A monument for the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine has been installed in Israel
The first monument in Israel for the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine was solemnly unveiled with the participation of members of the Ukrainian government delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Taras Kachka, representatives of the Jerusalem City Council, the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Knesset, the Ukrainian community, and foreign ambassadors.
This was reported on the Facebook page of the Embassy of Ukraine in the State of Israel.
"The monument, installed in the central part of Jerusalem in the Wohl Rose Garden was created by artists Lyudmila Temertey and David Robinson and is dedicated to the millions of victims of the Holodomor, the genocide by starvation committed by the communist Soviet regime against the Ukrainian people in 1932-33. The raised hand in front of the broken millstone symbolizes the overwhelming burden of memory and a deep belief in renewal and healing. In the hand are five stalks of grain, reminiscent of the cruel Kremlin law, according to which the storage of any amount of harvest was punishable by death," the statement says.
The initiative was implemented on behalf of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the support of the J. Temertay Foundation, the Jerusalem City Council, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel, the Scientific and Educational Consortium for the Study of the Holodomor and the World Congress of Ukrainians.
