“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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Ukraine’s President and leadership honor the memory of Kruty heroes, who fought for Ukraine’s independence in 1918
President Zelenskyy, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhnyi and military leadership paid tribute to fallen defenders at Askold's Grave in Kyiv, where also some contemporary servicemen are buried.
“Memory makes us stronger.” Ukraine marks 105th anniversary of symbolic battle against invading Russians
On 29 January 2023, Ukraine commemorates the 105 anniversary of the Battle of Kruty. Ukrainian Commander in Chief…
Representatives of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania commemorated in Kyiv the 160th anniversary of the January Uprising against the Russian Empire
The January Uprising that began on 22 January 1863 was the insurrection against the Russian empire aimed at…
On the streets with big plans. How Kyiv’s Euromaidan museum wants to promote democracy for the whole of Europe
After the first 5 years of work, the newly created Ukrainian National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity…
Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims
There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…
Memorial to Austrian Prince Vasyl Vyshyvany inaugurated in Kyiv
A bust of Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg-Lothringen (Vasyl Vyshyvany), colonel of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (Sichovi Striltsi) and…
WWII “victory” was Soviet occupation of western Ukraine and half of Europe
If, for Western Europe, the end of the war meant the victory of democracy, for Ukraine, it meant the enforcement of Stalinism. In the words of Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine was “in the heart of darkness” during the Second World War, with Ukrainians mostly fighting for the interests of other states and, along with Poland, suffering the heaviest human losses of the war. Unpunished communist crimes grow, making it appropriate for Russia to start new war in 2014.
Putin’s “Trojan horse” in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorialization
The Russian project is indeed a “Trojan horse”, as Yost Zissels, a Ukrainian dissident of Jewish origin and…
Ukrainians deported from Poland in 1944 recall mass killings, explain paths to historical reconciliation
The occupation of Eastern Europe in 1944–1945 by the Red Army and the establishment of communist regimes in…
How Ukraine is healing the traumatic wounds of colonialism
Ukraine is gradually learning to discuss its history, analyze traumatic historical events, understand the consequences of colonialialism, and…
UPA documents found in Italian shell casing in Zhytomyr Oblast
According to Serhiy Halytsky, acting director of the Radomyshl National Museum of Local History, and director of Povstansky…
Intellectual group warns against Russian annexation of Ukrainian historical memory in “Holocaust Disneyland”
On October 13, 2020, the members of the First of December Group – founded on the 20th anniversary…
New version of Hunger for Truth, film about Holodomor& Ukrainian struggle for independence, now online
The Canadian journalist who was the first to write about the 1932 genocidal famine in Ukraine — Rhea…
Ukraine’s open colonial wounds
Of the interesting debate organized by LibMod – Zentrum Liberale Moderne’s project “Ukraine Verstehen” (eng. Understanding Ukraine) around…
Hanna from the forests of Volyn: life & death in Ravensbrück KZ
And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not…
In Memoriam. An eternal guelder rose on the grave of Dariya “Oda” Lebed, survivor of Ravensbrück KZ
“Shadows billow over me” Vasyl Stus Dariya’s elderly mother, Oleksandra Hnatkivska, stood in the row of prisoners during…
Motherland Monument: Kyiv landmark, national symbol or soviet vestige
Prominent soviet sculptor and muralist Yevheniy Vuchetich, who was obsessed with the idea of creating a memorial in…
“Holocaust Disneyland” on mass graves in Kyiv – result of weak national memory policy
The museum is planned to be built in Babyn Yar, where the largest executions were committed by Nazi…
Ravensbrück concentration camp hospital – factory of death
In July and August 1944, barrack no.12 was filled with women prisoners from Ukraine – hundreds of exhausted…