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TONIGHT: 18 November, 7pm CT https://education.holodomor.ca/in-commemoration-of-interna/

#Holodomor87 This year, the National Holodomor Commemoration will take place online. Many communities will also be holding online events throughout the month o...f November and particularly during the #Holodomor National Awareness Week between November 23-29, 2020. The UCC has compiled a list of Commemorative Events, lectures and webinars. To see the list of events taking place this year, please see here: https://www.ucc.ca/2020/11/10/2020-holodomor-commemorations/

Sunday 22 November 2020 from 1:30-3pm MST: Free screening of this documentary film about Canadian journalist Rhea Clyman, who wrote about the Holodomor as an eyewitness to the events in Ukraine, from the link below. If you haven't yet seen it, it's an excellent documentary worth the effort . https://www.ualberta.ca//documentary-screening--hunger-for #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

Saturday 28 November from 3 4:30 PM EST - VIRTUAL HOLODOMOR COMMEMORATION CEREMONY at the Holodomor Monument, Exhibition Place, Toronto LIVE online https://www.facebook.com/events/880209149387198/ #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday

LUBOMYR LUCIUK | Kingston Whig-Standard http://eedition.thewhig.com/epaper/showarticle.aspx# #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday

The application allows users to walk around locations in Kyiv and connect to the history of the 1930s in those spots; to view archival photos, videos and documents on the Holodomor history of the area; to listen to the memories of residents of Kyiv about life in 1932-1933; to create their own route or use existing routes; to discover "additional content" that becomes available only within 400 meters of a hot spot location. The application is available in Ukrainian and English and can be downloaded from AppStore and Google Play. https://www.ukrinform.net//3121845-holodomor-museum-to-con

"Covering the Holodomor: Memory Eternal" Misinformation and deception play a crucial role in mass atrocities such as the Holodomor. An excellent 13 min. film from the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, MB that explores the role of journalists and the media in hiding and revealing the story of the genocidal famine in Ukraine engineered by Josef Stalin. https://humanrights.ca//covering-the-holodomor-memory-eter #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday

The UCRDC - Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre project cataloguing all of the Holodomor monuments in Ukraine. Video information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=henrZTUZYA8&feature=emb_logo Interactive map of monuments: http://www.holodomor-monuments.org/index.html #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday

: Village farmers of Illintsi, Vinnytsia district, at the offloading checkpoint during the delivery of requisitioned grain to the state, 1929. Photo provided by the Pshenychnyi Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archive of Ukraine "For many years after the Holodomor, the Soviet authorities hid the truth about it, forbidding Ukrainian village farmers to talk about what they had experienced and how many people had actually died of starvation. Holodomor was hardly ever officia...lly mentioned, in the Soviet Union or abroad. In 2003, Ukraine declared the Holodomor a genocide of the Ukrainian people in the international arena. At the same time, Russia, as the successor to the Soviet Union, appealed to the international community not to recognize the Holodomor as genocide, and later repeatedly interfered in the process of adopting the related UN resolution." On ukrainer.net, a series of stories entitled "Witnesses of the Holodomor" were recorded by the Ukraner team and the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide in Ukraine under the auspices of the project "Holodomor: a mosaic of history" with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation @ucf_in_ua. In Ukrainian: https://ukrainer.net/thread/holodomor/ #Holodomor #holodomormemorialday

Take a look at what Nanaimo, BC educator Caitlin Johnston did to bring more awareness to the Holodomor and other genocides -with photos from the Genocide Memorial Tree Planting project she did with her students.

