ing historical facts and their interpretation. As a historian who has done research on this topic, Dr. Mace can present his findings to us. I do not see how we can carry out our mandate without a certain amount of basic scholarly research. Having worked for almost five years with Robert Conquest on the famine, Dr. Mace assures me that, as with every topic of significant historical importance, there is much that is presently un¬known and that some of it is in our power to discover. Indeed, it is because our man¬date is large in relation to our appropriation that the
Commission was empowered to solicit and accept funds and services.

Getting the famine into the curriculum is, as Dr. Weres has pointed out, extremely important. Should you decide to do so, curriculum materials can be printed either separately or as addenda to the Commission report. Dr. Mace has been involved in ef¬forts to get the famine into the curricula in every state and province where such at¬tempts have been made and he has lectured on the famine throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Great Britain, Australia, and Israel. His feeling, from numerous seminars and lectures in academic settings, is that much of the scholarly community remains to be convinced, if not of the historicity of the famine, then of its scope and cause. The level of public awareness of what took place in 1932-33 is low, despite heroic efforts by the Ukrainian-American community and a few scholars. The quantity of research done on the topic is insignificant in comparison to better-known genocides of this century, such as the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Massacres. Unless progress is made on all these fronts, efforts to introduce the Ukrainian famine into the curriculum will have limited success at best. The Commission’s mandate al¬lows it to make progress on all three fronts.

2. Fund-raising in the Ukrainian-American community is crucial. What the Com¬mission can accomplish will largely depend on the financial resources at its disposal. Commissioners from the Ukrainian-American community would obviously take the lead In this matter.

3. The employment of contract workers to carry out an oral history project on the Uk¬raine famine. Beginning on June 1, personnel will be available to conduct in depth taped interviews with Ukrainian famine survivors. A pilot project, which Dr. Mace directed in the summer of 1984, has already produced approximately one hundred hours of taped testimony with fifty-seven survivors. Transcription can begin im¬mediately after the organizational meeting, if the Commission decides to approve the hiring of transcribers. Contract work saves about 15% over hiring staff, since benefits need not be paid contractors. Mr. Leonid Heretz, the Harvard graduate student who actually conducted the interviews carried out in 1984, will train interviewers. This should have a high priority because, while documentary sources of information will be available forever, the advanced age of those who witnessed events over half a century ago means that their number is already diminishing. We have only a limited period of time in which we can learn from them by recording their impressions before this source of information is irrevocably lost.

4. We should utilize volunteers and personnel of other agencies by agreement with those agencies. Professor Jeremy Rakowsky of Lorain College in Ohio wrote his disser¬tation on Anglo-French diplomacy toward the Ukrainian movement in 1918 and is familiar with archival sources in England and France. Since France in the interbellum period cooperated with Poland on intelligence gathering in Ukraine, French docu-