July 22, 2023, the Acting Director General of the Holodomor Museum, Lesia Hasydzhak, and Deputy Director General Anna Sokyrina, at the invitation of co-founder and editor-in-chief Leonid Finberg visited the Ukrainian publishing house “Spirit and Letter”.
The publishing house transferred more than 40 historical publications to the museum bookstore. Among them is the three-volume “Bochkovskyi Olgerd Hippolyte. Selected works and documents”. The publication contains the scientific work of one of the leaders of the movement to help starving Ukrainians in 1932-1933 and the breakthrough of the information blockade about the Holodomor. In particular, in his article “J`accuse!” (“I blame!”) Ukrainian activist accused the French politician Edouard Herriot of hiding the Holodomor. The third volume of the publication contains one of the first scientific works on the Holodomor: “Famine in Ukraine”, written by Bochkovskyi in January 1934. Also among the books received are other publications related to the Holodomor and mass man-made famines of 1921–1923.
The Dukh i Litera (“Spirit and Letter”) is a Ukrainian publishing house of philosophical, socio-political, cultural and theological literature. It is located in Kyiv, at the “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” university. It was founded in 1992 on the basis of several research centres of this academy.
