Holodomor Panel at the conference on the Holocaust and Genocide at Millersville University

HREC sponsored a Holodomor panel at the 35th Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, in Millersville, Pennsylvania, April 11-13, 2018. 

Presenting were Olga Bertelsen (New York 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 (Holodomor) 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) who has participated in past HREC conferences.