Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and the mass artificial famines of 1921–1923 and 1946–1947. In 2025, the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holodomor falls on November 22.
In preparation for this solemn date, the Donetsk Regional Small Academy of Sciences for Schoolchildren invited students in grades 7–11 to participate in the creation of an art book entitled "Poetic Dialogue of Memory" (for the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holodomor) throughout November 2025. The purpose of the event was to honor the memory of the victims of the Holodomor, to reflect on the tragedy through poetry, and to visualize the contrast between the grief and resilience of the Ukrainian people.
Participants in the event, students in grades 7-11 from educational institutions in the region, after familiarizing themselves with works of fiction about the Holodomor, chose two poems or excerpts that create a contrasting dialogue between the sadness of the tragedy and the strength of the Ukrainian people's resilience, and created a poster as a visual accompaniment to the selected works, using various techniques (drawing, graphics, collage, digital art, or photomontage).
Students from 18 communities in the region participated in the creation of the art book. The most active participants were schoolchildren from the cities of Toretsk, Lyman, Pokrovsk, Novogrodivka, Selidovo, Dobropillia, Kramatorsk, Svitlodarsk, Bakhmut, as well as the village of Oleksandrivka and the rural community of Kryvyi Rih in the region.
Each poster is evidence that the participant in the event has absorbed complex historical material, transforming it into a powerful visual dialogue about the pain of the past and the strength of the Ukrainian people's resilience.
The students' creative works demonstrate a high level of understanding of the tragedy and national resilience.
A total of 55 student works were included in the art book "Poetic Dialogue of Memory," which can be viewed at the following link: https://surl.lu/owyztu