INFORMATION ON THE HOLODOMOR EXHIBIT FOR CANADIAN SCHOOL BOARDS
The Exhibit Holodomor: Genocide by Famine
To obtain the complete package of 101 posters and 3 films on the Ukrainian Famine Genocide of 1932-33, called the Holodomor, and supporting documentation, we ask each School Board to write a cheque for $500.00 to:
Holodomor Education Fund
83 Christie Street
Toronto, ON M6G 3B1
The overall cost of each package is $2500.00, of which the League of Ukrainian Canadians will donate $2000.00, including the cost of shipping, to ensure that every interested School Board receives the complete package for $500.00.
For further information, please contact us at 416-516-8223 or 1-866-714-4132 (toll free) or luc@lucorg.com.
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One of the main activities of the League of Ukrainian Canadians ( LUC ) and League of Ukrainian Canadian Women ( LUCW ) is to organize joint educational and informational projects with organizations in Canada to help raise genocide awareness and promote the tenets of democracy and respect for human rights.
Therefore, the League of Ukrainian Canadians, in cooperation with the Museum of Soviet Occupation of the Kyiv Memorial Society in Ukraine and LUCW, has produced the exhibit Holodomor: Genocide by Famine. Raphael Lemkin, the Jewish-Polish scholar who was the father of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide and coined the term “genocide,” applied it to the destruction of the Ukrainian nation as follows: “This was not simply a case of mass murder. It was a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation.”
LUC and LUCW have dedicated considerable resources to raise awareness of what the Holodomor really was, a genocide perpetrated against the Ukrainian people. It is our hope that by teaching our children about this and other genocides, we can ensure that such crimes never occur again.
The exhibit is comprised of 101 colour panels, each 11 by 17 inches in size, as follows: a) 8 introductory panels include basic facts, a glossary, the genocide in historical context, and a map of the Holodomor area; b) 7 panels include collectivization and the destruction of Ukrainian farmers, opposition to collectivization, and Soviet reaction to opposition; c) 4 panels include why the genocide was organized, as well as key documents; d) 11 panels include how the genocide was organized, as well as the blacklisting of villages, ban on travel, the "Law of Five Grain Stalks," total confiscation of foodstuffs, and export abroad; e) 3 panels include starving children; f) 6 panels include appeals for assistance from within the Holodomor area; g) 7 panels include losses and rigged demographics; h) 2 panels include ghost towns; i) 4 panels include the organizers and perpetrators of the genocide; j) 4 panels include eyewitness reports; k) 3 panels include denial and cover-up; l) 14 panels include protests and attempts at relief, as well as the International Day of Mourning and Protest, the position of the League of Nations and International Red Cross, and the assassination of Stalin's envoy; m) 7 panels include government documents on the genocide; n) 4 panels include the genocide in publications; o) 3 panels include U.S. and International Commissions on the genocide; p) 3 panels include why the Holodomor was a genocide; q) 7 panels include Holodomor remembered, as well as statements of the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine, statements of survivors, leaders and researchers, and Holodomor monuments erected worldwide; and r) 4 panels include Holodomor acknowledged, as well as the Law of Ukraine on the Holodomor, and international and national jurisdictions that have condemned the Holodomor or recognized it as genocide.
The authors of the exhibit are as follows: concept, research and development – Oleh Romanyshyn, Andrew Gregorovich, and Orest Steciw; graphic design and layout – Myhajlo Hucman and Volodymyr Paslavskyi. The exhibit was created and is copyrighted by the League of Ukrainian Canadians
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