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Alumni invited to virtual showing of "Two Regimes – A Mother’s Memoir of the Holodomor and the Holocaust"

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Cover of the book 'Two Regimes'

The Potomac State College Alumni Association is co-sponsoring along with the Mary F. Shipper Library a showing of the movie, “ Two Regimes – A Mother’s Memoir of the Holodomor and the Holocaust ”. This timely presentation is the life’s work of two Ukrainian women: A Mother (Teodora Verbitskaya), who wrote about her life from 1920 to 1945, and her daughter Nadia Werbitzky, a professionally trained artist who painted from memory. Teodora and Nadia were witnesses to both the  Holodomor and the  Holocaust in Ukraine.

The virtual showing will take place on Wednesday, April 20, at 6 p.m. 

April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. The Potomac State College Alumni Association is co-sponsoring along with the Mary F. Shipper Library a showing of the movie, “Two Regimes – A Mother’s Memoir of the Holodomor and the Holocaust”. This timely presentation is the life’s work of two Ukrainian women: A Mother (Teodora Verbitskaya), who wrote about her life from 1920 to 1945, and her daughter Nadia Werbitzky, a professionally trained artist who painted from memory. Teodora and Nadia were witnesses to both the Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukraine.

The virtual showing will take place on Wednesday, April 20, at 6 p.m. This presentation will include a free screening of the new half-hour long film "Two Regimes: A Mother's Memoir of the Holodomor and the Holocaust". This moving film documents the suffering experienced by Ukrainians persecuted by two authoritarian regimes (Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany). Learn more about the film here: https://tworegimes.com/ 

This free screening will conclude with a discussion led by the film's director, Douglas Darlington, along with Lucianne Vanilar (daughter of the artist whose work graces the film and the granddaughter of the author of the book which inspired the film), and Kelly Bowen (curator of the "Two Regimes" art collection - music, paintings, and historical photographs).

To register for this free event, please fill out this Qualtrics survey before Tuesday, April 19, 2022: https://wvu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5b6D4qWqqlcAQbI. A link will be sent out on the morning of Wednesday, April 20, 2022.