; Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who devoted his life to the development of legal concepts and norms for containing mass atrocities and whose tireless advocacy swayed the United Nations in 1948 to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, authored an essay in 1953 entitled Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine , which highlighted the classic example of Soviet genocide characterizing it not simply a case of mass murder. It is a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation ; Whereas Ukraine’s law Number 376–V, Law of Ukraine on the Starvation in Ukraine of 1932–1933 , which was enacted on November 28, 2006, gave official recognition to the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people; Whereas, on October 13, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law Public Law 109–340 , which authorized the Government of Ukraine to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932–1933 , and the Holodomor Memorial was officially dedicated in November 2015; Whereas the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian communities in the United States and worldwide continue their efforts to secure greater international awareness and understanding of the 1932–1933 tragedy; and Whereas victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 were commemorated by Ukrainian communities around the globe and in Ukraine throughout November 2022: Now, therefore, be it