Browsing: Holodomor

MONTREAL – Safeguarding archives and oral history is a critical phase of historical data-preservation for a community and its future generations. With 2018 marking the 85th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide worldwide, a major project – that of restoring and safeguarding unique historical material that filmed the First International Conference on the 1933 Famine in Ukraine held at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQàM) in the early 1980’s – was undertaken by Yurij and Zorianna Luhovy and their team. 

TORONTO – In 2018, the 85th anniversary year of the Holodomor, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) reached new levels of success in promoting Holodomor awareness, research and education.

EDMONTON-TORONTO – The publication in 2018 of “The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor” (CIUS Press) by Stanislav Kulchytsky was an important milestone in the work of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS). An updated translation into English of his “Ukraïnskyi Holodomor v Konteksti Polityky Kremlia Pochatku 1930-ykh Rokiv” (2014), this latest work, supported by HREC, can be considered a distillation of 30 years of study of the topic by one of Ukraine’s leading historians. 

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On Saturday, December 1, the University of New Haven hosted a very well-attended concert and public forum commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor and the fifth anniversary of the Maidan Revolution of Dignity. The concert was the brainchild of virtuoso pianist Victor Markiw, lecturer in music at the University of New Haven, and was co-organized with Olena Lennon, adjunct professor of political science at UNH. 

FRESNO, Calif. – “Truth, does it matter? Is it constructive?” A newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter of Polish Jewish background, who traversed the starving Soviet heartland in eastern Ukraine when Joseph Stalin’s man-made famine was just beginning. 

OTTAWA – On November 20, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group and the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada held a well-attended, solemn commemoration in Canada’s Parliament to mark the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor, the genocide of the Ukrainian people. 

MINNEAPOLIS – The Ukrainian American community in Minneapolis-St. Paul commemorated the 85th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s genocide by famine with an event titled “Holodomor: Our History, Our Stories.”

VENICE, Fla. – The Holodomor Comme-mor-ative Concert held in Venice, Fla., on November 17 was an artistic tribute to the millions who perished in the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine on the 85th anniversary of this tragedy.

MIAMI – The Holodomor Committee in Miami has been commemorating the 85th anniversary of the Great Famine with various events to bring this tragedy to the awareness of the general public. 

On November 1, a lecture by Michael Sawkiw Jr. to students at Miami Dade College and Skype connections with Profs. Myroslava Antonovych in Kyiv and Myroslav Marynovych in Lviv started the month of activities. 

The master of ceremonies, Luba Poniatyszyn Keske, welcomed the community and asked everyone to stand for the presentation of colors by Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization, followed by the singing of the American and Ukrainian national anthems by Asya Gorska. After flowers were placed at the memorial by Plast members, Elizabeth and George Yemetz read the names of the Holodomor survivors and victims who had resided in the Los Angeles area. Two survivors, Lesia Melnyk and Mykola Kucherenko, were present at the solemn commemoration.

WHIPPANY, N.J. – Lubomyr Luciuk, professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, addressed a special event organized by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Branch 75 on November 9. His topic was “The Holodomor: What We Need to Remember (And Do About It)” – essentially, he said, a preview of the talk he was scheduled to deliver later that month in Kyiv at an international conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Famine-Genocide of 1932-1933.

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – On Saturday, November 24, Father Tim Sawchak solemnly officiated at a panakhyda (requiem service) in English…...