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Holodomor Memorial Day or Holodomor Remembrance Day (Ukrainian: День пам'яті жертв голодоморів, romanized: Den pamiati zhertv holodomoriv, lit. 'Day of memory for victims of the holodomors') is an annual commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor , the 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine ...
Saskatchewan became the first jurisdiction in North America and the first province in Canada to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. [281] The Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day Act was introduced in the Saskatchewan Legislature on 6 May 2008, [282] and received royal assent on 14 May 2008. [283]
The memorial was built by the National Park Service and the Ukrainian government to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 and to educate the American public. [ 4 ] The memorial, designed by Larysa Kurylas, is one of three monuments in Washington, D.C., designed or co-designed by women—the others being the Vietnam ...
In Ukraine, the events are called "Volhynia tragedy". [230] [4] Coverage in textbooks may be brief and/or euphemistic. [231] Some Ukrainian historians accept the genocide classification, but argue that it was a "bilateral genocide" and that the Home Army was responsible for crimes against Ukrainian civilians that were equivalent in nature. [229]
Memorial cross at the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Acton, London, England [11] Monument at Calton Hill , Edinburgh , Scotland [ 12 ] United States
The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Ukrainian: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду, romanized: Natsionalnyi muzei Holodomoru-henotsydu), [2] formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that ...
In June 2022, a bipartisan group in the United States Congress introduced a resolution characterizing Russian actions in Ukraine as genocide, [72] [73] and in July the US Senate did so, [74] but neither has been agreed as of November 2022. [75] Countries, which recognize the ongoing events in Ukraine as genocide: Estonia [76] Latvia [19] [77]
The Holocaust in Ukraine, aspect of the 1941–1944 genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany Instances of repression against Romanians in Soviet Ukraine like the Fântâna Albă massacre , 1941, or the deportations from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina , 1940–1951, by the Soviet Union