Welcome

In 1932-1933, in the heart of a region called the breadbasket of Europe, Stalin’s Communist regime committed a horrendous act of genocide against millions of Ukrainians. A productive agricultural nation was subjected to starvation, one of the most brutal forms of torture and death.

Holodomor is the name given to the genocide by starvation of at least 7 million Ukrainians in 1932-1933. In Ukrainian, “Holodomor” literally means “murder by starvation.” Seventy-five years after the fact, Ukrainians commemorate this tragedy while an increasing number of nations of the world recognize the terror famine as genocide.

Unlike other famines in history that were caused by natural disasters, the Ukrainian famine was an artificial measure undertaken by Josef Stalin. His Communist regime not only confiscated all the grain harvested by Ukrainian farmers, but also withheld food deliveries from other locations, seized vegetables grown in gardens, executed those who tried to get food, and forbid farmers and their families to leave their land in search of survival. While Ukrainians starved to death, the grain they had grown and harvested was being exported to foreign markets in order to fund rapid industrialization and a growing Soviet military.

Come to this conference to learn why the genocide occurred and how it was carried out.

This free educational conference is sponsored by Kean University in order to preserve the dignity of all human beings, to promote human rights around the world, and to ensure that food is never used as a weapon again.

Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 0708, Tel: 908-737-KEAN (5326)