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Medical student @queensu. MSc Global Health @mcmasteru. BHSc @westernu. Opinions my own. (she/her)
Nov 29, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read
This tweet comes a little late but here it is nonetheless. The fourth Saturday in November, we remember the lives lost in the Holodomor, The Great Famine killing millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine under Stalin.
thepostmillennial.com/remembering-th… Both born in 1924, my Ukrainian great-grandparents lived through this time period in Soviet Ukraine. It was in the late 40s that they finally fled to Germany and then boarded a ship to Canada to start a new life.