Picture Of The Day

Kyiv, Ukraine People visit a monument to Holodomor victims during a commemoration ceremony of the famine of 1932-33, in which millions died of hunger Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters  

WNU Editor: The above picture is the Guardian's The Weekend’s Best Photos.  

On a personal note. My father and the family survived the famine. He was 11 at the time, and the memories of the suffering that was happening all around him stayed with him for the rest of the life.

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