International 75th commemoration exhibition "Holodomor 1932-1933" to be held in Kyiv at Ukrainian house on November 20 - December 6, 2007.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko will participate in the formal opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, November 21.
The Administration of President Viktor Yushchenko is in charge of the exhibition which is under the direction of Ivan Vasiunyk, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat, and Vasyl Vovkun, production and artistic director.
The international commemorative and educational exhibition will feature four individual Holodomor presentations which will be displayed for seventeen days in the Ukrainian House in the center of Kyiv.
Historical and educational presentations will be made by the:
[1] Ukrainian National Institute of Memory, Ihor Yukhnovsky, Director;
[2]Ukraine 3000 International Charity Fund, Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Supervisory Board;
[3]Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Acting Chief;
[4] Holodomor Through The Eyes of Ukrainian Artists Collection, Morgan Williams, Sigma Bleyzer, Founder and Trustee.
The National Institute of Memory will display their newly created set of sixty-four panels/posters that tell the story of the Holodomor in documents, historical data, testimonies, photographs and other
historical information.
The Ukraine 3000 International Charity Fund will display a large number of posters about the Holodomor created by students and artists this year in response to a Holodomor poster contest organized by the Ukraine 3000 Fund. People attending the exhibition will be able to vote for the posters they think are the most outstanding.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will display their set of over 60 panels/posters created from material in their archives about the Holodomor such as historical decrees, letters, government
documents, photographs, and other itemsfrom the SBU archives.
The Holodomor Through The Eyes of Ukrainian Artists Collection, will display over 100 original art works.The original artworks will include oil on canvas paintings, black and white drawings, linocuts,
paint on board poster art and other graphical materials.
Many of the artworks were created between 1989 and 1993, the first years artists in Ukraine were ever allowed to deal with such subjects as the major crimes of communism. Some of the poster art will include works by students at the Art Academy in Kyiv created in 2006 and 2007 under the direction of Professor Vitaliy Shostia, a program sponsored by the Holodomor Education and Exhibition Art Collection.
High school students from the Poltava Oblast will also have some Holodomor works on display. Movies and documentaries will be shown throughout the seventeen day exhibition. Books about the Holodomor will also be on display. The exhibition will be the largest Holodomor exhibition ever held in Ukraine and is open to the public.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has called on the international community and governments around the world to condemn the crimes committed by the Stalin regime and to declare the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.
"The crimes of the Stalin regime - the 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Ukraine, the major terror of the 1930s - should be fully condemned by the international community. It is the duty of all countries, political and public forces that accept the values of democracy," Yuschenko said.
Action Ukraine Report (AUR) #889, Article 2
