Webinars 90th: Commemorating the 90th anniversary year of the Holodomor

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.
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In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village, pressure to join the collective begins. Soon neighbors disappear, those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain. Resistance has a price, and as desperate hunger grips the countryside, survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But, even in the darkest times, love beckons.

Seventy years later, a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal, one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family’s haunted past. A story of the resilience of the human spirit, the love that sees us through our darkest hours and the true horror of what happened during the Holodomor.

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.
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Ukraine 1928. Stalin has risen to power and started to implement plans that will change the country forever. Inspired by a family photo, The Photograph centers on a farewell party and a family divided. There are those who will stay, and those who will leave. What happens to those who remain is written in the pages of history as the Holodomor, which was orchestrated by Stalin and was responsible for the loss of millions of lives.

THURSDAY 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.
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A brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. When thirteen-year-old Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the USA to the USSR.

THURSDAY 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.
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When a little girl asks her Baba to tell her a story about a princess and a monster what she hears is so much more — the true tale of the arrest and deportation of her grandmother’s family to a concentration camp in Siberia during the Holodomor. She escapes to freedom with the help of a secret message hidden in a nesting doll. The perfect happily ever after!

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2022 • 7:30 PM EST / 6:30 PM CST / 5:30 PM MST
Author Adrian Lysenko talks about his graphic novel, Five Stalks of Grain with illustrator Ivanka Theodosia Galadza
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A powerful and haunting graphic novel that tells a story of tragedy and survival during the Holodomor, the terror-famine that claimed millions of lives in Soviet Ukraine.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2022 • 7:30 PM EDT
Author Marsha Skrypuch talks about her latest novel, Winterkill
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This incredibly gripping and timely story set during the Holodomor in 1930s Ukraine introduces young readers to a pivotal moment in history – and helps students understand current events in Ukraine.

OCTOBER 2022 / NOVEMBER 2022 / MARCH 2023 / APRIL 2023 / OCTOBER 2023 / NOVEMBER 2023
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HREC Education presents a free webinar series of dynamic talks with authors of primary, middle-grade and young adult fction featuring their recently published novels relating to the Holodomor.

The series runs from Fall of 2022 into Fall of 2023. Webinars are introduced by HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw and hosted by Mateusz Świetlicki.

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