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Holodomor Basic Facts

Posted On: August 28th, 2016

Posted In: History, Holodomor

The term Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies. The Holodomor can be seen as the culmination of an assault…

Historian Vasyl Rasevych: Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones?

Posted On: December 5th, 2019

Posted In: Commentary, History, Holodomor, Commentary and Analysis

Why is Ukraine’s politics of memory in competition with the Jewish and Polish ones, how the Lonsky Prison Museum forgot about the Lviv pogrom, and why are we being caught on the hook of Russian…

When the word kills or saves

Posted On: December 5th, 2019

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Israeli Friends of Ukraine, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Holodomor

The international seminar “When the Word Kills or Saves: Church Leaders, Intellectual Authorities, and the Press during the Holocaust and the Holodomor” was held in the Israeli city of Acre in November 2019. For the…

Ukraine honours two Poles for presenting truth about The Great Famine

Source: thefirstnews.com

Posted On: December 3rd, 2019

Posted In: History, Holodomor

Polish film director Agnieszka Holland and the American-Polish journalist and publicist Anne Applebaum have been honoured with high state distinctions by Ukraine for their work on portraying the truth about The Great Famine of 1932-33.

President of Ukraine: The Holodomor is a tragedy that a normal person will not wish even on his enemies

Source: president.gov.ua

Posted On: November 25th, 2019

Posted In: History, Holodomor

The losses of Ukraine from the Holodomor of 1932-1933 are comparable to the losses in World War II. These are pages of Ukrainian history that cannot be forgotten, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the events commemorating the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine near the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.

Israelis make first Hebrew-language movie about the Holodomor

Posted On: September 19th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts, Holodomor

“With this film I want to break the silence in Israel on the Holodomor,” said Israeli actor, director, and producer Dim Amor in an interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The film is being shot…

Keynote address by NED President Carl Gershman at the Kyiv Jewish Forum

Posted On: August 12th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, World Jewish Congress, History, Holodomor, Outreach

[Editor’s note: More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum held in the Ukrainian capital from 5-7 May 2019. Carl Gershman, President of the…

Rhea Clyman, writing from the belly of two beasts: A Toronto journalist’s reports from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany

Posted On: August 6th, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Symposia, History, Holodomor

While conducting research on the history of Ukrainians in Canada during the interwar years, Jars Balan discovered a series of powerfully written articles by a forgotten Canadian Jewish journalist, named Rhea Clyman, describing the horrors…

Ukraine’s Holodomor discussed at Lviv 25th Book Forum

Posted On: January 31st, 2019

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Culture, History, Holodomor, Outreach

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Anne Applebaum explores a seminal event in Ukrainian history – the Holodomor. Still little-known internationally, the Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the…

Jewish American writer Mendel Osherowitz’s impressions of his trip to Ukraine in the winter of 1932

Posted On: December 17th, 2018

Posted In: Literature, History, Holodomor

Researchers of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 continue to overlook a book that was written by Mendel Osherowitz (b. 1884, Trostianets–d. 1965, New York), a Jewish American writer and journalist who wrote in Yiddish. His work,…

Focus on the 85th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Holodomor

Posted On: December 2nd, 2018

Posted In: Book Fairs/Festivals, Culture, History, Holodomor, Cinema, Outreach

The documentary film Hunger for Truth tells the story of Canadian-Jewish journalist Rhea Clyman. Although little known today, Clyman reached international acclaim in her day for her coverage of the Soviet Union, including the 1932-33…