“Let me take the wife too, when I reach the cemetery she will be dead.” Stories of Holodomor survivors
Liubov Vozniuk (Cherkasy): The famine hurts me even now. My parents, the Klymenkos – Mykhailo and Varvara with…
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Iceland joins 25 countries that recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians
The government of Iceland supported the resolution that officially recognized the artificial man-made famine Holodomor (death by hunger,…
Ukraine calls to recognize 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars was genocide
On the 78th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian foreign ministry called on the…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 6)
Hundreds of thousands of families lost their means of subsistence. They were scattered across the Soviet country: some…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 5)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Starved mother lay dead while her baby sucked on empty breast | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Lepetykha was one of such small rivers and the Cossacks built on its shores. First permanent settlements appeared…
My granny stole pig food for us grandchildren but died of starvation herself | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
The Syvak family Ksenia Prokopiuk was born on January 31, 1927, in Tanske village of Uman district. Her…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 4)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
For years on end, scholars, academics and historians have been inflating the number of deaths caused by the…
Half our village died of starvation, mostly the elderly | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Traveling throughout Ukraine and recording the 1932-1933 Holodomor genocide witnesses, the Holodomor Museum’s employees listened to the hundreds…
My neighbor buried her three children | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Vasylyna Antonivna Yarovenko was born on 5 April 1923. “On Thursday,” she adds laughing. Her daughter explains, “It…
Dekulakization. How Stalin liquidated the Ukrainian peasant class (Part 3)
In January 2020 (90th commemoration of the total extermination of private property in the USSR), Radio Liberty and the…
Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family.…
My village once saw twelve people die of hunger in one day | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
Authorities classified Hryhoriy’s family as poor, yet seized their food stocks “When the started, my father was registered…
Mass grave of UPA soldiers unearthed in Lviv Oblast
On Wednesday, October 6, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, head of the Lviv Regional Council municipal enterprise Dolya Memorial Search Centre…
My family survived Holodomor by eating waste left from sugar production | Voices of witnesses
Mariia Andriivna Tilna was born on 15 August 1922 in the urban settlement of Kostiantynivka, Bohodukhiv Raion, Kharkiv…
My neighbors escaped starvation by eating grain stored by field mice | Voices of Holodomor witnesses
In 2006 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law that recognized the status of the Holodomor in…
How my father saved his co-villagers from starvation during the Holodomor | Voices of witnesses
When she was just 5 years old, Pelaheia Tovkach became a witness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine…
Surviving in the “collective farm paradise”: voices of living Holodomor witnesses
Dmytro Vyniarskyi was born in Chumaky village, in Sicheslav region (currently Dnipropetrovsk Oblast), founded in the early 18th…
Nine powerful films about Ukraine to add to your watch list
1. Chernobyl (2019) The official trailer is available via the link. Chernobyl is a five-episode historical drama series…