The famine is long over, but a certain hunger still remains. A hunger for memory and learning. The Ukrainian community wants — needs — the world to not only acknowledge “Holodomor” (for decades the world didn’t) and to mourn with it,...
Continue Reading Holodomor ‘one of the darkest chapters in human history’To mark the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2018, HREC-ED announces it’s new prize initiative for educators – the “2018 HREC Educator Prize: Holodomor Lesson Plan Development.” Today the Holodomor is included in curricula on human...
Continue Reading 2018 HREC Educator Prize: Holodomor Lesson Plan Development2017 is the 84th year of the commemoration of the Holodomor – the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33 – when over 4 million Ukrainians were starved to death. It was brought about by the policies of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the former Soviet Union. Every...
Continue Reading Holodomor Memorial Day 2017HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw will conduct a master class “Teaching the Holodomor in the 21st Century: Teaching Critical and Historical Thinking Skills” at a symposium at California State University (Fresno) October 5-6, 2017. The theme...
Continue Reading HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw to conduct master class at California State University (Fresno) symposiumCongratulations to the winners of the 4th Holodomor Student Competition, who were awarded their prizes by Valentina Kuryliw, Chair of the National Holodomor Education Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, at the Independence Day celebrations, Augu...
Continue Reading 2017 Holodomor Student Competition AwardsBy Vladislav Davidzon 1. Let us begin with Orwell. There is a resurgence now of interest in the work of Orwell with all of the issues surrounding fake news, propaganda, and social media eating our elections. Why do you think his legacy is important now? W...
Continue Reading Andrea Chalupa Answers Four Questions About OrwellAll photos by Norbert Iwan unless otherwise credited
Continue Reading Photos from Holodomor Education Conference 2017By Vitalii Ogiienko, Institute of National Remembrance, Kyiv, Ukraine Using the example of the Holodomor it is not only possible but also necessary to teach and educate students. This was evident at the second education conference “Education–Aware...
Continue Reading What are Canadian students taught using the example of the Holodomor?By Oksana Levytska, Chairman of the National Ukrainian Educational Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Published in Ukrainian People, June 2, 2017 Back in the early 1980s, the Ukrainian diaspora of North America threw out a serious challenge to the...
Continue Reading Spreading the truth about the HolodomorКонференція про навчання про Голодомор в Канаді І ви дізнаєтеся правду, і правда зробить вас вільними. (Іоанн 8:32) Ще на початку 1980-х років ук...
Continue Reading Поширювати правду про Голодомор