Record………………………………………..43
Political Causes of the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 by Volodymyr Kosyk……………………………………………………………..43
Guidelines for Public Commissioners Interested in Holding Hearings…….48
Meeting and Hearing, October 8,1986……………………………………..51
Commissioners, Staff, and Witnesses Present…………………………….52
Proceedings……………………………………………………………………53
Famine Project: a Progress Report………………………………………….54
FY 1987 Budget……………………………………………………………….56
Testimony of Dr. Robert Conquest………………………………………….60
Report Presented by Ms. Sue Ellen Webber……………………………….71
Testimony of Ms. Varvara Dibert……………………………………………73
Testimony of Ms. Tatiana Pawlichka……………………………………….75
Testimony of Mr. Ivan J. Danilenko…………………………………………76
Testimony of Mr. Sviatoslav Karavansky…………………………………..78
Hearing, Glen Spey, New York, October 26,1986…………………………83
Commissioners, Staff, and Witnesses Present…………………………….84
Proceedings……………………………………………………………………85
Statement of Mr. Michael Heretz…………………………………………..90
Statement of Father Serhij Kindzeriavyj-Pastukhiv………………………93
Testimony of Ms. Julia Pastukhiv…………………………………………..94
Testimony of Mr. Zinoviy Turkalo…………………………………………..95
Testimony of Mr. “A.”, Glen Spey, New York………………………………97
Testimony of Mr. “B.”…………………………………………………………99
Testimony of Professor John Samilenko…………………………………..100
Testimony of Mr. Wasyl Samilenko………………………………………..102
Hearing, Chicago, Illinois, November 7,1986……………………………..105
Commissioners, Staff, and Witnesses Present……………………………106
Proceedings…………………………………………………………………..107

Hearing, Chicago, Illinois, November 7,1986 (continued)
Statement of Dr. Myron Kuropas…………………………………………..107
Statement of Ms. Ulana Mazurkevich……………………………………..108
Statement of Dr. Oleh Weres………………………………………………109
Testimony of Ms. Anna Pylypiuk of Chicago, Illinois…………………….109
Testimony of Ms. Anna Portnov of Chicago, Illinois……………………..115
Testimony of Mr. Valentin Kochno…………………………………………118
Testimony of Dr. Helen K. of Chicago, Illinois…………………………….122
Testimony of Ms. Halyna B. of Palatine, Illinois………………………….124
Testimony of Mr. Stephen C. of Chicago, Illinois………………………..126
Testimony of Ms. Lydia K. of Oak Lawn, Illinois………………………….128
Testimony of Mr. L. Kasian of Chicago, Illinois…………………………..129
Testimony of Mr. Leonid A. of Chicago, Illinois…………………………..131
Testimony of Ms. Valentina D………………………………………………134
Materials Submitted for the Record……………………………………….137
Testimony of Ms. Nina K. of Cook County, Illinois……………………….137
Testimony of an Anonymous Witness from Chicago, Illinois……………137
Hearing, Warren, Michigan, November 24,1986………………………….139
Commissioners, Staff, and Witnesses Present……………………………140
Proceedings…………………………………………………………………..141
Testimony of Rev. Alexander Bykovets of Detroit, Michigan……………141
Testimony of Dr. Valentyna Sawchuk of Hamtramck, Michigan………..143
Testimony of Mr. Michael Smyk of Detroit, Michigan……………………146
Testimony of Ms. Motria S. of Parma, Ohio………………………………149
Testimony of Ms. Maria N. of Detroit, Michigan………………………….150
Testimony of Ms. Anastasia Kh…………………………………………….156
Testimony of Ms. Tatiana Kardynalowska of Ann Arbor, Michigan…….159
Statement of the Hon. William Broomfield………………………………..162
Further Testimony of Mr. Michael Smyk…………………………………..165
Statement Presented by Mr. Andrew Smyk………………………………165
Materials Submitted for the Record……………………………………….169
The Deliberate Famine in Ukraine~the Horror and the Challenge by Dr. Fred E. Dohrs…………………………………………………………………169

HR.2965

Public Law 99-335

Ninety-ninth Congress of the United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five

An Act

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,1986, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,1986, and for other purposes, namely…

COMMISSION ON THE UKRAINE FAMINE

For necessary expenses of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to carry out the provisions of S. 2456 (98th Congress) as passed the Senate on September 21, 1984, $400,000, to remain available until expended, and the Commission on the Ukraine Famine as contained in S. 2456, is hereby established, with modifications as follows:

ESTABLISHMENT
Section 1. There is established a commission to be known as the “Commission on the Ukraine Famine” (in this Act referred to as the “Commission”).

