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14 OUR LIFE • November 2023 Teaching the Holodomor: The UNWLA’s Curriculum Materials and Visual Media Projects Dr. Victoria A. Malko, Chair, UNWLA Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee, and member, Branch 111, Los Angeles, CA November is Holodomor Memorial Month, when we commemorate the victims and honor the survivors of the genocide against Ukrainians perpetrated by Mos - cow’s rulers past and present. The resurgence of Sta - linism in russia, the hybrid war against Ukraine that began with the Revolution of Dignity in 2013–2014, and the full-scale russian war of aggression against Ukraine launched in 2022, ninety years after the Holo - domor, demonstrate the continuity between Stalinist and neo-Stalinist attempts to subjugate Ukraine by non-lethal and lethal means. The genocide, which has never been prosecuted, is now being repeated. This has far-reaching global security implications. It represents a classic case of genocide denial, disinfor - mation, and cover-up by the press and academia. It verges on the destruction of the identity of a nation, creating a national Stockholm syndrome. To raise awareness among college and university stu - dents about the genocide edited out of history, The Press at California State University in Fresno is pre - paring materials for the study of the history of the Holodomor with primary sources. Holodomor, the Genocide of the Ukrainians: A History with Sources will be available online on the Canvas and Coursera platforms as an open education resource. This intro - ductory college text consists of ten chapters, guiding the reader from the origins of Soviet genocide in the Leninist-Stalinist system to its effects on independent Ukraine, the role of politicians and journalists in the U.S., and the consequences of the denial that led to the russian war of aggression against Ukraine and on - going commission of genocide. Each chapter includes learning objectives, key words, summaries, and criti - cal thinking questions. Learning activities invite stu - dents to analyze primary sources, photographs, and artworks, and to create historiographic essays with virtual museum exhibits. The history of the Holodomor is approached from two perspectives: through a macro history of Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, intertwined with a micro his - tory of Holodomor survivors. Links to historical doc - umentaries, video recordings of interviews with wit - nesses, museum exhibitions, and historical maps are embedded in the text of the sourcebook. The materi - als can be used in lessons on the history of Ukraine of the early twentieth century, special history courses that focus on the study of totalitarianism, twentieth century dictatorships, as well as courses in genocide studies, sociology, psychology, criminology, ethics, and philosophy. Instructors can use ten archival documents and ten witness testimonies with questions for discussion to create lesson plans. Memoirs, diaries, and testimo - nies by Serhii Plachynda, Simon Starow, Anastasia Ly - syvets, Varvara Dibert, Oleksandra Kostiuk, Yuri Sam - bros, Oleksandra Radchenko, Anatoly Dimarov, Olexa Woropay, and Wasyl Barka are complemented with biographies and photographs from public as well as private family archives. The text can be used for a se - mester-long course. Selected activities can be incor - porated in a single lesson or a sequence of lessons, depending on the instructor’s goal. A bibliography is included, as is an appendix with descriptions of the stages of the Holodomor as genocide. The idea to create new curriculum materials was conceived during meetings of the UNWLA Holodo - mor Awareness and Education Committee between November 2021 and February 2022, interrupted by the outbreak of the russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Various approaches were considered. Vera Bej, the 1988 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, and Christine R. Shwed, former UNWLA education chair, presented their teacher–student workbook, Geno - cide Never Again , created in 2007. The printing and distribution of 500 workbooks for all Pennsylvania school districts was funded by the National Commit - tee to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932–1933. Dr. Ihor Mirchuk of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America wrote the concise history of the Holodomor, and Christine R. Shwed designed the book. Dr. Olena Danylyuk shared Holodomor Teaching Ma - terials , created in response to the governor’s propos - al that required eight hours of teaching genocides in the State of Michigan. The Holodomor was not included. Thanks to the efforts of the Holodomor committee, a four-lesson course was drafted for teachers and aligned with the Social Studies curric - ulum framework for Grades 9–12. The curriculum received positive feedback from teachers due to its
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