Pupils learn about Ukrainian famine on Holocaust Day

Schools across the country are teaching about the Ukrainian Holodomor famine today

The U.N. has picked 27 January as the date of the annual Holocaust Day as this was the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated

Frants Jensen

27.01.2023 - 07:51

Today marks the annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Holocaust, which commemorates the millions of victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.

This year, Faroese schools are focusing on the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.

Schoolbook publisher Nám and the Faroese branch of Amnesty International have produced a series of Holodomor-themed educational videos that will be shown to the older year groups in schools across the country today.

In one of the videos, Ukrainian-born Mariia Shvets Olsen, who has lived in the Faroes in the past few years, explains (in Faroese) how the Holodomor has affected modern-day Ukraine.

Another video looks at how people with disabilities were persecuted and murdered by German Nazis.

Visit the new ‘Altjóða Holocaust dagur’ YouTube channel for more videos, all delivered in the Faroese language.

Read the Faroese version of this article here.

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