00:00Holodomor, meaning death by hunger, was a famine that remains with many Ukrainian people
00:09almost a century since it happened. The people of Canterbury and Ukrainians have gathered at
00:18St Peter's Methodist Church to pay their respects to those who died during the Holodomor
00:27in the 1930s. I think it's important for us to remember because it brings, it helps us to
00:35acknowledge the lives, the millions of lives that were lost and also it reminds us the importance
00:42of us not to allow such things to happen again and Canterbury has a thriving Ukrainian community,
00:50they're part of our community and I want us to be able to recognise and support them in this time.
00:57This Holodomor experience is also made up of the Canterbury for Ukraine ladies choir who have come
01:09to unite in strength through the power of music despite the terrible times of war.
01:16Since getting to know Ukrainians I understand how important this history of the famine is. I myself
01:26an Irish woman and I grew up with stories of the Irish famine so I can identify and empathise with those
01:33stories of the famine in Ukraine and it is very much about having empathy with people.
01:40As well as music candles were also used to remember those who died many years ago.
01:49So we keep this tradition, it's a new tradition, we didn't have it before, it was brought to Ukraine by
01:56an American person to whom we are eternally thankful. He said actually once, your dad chose me.
02:05And those are the words which are put on his grave in Kyiv when he died in 2004 I think.
02:15The people of Ukraine and Canterbury hope the flames of the victims will always be in the hearts
02:23and minds of those who have come to remember Holodomor. Henry Luck for KMTV in Canterbury.
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