The memorial to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 stands on Mikhailivska Square next to the Mikhailivska Golden-Domed Monastery. Opened on September 12, 1993 — the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy — it became one of the first memorials in Kyiv dedicated to the memory of the Great Famine, when the Soviet authorities forcibly confiscated the entire harvest from the peasants, which led to the death of millions of Ukrainians.
The gray granite stele embodies the cross and the mother-protector with her hands lowered in despair, and the child in the center of the composition reminds of the millions of unborn lives destroyed by violence and repression. Earth from all corners of Ukraine was poured at the foot of the monument. Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, on Holodomor Remembrance Day, Kyiv residents come here with candles and flowers — so as not to forget and not to let them forget.