The Ukrainian Language Education Centre (ULEC), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, in their Regional Highlights: Ontario section of their October 2020 issue this month, features the educational and advocacy work of HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw. #Holodomor #HREC

2020 Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture - Online The Last Stand: The Third All-Ukrainian Conference of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the Holodomor The Third All-Ukrainian Party Conference was called to address one topic only: the state of Ukraine's agricultural sector. The delegates included not only Ukraine's communist party leaders and district-level officials but also Kremlin emissaries Lazar Kaganovich and Viacheslav Molotov, dispatched by Stalin t...o deal with the crisis in the countryside. The event took place 6-9 July 1932, in Kharkiv, on the eve of the harvest and campaign to collect grain to fill state coffers. Tens of thousands had already died of starvation. Ukraine’s Politburo members met with Kaganovich and Molotov to argue for a reduction in the unrealistic grain collection quota, marking the last opportunity of Ukraine’s communists to mitigate the severity of the famine. Dr. Klid will discuss how the famine was addressed at the party conference and will reveal discrepancies between archival copies of the conference proceedings and the published report. -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Bohdan Klid is Director of Research at the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta. He has written extensively on the Holodomor and is co-editor, with Alexander Motyl, of The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 19321933 in Ukraine. He has written on the nineteenth-century historian Volodymyr Antonovych, on Ukrainian historiography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on contemporary Ukrainian culture and politics. Dr. Klid has served as both Assistant Director and Assistant to the Director of CIUS. Sponsors Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine (Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto) Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch About the Lecture The Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture began in 1998 at the initiative of the Famine-Genocide Commemorative Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch. Past Lecturers James Mace, Frank Sysyn, Ian Hunter, Terry Martin, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Olexiy Haran, Mark von Hagen, Lynne Viola, Roman Serbyn, Alex Hinton, Andrea Graziosi, Oleh Wolowyna, Norman Naimark, Alexander Motyl, Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Serhii Plokhy, Jars Balan, Liudmyla Hrynevych, Olga Andriewsky Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Toronto Branch Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine See more

NEWS RELEASE | All about this year's HREC Educator Award winners Dr. Sue Kenney and Natalia Onyschuk. Their award-winning lesson plans will be posted on our website next week! Link to next year's award application inside: https://education.holodomor.ca/2020-hrec-educator-award-fo/ #HRECEducator #Holodomor #Ukraine #HREC

Don't forget to register! 18 November 2020 at 7pm. https://cla.umn.edu//commemorative-lecture-international-h UCC National - Ukrainian Canadian Congress UCRDC - Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre #holodomormemorialday #Holodomor #ukraine

Victims Of Communism 5th Annual National Seminar For High School Educators, a report for interested educators from 2020 participant Sophia Isajiw: https://education.holodomor.ca/victims-of-communism-nation/ The 6th annual National Seminar for Middle and High School Educators will take place from July 18-24, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (pending COVID-19 gathering restrictions). To register early for it (get your spot while available): https://teachers.victimsofcommunism.org/2021

"History Highlights: The Holodomor - The Forgotten Genocide" on Tuesday, 13 October, 2020 at 7:00 PM CDT | Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. Register for an online ticket via this link. A Zoom link will be sent to your email an hour prior to talk start.

Register early for Victims of Communism's excellent National Seminar for Middle and High School Educators to be accepted for next year's summer sessions. Feel free to ask HREC Education's Assistant to the Director, Sophia Isajiw, questions about it if you are unsure, she participated in it this past summer and highly recommends this user-friendly, info-packed, well-run seminar to all educators: #CommunismKills https://teachers.victimsofcommunism.org/2021

EVENT | November 30 at 4pm EDT Register for a Zoom discussion with Dr. Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark, on the Holodomor to mark the 87th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine in Ukraine in which millions of people died of starvation. https://victimsofcommunism.org/event/the-holodomor/

CIUS is pleased to share that Dr. Serge Cipko's : ' (University of Regina Press, paperback, 2018, ISBN 9780889...775602) is announced the winner of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies biennial Book Award. Serge Cipko's : ' , meticulously documents reporting about the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine and Canadian responses to it in the years 1932-34. Based on an exceptionally rich source base, including evidence from numerous archives and a survey of over ninety Canadian and foreign newspapers, Cipko reveals that abundant information about the famine was available to the Canadian government and circulated in the mainstream English- and French-language press, as well as in Ukrainian-Canadian newspapers. He carefully traces how various groups came to understand what was going on in the Soviet Union and the emergence of a community-based campaign to have the Canadian government respond. And he shows how the nature of the international environment meant that there was in fact little that Canada and Canadians could do to alleviate the suffering. This readable book is an important contribution to Holodomor studies, to Ukrainian-Canadian history, and to the history of the press in 1930s Canada. Dr. Serge Cipko is an historian and Assistant Director of Research, CIUS. Our sincere congratulations, Dr. Cipko! https://uofrpress.ca/Books/S/Starving-Ukraine2

