The Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 was opened in
Washington, D.C., United States, on November 7, 2015.
Congress
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approved creation of the Holodomor Memorial in 2006.
The memorial was built by the
National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propert ...
and the
Ukrainian government
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...
to honor the victims of the
Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 and to educate the American public.
The memorial, designed by Larysa Kurylas, is one of three monuments in Washington, D.C., designed or co-designed by women—the others being the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those ...
and the
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial.
The memorial is located near the
U.S. Capitol building at the intersection of
North Capitol Street,
Massachusetts Avenue, and F Street N.W. It is diagonal to the Smithsonian's
National Postal Museum, about one block from
Union Station
A union station (also known as a union terminal, a joint station in Europe, and a joint-use station in Japan) is a railway station at which the tracks and facilities are shared by two or more separate railway companies, allowing passengers to ...
.
References
Monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C.
Holodomor
2015 sculptures
2015 establishments in Washington, D.C.
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