ABOUT THE BOOK GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE

The 2019 Ukrainian International Holodomor Awareness Week - November 18-24 - to commemorate the 86th anniversary of the Holodomor Famine-Genocide in Ukraine. The book Genocide in Ukraine (Peter Kardash, Fortuna Publishing, Melbourne, 2006) was written by many individuals, who never imagined that their reminiscences of events in which they were destined to take part would one day be published. Their memories of harsh times unimaginable pain, and profound loss spurred them to explain Ukraine’s difficult past to the younger generations. Genocide in Ukraine is a compilation of aterials spanning three centuries. The book begins with an article by the eminent human rights defender Levko Lukianenko. It is an articulate, convincing, and persuasive general overview of the Ukrainian genocide, the Holodomor. In his conclusion the author writes: “Historical accountability between Ukraine and Russia should commence from the seventeenth century. Indeed, the art of politics is based not on satisfying emotions of revenge, which are focused on the past, but rather on creating a positive basis and conditions for the future development of the [Ukrainian] nation.”The famine of 1932-1933 has been documented by many eyewitnesses. A reader cannot familiarize himself with them without unbearable pain. But even once this pain is assuaged, it is impossible to fathom this unprecedented crime against humanity. Even the melodic, mellifluous Ukrainian language cannot convey all the pain, horror, and torments of the starving peasants of a nation that was being destroyed by the famine. Mothers, who are granted the miracle of producing life, ate the children to which they had given birth, driven to cannibalism by the torments of starvation.

Source: SBS Ukrainian