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February 18, 2025
Ukrainian Holodomor Awareness Student Competition 2025
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Attention U.S. high school educators and students!

Ukraine has been in the world’s view since February 2022, when Russia launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The atrocities committed against a peaceful nation beg the question, “Why?”  A cursory look at the history of Ukraine reveals a long record of oppression, in particular, the Holodomor, the genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930’s during Stalin’s regime. This genocide has been denied by the Russian government to this day.
The study of the Holodomor offers a key to understanding the current war in Ukraine. It is only through education and the study of history that we can help prevent war crimes and recognize evidence of the genocide currently occurring in Ukraine.
Building on the success of many excellent submissions  in previous competitions, and  with students becoming ambassadors to teach others about the Holodomor, a  new competition is being rolled out  for 2025.

The U.S. Committee for Holodomor Genocide Awareness is sponsoring a cash prize competition for U.S. high schools students grades 9 – 12. This competition is particularly relevant for students taking classes in history, genocide studies, social studies, English and journalism. Submissions may be in traditional non-digital formats or web-based media projects.   Entries are due by April 11, 2025. 

To request additional information, please email ukrainecompetition@gmail.com

Further details are in the official description here,  which also includes the teacher feedback form:  Holodomor Competition letter 2025

See also an article listing the winners of the 2024 competition, and remarks from the students and educators who participated in this learning experience.  Building on last year 2024. 2024 Announcement of winners.


November 15, 2023
Holodomor90: Online Information hub
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On the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor genocide,  Holodomor90 exists as a hub of information to help individuals and communities around the world to connect, remember, and pay tribute to the victims of the Holodomor.  Here you will find listed a variety of commemorative and educational events throughout North America happening now and in the near future.    Also featured is a blog/news segment offering information on new resources and assistance as you plan your own campaign or event.

Although November is considered a special time for the world to unite in memory and tribute, every month and every day offers an opportunity to reflect upon and remember the lessons of the Holodomor. Particularly during this time when Ukraine is again experiencing Russia’s genocidal hand in its unprovoked, relentless invasion – destroying lives and wreaking destruction across the land – we cannot forget.

Explore Holodomor90 to see how you can #ShineALight and join the effort leading up to November 25, 2023: Holodomor Awareness Day.

 


November 14, 2023
xxUkrainian Holodomor Awareness Student Competition 2025
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Attention U.S. high school educators and students!

Ukraine has been in the world’s view since February 2022, when Russia launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The atrocities committed against a peaceful nation beg the question, “Why?”  A cursory look at the history of Ukraine reveals a long record of oppression, in particular, the Holodomor, the genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930’s during Stalin’s regime. This genocide has been denied by the Russian government to this day.

The study of the Holodomor offers a key to understanding the current war in Ukraine. It is only through education and the study of history that we can help prevent war crimes and recognize evidence of the genocide currently occurring in Ukraine.

Building on the success of many excellent submissions  in previous competitions, and  with students becoming ambassadors to teach others about the Holodomor, a  new competition is being rolled out  for 2025.

The U.S. Committee for Holodomor Genocide Awareness is sponsoring a cash prize competition for U.S. high schools students grades 9 – 12. This competition is particularly relevant for students taking classes in history, genocide studies, social studies, English and journalism. Submissions may be in traditional non-digital formats or web-based media projects.   Entries are due by April 11, 2025. 

To request additional information, please email ukrainecompetition@gmail.com

Further details are in the official description here,  which also includes the teacher feedback form:  Holodomor Competition letter 2025

See also an article listing the winners of the 2024 competition, and remarks from the students and educators who participated in this learning experience.  Building on last year 2024. 2024 Announcement of winners.

 

 


November 1, 2022
National student competition on the topic of Ukraine’s Holodomor Genocide
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Attention U.S. high school educators and students!

Ukraine has been in the world’s view since February 2022, when Russia launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The atrocities committed against a peaceful nation beg the question, “Why?”  A cursory look at the history of Ukraine reveals a long record of oppression, in particular, the Holodomor, the genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930’s during Stalin’s regime. This genocide has been denied by the Russian government to this day.
The study of the Holodomor offers a key to understanding the current war in Ukraine. It is only through education and the study of history that we can help prevent war crimes and recognize evidence of the genocide currently occurring in Ukraine.

The U.S. Committee for Holodomor Genocide Awareness is sponsoring a cash prize competition for U.S. high schools students grades 9 – 12. This competition is particularly relevant for students taking classes in history, genocide studies, English and journalism. Submissions may be in traditional non-digital formats or web-based media projects.   Entries are due by April 7, 2023. Winners will be announced in the spring of 2023.  Further details are in the official description below.  To request the required feedback form or for additional information, please email ukrainecompetition@gmail.com

To help you locate information, please browse through this website, including the Facts and History, the wealth of links to online resources at the Information Links and Eyewitness Accounts, and resources added periodically to the War in Ukraine listings.

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September 17, 2021
On Holodomor Loss Numbers
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“…Four to five million died, roughly 15 percent of Soviet Ukraine’s 30 million inhabitants. Even Mao’s 1958–62 Great Leap Forward famine, during which some 36 million Chinese died, was proportionally milder, amounting to 5 percent of China’s total population of about 700 million.”  (from: “Demographic Trends in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future,” by Anatole Romaniuk and Oleksandr Gladun. Population and Development Review, 2015, pp.318-9.)

