Ukrainian Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Jerry Berman and William Kentridge

Thank you to Ian Gaunt and Iryna Marciuk for a digital copy of Ukrainian Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Including testimony of voices of Ukrainian women-prisoners of Ravensbrück themselves I am looking forward to reading this publication by Kalyna Bezchlibnyk Butler and published by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Development Centre (UCRDC) in Canada. The centre has a database of names of Ukrainian women, incarcerated at the camp on its website. I looked for my grandmother.



Ukrainian Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp: Voices of Prisoners (2024).

 

Database: Ukrainian Prisoners at Ravensbrück. Source: http://www.ucrdc.org/Archive-Textual_and_Photo_Records-World_War_II.html
 
An overview of the biography, work and witness testimony to the Holodomor by Jerry Berman is now on Wikipedia in Ukrainian. Thank you to Yana Hrynko and colleagues for mentioning my work and involvement in the donation of the letters from Alison Marshall to the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv in 2021.



Jerry Berman on Wikipedia (Ukrainian page). Source: https://uk.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD

In preparation for my visit to Hauser & Wirth I came across this brilliant video by William Kentridge. In it Kentridge responds to a piece of work by Philip Guston from 1969, ‘The Studio’. I had forgotten how much I enjoy Kentridge’s talks and lectures. I love how analogue this is.



New York and the Original Holodomor Film

Art and film. A gallery tour and the Original Holodomor Film (1983).

Cheslea Gallery Tour

I have created a Chelsea Gallery Tour map using research from Time Out. Most of the galleries are between W 19th Street and W 27th Street. Particular highlights and personal favourites for me are the opportunity to see William Kentridge at Hauser & Wirth and Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea.

Jurij Solovij. Source: The Ukrainian Museum.

I am also planning to visit Little Island and then walk to the Ukrainian Museum on the Lower East Side for two exhibitions. One of these is Jurij Solovij: Abstracting Time. I am particularly excited about Solovij’s graphic design work which includes book covers, his work on advertisements and wallpaper designs from the 1950s onwards.

Unearthed: The Original Holodomor Film - The Unknown Holocaust by Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

In 1983, Taras Hukalo wrote and directed the first full-length documentary on the Stalin-manufactured Ukrainian famine, which killed millions. In it, you can hear from the survivors themselves.

Unearthed: The Original Holodomor Film - The Unknown Holocaust by Sarah Ashton-Cirillo

In 1983, Taras Hukalo wrote and directed the first full-length documentary on the Stalin-manufactured Ukrainian famine, which killed millions. In it, you can hear from the survivors themselves.

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The Original Holodomor Film (1983)

I have also just watched The Original Holodomor Film – The Unknown Holocaust by Taras Hukalo for Radio Quebec. This graphic film features interviews with survivors, the oral testimony video style reminds me of Geoffrey Hartman’s descriptions from the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Expert interviews include Malcolm Muggeridge, James Mace and Marco Carynnyk whose work I read during my PhD. The term Holodomor itself doesn’t appear in the film.

Thank you to Ian Gaunt for links to the Ukrainian Museum and the film.