#genocide museum

[dontforgetukraine]

August 2nd marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Roma Genocide Victims.

On the night of August 2-3, 1944, around 3,000 Roma prisoners were killed in gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. It took 52 years for this day of remembrance to be established, which was spearheaded by leaders of Roma organizations from 10 European countries and the USA.

Ukraine has observed this day since 2004. In this remembrance, there are 140 places of mass execution of Roma by the Nazis in Ukraine.

Babyn Yar was one of them. In September 2016, a memorial monument was put in place of a Roma tent covered in bullet holes from machine gun fire.

"Babyn Yar is a horror for Gypsies. They died without even knowing what they were being killed for,” says Roma writer Rani Romani (Raisa Nabaranchuk),whose grandmother died there.

On this day, the Holodomor Museum reminds us that, "it is crucial to emphasize again that human life is of the highest value, and human rights require unquestionable observance. Disrespecting and neglecting them leads to the gravest crimes."

[midnightostara]

Gal Gadot is holding a screening of Israelie propaganda at the museum of tolerance.

I'm not surprise that genocide barbie is doing that.

But please listen this is very important: please don't go to protest at the museum of tolerance to protest her 47 minute propaganda film.

I know this sounds like I'm telling people what to do but this is veryimportant that we need to listen:

What she's doing is a trap.

A Zionist trap by the IDF & Israeli military to get all Arabs, Muslims, Black, non-jewish, and brown folks protesting to say what they're doing is "Antisemitic" to derail the work everyone has been doing. So that they can film protesters and claim it's a "pro-hamas" rally to manipulate people.

JVP and other Jewish organizations are planning to demonstrate outside of the museum of tolerance.

The people that should demonstrate this should be Jewish allies to the Palestinian movement, their voices are extremely important in this situation.

If you are non-white or not Jewish, please sit this one out and do not attend. Let Jewish allies go.

[yuliia-ozen]

Holodomor Museum keeps the memory of innocent Ukrainians killed with the man-made famine (known as Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933) organized by the soviet government. The number of the dead in the genocide varies from 4,5 to 10 million people, according to different researchers.

My late grandma remembered this horror for all her life. She was 8 that time. Her smaller sisters and brothers, 4 kids in our family, died from hunger in Holodomor. I remember that my grandma kept the packages full of dry bread in the nightstand till her last day.

90 years passed. The terrorist state of russia continues to commit its awful crimes, blackmailing the whole world with famine. Slogans like "Never again" are not working. They never did.

[troythecatfish]

[thoughtportal]

In the 1960s, Ursula K. le Guin represented a changing of the guard in science fiction literature. She was part of a generation of novelists who questioned the colonist mindset which had influenced American sci-fi for most of the 20th century. Le Guin came to this understanding not just as a moral stance or an intellectual exercise. Issues of racism and colonialism were personal to her. This episode, originally titled "The Word For Man Is Ishi,” comes from the podcast The Last Archive from Pushkin Industries hosted by Jill Lepore and Ben Naddaff-Hafrey.

[gaesnek]

saw a bunch of flyers and graffiti supporting Palestine in DC today. People are watching. Israel will not settle Palestine without a fight.

[eretzyisrael]

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[nando161mando]

De-Occupation inside the Brooklyn Museum right now!

[wingedalpacacupcake]

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[good-old-gossip]

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[kaliarda]

Palestine solidarity event at Athens Museum of Queer Arts

[panimoonchild]

Burn Bright, My Soul, Burn Bright, and Do Not Weep!

My cultural post before going to sleep. 

Those photos are my sister's. If some of you are in Kyiv, I highly recommend visiting this exhibition "Alla Horska. Boryviter" in the Ukrainian House. You have time to 28th of the April.

And this is from one guy on Twitter. Better view. Her firebird is flying.

And the thread of one person who was there too:

The title is the poem in memory of Alla Horska “Burn Bright, My Soul, Burn Bright, and Do Not Weep!” by Vasyl Stus where he emphasizes every person’s need for freedom.

His faith also tragic. Another bright soul who was killed by Russia.

[sugas6thtooth]

visiting the holocaust museum in DC...many people will be asking these questions about palestine and wondering why the world did nothing to help.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸🍉

[screw-u-vaanu]

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[tomorrowusa]

When Russians weren't looting washing machines, toilets, and used underwear from Ukraine in the early weeks of the invasion, they were looting museums.

As a result of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer of 2022, the Russian army was forced to withdraw from the area around Kherson. On November 11, the city was liberated by the Ukrainian army. One of the many consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the months of turbulence in the Kherson region has been the devastation of the cultural sector. For example, at the beginning of November 2022, entire collections were removed from the Kherson Art Museum, the Kherson Regional Museum and the Kherson Region National Archives. Tombstones of Russian Tsarist commanders and even the remains of Russian Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin, a confidant of Tsarina Catherine II (Empress Catherine the Great), were looted.

Yep, Putin's troops (I use troops loosely) even took the bones of Grigory Potemkin of "Potemkin village" fame.

The Kherson Regional Museum director, Olga Goncharova, laments the loss of the most valuable collection items. The Russians took ancient Greek amphorae, gold ornaments from steppe nomads, medieval weapons and Orthodox icons to the left bank of the Dnipro River, an area still occupied by Russia. Goncharova says that since the occupying forces withdrew, the museum has also lacked important lists of exhibits and documents proving their historical value. She can therefore only roughly estimate the number of looted objects at around 23,000.

Putin is attempting to eradicate even the idea of Ukraine. That's part of the definition of genocide.

During the Russian invasion, more than 40 museums in the occupied territories were looted, says Ukraine's first deputy prosecutor general, Oleksiy Khomenko. The loss has not yet been fully quantified. "It could take years," he says. By the end of the year, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy intends to create a register in which all available information on collections located in the occupied territories will be entered. This should later help to find art and valuables. However, this will probably only be possible after the end of the war.

For anybody who"s interested, here's the DW article about Russia looting Ukrainian museums in Ukrainian. 🇺🇦

Де шукати зниклі під час російської окупації колекції музеїв