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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 ...
Memorial cross in Kharkiv, Ukraine; Memorial in Andrushivka village cemetery, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine; National Museum "Memorial to Holodomor victims" Memorial in Dovhalivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine; Memorial in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine; Monument in Boryspil, Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast; Monument in Luhansk, Ukraine; Monument in Novoaydar, Luhansk ...
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has run campaigns and lobbied the United Nations and the Council of Europe to recognise the Holodomor as a genocide internationally. [216] The governments of various countries have issued statements recognizing the Holodomor as genocide including Ukraine since 2006, [217] and 13 other countries as of 2015.
[l] On 7 November 2015, the Holodomor Genocide Memorial was opened in Washington, D.C. [m] Officially named The Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933, the memorial is a joint project between the United States and the Ukrainian government, and is operated by the National Park Service. The inscription on ...
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]
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 ...
NKVD prisoner massacres in Ukraine: June–November 1941 In 78 prisons across Ukraine Soviet Union: Almost 9,000: By Stalin's orders Lviv pogroms (1941) June 1941 – July 1941 Lviv: OUN-B, Einsatzgruppen, Ukrainian nationalists, local crowds 6,000 Jews: Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre: August 27–28, 1941 Kamianets-Podilskyi Nazi Germany