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History of the Holodomor genocide - of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.


The mission of the Holodomor Museum is to warn the society against the crime of genocide by accumulating and disseminating knowledge about the Holodomor-genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The Holodomor is a mass artificial famine organized by the Soviet communist government against the Ukrainian people. The number of its victims reaches 7-10 million people.


The museum building resembles a candle, which is one of the symbols of the Holodomor remembrance. The Hall of Memory contains an Altar of Memory, volumes of the National Book of Memory of the 1932–1933 Holodomor Victims, and objects of Ukrainian life of the late 19th to early 20th centuries. On the territory of the museum, the symbolic objects are located, in particular, the Bitter Memory of Childhood sculpture - a girl holding five ears of wheat, which remind of repressive measures against Ukrainians.


The museum teaches to resist hatred and human rights violations, cultivates human dignity protection and democratic values, prevents the crimes of genocide, and promotes tolerance and a sense of moral responsibility in the face of challenges to all norms of rights and freedoms. Telling the world about the Holodomor, the Museum focuses on the "terror by famine" that is still taking place in the 21st century in various countries around the world.


Project description.


The Holodomor of 1932-1933, genocide of the Ukrainian nation, killed more than 7 million people, but there is still a lack of information about the places of mass burials of its victims. Denying the very fact of the Holodomor in Ukraine, the occupying communist regime carefully covered the mass graves of genocide victims.


For this purpose, city parks of culture and recreation were arranged at burials, enterprises were built, and roads were laid there. Areas in rural cemeteries were unattended; shrubs and grass grew over them, but those who survived always remembered their existence. It was their memories and archival materials that became the basis for filling the geo-informational system.


The portal provides a quick search for the burial places of the Holodomor victims by the name of the settlement, district or region. For each burial, the portal provides data on the number of buried victims, a photograph, the total number of Holodomor victims in this locality and other information.

 

In addition, the site contains a map of the administrative structure of the USSR (1933) and a modern map of Ukraine (2018), so it is possible to trace the affiliation of the settlement to the district and region accordingly to both contemporary administrative-territorial system and administrative system of 1933.


Project objectives.


The “Track Holodomor History” mobile app aims to bring people closer to the history of the Holodomor, inviting them to walk around Kyiv and learn about places, streets, buildings that preserve details of the tragic history of the genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-33. Users of the application - schoolchildren and historians, Ukrainian and foreign tourists - with the help of it will be able to imagine Kyiv of the early 1930s through archival photographs, memories of the then residents of the city. They will learn about the criminal acts of the organizers and perpetrators of the genocide, the heroism of the town dwellers who tried to save with their own 200 grams of bread lives of those arriving from villages and other facts. The project will benefit guides, teachers, tourists and residents of Kyiv.


Project description.


The mobile application is a register of objects presented as a list with a search function, and a map of modern Kyiv where locations are presented in the spacial dimension. Among the locations you can find residential buildings and the stories of their inhabitants, the stories of streets and squares, markets, churches, «torgsins», places of mass burial, canteens, transport hubs, factories and plants - all components of the city of the early 1930s. Some of these buildings have not survived, and the area has acquired a different look, but thanks to more than 500 archival photographs, the user can imagine what Kyiv looked like then, and with the help of more than 200 memories, immerse himself in the tragic years of 1932-33.

 

Objects can be added to the "Favorites" and routes can be laid through them or one of the author's routes can be used. So the application will be useful and interesting for tourists who want to learn more about the history of the capital of Ukraine on their own, because the Holodomor period is often overlooked from sightseeing tours around the city. To encourage walking with the app, “blocked content” is attached to each item and becomes only available within 400 meters of the site. Here users will see additional photos, videos, commentaries by historians, images or works of contemporary art on this topic.


The application continues to grow - new objects are released every week.


The application is available in Ukrainian and English in AppStore and Google Market.


Project outcomes.


During project implementation, 921 places of mass burials of the Holodomor victims were added to the site. In addition, many burials have been included in the national commemoration system, and commemorative events are held there nowadays.


A tourist and educational mobile application for iOS and Android operating systems in Ukrainian and English about the history of Kyiv during the Holodomor-genocide of 1932-33. The project is aimed for a wide audience: residents of Kyiv, tourists, schoolchildren, students, ethnographers and those interested in history.



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01015, Kyiv, str. Lavrska, 3



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