2012
On December 22, 2012 the ceremony of the Bethlehem Peace Light was held in the Memory Hall of the National Museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine". The action of the Bethlehem Peace Light was organized for the first time in 1986 in Linz, Austria, as a part of the great Christmas charitable activities for children with disabilities and those in need. The action was called "Light in the Darkness" and was promoted by the Austrian Radio and Television (ORF).
On December 18, 2012 the day before one of the most popular Christian holidays in Ukraine - St. Nicholas Day, the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” initiated a charity campaign “St. Nicholas, pray for us ...” The main purpose of the event was to organize a holiday for socially disadvantaged children. Organizers also aimed to tell the children about the events that took place during the famine’s years, to narrate about their peers who have for years begged God and St. Nicholas not for sweets but for a piece of bread, to cultivate respect for the history of their nation and to prove that good, love, honesty, generosity and integrity govern the world.
On the 24th of November, 2012, on the Day of Commemoration of Famines’ Victims, at 3 pm the column of mourning procession came to the Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine. Participants honored the Holodomor victims by placing lighted candles at the monuments "Sad Memory of Childhood" and "Candle of Memory". The Moleben in honor of the dead took place. At the end of Memorial event the all-Ukrainian moment of silence was held. After that all participants had an opportunity to visit the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”, to have a look at the exposition of Museum and to listen to the songs performed by the Kyiv Municipal Choir “Homin”.
The third consecutive year, the National museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine" presents an exhibition "The Tragedy of One Village ..." which is dedicated to the Day of Commemoration of famines’ victims. The purpose of this exhibition is to show through the example of a particular locality the tragedy of the whole Ukraine of the first half of the twentieth century. This time, in the center of the exhibition is the history of village Tarhan Volodarsky district Kyiv region. The exhibition presents posters, documents and photographs that allow us to trace the stages of forced collectivization and consequences of Bolshevik policy in Ukraine.
On November 24, 2012 a mourning event "Let's remember them. They lived in the years of famines" dedicated to the Day of Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine took place in the Memory Hall of the National museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine". During the event the Museum introduced the public Peoples' Book of Memory of Famine's Victims of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, containing more than 4000 names, which had been found by Museum's workers.
On the eve of the Day of Commemoration of Famine’s Victims the state leadership headed by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych paid tribute to the deceased during the years of famine. At the National museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine" the head of state set a symbolic composition of flowers and ears to the sculpture "Sad Memory of Childhood". Then the President has put a lighted icon lamp to the "Candle of Memory". The ceremony was also attended by Presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko. At the end of the Memorial event all the participants observed a moment of silence to honor the memory of deceased.
On the 22 of November, 2012 in the mini-cinema hall of the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” presentation of a visual aid room took place. The film which opened the presentation was “Famine - 33” directed by Oles’ Yanchuk. It was based on the novel “The Yellow Duke” by famous Ukrainian writer Vasyl Barka. The first who attended the visual aid room were students of Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and Television named after Karpenko-Kary and Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economics University.
On October 17, 2012 the exhibition “Letters – the Painful Recollections” was presented in the Memory Hall of the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On September 20, 2012 the delegation headed by President of the Republic of Poland Bronislaw Komorowskivisited the National Museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine". It was made in a course of an official visit to Ukraine.
On September 19, 2012 at 3 p.m. the presentation of art exhibition “Memory in the Name of the Future” took place in the Memory Hall of the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On the 13th of September 2012 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” within the official visit to Ukraine.
On September 6, 2012 during the official visit of the delegation headed by Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, General Knud Bartels, General’s wife Mrs. Inge Bartels visited the National Museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine".
On the 22nd of August 2012 the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” presented the documentary exhibition “The Value of Human’s Life” which reveals the mechanism of the Decree of the CEC and CPC of the USSR on August 7, 1932 "On the protection of property of state enterprises, collective farms and cooperatives and on consolidation of public (socialist) property."
On the 16th of August 2012 the group of students from different universities of the Netherlands visited the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On August 7, 2012 the representatives of creative and scientific intelligentsia honored the memory of compatriots who died of famine in 1932-1933 by visiting the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On July 28, 2012 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All the Rus visited the National museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine" and paid tribute to the people who died of starvation, putting to the sculpture “Sad Memory of Childhood” composition of white roses and ears of wheat.
On July 24, 2012 during the official visit in Ukraine the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” was attended by General Sir Richard Shirreff, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe and his wife.
On July 20, 2012 the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” together with the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory organized lecture of Vadim Staklo, Professor of Yale University, which was dedicated to the Soviet historical period, coverage of Stalin's repressions in the Western European and American historiography in particular and the role of electronic resources.
On July 11, 2012 the presentation of exhibition “The Words of Truth”, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Milena Rudnytska birthday, took place.
On July 3, 2012 after agreement of all formalities the ceremony of signing the Memorandum of Understanding between the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights took place.
On May 18, 2012 at the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” in the Hall of Memory the cultural and educational event “Bread Making” took place. It was dedicated to the International Museum Day.
On May 16, 2012 the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory organized an open lecture of director “The Program on History and Conflict”
The ceremony opening of the exhibition “Fridtjof Nansen and Ukraine” took place on May 16, 2012 at 4.30 p.m. in the Hall of Memory of the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On May 9, 2012, on the Victory Day more than the 30 thousand Ukrainians visited the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On April 28, 2012 at the National museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine” an all-Ukrainian project “Let us commemorate…” took place. The project included holding Masses for the ones who died during the three famines – the Holodomor of 1921-1923, 1932-1933 and 1946-1947.
On April 12, 2012 at 4 p.m., during her official visit to Ukraine, the Minister of International Cooperation of Canada the Honorable Beverley Joan Oda visited the National Museum “The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines’ Victims in Ukraine”.
On January 25, 2012 at 3 p.m. in the Memory Hall of the National museum “The Memorial in Comemmoration of Famine`s Victims in Ukraine” a cultural and educational event took place. It was timed to the Day of Unity and Freedom of Ukraine. Visitors and guests had the opportunity to look through the new exhibition “One Nation`s War” dedicated to the events of 1917–1932 on the territory of Ukraine.