Holodomor Day of Remembrance -- Film Screening & Lecture

Free Admission

Holodomor, a Ukrainian word meaning death by starvation, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.

The Holodomor Day of Remembrance event will include a moment of reflection, a candle lighting, a lecture by Yurii Kaparulin a University of Michigan visiting professor and Raoul Wallenberg Fellow, followed by a screening of the film Mr. Jones. 

Professor Kaparulin will discuss the role of historian James Mace in bringing international recognition to the famine of 1932-1933.

The film Mr. Jones is Agnieszka Holland’s 2019 historical drama about a Welsh journalist who risked his life to expose the devastating forced starvation of Ukrainians in the early 1930s.