This week the local Ukrainian community is holding an annual feast to commemorate the Holodomor which occurred in the Ukraine in 1932/1933. Although my own Ukrainian ancestors left Europe in the 1900s, and were therefore not affected by it, it is still worth remembering the dark times some people have lived through, in the hope that it will never be allowed to happen again.
The Holodomor was a famine in the Ukraine and Cossack territories that last through 1932 and 1933, and which killed milli...
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