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The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine: An Introduction and Observations on a Neglected Topic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2019

Victoria Khiterer
Victoria Khiterer*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: victoria.khiterer@millersville.edu
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Abstract

The Holodomor in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 was a result of the collectivization policy of the Soviet government and took approximately 4 million lives. The Holodomor had a profound impact on the entire population of Ukraine. It badly affected the lives of Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine, and it damaged Jewish–gentile relations for many years. The famine occurred not only in rural areas, but also in the cities and towns of Ukraine. The Holodomor provoked a significant migration of Jews from shtetls to the large cities, particularly to Kyiv. Many desperate inhabitants of villages and towns fled to the large cities where they hoped to receive some aid. However, the overcrowded cities could not accommodate this flood of migrants. Anatolii Kuznetsov wrote in Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel that if not for the Holodomor in Ukraine and Stalin’s repressions of the 1930s, the attitude of the Kyiv gentile population toward the Holocaust would perhaps have been different. People had gotten so used to the suffering of others, victims of the famine and political repression, that they remained mainly passive, silent, and indifferent toward the mass execution of Jews in Babi Yar during the Holocaust.

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HoldomorJewsKyivUkrainefamine
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Special Issue Article
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 48 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933 , May 2020 , pp. 460 - 475
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© Association for the Study of Nationalities 2019

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