THURSDAY 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 PhotographHolodomor 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 2023THURSDAY APRIL 20, 2023 • 7:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM CST / 5:30 PM MST Author Katherine Marsh talks about her latest novel The Lost Year. Read details A brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terr...
Continue Reading Author Katherine Marsh talks about her latest novel The Lost YearThe 20th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival will hold an opening night screening of FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM by Academy Award nominated director & filmmaker, Evgeny Afineevsky (Winter On Fire) at HOT DOCS Ted Rogers Cine...
Continue Reading 20th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival Panel DiscussionHREC Education received an official letter from Mr. Serhii Shkarlet, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, which thanked Valentina Kuryliw and Dr. Liudmyla Hrynevych for their work together over the past eight years in the partnership between ...
Continue Reading Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science Sends Letter of Appreciation and Approval to HREC ED and HREC in UkraineOn January 3, 2023 a special class featuring the Holodomor was presented by HREC’s director of education Valentina Kuryliw and her eleven year old granddaughter Nina Kuzmycz at Amber Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. There were 25 grade ...
Continue Reading Grade 5 student co-teaches the Holodomor to her classmatesOn an annual basis, during Holodomor Education Week and for Holodomor Memorial Day in Schools each November HREC Education visits with schools and others to give workshops and presentations to teachers and students. Always a busy month, there is an increa...
Continue Reading Teacher training workshop at the Canada and An Ever-changing World Conference | Manitoba Social Science Teachers AssociationTHURSDAY MARCH 2, 2023 • 7:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM CST / 5:30 PM MST Author Carola Schmidt talks about her children’s storybook, Tell Me A Story Babushka along with illustrator Anita Barghigiani. Read details When a little girl asks her Baba to tell her a...
Continue Reading Author Carola Schmidt talks about her children’s storybook, Tell Me A Story BabushkaHolodomor Commemoration Presentation | Ukrainian Studies Organization at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | 30 November 2022, 7PM Indiana University at Bloomington held its annual Holodomor Memorial Day Commemoration Presentation at which HREC Educatio...
Continue Reading Holodomor Commemoration Presentation at Indiana UniversityGareth Richard Vaughan Jones (1905-1935) was a Welsh journalist. He spoke five languages. For a time, he was a private secretary and researcher to the former Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George (from 1930-31 and 1932- 3). Jones ...
Continue Reading Gareth Jones – The first western journalist to describe the Soviet Ukrainian famine — the Holodomor — as a man-made famine