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1932 1933 Calendar of Memorial Events in Saskatchewan National Holodomor Awareness Week: November 20 to 26, 2017

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Holodomor Genocide Memorial Program and Film “Holodomor: Voices of Survivors” The Chapel Gallery in the Don Ross Centre, 891-99th St, North Battleford Time: 7:00 pm Hosted by the Battlefords Ukrainian Canadian Cultural Council

Holodomor Commemoration: “Bitter Harvest” Film Screening UNF Hall, 1737 St. John St, Regina Time: Doors open at 4:30 pm; film starts at 5:00 pm Hosted by the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada – Regina Branch

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“Commemorating the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide.

Remembering the victims; Recognizing the resilience of the people of Ukraine.”

November 22 is Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day in Saskatchewan.

We remember the innocent victims.

We remember the loved ones lost by our Ukrainian community.

We are grateful for the freedom of those that survived.

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David Katzman is involved as coordinator for FAST’s Voices Into Action website for Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Holly Paluck is the chairperson of the UCC Saskatchewan Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee as well as principal at St. Marguerite Bourgeoys School in Regina.

Paluck said that “while teachers do a wonderful job of facilitating learning through dialogue and inquiry, a critical piece of any learning plan is the availability of quality resources for instruction. A visit to the mobile classroom will help visitors gain information and resources on the topic of the Holodomor, which remains the biggest Soviet cover-up in history.”

Prokopchuk has personally seen the 450-square-foot mobile classroom and recounts it as being a very powerful experience that goes beyond a textbook, largely due to the use of state-of-the-art technology. The space allows 34 visitors to participate in a 60-minute facilitator-led educational experience that includes audiovisual presentations on a 28-foot video wall and the use of individual tablets.

She believes that both the mobile classroom and the newly developed chapter on the Holodomor provide important resources about “the missing pages in our history texts.”

“Many will come away wondering why they haven’t heard of this before or why this tragic genocide has been omitted from historical studies for so long. Student interest and curiosity will definitely be piqued by

what they see in the mobile classroom and they will be able to learn more about the Holodomor and other genocide by accessing information within Voices Into Action.

In fact, all of the units presented in Voices Into Action help students to focus on ways that we can fight atrocities against humanity, including anti-Semitism, discrimination and all other forms of racism.

Unfortunately, this is still an issue in our world.”

It is only

within the past decade that the artificial famine, or the Holodomor, has garnered any sort of international exposure, fuelled in large part due to Ukraine gaining its independence from the former Soviet Union.

There are more than 40 jurisdictions globally, including Canada and Saskatchewan, that have officially condemned the Holodomor or recognized it as genocide. During Soviet times, any mention of the Holodomor was considered a crime against

the state and, as a result, school texts and history books produced in the Soviet Union didn’t include any mention of this dark period.

Aside from now having access to previously hidden government documents and statistical data, Prokopchuk said there are also survivors willing to offer first-hand experiences, which have been incorporated into the Holodomor chapter within Voices Into Action.

“We have to talk about this to ensure that it never happens again,” she stressed, adding that it has taken decades for the survivors to feel a sufficient level of trust in their government to talk about the past.

It has an eerie similarity to the lamentable residential school experience that has tarnished Canada’s reputation.

“We have to look at the bold step taken by Canada to right historical wrongs through the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Students across Canada are learning about residential schools. We’re not at that point with Russia because there is still a very strong resistance, so we need to keep the message bold by revealing facts that have been hidden for decades.”

Katzman, who has done extensive research on genocide, said that the Holodomor is yet another example that every genocide brings with it the undeniable truth that some will profit from the suffering and so it is important to be vigilant or we will see it repeated all too soon.

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“We have many well-intentioned, dedicated teachers who just don’t know enough about the Holodomor and it’s important that they learn more and understand what it means for us today. We now know how much effort had gone into covering up the fact that entire villages were destroyed.

“Voices into Action provides reliable online resources to help students understand and respond appropriately to all forms of hatred, bigotry and discrimination,” he said.

Paluck highlighted the pivotal role of the Government of Saskatchewan, which was the first in Canada to legislate a provincial Holodomor Memorial Day in 2008.

