The lecture will focus largely on letters written during the years of collectivization and mass starvation in 1932-33, which in Ukraine is called the Holodomor.
SPEAKER: Ron Vossler
Ron Vossler is Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, a Fulbright scholar, and scriptwriter of five national and international award-winning documentary films, including We'll Meet Again in Heaven, focused on the 1933 terror-famine in Ukraine. He has also authored ten scholarly and popular books, most recently a short-story collection, Dinosaur Cafe, and Hitler's Basement, a personal exploration of links between Soviet terror and the Holocaust in Ukraine, and the role of ethnic German police units, under SS command, in the murder of the Jews of Odesa and Bessarabia. He lives in East Grand Forks, Minnesota.
DATE: FRIDAY, 27 NOVEMBER 2015
TIME: 7:00 PM
VENUE: 3-58 PEMBINA HALL, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA