Information Links:

“Holodomor”, by former Ukraine President Victor Yushchenko  in Wall Street Journal 11/27/2007   
/ eloquent summary about the execution of the famine, it’s denial, it’s designation as a genocide, and why we must remember. 

“Ukraine's harvest of sorrow”  by Steve Waldon, in Australia’s  The Age newspaper 3/8/2008    
/ highly readable & informative article prompted by a 75th anniversary commemoration of the famine held in Melbourne. 
 
BLACK FAMINE IN UKRAINE 1932-33 by Andrew Gregorovich, reprinted from Forum Ukrainian Review,  24, 1974.
/Through numerous excerpts from journalists, historians and witnesses, this older article demonstrates how much evidence already existed about this massive and catastrophic genocide that was all but ignored. 

“Soviet Man-Made Famine in Ukraine”  by James Mace; chapter in Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
ed. By Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons and Israel W. Charney.; pp. 78 – 112 in 1997 ed;  pp 93-124. 2nd ed.  2004; also in 3rd ed. 
/Excellent scholarly summary of the Holodomor in historical context, and especially valuable in portraying the dangers of ideologies that blame social problems on a particular class or race, as did both Hitler and Stalin.
He also has the courage to point out the dangers of the “the selective perception of evil”, which has been a major source of the Holodomor’s lack of acknowledgement over the decades.  The article concludes with 4 extended accounts of eyewitness testimony.  

“A Tale of Truth and Two Journalists”   by Ian Hunter, in Report Magazine, 3/27/2000”   
/Very succinctly contrasts 2 reporters on the Famine:  Malcolm Muggeridge from Great Britain and William Duranty from the U.S.: what they wrote  and how those  reports were received at the time. 

Jewish Witnesses on the Ukrainian Famine  excerpts from the writings of Vasily Grossman (from his Forever Flowing, republished in 2009 in a new translation as Everything Flows)  and Lev Kopelev from his The Education of a True Believer.
/ Offer indelible images how the famine began and of the unimaginable suffering.

Raphael Lemkin on the Ukrainian Genocide by Roman Serbyn
/ fascinating brief  discussion on the evolution of Lemkin’s work on defining genocide, its acceptance by the UN, and his 1953 speech: “Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine.”

"Genocide in Ukraine" 9 min. YouTube Video that includes rare photos and footage from the period

The Ukraine Genocide/Holodomor, 1932-1933: A curriculum and resource guide for educators (PDF file)
Prepared by Myron Kuropas, et al, in accordance with the Illinois School Code of 2005.  updated through 2009

1933 Famine Photos of Kharkov, Ukraine
from Dr. Ewald Ammende's {early winter} 1935 'Muss Russland Hungern?' [Must Russia Starve?] 

“Lessons of the Holodomor” interview with former Ukraine President Victor Yushchenko , in ForUm, 11/27/2007
/The former president answers questions from 5 journalists  about the road ahead – both for Ukrainians and the world  following UNESCO passage of a resolution honoring the Holodomor victims. 

US law on the establishment of the Holodomor memorial in the District of Columbia