Roll call in Ravensbrück concentration camp for women
The night was coming to an end. Four a.m… and not enough sleep. Dozia (Teodoziya) Hayvas and I…
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History of Ukraine
Ukrainian women in Nazi prisons & concentration camps
The year was 1943… Almost every inhabitant of Ukraine knew that Hitler’s Third Reich was losing the war.…
Hetman Mazepa’s Gospel in Arabic found in Lebanon
The Hetmanate & the Oriental Orthodox Church Relations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church…
The many faces of Ukrainian writer & feminist Lesia Ukrainka
In the family circle, Lesia Ukrainka was often called Larysa, Lesia, Zeya, Mysholosiya. Her mother called her Zeya,…
UPA underground bunker found in forest near Mykolayiv, Lviv Oblast
This is a unique find as the entire underground area has remained intact and unchanged since the days…
Will Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture recognize the historical importance of the Nobel Gospel of 1520?
Nevertheless, culture is what binds a nation. It cements national identity, while cultural recollection and memory play an…
Slovo House — how a special Soviet apartment block for writers became their prison
At the end of the 1920s, a unique house in the shape of a letter C was built…
The population of Kyivan Rus spoke Old Ukrainian, says historian
– We call it the Old Ukrainian language. Our philologist and researcher of the Reims Gospel, Viktor Moiseyenko,…
The Vovchukhiv Offensive-a little-known military operation by the Galician Army in the Polish-Ukrainian War 1918-1919
The idea of erecting a monument to commemorate the soldiers of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UGA) was born…
80 years ago Stalin deported German anti-fascist, communist, Jewish refugees to Hitler
The pact with Stalin made it possible for Germany to unleash a military attack on Poland just one…
Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”
In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…
Genocide today: From acknowledgement to prevention
What have I learned about Genocide and how As the descendant of Ukrainian landed gentry, I have learned…
False accusations of antisemitism haunt Ukraine as Putin pushes his narrative at Holocaust Forum
Respected Anti-Defamation League and its survey on antisemitism: what’s wrong This season’s first accusation of Ukraine’s purported antisemitism…
How Ukrainians created human chain in late USSR to mark anniversary of Ukraine’s unification: archival photographs
The Human Chain action was organized by the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh), the leading pro-Ukrainian organization and…
Why the UK should remove Ukrainian trident from list of extremist symbols
Contents How was the trident included in the poster?Why Ukrainian coat of arms was included in the guide?What…
Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies in RSFSR prove Holodomor was a genocide
Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a…
Hunger for Truth: Documentary about Canadian journalist who was first to report about Holodomor
Her 1932 articles were published in the Toronto newspaper The Evening Telegram and were found only a few…
Stalin’s management of Red Army proves Holodomor a Soviet genocide against Ukrainians
On November 23, Ukrainians and their supporters across the world mark a day in memory of the Holodomor,…
Austrian engineer captures the horror of the Holodomor in 1932-33
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that…
Holodomor: Stalin’s punishment for 5,000 peasant revolts
Why revolts took place in Ukraine but much less frequently in other parts of the Soviet Union In…