PURPOSE OF THE COMMISSION
Sec 2. The purpose of the Commission is to conduct a study of the 1932-1933 Uk¬raine famine in order to—
(1) expand the world’s knowledge of the famine; and
provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in the Ukraine famine.

DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION

Sec 3. The duties of the Commission are to—

(1) Conduct a study of the 1932-1933 Ukraine famine (in this Act referred to as
the “famine study”), in accordance with section 6 of this Act, in which the Commission
shall-

(A) gather all available information about the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine
(B) analyze the causes of such famine and the effects it has had on the Uk¬rainian nation and other countries;
And
(C) Study and analyze the reaction by the free countries of the world to such
famine; and

(2) Submit to Congress for publication a final report on the results of the famine
study no later than two years after the organizational meeting of the Commission held
under section 6(a) of this Act

MEMBERSHIP

Sec 4. (a) The Commission shall be composed of fifteen members, who shall be ap¬pointed within thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act, as follows:
(1) Four members shall be Members of the House of Representatives and shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Two such members shall be selected from the majority party of the House of Representatives and two such members shall be selected, after consultation with the minority leader of the House, from the minority party of the House of Representatives. The Speaker also shall designate one of the House Members as Chairman of the Commission.
(2) Two members shall be Members of the Senate and shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate. One such member shall be selected from the majority party of the Senate and one such member shall be selected, after consultation with the minority leader of the Senate, from the minority party of the Senate.
(3) One member shall be from among officers and employees of each of the Departments of State, Education, and Health and Human Services and shall be ap¬pointed by the President, after consultation with the Secretaries of the respective departments.
(4) Six members shall be from the Ukrainian-American community at large and Ukrainian-American chartered human rights groups and shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Commission in consultation with the congressional members of the Commission, the Ukrainian-American community at large, and executive boards of the Ukrainian-American chartered human rights groups.

(b) The term of office of each member shall be for the life of the Commission.
(c) Each member of the Commission who is not otherwise employed by the United States Government shall be paid from the sum appropriated to carry out this Act the daily equivalent of the rate of basic pay payable for G.S.-18 of the General Schedule for each day, including travel time, during which he or she is attending meetings or hearings of the Commission or otherwise performing Commission related duties as re¬quested by the Chairman of the Commission. A member of the Commission who is

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an officer or employee of the United States Government or a Member of Congress shall serve without additional compensation. Each member of the Commission shall be reimbursed for travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in Government service employed intermittently.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Sec 5 (a) Not later than thirty days after all members have been appointed to the Commission, the Commission shall hold an organizational meeting to establish the rules and procedures under which it will carry out its responsibilities.
(b) The Commission shall hire experts and consultants in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, from the academic community to assist in carrying out the famine study. Such experts and consultants shall be chosen by a majority vote of the Commission members on the basis of their academic background and their ex¬perience relevant to research on the Ukraine famine. No person shall be otherwise employed by the Federal Government while serving as an expert or consultant to the Commission.
(c) The Commission shall have a staff director, who shall be appointed by the Chair¬man.

