DID YOU KNOW? Facts About the Holodomor

Over the next two weeks, get ready for "Did You Know?" a series of posters/slides that can be used in the classroom or collected & read as a daily announcement during Holodomor Education Week (November 18-22, 2024)

The Great Famine happened in Soviet Ukraine during a time of peace and not as a result of war or natural disaster.

Soviet leader Stalin issued a series of policies targeting the population of Ukraine which led to this genocide by starvation.

Food was used as a weapon against the citizens of Ukraine.

Wheat & grains were confiscated from farmers by the Communist government.

DURING THE HOLODOMOR: Some of the confiscated wheat & grains were sold for export to fund Stalin's Five-Year Plan.

DURING THE HOLODOMOR: One third of all villages in Ukraine were black(jsted, blockaded and the people were (eft to starve.

DURING THE HOLODOMOR: Millions of innocent people died.

28,000 people died per day at its height in June 1933.

31% of those who died were children under the age of 10. (That's 1 in 3 people).

The cultural, religious and political leadership of Ukraine was largely destroyed during the 1930s.

The Holodomor was denied, covered up and ignored by the world for over 5 decades.

The Government of Canada officially recognized the Holodomor as genocide in may 2006.

The Government of Ontario officially recognized the Holodomor as genocide in April 200g.

The Government of Ontario officially made the Holodomor a mandatory topic in Grade 10 History starting in 2025.