HREC Education presents a free webinar series of dynamic talks with authors of primary, middle-grade and young adult fiction featuring their recently published novels relating to the Holodomor. The series runs from Fall of 2022 into Fall of 2023 to commemorate the 90th anniversary year of the Holodomor. Webinars will be introduced by HREC Director of Education Valentina Kuryliw and hosted by Mateusz Świetlicki.

Author Carola Schmidt talks about her children’s storybook, Tell Me A Story Babushka, along with its illustrator Anita Barghigiani.

When a little girl asks her Baba to tell her a story about a princess and a monster what she hears is so much more — the true tale of the arrest and deportation of her grandmother’s family to a concentration camp in Siberia during the Holodomor. She escapes to freedom with the help of a secret message hidden in a nesting doll. The perfect happily ever after!

HREC Education is a project of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) of the University of Alberta.