"Bitter Memory of Childhood"

The poignant life-size bronze statue of a hollow eyed, obviously starving little girl holding a few stalks of wheat called "Bitter Memory of Childhood" by sculptor Petro Drozdowsky, was made from the same cast as the original one that stands near the entrance of the National Holodomor Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine. The wheat symbolism is significant because those who survived often did so by eating grain they managed to hide from soldiers.

Ukrainian Holodomar Famine Genocide Memorial

September 13th 2015
Holodomor, which in Ukrainian means “extermination by hunger”, is the term used to describe the deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR and adjacent Cossack territories between 1932 and 1933 by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin who wanted to destroy the people living there seeking independence from his rule. Millions of Ukrainians & Cossacks died of starvation during t ... read more

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8th February 2020

Nina Meshchanova
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3D Model Statue Bitter memory of childhood
3D Model Statue Bitter memory of childhood https://skfb.ly/6ILwx at National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide was developed Сергей Присяжный (Sergii Prysiazhnyi) and his company AERO3Dengineering https://aero3d.com.ua/ in 2017 year

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