Atlantic Council: Desecration of genocide monument marks a new low in Ukraine's memory wars, by John Vsetecka. "...the vandalism of the Bitter Childhood Memory statue is more than just a jab at the tragic history of the famine. Many see it as a painful reminder that the legacy of the Holodomor is still contested by some in today’s Ukraine, where issues of national memory continue to play an important role in contemporary political battles." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org//desecration-of-genocide/

Landskrona Foto Festival in Sweden features Project MARIA The seventh Landskrona Foto Festival in Landskrona, Sweden, running through September 20, includes amo...ng its more than twenty exhibitions Project MARIA - an art installation by Canadian photographer and artist of Ukrainian descent Lesia Maruschak that shares the story of the Holodomor through the eyes of a survivor. Produced across platforms including books, installations, textile sculptures, performance, lectures and film the project manifests my intellectual and emotional response, informed by current research and the survivors’ stories, said Lesia Maruschak. These accounts made such an impression that they are always with me as I explore my identity, but also as I share them with others. It is in sharing these stories that we explore universal experiences and find common ground. That is what my work is about." One of the images from Project MARIA is being featured as the main promotional image for the Landskrona Festival on digital billboards throughout the city centre. Lesia Maruschak’s project Maria is a reflection on the memory and trauma of the Holodomor. Maruschak’s starting point, a portrait of Maria F, a survivor who migrated to Canada, is a mixed media body of work using archival images which are digitally reinterpreted, resulting in a timeless visual narrative, commented Landskrona 2020 Curator Monica Allende. Project Maria was selected as part of this year’s Landskrona Foto Festival programme responding to the theme of The Architecture of Memory, a reflection on the role of memory in the construction of reality as well as how the collective notion of social memory is influenced, continues Allende. The exhibition is part of the chapter Conflicting History within the overall festival’s theme where four artists examine the consequences of persecution violence and ultimately genocide in authoritarian regimes. It is showing at the Citadel, a medieval fortress in the city centre which served both as a prison and refugee centre post-WWII until the 1940s aiming to create a direct dialogue with space. The Ukrainian World Congress congratulates Lesia Maruschak on her accomplishments and the international recognition of her work, including Project MARIA, commented UWC Vice President and Chair of the UWC International Holodomor Coordinating Committee Stefan Romaniw. We also extend our appreciation to Landskrona Foto Festival and its artistic director, Monica Allende, for choosing to feature MARIA among its exhibits by so many distinguished photographers and thus helping to raise awareness of this genocide that today still remains relatively obscure in historical memory. Lesia Maruschak has won numerous awards and accolades for Project MARIA internationally, including the 2019 Shortlist Prix du Livres, Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France, and the 2019 Grand Prix, Best Book Award, Kyiv Arsenal International Book Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine. The installation was recently exhibited for six months at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, USA. Representatives of the Embassy of Ukraine in Sweden had the opportunity to view the exhibit and expressed gratitude for sharing the story of the Holodomor. The "MARIA" project is an important contribution to spreading awareness of the Holodomor, the genocide of the Ukrainian nation in 1932-1933 which was committed by the leadership of the Soviet Union with the aim of making Ukrainians obedient and the ultimate elimination of Ukrainian opposition to the regime including efforts to build an independent from Moscow Ukrainian State, The Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Sweden extends its gratitude to the author of the project Lesia Maruschak, Landskrona Fotо Festival and artistic director Monica Allende for all the efforts to make this exhibition real as well as a sincere interest in Ukrainian history and keeping a memory of the darkest its pages alive. UWC is a proud public relations sponsor of Project MARIA. For more information on Lesia Maruschak and Project MARIA www.lesiamaruschak.com. The Landskrona Foto Festival runs through September 20. For more information visit www.landskronafoto.org. Ukrainian World Congress - Свiтовий Конрес Укранцв Landskrona Foto