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Holodomor Memorial, Washington, DC

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Holodomor Memorial

See the bronze wheat field near Union Station that remembers the millions who starved in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933.

Massachusetts Avenue NW and North Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC · Washington, DC

About Holodomor Memorial

This memorial honors the victims of the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. Its centerpiece is a six-foot bronze wheat field on a granite base, by Ukrainian-American architect Larysa Kurylas. The relief sinks from high wheat on the left to empty space on the right, showing a record harvest turning into hunger. It opened on November 7, 2015, on a small triangle at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, about a block from Union Station.

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