A
New Documentary Movie
To Be Released In The Summer of 2001
Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre
"Between Hitler And
Stalin...Ukraine In World War II"
"Historian Norman Davies appears in
the film 'Ukraine In WWII" and provides the historical context:
'These countries were caught in the middle of an impossible
dilemma. There was murder, genocide, oppression on both sides
and there was no way to escape."
" 'If you fled eastward, you were running
the gauntlet of Soviet oppression; if you fled westward you
were running the risk of Nazi oppression'...'Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union were partners. They weren't allies but
they were clearly partners. I would say -- partners in crime.
Germany -- attacked eight European countries; the Soviet Union
attached and invaded five"...Many people in the West don't
realized that the Ukrainians were fighting both against Hitler
and against Stalin.'
Slavko Nowstski is directing the film.
The film "Ukraine in World War II" is expected to be ready
by the summer of 2001, and funds are still needed to advertise
and distribute the film and translate the film into French,
Spanish and Russian."
The UCRDC-produced documentary film
on the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine was critically acclaimed
and won numerous awards at various film festivals with it
came out in 1984. Copies of the famine documentary are still
available from UCRDC.
UCRDC is constantly asked to provide
photographs, information, video documentation, particularly
on its main topics of research -- the Ukrainian Famine and
World War II.
UCRDC sponsored the travelling exhibit
"The Barbed Wire Solution... Ukrainians and Canada's First
Internment Operations 1914-1920". Since its opening in 1996
in Toronto and Ottawa, the exhibit has been displayed all
across Canada.
UCRDC:
1. Collects information on historical and current events which
concern Ukrainians in Canada, in Ukraine and in the diaspora
in general,
2. Organizes and collect archives of documents, audio-visual
testimonies,
3. Produces documentary films,
4. Organizes and sponsors exhibits and conferences,
5. Sponsors publications,
6. Provides information, photographs and film to journalists,
TV programs, writers, educators and legislators,
7. Develops and presents educational programs for schools,
8. Cooperates with other research, documentation and archival
centres world-wide in preserving oral history documentation.
Nadia Skop, Administrator
Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre
620 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2H4
416 966 1819
FAX 416 966 1820
E-Mail: ucrdc@interlog.com
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