Ukrainians in Winnipeg commemorate 90th anniversary of Holodomor famine
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More than 100 people gathered at Winnipeg’s City Hall Saturday afternoon to mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor – a man-made famine that claimed more than 3 million Ukrainian lives between 1932 and 1933.
More than 100 people gathered at Winnipeg’s City Hall Saturday afternoon to mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor – a man-made famine that claimed more than 3 million Ukrainian lives between 1932 and 1933.
Back then, Luba Semaniuk was only seven years old living in Zaporizhia, Ukraine with her parents and her younger sister.
“Our life was very hard, we were in starvation,” Semaniuk said.
She is one of three Holodomor survivors left in Manitoba and still has vivid memories of what her family went through 90 years ago.
“We see the people dead on the street. Wagon was coming to pick them up,” Semaniuk recalled. “I hope never ever happen again what we [went] through.”
“Never again” – words echoed by a number of community advocates and political leaders at the event.
“The echoes of history reverberate as Ukraine faces yet another assault on its sovereignty and a challenge to its very existence,” said Dan Vandal, Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface and Saint Vital.
