Information from the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council
HOLODOMOR REMEMBRANCE DAY – November 25, 2023
90th Commemoration
Ukraine and the world will honor the 90th Commemoration of the Holodomor, where no less than four million innocent Ukrainians were killed in the famine of 1932-1933 on Saturday, November 25, 2023. Holodomor is the name for the genocide of Ukrainians committed by the totalitarian communist regime of Stalin in 1932-1933. Ukrainians starved to death; family farms destroyed; land, crops and livestock stolen; small businesses crushed; villages devastated; rights of private enterprise and private property gone. Mass destruction of rural life, culture and churches in Ukraine.
REFERENCES
(1) The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine is a state museum that preserves the memory of Holodomor victims and highlights the genocide of the Ukrainian nation in 1932-1933. The museum is a center of commemoration of millions of Ukrainians killed during the Holodomor. https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/
(2) The International Charitable Foundation for the Development of the Holodomor Victims Memorial, Kyiv, Ukraine is a charitable organisation, established for engaging Ukrainian and foreign benefactors in the construction and creation of the museum exhibit. The Foundation, together with the museum, shall be the owner of the exhibit design, to be developed by the designer group. In this part, the Foundation shall be in charge for financing the works from the charity funds raised through the fundraising campaign. https://holodomor-museum-fund.org/en/creators/international-charitable-foundation-for-the-development-of-the-holodomor-victims-memorial/
(3) HOLODOMOR: THROUGH THE EYES OF UKRAINIAN ARTISTS, COLLECTION OF OVER 160 HOLODOMOR ARTWORKS
Artworks can be used for Holodomor commemorations and publications with prior permission and with the following credit: “Holodomor: Through The Eyes of Ukrainian Artists,” Morgan Williams, Founder and Trustee, morganw1957@gmail.com. Please contact Mr. Williams regarding any questions and for permission. You can click on each page to make it larger.
https://www.usubc.org/site/gallery/HOLODOMOR-THROUGH-THE-EYES-OF-UKRAINIAN-ARTISTS
(4) HOLODOMOR: THROUGH THE EYES OF UKRAINIAN ARTISTS EXHIBITION HELD AT THE UKRAINE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. in November-December 2021
(5) REMEMBERING UKRAINE’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRAGEDIES BY ALEXANDER J. MOTYL, Professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, The Hill, Mon, November 20, 2023
“This Thanksgiving, you may want to thank whichever God you pray to that you’re not Ukrainian. For chances are that, had you lived in 20th-century Ukraine, you would have died an early and violent death.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4318108-remembering-ukraines-twentieth-century-tragedies/