Introduction

This website adheres to the population loss estimates derived by demographers who follow professional scientific methodology that is accepted by the international scholarly community and that have been published in peer-reviewed journals in North America and Europe (See selected resources ).  There are small variations among these scientifically derived estimates.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, sensitive Soviet archival sources were off limits, and those dealing with Holodomor losses necessarily made estimates in the absence of necessary data. Diplomats, politicians and journalists in the 1930s ventured estimates of losses that ranged from 1 million to 15 million, usually referring to the USSR as a whole.  However, as early as the 1940s, trained demographers from across the globe consistently came up with a range of estimates for Ukraine that are comparable to the estimates published in the last decade. (Трагедія кількісний вимір. Дослідження демографічних втрат ).

A majority of the resources found on the Maps and Demography page of this website are based on or written in collaboration with a team of demographers and historians from the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, along with US demographer Dr. Oleh Wolowyna (University of North Carolina) and Dr. Serhii Plokhy, (Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute).

Current estimates of Holodomor losses

These population loss statistics for the Holodomor are presented within the following clearly specified parameters:

  • famine related deaths of individuals of any ethnicity,
  • residing within the borders of Soviet Ukraine,
  • during the years 1932-1934,
  • above and beyond the normal average death toll for that period.

Within these parameters, an estimated 3.94 million lives were lost (4.5 including the unborn) as a result of the Holodomor famine. The Holodomor-related mortality of Ukrainians living elsewhere in the USSR is currently being studied and reported separately.

Some Key Concerns:

  1. Definitions

The Ukrainian Institute of Demography and Social Studies team of Ukrainian and American demographers adhere to the following definitions:

  • Holodomor losses refer to deaths from famine and related causes.
  • Time period: 1932-1934
  • Territory: Soviet Ukraine

Some historians argue legitimately for a broader definition, but there is little agreement on scope: some wish to extend the time period or include areas in Soviet Russia that had concentrations of ethnic Ukrainians. Many advocate for inclusion of deaths in remote exile resulting from forced dekulakization.  Some data already exist on deaths in the Gulags, and deaths of Ukrainians in territory outside Soviet Ukraine are currently under investigation. These data can eventually be considered as supplementary to currently defined famine statistics for Ukraine.

  1. But what about the 1939 Soviet census?

Many critics have voiced valid concerns regarding the veracity of the Soviet census of 1939, which is referenced in the work of the Ukrainian Institute demographers.  The demographers are of course keenly aware of the problems with that census and went to considerable lengths from the outset to explain why and how they their research to adjust for the various significant falsifications.* In part, they took into account the accurate 1937 census, which was dismissed by the Soviet authorities, who executed or deported its compilers. The data from the 1937 census was discovered in the Soviet archives in the late 1980s. I could add that perhaps the authors should have consistently referred to the “adjusted 1939 census” in order to alleviate concern.

* Rudnytskyi et al.: “The case of massive famine in Ukraine 1932–1933,” 2015. pp. 58, 78-79.; Wolowyna et al.: “Regional variations of 1932–34 famine losses in Ukraine,” 2016.pp.179-80

Concluding remarks

A number of historians, authors, and organizations cite higher figures based on other estimates, and you will see these sources included among the pages of this website in instances where the historical significance of the resource or other informational value warrant it.

All scientific data, by definition, is subject to review and revision. Also, methodologies evolve. We can expect that there may be some modifications with time.  However, demographic data is also limited by biological and other realities that make large deviations unlikely.

It is worth mentioning that recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide does not depend on the number or percentage of deaths. Regardless, the currently accepted scientific data clearly demonstrate: “… the Holodomor as one of the worst man-made famines in human history.”

Two schools of thought exist regarding the “man-made” characteristics of the Holodomor famine:  One, that it was “man-made by accident”, promoted by Stephen Wheatcroft and supporters, and the other that it was “man-made on purpose.” The latest work on the unique surge of deaths that occurred in the first half of 1933 by demographers Oleh Wolowyna and Ukraine’s team, (Wolowyna, 2020) provides strong evidence “that such a rapid increase in mortality during a short period could have only happened due to politically motivated decisions that transcend strictly economic factors.*

* Wolowyna, O., Levchuk, N. and Kovbasiuk, A. 2020. “Monthly Distribution of 1933 Famine Losses in Soviet Ukraine and Russian Soviet Republic at the Regional Level.” Nationalities Papers, 2020 p.546.

 

Lana Babij
September 9, 2021

rev. slightly September 16, 2021


November 5, 2019
Revolution of Dignity
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Revolution of Dignity and Holodomor Remembrance Concert

 


September 30, 2019
Holodomor Forum
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Holodomor Forum

A strategy session to discuss Holodomor awareness projects of curriculum, media outreach, Duranty revocation, and global recognition

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January 15, 2019
Historical note on the U.S. government position regarding the Holodomor as genocide
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Historical note on the U.S. government position regarding the Holodomor as genocide as of December 2018:

by Lana Babij

2018 was a breakthrough year with regard to the U.S. government, through Congressional resolutions, recognizing the Holodomor in Ukraine as an act of genocide.  Both the Senate in S.Res. 435 (115th) and the House of Representatives in H.Res. 931 (115th) passed identical “simple resolutions” that included that recognition in the body of the legislation.

Among the 5 concluding statements of each resolution, it is stated that the Congressional body passing the resolution:

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December 15, 2018
Holodomor resolutions passed by U.S. government in 2018
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Historic Holodomor resolutions passed by U.S. government in 2018

House Holodomor Resolution, 2018

On December 11, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives voted without objection to approve legislation that explicitly “recognizes” that the Holodomor is genocide.  The full text of this resolution, its legislative history, and how to cite it, are available here:

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October 6, 2018
Senate Holodomor Resolution
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Senate Holodomor Resolution, 2018: a Historic First

On October 3, 2018, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation that  officially “recognizes”  that the Holodomor is genocide.

Among the 5 concluding statements of the resolution, it is stated that the Senate:

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