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Holodomor on NPR

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A few weeks ago Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program broadcasted a great piece on the Holodomor.  The show (which you can download or listen to) features segments with a survivor, clergy, academia, media and more!  Definitely worth a listen to.

Vitalina Yushchenko, daughter of President Yushchenko and a 27-year-old mother-of-two fashion model worked the runway in Milan on Tuesday.

Edit:  I just listened to this myself and it’s a great piece to listen to. It’s ideal for anyone who wants an introduction to the Holodomor in audio format.

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Holodmor will be recognized at TDSB

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From The Villager:

The Holodomor… will now be recognized on the fourth Friday of November in all Toronto public schools starting this year.
The motion by Ward 12 (Willowdale) Trustee Mari Rutka to honour those who died during the Holodomor was unanimously approved at the last Toronto District School Board meeting in late August.

Recognition is nice, but education and awareness in our schools is wanted from the Ukrainian Canadian community.

“In order to support that (motion), there will be another motion to the programs committee this month to develop resource materials for teachers so they can discuss this issue with their students,” she (Rutka) said.

We’ve been told this before, the extra work students can do on their own time.

The motion to include the Holodomor into the public school board’s curriculum will be brought forward to the program and school services committee Wednesday, Sept. 10 (at 6:30pm)

Here we go again! I’ll be blogging from there for sure to keep everyone posted. For up-to-the-minute postings, watch out for me uploading pictures to Flickr and writing updates to Twitter.

Wed. Sept 10th at 6:30pm
Toronto District School Board
5050 Yonge St, North York (Google map)

By car: Just north of the 401 on Yonge & North York Blvd., by Mel Lastman Square & Toronto Centre for the Arts
By subway: A quick walk from the TTC North York Centre station, one stop north of Sheppard

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Holodomor Flame arrives in Britain

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From the Tameside Advertiser:

TAMESIDE’S Ukrainian community gathered this week to mark one of the darkest hours in its people’s history.

Scores of people with family ties to the former Soviet country filled Ashton’s Ukrainian Club to remember the famine of 1932-3.

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Martyn Chymera, of the UK’s Holodomor Commemoration Committee, said: “For a long time the Holodomor was hidden behind the Iron Curtain. But this is a chance to tell the world — it’s such a significant part of history. People should be aware of it as they are aware of other tragedies.”

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Ukrainians all over the world want the famine officially recognised as genocide.They say that the United Kingdom and other countries need to accept that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deliberately starved millions of Ukrainians in order to suppress dissent across the Soviet Union.

Mr Chymera added: “The British government probably are scared of the Kremlin’s reaction and want to keep good relations with Russia.”

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The Ukrainian community in Tameside dates back to about 1946, when Ukrainians started entering the UK after World War Two. Many of them headed for Yorkshire and Lancashire, where they set up communities in mill towns.

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Holodomor Flame to Britain

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As the Holodomor is crosses the Atlantic to its first European stop in the UK, some media buzz has been generated anticipating its arrival: