Holodomor Memorial Day Holodomor Memorial Day in Schools: the 4th Friday of November On the 29 May of 2008, the Parliament of Canada unanimously passed an “Act to Establish a Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day and to Recognize the U...
Continue Reading Holodomor Memorial Day 2024Pamela Clark, the 2024 recipient of the HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan Development, was a presenter at this year’s Calgary City Teachers’ Convention at the Hyatt Regency Calgary, a part of the Alberta Teachers’ Association (Feb...
Continue Reading 2024 HREC Educator Award Recipient Teaches 50 Educators about the Holodomor at Calgary Teachers’ ConventionThe Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the Holodomor, published by CIUS Press in March 2024 (90 pages), offers a comprehensive educational approach to teaching students about human rights and the Holodomor in an engaging and interactive manner...
Continue Reading The Historian’s Craft Lesson on Human Rights and the HolodomorOn December 29, 2023, Valentina Kuryliw, HREC’s Director of Education, met with Katie Butte, Program Coordinator at the Cohen Education Center of the Holocaust Museum in Naples, Florida. Speaking as both an educator and as a daughter of Holodomor su...
Continue Reading HREC Director of Education Visits Holocaust Museum in Naples, Florida“The Power of Hope in the Holodomor,” a lesson plan designed to inspire students to take action in adversity, earned educator Pamela Clark the sixth annual HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan Development. For creating a lesson plan based o...
Continue Reading “The Power of Hope in the Holodomor” Inspires Students to Take Action in Adversity. On the 90th Commemoration Calgary educator’s Holodomor lesson plan receives award.Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2024. About The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its 2024 HREC Educator Award marking the commemoration of the Ukrainian genocide known as the Holodomor, which took place on the territory of Ukr...
Continue Reading 2024 HREC Educator Award for Holodomor Lesson Plan DevelopmentThe theme for this year’s Sixth International Verba Magistri Methodology Lab Summer School for Educators in Ukraine at the New Ukrainian School–“Litna Shkola” (29 July–10 August 2023) was “Innovative Methods of Teaching the History of the Hol...
Continue Reading HREC ED in Ukraine: Sixth Annual Summer School for human rights and the Holodomor 2023The Heritages of Hunger Consortium’s “Conveying Difficult Pasts: Theory, History and Memory” Expert Meeting at The Dutch Trippenhuis and the Versetz Resistance Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands took place with about 50 in-person participants ov...
Continue Reading How Do We Deal with Difficult Pasts? Heritages of Hunger Experts Conference.THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16, 2023 • 7:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM CST / 5:30 PM MST Author Erin Litteken talks about her latest novel The Memory Keeper of Kyiv. Read details In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When ...
Continue Reading Author Erin Litteken talks about her latest novel The Memory Keeper of KyivTHURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2023 • 7:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM CST / 5:30 PM MST Author Kat Karpenko talks about her latest novel The Photograph. Read details Ukraine 1928. Stalin has risen to power and started to implement plans that will change the country forever...
Continue Reading Author Kat Karpenko talks about her latest novel The Photograph