also doing work which helps provide a basis for strengthening efforts. It can reinforce efforts to get the famine into the curriculum by carrying out scholarly work and by rais¬ing public consciousness.
Ms. MAZURKEVICH: May I say something?
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Yes.
Ms. MAZURKEVICH: I feel that the most important thing is to establish the legitimacy of the Ukrainian famine, and the way you’re going to do that is if we are going to have hearings in the various cities of the United States, we]ll have eyewit¬nesses surviving the famine. We will have the press there, and that will, in turn, give us legitimacy, and the more attention that will be caused to the famine, the more ar¬ticles that will be written. Then we can pursue this with the Board of Education.
But we have to establish this so-called legitimacy.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Yes.
Ms. VOLKER: I can speak very briefly on a curriculum situation in Detroit. We have had an opportunity, but we had no materials really to work with about the Jewish Holocaust because it is in the curriculum in Detroit schools, and I believe that now that we have this Commission and some effort on its part that it would not be that dif¬ficult in our area.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Yes.
Dr. KUROPAS: We’ve had some success in the Chicago area through the help of the American Jewish Committee. We were able to convince the Chicago Board of Education to expand their units on the Holocaust to include the Ukrainian famine, and even go beyond that to having an entire day devoted for school teachers of social studies in the Chicago metropolitan area on November 8th, and I think it would be very helpful to us if, for example, on November 7th the Commission held hearings in Chicago. There are a number of witnesses in Chicago, and the following day the teachers would have a workshop which would be conducted by local members of our education committee, and in that way we would be able to present the famine cur¬riculum to all of the teachers in the Chicago area, and I think that if we do have con¬ferences like this, if at all possible it can be tied into local hearings, that would bring a lot of local press coverage and would heighten the sensitivity of some of the educators of this particular program.
Ms. MAZURKEVICH: If I may direct a question to Dr. Kuropas, would we write the curriculum for the teachers?
Dr. KUROPAS: Well, I’ve been asked to write it, and I’ve talked to Dr. Mace about it He sent me the curriculum they’re using in New York State, but I think if we as members of the Commission form our own local groups of school educators, and we certainly have enough of them in the Ukrainian community, to develop a curriculum that meets local needs, because in Chicago they’re looking for something far less exten¬sive than what they had in New York; so we’re going to try to meet the Chicago needs, and I’m sure the needs of Philadelphia would probably be slightly different
So if you could contact your local boards of education and form a committee under your leadership, I think it would do something very similar.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Okay. Are there any other comments or discussion on this point?
(No response)