Conference on Holocaust and Genocide

HREC sponsored a Holodomor panel at a conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University in Pennsylvania (April 11–13), featuring panelists Olga Bertelsen (Columbia University), on “Starvation and Violence Amid the Soviet Politics of Silence: The 1928–1929 Famine in Ukraine”; Bohdan Klid (University of Alberta), on “Knocking Sense into the Heads of Ukraine’s Farmers: The Famine of 1932–33 in

Ukraine as Punishment”; and Douglas Irvin-Erickson (George Mason University), on “Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide.” The panel was chaired by Victoria Khiterer (Millersville University), organizer of the conference and a participant at HREC conferences.