This past weekend, people in Prague, Vilnius, Stockholm, Paris, London and other cities came together for an incredibly important cause. We want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who joined these rallies, standing in solidarity with Ukraine and demanding that Western governments allow Ukraine to strike back against the terror being inflicted on our people.
Russia has been relentlessly terrorizing Ukrainian cities with missile strikes, targeting civilians, homes, schools, and hospitals. Innocent people are suffering every day. It is only fair and just that Ukraine be given the right to defend itself and strike back at the aggressor. Your voices in these rallies were a powerful reminder that the world sees the truth and will not stay silent in the face of this injustice.
Thank you to all who took a stand. Together, we are calling for justice and freedom for Ukraine.
People mourn at the coffin of Matityahu (Anton) Samborskyi, adopted son of Ukraine's chief rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, who was killed in the war with Russia, during a mourning service in the Brodsky synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Hi everybody! I need your attention for a moment.
I have a very good friend whom i know now for two years, he’s a very caring, compassionate and gentle person and i care for him a lot.
He supported me when i needed the support and now i want to support him.
His name is Vadym, he’s from Ukraine, he has been suffering from serious health problems since 2019, but his condition has started to get worse sharply in recent months. It’s getting pretty bad and i am really scared for him.
He has a rare genetically determined disease - hyperlipoproteinaemia (severely elevated lipoprotein (a)). It affects blood vessels and organs dependent on them. As of today, the abdominal aorta, heart, kidneys, pancreas and the gastrointestinal tract in general are damaged.
He has completely lost his ability to work, he barely eats and requires a long-term treatment. In the coming weeks, a large set of instrumental and laboratory tests needs to be done, which my friend simply cannot pay for in his current condition. So I have to ask for your help. Now approx. $1,500 (60,000 hryvnias) should be raised. Any amount will be helpful, even a dollar.
Thinking about Ukrainian man named Denys Horokh who a few days ago went to help victims immediately after he heard explosions in his town, but on his way also got injured under drone attack and died later in the hospital. Killed for wanting to help. Killed for compassion. Killed for being Ukrainian.
The Holodomor Museum commemorated Eugenia Sakevych Dallas, a witness to the Holodomor, on the anniversary of her passing September 12, 2014.
This is from her memoirs.
"...Mother was arrested for collecting frozen ears of grain. The potbellied NKVD officer contemptuously accused my mother: "You collected the people's goods, stole from the state." After that, they took my mother away from me.
She was officially charged with theft of state property and sentenced to three years of hard labour in Siberia near Lake Baikal. I remember her sitting on the porch of the police house, which they had taken from one of the farmers earlier.
I could feel the way she was looking at me. She wasn't crying; she was only looking, and I obviously could read her thoughts - there was such pain, there was such sadness. She was looking at me as if she would never see me again.
My mother was not sent to Siberia right away. For some time, they kept her in prison near Odesa. She managed to write a letter to Nataliia, informing her that she had no food at all. We also had nothing to eat,but Nataliia had some beets and decided to send my mother a parcel.
We also had nothing to eat, but Nataliia had some beets and decided to send a parcel to my mother. But we did not know at all whether those beets reached the mother.
Finally, we found out that they sent my mother to Siberia. She never returned from there. Every time I see raw beets, I recall my mother," Sakevych-Dallas wrote in her memoirs.
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Eugenia was born in 1925 in a wealthy family with many children in the Kamyana Balka in the Mykolaiv region. First, the Soviet authorities took her father away from her - they arrested him in 1929 and confiscated all his property for refusing to join a collective farm.
Later, her mother was also arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in the camps, and she never returned from there. Then, her older sister Nataliia, the only relative nearby at that time, died of illness and exhaustion.
The Red Moloch, one way or another, destroyed the entire large Sakevych family, which included six children. Zhenia was the youngest of them all. During the Second World War, she ended up in forced labour. Afterwards, she decided to stay abroad.
She made a career as a model and had a happy marriage. "... I wanted to forget everything and enjoy life after everything I had experienced. Time passed, but my mental pain could not be erased from my heart."
That inspired her to write a memoir titled "Our Soul Does Not Die: The Fate of an Orphan from the Ukrainian Holodomor," as well as a series of drawings dedicated to the Holodomor.
Ms Eugenia also became the character of the documentary "Witness Zhenya" (director Serhiy Zabolotny) and the animated film "My name is Eugenia Sakevych Dallas" (author Yuliya Fedorovych). Both films can be viewed freely.