ORAL HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN CANADAexcerpt from the Interview with BOHDAN DZEROWICZ
BOHDAN DZEROWICZ
Exhibit and Display Project Management
Date and Place of Birth: 1942 in Lodz, Poland
Date of Interview: July 11, 2016
Place of Interview: Toronto, Ontario
Interviewer: Ruslan Bokiy
Length of Interview: 00:47:30 (raw)
(Excerpt):
Interviewer: Could we get into some detail with the Holodomor National Awareness Tour Project?
BD: Basically, I came up with the idea when I was in the shop where I stored my exhibit material that I used to build exhibits. There was a bus there, the national, what the hell did they call it, the Jewish bus. So I saw that and I said 'oh that would be perfect for a Holodomor bus.' So I called a friend of mine, Bob Onyshchuk, to see how we can get money to build the bus. So, him being very big in government, we submitted a paper to the, at that time, the Harper government, and fortunately we got awarded the money. So I had it designed by my former partner and myself and then I had it built. And it’s one of my proudest achievements as a Ukrainian because the aim of that was: everybody knew about the Holocaust but nobody knew about the Holodomor and I decided it’s high time that Canada should know about the Holodomor because it was a great genocide.
CROSS REFERENCES:
• Rudenko, Anastasia. "Mobile Classroom." February 2, 2016.