Holocaust

“Memory is imperishable: Holocaust on the terrain of our region”

13^th and 14^th September 2021 the international scientific and local conference takes place in Berdichiv, a Ukrainian town where 80 years ago, a mass shooting of Jews took place. Organizer of the conference is the National Union of Local Ukrainian Historians in cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin) and other institutions.

We announce the selection of participants for the third seminar-school “Learning from the past – acting for the future”

The seminar–school is a joint event organized by the Olga Lengyel Institute (New York) and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and co-financed by the Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fond. Goal of the seminar-school is to improve the standard of Holocaust education and Human Rights in Ukraine.

Summer-school with Holocaust Studies in Ukraine

Announcement of the selection of participants for the summer-school with Holocaust-Studies in Ukraine. We are happy to announce the ongoing of the long-term cooperation between the UCHS and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mendel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Selection of participators for this year’s seminar-school: “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance”

The UCHS in cooperation with the “Yad-Vashem” Memorial (Jerusalem) and the “Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine” (VAAD Ukraine) would like to announce the beginning of this year’s selection of participants for the annual educational seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance”.

Holocaust history – an online dialogue between Ukraine and Poland

The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, the museum of Polish Jews “POLIN” (Warsaw) and the Memorial de la Shoah (Paris), under financial support of the Claims Conference would like to pronounce the recruitment of participants for the international seminar “Holocaust history – an online dialogue between Ukraine and Poland”, which will be carried out in the first half of June 2021

A new, easier way to support the Center!

Dear teachers, students, graduates and readers ! The UCHS would like draw all of your attention to the latest improvement of our website, the green donation buttons.

ENGLISH ONLINE COURSE "Learning from the past - acting for the future" Learning about the history of the Holocaust and human rights

Learning from the Past – Acting for the Future Teaching about the Holocaust and Human Rights A 11-week online engagement professional opportunity for teachers in Europe (21 September – 4 December, 2020)

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies announces call for participation in the second seminar-school “Learn from the Past - Act for the Future. Teaching about the Holocaust history and human rights”.

The seminar-school is a joint event of The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights - TOLI] and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the co-funding of Dutch Jewish Humanitarian Fund. The aim of the seminar-school is to improve the educational level of teaching about the Holocaust history and human rights in Ukraine.

Call for participation in an annual educational seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance” (Kamianets-Podilskyi, July 2020)

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, in cooperation with Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and under the support of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (Vaad) and the Embassy of the State of Israel to Ukraine announces call for participants for the educational seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance”

Exhibition “The Neglected Genocide” opened in Cherkasy

On 8 of November a seminar for teachers and opening of the “The Neglected Genocide. The Fate of Roma in the Nazi Occupied Ukraine” exhibition was held in the Cherkasy Regional Museum Of Local Lore. The Exhibition is open from 8 to 22 of November 2019.

International Training on Holocaust Education – Entangled History as a perspective for non-formal education

Where and when: the training will take part on 7-14 of November in Polan.

Selection criteria: you work with teenagers and youth, your educational activities are connected with the Holocaust teaching, civic education or with the history projects. As an alternative you are deeply interested in all of the topics above and you are eager to get effective tools and methods to work with your students. You are over 18 years old, you live in Ukraine and you know English well.

“Learn from the Past - Act for the Future”. Teaching about the Holocaust history and human rights. Research and methodological seminar

The aim of the seminar-school is to improve the educational level of teaching about the Holocaust history and human rights in Ukraine. The program gives an opportunity to combine Ukrainian and international experience in teaching these topics and to reason the relevance of the historical events for the present

Publications in the frames of the “Protecting Memory” project

During the German occupation in 1941-1944 on the territory of present-day Ukraine more than 1 million Jews and 12.000 Romani people were killed in mass shootings. They were buried in numerous mass graves.
The “Protecting Memory” international project aims to regulate forgotten and neglected mass graves of murdered Jews and Romani, to create next to these places sites of memory and information about them in order to preserve memory about the victims for presence and for the future

Presentation of the international project “Protecting Memory”

On 12 of September 2019 the presentation of the activities in Ukraine in frames of the “Protecting memory” project (joint project of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and other partners) was carried out at the Ukraine crisis media center. 

New interactive resource for the multipliers

We are happy to present a new interactive resource – a guidebook for a teacher about Babyn Yar and the multidimensional history of this tragic place.

Presentation of Robert Kuwalek’s book in Lviv

On the 4th of December 2018 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies presented a new book in Lviv – the Ukrainian translation of the monograph by Robert Kuwalek “Death Camp in Bellec”. Among the participants were friends and colleagues of Robert Kuwalek, scholars, teachers, representatives of the local Jewish community.

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies announces a 2019 educational school-seminar dedicated to the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS) in cooperation with Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) and under the support of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) of Ukraine and the Embassy of the State of Israel to Ukraine announces a call for the applications for the educational school-seminar dedicated to the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine and problems of the Holocaust teaching in the Ukrainian schools.

«Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background» Presentation of the album-catalog and discussion about the problems of commemoration.

