Holodomor Museum in Kyiv accused of falsifying expertise to promote inflated famine death tolls
Establishing the exact death toll of the Holodomor, an artificial famine unleashed by Soviet dictator Stalin that took…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
10 things everyone should know about Ukraine
The project tells stories of prominent Ukrainians, historical and cultural events that reshaped Ukraine's history of the 19th-21th…
Holodomor in Kharkiv through the lens of Austrian engineer: photo gallery
During the 1921-23 famine in the USSR, Soviet authorities had allowed photographers unprecedented and never to be repeated…
An Austrian engineer showed these Holodomor photos to Cardinal Innitzer in 1933, pleading for aid to the starving
Here we present his Innitzer album, the popular name of an album of photographs that were taken by…
Engineer Wienerberger’s unknown photographs of the Holodomor
It was in September (1932 - ed.). I was sitting in the sleeping-car of the Moscow-Kharkiv high-speed train,…
Ukrainian Holodomor Museum launches crowdfunding campaign to create main exhibition
A fundraising campaign has been launched to finish the construction of the Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, located in the…
Holodomor survivor stories come to life in mobile app for tourists
Buildings such as the student canteen, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or the apartment block on vulytsia Pushkinska remember the…
Bread from tree bark and straw: students launch online “restaurant” with Holodomor “recipes”
Students from the Ukrainian Leadership Academy have launched an online "restaurant" featuring "recipes" thanks to which many Ukrainians…