The Holodomor National Awareness Tour will be stopping at North Battleford Comprehensive High School Oct. 11 and 12. Students and the public will have an opportunity to view the travelling museum featuring a “mobile classroom” with theatre-style seating. The tour has been making its way across Manitoba and Saskatchewan this fall to raise awareness of …

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Saskatchewan high school students get an interactive lesson on Holodomor, the 1932 – 33 genocide of the Ukrainian people.

Prince Albert students learn about the Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33 This week Prince Albert high school students had the opportunity to learn about one of the lesser-known genocides of the 20th century. On Oct. 5 and 6 the Toronto-based Canada Ukraine Foundation’s Holodomor National Awareness Tour bus visited the city.

A national touring exhibit designed to raise awareness of the Holodomor Ukrainian genocide is in Saskatchewan for the next three weeks. The Holodomor mobile classroom was parked outside the Legislative Building for its first stop. Education Minister Don Morgan toured spoke with Regina high school students visiting the customized RV that provides interactive displays and …

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The Holodomor, which took place in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, resulted in the deaths of millions of people, but because if was covered up by the former USSR, it has not been well known. The Holodomor National Awareness Tour intends to make people more aware of what happened, why it happened, and why it …

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A national touring exhibit designed to raise awareness of the Holodomor Ukrainian genocide is in Saskatchewan for the next three weeks. Education Minister Don Morgan toured the Holodomor mobile classroom, parked outside the Legislative Building today. He spoke with Regina high school students visiting the customized RV that provides interactive displays and information on the …

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The “Holodomor National Awareness Tour” is making a stop in Regina. It’s a joint project combining the resources of government and groups like the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The tour takes places on a customized 42’ RV, with a state-of-the-art interactive audio-visual technology centre on board. The RV already has visited elementary and secondary schools, universities, …

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Ayden Mack and his fellow students at Regina’s Leboldus High School had a history lesson today. At times, it was painful to hear and watch. “It’s kinda scary to think about something that happened this recently and it’s related to me,” said the 16-year-old student. Today, Mack and other students came to the Holodomor display …

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The “Holodomor National Awareness Tour” is making a stop in Regina. It’s a joint project combining the resources of government and groups like the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. The tour takes places on a customized 42’ RV, with a state-of-the-art interactive audio-visual technology centre on board. The RV already has visited elementary and secondary schools, universities, …

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Seven to 10 million people died in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 as a result of a man-made famine by the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. The “extermination by hunger” is understood by historians as a deliberate genocide to stop the Ukrainian independence movement. Eighty-three years later, students in Saskatchewan are boarding …

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Saskatchewan’s close ties to Ukrainian culture will be on full display this week. A number of events will be taking place in Regina, including a stop of the Holdomor National Awareness Tour and meetings of the Congress of Canadian Ukrainians. “There is such a strong Ukrainian presence and heritage in Saskatchewan,” says Ivanna Knott, one …

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The Holodomor National Awareness Tour is traveling to Saskatchewan and Manitoba this fall, with the first stop of its Holodomor Mobile Classroom in Yorkton, SK on September 23, 2016. The fall tour will focus on visits to schools, engaging students through a specially designed interactive lesson. MEDIA ADVISORY – September 21, 2016 – The Holodomor …

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Between 1932 and 1933, millions of people in Ukraine died as a result of Josef Stalin’s strategy of enforced starvation. It was genocide on a massive scale, a tragedy known as Holodomor, the Ukrainian word for prolonged, agonizing murder by starvation. Holly Paluck, a principal in the Regina Catholic School system and chair of the …

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The world must never forget the horrific genocide carried out against European Jews by Hitler’s Germany in the Second World War. Efforts are also continuing in regard to raising awareness of another genocide, one inflicted on Ukrainians by brutal Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1932-33.

The Holodomor National Awareness Tour is a project created to raise awareness of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine carried out in 1932-33 by the Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The public is invited to board the Holodomor Mobile Classroom (HMC) during the hours of 9:30 …

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