“Our Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee, whose members include educators and academics, believes that the mobile classroom and online resource material will build momentum and bring the message to a wider audience. Our actions as a committee support the provincial government’s recognition of this historic tragedy.”

Prokopchuk added that the bus and the new resource chapter on the Holodomor are not just for a Saskatchewan audience, but also for a Canadian audience.

Paluck is overseeing the visit of the mobile classroom to the province. Principals or senior administrators are invited to contact h.paluck@ucc.sk.ca for booking inquiries.

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Saskatchewan honours the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide: Holodomor Monday, November 20, 2017 Saskatchewan Legislative Building, Regina

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At 12 noon on Monday, November 20, the annual provincial commemoration of the Holodomor Famine-Genocide will take place in the Rotunda of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building. This event is open to the public.

Background On May 7, 2008, Saskatchewan became the first province in Canada to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide through

the passage of Bill 40: An Act to Recognize the Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor).

Introduced by Deputy Premier Ken Krawetz with the unanimous support of MLAs from both the Government and Official Opposition, Bill 40 has enshrined the fourth Saturday in November in each year as “Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day” for the purposes

of recognizing the Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) of 1932-33 and for the reflection on the lessons to be learned from that event.

See the full text of Bill 40 at: http://www. qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/english/FirstRead/2007-08/Bill40.pdf

New Holodomor Resources Voices into Action (www.voicesintoaction.ca) Voices into Action, a free online educational resource providing information on issues regarding human rights, prejudice, and hatred, has added a new chapter entitled “Exposing the Ukrainian Holodomor: How starvation was used as a political weapon”. The chapter was developed through UCC Saskatchewan’s Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee. It examines the historical events that led to the genocide called the Holodomor – literally, “murder by starvation”, a Ukrainian term for the engineered famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932 – 1933 under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin. A timeline and artifacts detail the circumstances that caused this massive forced starvation of several million men, women, and children in central

Ukraine under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership. The arguments of genocide “believers” and “deniers” are presented, together with the role of diaspora survivors in revealing the Soviet-era cover-up. (Source: Voices into Action) The book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” by Anne Applebaum was recently published.

A review by The Economist calls it a “powerful account of the famine in Soviet Ukraine. . .

War, as Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, is the continuation of politics by other means.

The politics in this case was the Sovietization of Ukraine; the means was starvation. Food supply was not mismanaged by Utopian dreamers.” It was weaponized . . . with searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific

consequences of a campaign to eradicate ‘backwardness’ when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people.”

“Bitter Harvest”, directed by George Mendeluk, is the newly released and first major dramatic film about the Holodomor. Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century, it is a powerful story of love, honour, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. (Source: www.bitterharvest.com) Additional information on Holodomor is available at www.ucc.ca/issues/holodomor/ holodomor-resources/.

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between four and 10 million lives.

If you know of such a person or are in possession of family/personal archives, please contact the UCC Saskatchewan office at 1.888.652.5850 or email uccspc@ucc.sk.ca. May their names and stories live on.

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The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium conducts and promotes research, publishes and disseminates authoritative information, prepares educational materials, and works to ensure that the man-made famine in Ukraine of 1932–33 is represented in the teaching of history and genocide.

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The word Holodomor – literally translated from Ukrainian means “murder by starvation” – is probably not front and centre for most people when they delve into the history books.

We know that between four and 10 million Ukrainian men, women and children slowly and needlessly starved to death in 1932-33. Like the Holocaust, there are significant lessons to be learned from the Holodomor.

Now there is a determined effort by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan to heighten awareness of the Holodomor via a travelling mobile classroom/ bus that will again be available to schools in Saskatchewan early in 2018.

In addition to the mobile classroom, UCC Saskatchewan’s Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee was invited to develop a chapter on the Holodomor to the online educational website Voices Into Action – a site hosted by the Canadian organization FAST-Fighting Antisemitism Together. The site is easily accessible and free for secondary, post-secondary and adult learners at www.voicesintoaction.ca.

Among the many individuals involved in bringing greater public awareness to the Holodomor is a quartet of current and former educators in the province. Nadia Prokopchuk and co-writer George Zerebecky developed the chapter on the Holodomor for Voices Into Action and are both former education consultants with the Ministry of Education. One-time principal

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