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16 December 2008 15:22

Winners Awarded in Holodomor Competitions

December 16, 2008, the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation hosted the awards ceremony of the Third Candle in the Window Posters Contest Dedicated to Holodomor and Third Journalists Contest for Best Coverage of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.

Among the participants of the event were Head of the Board of Directors of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Oleksandr Maksymchuk, competitions’ winners, jury members, and Ukraine 3000 Foundation representatives.

Mr. Maksymchuk spoke about the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s work in the Yesterday Area and within the History Lessons program framework. “Today it is extremely important to give the young people a chance to make independent and unbiased conclusions, which is exactly what our contests are aimed at. I believe that the joint effort will help our people once again recollect their past and reinvent it, uniting us all in remembrance and sorrow,” Mr. Maksymchuk said.

The best works were selected by a meeting of the contest committee of December 4, 2008. After a lengthy discussion, the prizes were distributed through voting in the following way.

Journalists Contest for Best Coverage
of the Manmade Famine

Publication on the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in periodical media:

First place – Oleksandr Hrinka, Sumy, for “With Pitchfork and Axe” article (Panorama, October 29, 2008).

Second place – Leonid Lohvynenko, Kharkiv, for “At the Ukrainian Styx” article (Hlavnoye, No. 19, May 10, 2008).

Third place– Olha Solovey, v. Rohoziv, Boryspil district, Kyiv oblast, for “History out of the Mouths of Witnesses” article (Visti, August 7-13, 2008).

Special award for active and regular covering of the Holodomor theme was given to Tetiyivska zemlia newspaper (Tetiyiv, Kyiv oblast, editor – Oleksandr Yermolayiv).

Candle in the Window Holodomor Posters Contest

First place – Kateryna Skrynnyk, Kharkiv, for “Close My Eyes, I’m Going to Sleep”.

Second place – Artem Pasha, Kharkiv, for “Industrialization” triptych.

Third place was shared by Oleh Veklenko, Kharkiv (“Everlasting Memory”) and Liudmyla Skachkova, Uzhhorod (“Holodomor triptych”).

A special award by the results of the visitors’ voting at the Ukrainian House at the November 18-30 exhibition, was given to Olha Shynkevych (Kharkiv, “Despair”).

The first Candle in the Window contest of posters on Holodomor was held by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation in 2003. Its major task is creating new symbols to commemorate the Holodomor Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 and popularizing those already existing. The Second Contest was held from May till October 2007. Around 200 works were submitted by professional artists along with students of the art and secondary schools. The contest’s geography embraces all Ukraine from Lviv to Kharkiv, with Poltava oblast schools, the 4th Block Graphic Artists’ Union (Kharkiv), and students of the Design Department t the Kharkiv State Design and Arts Academy being its most active participants. In 2008, 227 works were submitted, most of them – from Kharkiv, Uzhhorod, and Cherkasy. The third contest was special in that all works presented were painted by professional artists. The best works from all three contests were displayed at an exhibition at the Ukrainian House November 18-30 as part of the Week of Sorrow and Day of the Memory of the Holodomors’ Victims.

The Second Journalists’ Competition for the Best Media Coverage of the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine was founded also in 2003. The major task for its participants is bringing truthful information on the Holodomor tragedy to the Ukrainian people, best coverage of this subject in Ukrainian mass media, and involving the general public into commemorating the Holodomor victims in all Ukraine’s regions. The Second Journalists’ Contest took place in 2007. 53 newspaper articles in 10 regional newspapers, 5 documentaries by an oblast TV studio, 9 radio shows on 3 TV & Radio companies, and 1 web page were submitted to the contest. Since the competitive principle wasn’t observed, the awards were given only in the Publication on the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in periodical media nomination, i.e. for printed media.