Please join us in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33.   

At this important event, you will have an opportunity to learn from a descendant of the Holodomor survivors, support the new Legislative Resolution designating the Holodomor Memorial Week and Day in Minnesota. You will also hear from public officials and elected representatives about the importance of honoring and preserving the memory of the Holodomor victims.

Guest speakers are: Carrie Booth Walling, PhD, Director of the Human Rights Program at the U of M and Joe Eggers, the Interim Director of the Center for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the U of M.

There will be a special opportunity to view the Voice to Vision collaborative art piece "Because We are Ukrainian" and the traveling Holodomor exhibit "Genocide Repeats, Repeats, Repeats" highlighting the connections between the historic genocide of Ukrainians, the Holodomor, and the current genocide fueled by Russia’s colonial ambitions.

*The exhibit, created by the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, and sponsored by the Ukrainian Consulate in Chicago, will be available for public viewing from November 7th through November 21st in the North Corridor of the MN State Capitol.

Background information:

In the spring 2023 the MN legislature passed the K-12 Bill that mandating the Holocaust and genocide studies to be embedded in the social studies curriculum. This means that the Holodomor, the genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33, will become part of the MN social Studies curriculum. Yet, not very many Minnesotans know about it. This event aims to raise awareness and educate the public about it.

* Holodomor - noun: ho·lo·do·mor \ˈhō-lō-dō-ˈmōr
Тhe term Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies. The Holodomor can be seen as the culmination of an assault by the Communist Party and Soviet state on the Ukrainian people, who resisted Soviet policies. 

This event is organized by the MN Ukrainian American Advocacy Committee and the Ukrainian American Community Center with support from the Center for the Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the U of M and Human Rights Program at the U of M.

Event co-sponsors:

Germanic American Institute

Global Minnesota

Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas

St. Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church

St. Michael’s & St. George’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church

St. Catherine Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Voice to Vision