The Holodomor Museum is looking for artefacts of the early 1930s from Kyiv

The Holodomor Museum collects Kyiv residents’ things from the early 1930s.

If your ancestors’ lives had connections to the capital or its surroundings in the 1930s, your family history could become a part of the exhibition!

For example: a workbook of a Lenkuznia worker, a ticket for a train to Kyiv, a student’s notebook of the Institute of National Education, earrings that were not exchanged in a Torgsin, party card of a member of the CP(b)U, a photo from the Balytskyi stadium, a bowl bought in Jewish bazaar, or samizdat read in Bilychy, Mysholovka and Vorovsky.

“We will try to show the events of 1932-33 from a new angle,” says Maryna Bohush, the curator of the upcoming exhibition. According to her, the crime of the Holodomor in the mass consciousness has a rather fragmentary character and usually everyone imagines a village dying of hunger. Although this is a stereotypical image, it is true, since the majority of the population really lived in villages. “However, the Holodomor is a genocide of the entire Ukrainian people, and by focusing only on the tragedy of the village, we risk not grasping the scale,” says Maryna Bohush.

The Museum collects similar items, documents, and photographs for the exhibition about the Holodomor in Kyiv. We invite all interested parties to contact us. To tell a story, send a photo or ask a question, write to [email protected] with the subject line “KYIV”.