About the project
In 2020, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the National Museum of Holodomor-Genocide signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
As a result, from 2020 to 2023, the 1022nd archival criminal records of the Holodomor were digitized, which are stored in the Sectoral State Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the fund No. 32 “Criminal cases of judicial and extrajudicial bodies”. Unique documents of their time were classified by the communist regime because they contain facts of deliberate carefully planned destruction of the Ukrainian people. The documents cover the scale of crimes, the mechanisms of their commission, as well as debunk Soviet-Russian myths, in particular about “crop failure”, “kinks in the field”, “all-Union famine”, etc.
The materials of the cases and their analysis make it possible to state the existing historical and political circumstances in which the Holodomor of 1932—1933 took place. The documents show that the peak of the genocide occurred in March-June 1933, and people driven to despair by the regime resorted to necrophagia (eating corpses) and anthropophagy (cannibalism). These cases became a means of revealing the crime of genocide and were of exceptional evidentiary importance in the criminal case No. 475, initiated by the Security Service of Ukraine on the grounds of the crime provided for in Part 1 of Art. 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (genocide). The investigation stated that these cases confirm the fact of a total famine in the territory of the USSR, which led to the extermination of part of the Ukrainian people and the suppression of the resistance of Ukrainians to the communist totalitarian regime. However, until now, such cases have remained unknown to the general public.
In order to implement the requirements of the Law of Ukraine “On the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine” and the Law of Ukraine “On Access to the Archives of the Repressive Organs of the Communist Totalitarian Regime of 1917-1991” in terms of providing access to archival information of the Holodomor period, an interactive map has been created, with which you can get acquainted with archival documents to confirm that the famine was the main instrument of the conquest of the Ukrainian people.
Work on translating paper documents into electronic format and putting them on an interactive map is still ongoing.
