Table of Contents:

A Introduction
The 20th century was a century of many human tragedies - the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan Genocide. Today, we will look at another human tragedy. We will study a genocide in which millions of men, women and children died seventy-five years ago, specifically because of the Famine/Genocide in Ukraine. This event is also known as “The Holodomor” - meaning “death inflicted by starvation” ... more

B General Information

1. Map
2. Time lines of events leading to the Ukrainian Genocide - The Holodomor
3. DVD "Harvest of Despair" (Background and Overview)
4. Brief Writeup of events "The Ukrainian Famine/Genocide"
5. "Holodomor Genocide by Famine" - CD - (Posters)
6. Facts About the 1933 Famine/Genocide in Ukraine
7. Holodomor - Ukrainian Genocide in the Early 1930s (booklet)
8. Rafael Lemkin on Ukrainian Genocide
9. UN Convention and the Holodomor
10. Quotes about the 1933 Famine-Genocide in Ukraine
11. Findings of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine
12. A Hunger Most Cruel: The Human Face of the 1932-1933 Terror-Famine in Soviet Ukraine (short stories for students)
13. Famine-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933: Western archives, testimonies and research (resource for teachers)
14. "Holodomor" CD (12 Survivors. Sponsored by Canad Inns)

C Lesson Suggestions for Grade 10 Civics

1. Teaching Unit on Human Rights Abuses - The Ukrainian Famine/Genocide
2. Map of Ukraine during Famine/Genocide
3. Write-up: "The Ukrainian Famine/Genocide"
4. "Through the Eyes of a Child" - poem
5. Art Exhibit Project and Lesson Plan

D Lesson Suggestions for Senior Grades

1. "Harvest of Despair" DVD Worksheets (4 sheets)
2. Revisiting History
3. Analysis of a Historical Document Assignment
   • Five Ears of Corn Law - Aug. 7, 1932
   • Stalin to Kaganovich - Aug. 11, 1932
   • Ukrainization condemned - Dec. 14, 1932
   • Ban on Travel - Jan. 22, 1933
     
     
4. Eyewitness Accounts
   • Group Project CD: Holodomor: Survivors
   • Testimony of Two Eyewitnesses
     • Tatiana Pawlichka
     • Sviatoslav Karavansky
   • Project: Interview with an Eyewitness
     
     
5. Newspaper Analysis Assignment
   • The Forgotten Holocaust - Michael Coren
   • A Tale of Truth and Two Journalists - Ian Hunter (media coverup)
   • Remembering Modern History's Greatest Crime - Eric Margolis (recognition of Holodomor as Genocide)
   • Chicago American Newspaper Articles on Famine in Ukraine (analysis of photos and headlines)
     • Page 1
     • Page 2
     
     
6. Analysis of a Short Story from the Book: A Hunger Most Cruel
   • "Without Doctors and Priests, without Graves and Crosses"
   • Lessons on Short Story (3 sheets)
     
     
7. Famous Quotations Assignment
   
   
8. Rafael Lemkin
   • Introduction to Lemkin and UN Convention of Genocide
   • Rafael Lemkin on Ukrainian Genocide
   • Assignment on R. Lemkin and the Ukrainian Genocide
     
     
9. Quotations

E Bibliography / Resources

1. Web Sites
2. Books
3. Visuals