Edina City Council — Transcript
Saturday, March 15, 2025
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Edina to host genocide awareness event in May
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Announcement: 13th Annual Days of Remembrance Event
The Edina Human Rights and Relations Commission presented details for its upcoming 13th annual Days of Remembrance event. Titled 'Genocide in Ukraine from Stalin to Hitler to Putin,' the event will feature Dr. Ellen J Kennedy, founder of World Without Genocide, discussing the harrowing realities faced by the Ukrainian people throughout history, including atrocities by Hitler and Stalin, and linking them to ongoing crises. The event aims to honor victims and raise awareness of continuing genocides.
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The event will delve into the harrowing realities faced by the Ukrainian people through history.
Kennedy will address the ongoing crisis in Ukraine along with the atrocities of Hitler that claimed nearly 1.6 million Jewish lives and Stalin's genocidal starvation that claimed nearly 4 million lives all in Ukraine.
we're going to continue to honor uh every year the the memory of the millions of people who were uh killed during the Nazi era uh but Dr Kennedy is going to focus on a continuing genocide that's really happened since the Stalin era in Ukraine and it's a good reminder the genocide goes on today as it did uh back in the 30s and 40s