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Our Life | Наше життя November | Листопад 2020 26 Working for Recognition of Doris Duzyj , Chair, Curriculum Subcommittee U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness On September 17, 2020, the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), a resource for K-12 edu - cators across the country, hosted its first webinar on the Holodomor, “Stalin’s Cover-Up of the Ukrain - ian Famine Genocide, 1932–1933: The Original Fake News,” where I was joined by fellow speakers Dr. Christopher Mauriello, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts, and Michael Sawkiw, Jr., Chairman of the U.S. Committee for Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness. Our presentation provided an overview of the vulnerability of Ukraine’s geographic location, its history of domination by numerous empires, and its subsequent suffering and persecution under Stalin’s regime. Statistical data of population losses from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute MAPA project was reviewed. In the context of disinfor - mation and denial, Walter Duranty’s role as Stalin’s apologist was discussed, as well as the suppression of information from journalists Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge. The webinar was the result of years of work bring - ing awareness of the Holodomor to educators and lobbying to include Holodomor and genocide studies in social studies curricula. With in-person conferences cancelled due to the Coronavirus pan - demic, I contacted the NCSS president to propose a collaboration on a webinar. My suggestion was enthusiastically received. The efforts of the Ukrainian American Holodomor Genocide Committee of Michigan over the past several years to garner official recognition for the Holodomor have already had substantial success: • Committee members attended meetings of the State of Michigan Governor’s Council on Holocaust and Genocide, providing the council with resourc- es and images for its genocide website. • Vera Andrushkiw (Branch 96, Detroit), Olena Da - nylyuk (Member-at-Large), and I were invited by the Michigan Department of Education to create Holodomor lesson plans for a new professional development website, www.EduPaths.org, where teachers can search for free lesson plans on various topics and receive continuing education credits. • We attended public meetings regarding proposed changes to Michigan’s social studies standards, where Vera, Olena, and I rallied to include geno- cide and Holodomor studies; as a result, “Ukrain - ians” are now listed as a genocide in the high school standard, Twentieth Century Genocide, 7.1.3. • Vera and I presented “The Genocide Canary: Rec- ognizing When Food Is Becoming Weaponized” at the Michigan Council of Social Studies annual conference in March 2019. • At the first ever Holodomor Awareness Forum at Manor College, Jenkintown, PA, in October 2019, Vera, Olena, and I shared all the above efforts with Holodomor Committee members from 29 states. Our efforts, summarized in our compre- hensive presentation, “Michigan’s Plan of Action,” served as a blueprint for other states.
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