Solidarity with Ukraine: Holodomor commemoration, Mariupol documentary, and Russia's war against Ukraine photo exhibition in Szeged
House of Ethnic Minorities and Grand Café Szeged invites for an event on November 24 to commemorate the 1932–1933 Holodomor (famine) and to express solidarity with Ukraine.
Program:
3 p.m., Dóm Square
Commemoration with wreath laying and candle lighting at the Holodomor memorial at Dóm Square with the participation of the Ukrainian national choir Vysyvanky.
Dr. László Kiss-Rigó, bishop of Szeged-Csanád, István Balog, temporary acting head of the Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary, and Dr. Natália Sajtos-Zapotocsnaja, president of the Szeged Ukrainian Nationality Self-Government will give speeches.
4:30 p.m., Grand Café
Screening of Mariupol, Unlost Hope (2022, 62'). Max Lytvynov's documentary follows the people who spent the first month of the invasion in the city of Mariupol. The screening is in Hungarian with English subtitles.
Attendance is free.
6 p.m.: Photo exhibition at Grand Café
Opening of the traveling exhibition Russia's war against Ukraine - through Hungarian lenses, with documentary photos taken in Ukraine by journalists/photojournalists András Földes (Telex), István Huszti (Telex), and Szabolcs Vörös (Válasz Online).
Attila Karsai, director of the House of Ethnic Minorities Szeged, talks with the guest of the event, journalist Szabolcs Vörös (in Hungarian).
