The famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine, called the Holodomor (A WORD COINED IN THE LATE 1980S, MEANING A FAMINE DELIBERATELY INITIATED TO CAUSE SUFFERING AND DEATH)
 can be considered genocide according to the Convention.


The Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

Recognize the genocide ?

Starvation a Genocide?

The famine of 1932–33 in Ukraine, called the Holodomor (a word coined in the late 1980s, meaning a famine deliberately initiated to cause suffering and death) can be considered genocide according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in light of Article 2 (c).  Read more.

Denial of Holodomor

“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.” Read more.

How many people died ?

What is especially shocking is how such a great number of people succumbed over a very brief period of time: 2 million persons in just 3 months. Read more.

Holodomor survivor

The Holodomor was a very long time ago. Many question why so much time and energy is devoted to this issue. However, when we meet with survivors, when we hear them speak of their experiences, although we can never fully understand, it helps bring us closer to that period in history that had such an impact on what defines Ukrainians as a nation, and who they are today.  Read more.

Stalins genocide

Anne Applebaum’s new book addresses this question. As a journalist, she is a long-time commentator on Central and Eastern Europe. Read more.

The world recognition Holodomor as genocide

Not all states have recognized Holodomor: Read more.

- We are starving

“The children were eating grass… they were down on all fours like animals… Read more.

Harvest Of Despair

More about Holodomor

Holodomor Timeline
  • 1917
  • The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin take power in Russia.
  • 1922
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Holodomor – a genocide
  • On December 9th 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted Genocide Convention. Soviet Ukraine signed the document in 1949, and in 1954 ratified it.
  • "Article II" Convention states:
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Viktoria Kaluschny
  • Video of a Holodomor survivor: Viktoria Kaluschny (nee Titarenko)
See the video
Joint Statement of the OSCE participating States
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Nina Marchenko

is an artist in Kyiv who grew up in the Poltava Oblast. Nina had been repressed by the SSSR as her interest was in painting large Soviet Socialist Realism Monumental artworks that showed the trials and tribulations of the women. She did not want to create artworks than only showed `Glory to the  Soviet Union." Nina said she really wanted to create some artworks in the Soviet style to show what happened to women during the Holodomor.  From 1999 to 2001 Nina created four large outstanding Soviet Socialist Realism Monumental artworks about suffering and death in 1932-33.