{"id":10232,"date":"2025-11-27T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:17:10","slug":"visiting-oakville-ridna-skhola-for-holodomor-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/visiting-oakville-ridna-skhola-for-holodomor-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Oakville Ridna Skhola for Holodomor Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Many thanks so educator extraordinaire Oksana Levytska, her team, and her fabulous students. It was a pleasure to discuss my books set during various times in Ukraine’s history, particularly my books set during the Holodomor, and my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, which is set during a time these students are all too familiar with. It was a dual presentation, with some students in person, and others attending remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Copies of Under Attack, book #1 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy had been pre-purchased through Koota Ooma, my favourite Ukrainian book and gift store, so I got to know the names of each student as I signed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After all of the books were signed and I was packing up my things, it was thrilling to see so many students reading their brand new books — an author’s dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms Levytska invited me to attend the school’s Holodomor assembly. I was moved by students’ dedication and talent in honouring those who had perished in this genocide orchestrated by Stalin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many thanks so educator extraordinaire Oksana Levytska, her team, and her fabulous students. It was a pleasure to discuss my books set during various times in Ukraine’s history, particularly my books set during the Holodomor, and my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, which is set during a time these students are all too familiar with. It … Continue reading “Visiting Oakville Ridna Skhola for Holodomor Remembrance Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[233,864,998,353,385,863],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraine","tag-oakville-ridna-skhola","tag-scholastic","tag-ukraine","tag-under-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10233,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}