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Depicting Genocide: 20th Century Responses to the Holodomor This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

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Fr. Ihor Hubarzhevskyi on the Holodomor in Kyiv

This recording from the Mykola Francuzenko papers at the UHEC is the audio of a broadcast by Radio Liberty produced in 1963 in New York City by Mykola Francuzenko, who is also the host. In it, Hubarzhevskyi (who happened to be Francuzenko's father-in-law) recounts his experiences in Kyiv in the early 1930s when he was a linguistics researcher at the Academy of Sciences.

Although the broadcast does not mention it, Hubarzhevskyi later became a priest in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of 1942, and during the post-war period would for a time be the UAOC's administrator in Great Britain.

Click on the video below to hear the complete recording with Ukrainian and English captions, or hover over the video player and click on "Annotations" to hear a particular section of the recording:

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Fr. Ihor Hubarzhevskyi reminiscences about the Holodomor in Kyiv, 1963.