The Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 was opened in

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, United States, on November 7, 2015.

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approved creation of the Holodomor Memorial in 2006. The memorial was built by the

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and the Ukrainian government to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33 and to educate the American public. The memorial, designed by Larysa Kurylas, is one of three monuments in Washington, D.C., designed or co-designed by women—the others being the

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and the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial. The memorial is located near the

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building at the intersection of North Capitol Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and F Street N.W. It is diagonal to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, about one block from

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