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Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to Holodomor

Discusses the role of the press in covering/not covering Holodomor and provides links to the articles written by Gareth Jones who tried to tell the world about the atrocities.

The Ukrainian Genocide

Refugees try to escape the Ukraine flood by hopping onto a train. Some cling to the roof to get out. Ukraine, USSR. 1933.

Refugees try to escape the Ukraine flood by hopping onto a train. Some cling to the roof to get out. Ukraine, USSR. 1933.

Complicity

A string of carts with bread confiscated from peasants, circa 1932.

A string of carts with bread confiscated from peasants, circa 1932.

Denial

Walter Duranty’s dispatch from Moscow of Friday, March 31, 1933 NEW YORK TIMES

Walter Duranty’s dispatch from Moscow of Friday, March 31, 1933 NEW YORK TIMES

International Response

Photo by Thomas Walker in Chicago American, reporting people eating cats and dogs to survive in Soviet Ukraine, 1935

Photo by Thomas Walker in Chicago American, reporting people eating cats and dogs to survive in Soviet Ukraine, 1935

About this Resource:

Type(s) of Resources: 
  • Articles
  • Informational
  • Non-fiction
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • Interviews
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 9-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Community Member
  • Student
  • Teacher
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Language Arts
  • Social Studies