Lesya Hasydzhak participated in the Ossolinski Meeting

On Wednesday, September 11, the head of the Holodomor Museum, Lesia Hasydzhak, participated in the Ossolinski Meeting at Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. Robert Kostro, the director of the Polish History Museum in Warsaw, was also invited to the discussion. The Polish History Museum is the largest in Poland and one of the largest museums in Europe. It was opened just a year ago, in September 2023. The 104th Ossolinski meeting focused on the question: “Why is it necessary to build new museums?”.

Lesia Hasydzhak spoke about the Holodomor Museum, its specifics and areas of work. When replying to the essential question of the meeting, she emphasised:

“The Holodomor Museum is not just a museum. This is a special place that tells and explains that the roots of the current war, which Russia has been waging in Ukraine for ten years, lie at the beginning of the 20th century. It was then that the Russian Bolsheviks occupied Ukraine, created a puppet government and a puppet republic, moved to Zbruch, and occupied all of Ukraine to prevent the creation of a strong independent state and prevent the formation of a political Ukrainian nation. This is also the aim of the war Putin is currently waging. This is also the aim of the war Putin is currently waging. The fact that Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, was not condemned for the crimes committed, and the fact that the international tribunal on communism as an ideology was not held, have led to the current war. This is exactly what we discuss in our museum.”

You can view the video recording on the Facebook page of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv.

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The Ossolinski meetings are a series of lectures held as a part of the cooperation between the National Ossolinski Institute (Wrocław, Poland) and Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine. They have been since 2006. So far, 104 Ossolinski meetings have taken place.