Hundreds of Ukrainians and their supporters gathered near The White House on Sunday, February 27, 2022 to protest Russia’s invasion of the country and to demand a stronger response from the United States. The protesters were peaceful. The police were very friendly.
Many motorists honked their car horns in support as they passed by. It wasn’t the 100,000 who marched in Berlin. Nonetheless, I was moved by the experience.
The Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 was opened in Washington, D.C. on November 7, 2015. Congress approved creation of the Holodomor Memorial in 2006.
The Holodomor was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It was a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. Holodomor is term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).
The memorial was built by the National Park Service and the Ukrainian government 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 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.
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This tragedy is not well known in the United States and I imagine elsewhere. Ukraine - a country of some 43 million people - has not had an easy history.
The Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown opened in 1979, the year I moved to Washington. It is a beautiful property with outstanding service.