The exhibition ‘Holodomor and Renewed Genocide’ tells the story of the unpunished genocide of the Great Famine period (1932-1933), as well as how today’s Russia seeks to annihilate the Ukrainian people. The exhibition is on display from 3 to 30 November in the Open Air Gallery of the Royal Lazienki Museum in Warsaw.

The exhibition was prepared by the National Holodomor-Genocide Museum in Kyiv in cooperation with the Museum of Polish History and the Polish Institute in Kyiv. The opening of the exhibition was attended by Maryna Pryn from the National Holodomor-Genocide Museum in Kyiv and Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Zvarych.

On 18 boards, the authors presented the course of the crime against the Ukrainian people committed in the 1930s by the Soviet authorities, who imposed exorbitant, impossible to meet grain delivery standards on peasants in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

As highlighted by Maryna Pryn of the National Holodomor-Genocide Museum in Kyiv, the keynote of this exhibition is also how Polish families who lived in Soviet Ukraine suffered as a result of the Great Famine.

“This exhibition shows that we need to know our history in order to be able to stand up to the evil of today, which is Russia and the Putin regime. Russia, which actually wants to kill the Ukrainian people, is committing genocidal crimes by destroying the energy infrastructure, stealing Ukrainian grain, causing a food crisis around the world. We, as a world, having knowledge of these crimes, including those committed against Poles, must know this history to avoid the biggest mistake – impunity”, said Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Zvarych.

Adrian Andrzejewski