The victims of the Ukrainian famine were commemorated in Chisinau on December 4. The event entitled “Light a candle” was staged by the Community of Ukrainian Women of Moldova, IPN reports, quoting a communique of the organizers.
The commemoration event involved women from Moldova, who made common cause with the people of Ukraine, and women from Ukrainian, who rendered homage to the events of 1932-1933 and those of 1946-1947.
“Millions of Ukrainians died during the period of the Holodomor and that disaster cannot be forgotten. I do not know and I ask myself with profound pain – how large would have been our family or how would have been Ukraine today if all those people had been alive,” said the head of the Community of Ukrainian Women of Moldova Valentina Moraru.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Moldova Ivan Gnatishin said that it is impossible to determine the size of that tragedy. “In the most serious periods of the Holodomor, 24 persons died each minute, 1,440 persons died every hour and 34,568 persons died every day. According to archive documents, at least 4 million people died in Ukraine in 1932–1933. Today the Holodomor is recognized as genocide of the Ukrainian people by 23 countries, including the United States and Canada, and as a crime against mankind by the General Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament,” he stated
The Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, is considered the most serious national catastrophe of the Ukrainians in the modern history. Several million people are estimated to have died as a result of it.
