International Bestselling Author
ERIN LITTEKEN
THE HOLODOMOR
The Bitter Memory of Childhood, National Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, Kyiv, Ukraine
Books
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
Execution by Hunger by Miram Dolot
Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Online Resources
The Great Famine Story Map Journal
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Holodomor Research and Education Consortium: Education
Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Famine Genocide of 1932-33
Uncounted: The Worlds First Online National Memory Restaurant
Organizations
Holodomor National Awareness Tour
US Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness
Holodomor National Awareness Committee-Canada
UWC International Coordinating Committee for Holodomor Awareness & Recognition
While the world will never be able to calculate the full scope of devastation resulting from the Holodomor, the most recent studies estimate a death toll of nearly 4 million Ukrainians. Ukraine lost 12.9 percent of its population. Over 1 million people died in the Kyiv oblast alone, and some districts experienced death rates over 50%. At the height of the famine, roughly 28,000 Ukrainians died each day–30% were children. Desperate people resorted to eating tree bark, leaves, grass, weeds, grains flushed out from vermin burrows, worms, tadpoles, baby birds, rotting livestock carcasses, crows, and corn cobs.
This is just a small summary of the horror. The books, websites, and organizations I used in my research for The Memory Keeper of Kyiv. left a lasting impression on me. Please explore them to learn more about this atrocity.