On May 19, 2021, the website of the Global Holodomor Descendants Network was launched and the registration of descendants began. The Holodomor Descendants’ Network, established by the Ukrainian World Congress on the initiative of its International Coordinating Committee for Holodomor Awareness and Recognition in November 2020, is the first global community aimed at uniting … [Read more...]
The passing of a stalwart of the Ukrainian Community in Tasmania – Irena Skira ☦
OBITUARY - IRENA SKIRA 8 December 1922 – 22 September 2022 By Eva Skira Irena Skira passed away in Perth on 22 September 2021. Irena Skira was a woman who greatly valued and treasured life. She was a fighter every step of her 98 years. She embodied the classic triangulation of being Ukrainian Catholic, a migrant refugee and a naturalised Australian: a … [Read more...]
Holodomor Australia Portrait Exhibition / Voices across the Ocean
2018 marked 85 years since the Holodomor (death by hunger) – a famine that Stalin, as leader of the USSR, imposed on the Ukrainian people in 1932–33, killing many millions. In commemoration of this anniversary, the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations launched a photographic exhibition honouring Australian-Ukrainian Holodomor survivors still alive to tell their … [Read more...]
Australian Ambassador to Ukraine visits the Holodomor Museum
Honouring the memory of the victims of the Holodomor-Genocide, the Ambassador put a decorative composition of wheat to the sculpture ′′ Bitter memory of childhood ", and also lit a candle in the altar of memory. The Director General of the Holodomor Museum, Olesya Stasyuk, told Mr. Bruce Edwards about the Museum's activities, the history of the Holodomor in 1932-1933, mass … [Read more...]
THE 88TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOLODOMOR GENOCIDE
THE 88TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HOLODOMOR GENOCIDE IS APPROACHING. ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2021, UKRAINIANS IN AUSTRALIA AND AROUND THE WORLD WILL JOIN UKRAINE AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLODOMOR OF 1932-33. The Ukrainian World Congress calls on Ukrainians around the world to honour every man, woman, and child who died innocently during … [Read more...]