POWERS OF THE COMMISSION

Sec. 6. (a) The Commission or any member it authorizes may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, request such attendance, take such testimony, and receive such evidence as the Commission considers appropriate. The Commission or any such member may administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing before it.
(b)(1) The Commission may issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and tes¬timony of witnesses and the production of any evidence that relates to any matter under investigation by the Commission. Such attendance of witnesses and the produc¬tion of such evidence may be required from any place within the United States at any designated place of hearing within the United States.
(2) The subpoenas of the Commission may be issued by the Chairman of the Commission or any member designated by him and may be served by any person desig¬nated by the Chairman or such member. The subpoenas of the Commission shall be served in the same manner provided for subpoena issued by a United States district court under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for the United States district courts.
(3) If a person issued a subpoena under paragraph (1) refuses to obey such sub¬poena, any court of the United States within the judicial district within which the hear¬ing is conducted or within the judicial district within which such person is found or resides or transacts business may (upon application by the Commission) order such person to appear before the Commission to produce evidence or to give testimony relating to the matter under investigation. Any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished as a contempt of the court

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

The commission met at 9:21 a.m.

Wednesday, April 23,1986

Rayburn House Office
Building
Room 2200
Washington, D.C.

COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
HON. DANIEL A. MICA, Chairman
HON. DENNIS HERTEL
HON. WILLIAM BROOMFIELD
HON. BENJAMIN GILMAN
HON. DENNIS DeCONCINI, represented by MR. ROBERT MAYNES
UNDERSECRETARY GARY L. BAUER
SURGEON GENERAL C. EVERETT KOOP
MR. BOHDAN FEDORAK
DR. MYRON KUROPAS
MR. DANIEL MARCHISHIN
MS. ANASTASIA VOLKER
MS. ULANA MAZURKEVICH
DR. OLEH WERES

ALSO PRESENT:

DR. JAMES E. MACE, Staff Director
DR. OLGA SAMILENKO-TSVETKOV, Staff Assistant
MR. DELOIS HAMMONDS, Personnel Officer for the Commission

PROCEEDINGS
Congressman MICA: Let me just say welcome, and we are glad to have you here. We had an opportunity to visit with many of you at the reception last night.

As I started earlier and said, this will probably be the norm for some of the Washington meetings. One of the first orders of business today will be to try to set up some kind of a chairman within the public membership who can always be here when we have a meeting.

Without getting into prejudging your decisions as a commission, but knowing the restraints on the money, we’re looking for something like two to four meetings a year, and we’ll do our best either biannually or quarterly, but we’ll do our best to try to schedule them, as today we hoped would be, on a day where all congressional mem¬bers can be here and attend. But I think that’s probably a pipe dream. So we’ll do the best we can, but we will have to come up with a quick procedure as to who will chair and be in charge as the meetings continue, and it will be this morning, and we have to rush out.

I have a complete opening statement, and what I’m going to do and which, inciden¬tally, is common practice here in the Congress is instead of reading the entire state¬ment, ask that the entire statement be made a part of the record and inserted in the record and welcome you all here and just say this.

We do have a task before us to complete. That task is to report to the Congress, as you know, on the Ukrainian famine, what made it happen, who was involved, what were the aftereffects, the ramifications, and what, indeed, we can learn from it.

As I indicated last night, we have two of the finest staff people I think we could lo¬cate in this subject area in the entire world to help us. Each has had tremendous ex¬perience. I’ve seen their work. I don’t want to diminish the importance of this Com¬mission, but I almost feel that left on their own, the two could write the type of report we’d all be proud of.

Obviously they’re going to want our input, our guidance and our direction, and I think each individual member of this Commission has some special areas of expertise and knowledge, and I might just add that the Commission-and Mr. Broomfield and Mr. Gilman are well aware of this—was carefully balanced by the staff to try to repre¬sent all aspects of this historical problem.

I won’t go into all of the other points made in my statement except to say that we’re glad to have you all here. I see one or two members who were not here last night. So I’m just going to take, and this is not speech making time, but maybe just take 30 seconds and ask you each to go around and identify yourselves and give us your name and just a little bit about yourselves.

OPENING STATEMENT

The Commission on the Ukraine Famine, which I am proud to chair, has been given an important mandate: to report to Congress on the tragic man-made famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine. It has been estimated by scholars that seven million Ukrainians and an untold number of others lost their lives as result of a policy of crop seizures carried out by the Soviet government then led by Joseph Stalin. Our mandate is to determine,