The problem of adequate commemoration of the victims of Babyn Yar has recently become a subject of fierce public debates. Lack of a comprehensive vision and scientific approaches, lack of public compromise and state responsibility prevent dealing with it proprely

Announcement of the 18th All-Ukrainian I.B. Medvinsky Competition of Students’ Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust”, 2017 - 2018 academic year

The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and the Embassy of the State of Israel in Ukraine announces call for papers by students of Ukrainian secondary schools for the annual contest of research and creative papers «History and Lessons of the Holocaust» named after I. B. Medvinsky in the 2017-2018 academic year.

Presentation of Robert Kuwalek’s book in Lviv

On the 4th of December 2018 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies presented a new book in Lviv – the Ukrainian translation of the monograph by Robert Kuwalek “Death Camp in Bellec”. Among the participants were friends and colleagues of Robert Kuwalek, scholars, teachers, representatives of the local Jewish community. Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe) moderated the event.

To the anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar (1941-2017)

- NGO «Bildungswerk für Friedensarbeit» (Berlin, Germany)
- National-cultural association «Amala» (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Gypsy music and drama theater «Romance» (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine)
announce the opening of the exhibition «Genocide against the Roma - Remember to Resist»
Location: Gypsy music and drama theater «Romance»
Address: Peremohy Avenue, 38, Kyiv.
Date and time of opening: September 28, 2017 at 5 PM.

Teaching guide for the exhibition «Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background»

On August 20-21 the first working meeting took place in a new project about the creation of a teaching guide for the virtual exhibition « Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background » ( http://memory.kby.kiev.ua/ ) Researchers of the culture of memory in Ukraine, teachers and methodologists from Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities take part in the project.

Call for participation in an educational course for students and young researchers “Genocide of Jews in Europe: Historical Perspective and Approaches” (Kyiv - Berlin, May - November 2017)

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with the Museum and Memorial “House of the Wannsee Conference” announces the call for participants in the educational course "Genocide of Jews in Europe: Historical Perspective and Approaches". The educational course will take place in May - November 2017 and will consist of a training seminar in Kiev on 26-28 May 2017 , a distance training course and a final trip to the Museum and Memorial “House of the Wannsee Conference” around September 2017.

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies announces the educational seminar-school in Holocaust studies and teaching about the Holocaust

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS) in cooperation with Memorial "Yad Vashem" (Jerusalem) and under the support of the Eurasian Jewish Congress and the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine announce the call for participation in the educational summer school on Holocaust History in Ukraine and problems of teaching this subject in Ukrainian schools. The summer school is held for teachers of history and civics of Ukrainian secondary schools. Colleagues and teachers from Belarus and Moldova are welcome to participate as well.

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is glad to present the websites of the project "Protecting Memory"

The project "Protecting Memory" (starting in Ukraine in 2010) is dedicated to the still little-known chapter of Nazi policy of extermination: it investigates mass shootings of Jews in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe, which are in the darkness of oblivion. The project, however, is dedicated to marking and protecting evidences of these crimes - the mass graves in Ukraine, which became the last resting place for more than a million Jews - making them worthy memorial places. 

Virtual exhibition «Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background»

From now on, the website of the Public Committee for commemorating of Babyn Yar victims offers the virtual exhibition «Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background». The virtual exhibition is created based on the materials of the multimedia exhibition, which was conducted in the Kyiv History Museum from September 15 to November 27, 2016, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy. The exhibition is available in Ukrainian and in English, is completely interactive, and is supplemented with a video guide in Ukrainian

Сonference “Contested Memories of the Difficult Past. Eastern Europe and Its History of the 20th Century”

The German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) cordially invites you to the conference “Contested Memories of the Difficult Past. Eastern Europe and Its History of the 20th Century” which will take place in Kyiv/Ukraine from 30 September to 2 October 2016

International Architectural Ideas Competition for a holistic structuring and integration of Babyn Yar – Dorohozhychi Necropolis, a historical and memorial area in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Launch of the Open International Architectural Ideas Competition for a holistic structuring and integration of Babyn Yar – Dorohozhychi Necropolis, a historical and memorial area in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Competition is held by Charitable foundation Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (Canada), the support provided by International Union of Architects (Paris), National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Department for Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration.

International Round Table “Memory about the Holocaust: Educational Approaches and Ways of Further Development in the Modern Ukraine”, 27.05, Kyiv

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an international body that supports national and international activities on Holocaust research, education and commemoration. Today the Alliance counts 31 member-states; 8 more countries are observers – a status which Ukraine too aims to gain.

The 8th annual round-table discussion "Holocaust Commemoration and the Ukrainian Society: Research and Educational Aspects"

We take the pleasure of inviting you to the 8th annual round-table discussion "Holocaust Commemoration and the Ukrainian Society: Research and Educational Aspects" to take place on 27 January 2015 in Kyiv on the initiative of Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Goethe-Institut Ukraine and in partnership with the Embassy of the State of Israel in Ukraine.

Cooperation Memorandum Between centers for Holocaust studies in Poland and Ukraine

On 22 January 2014 in Krakow a signing of Cooperation Memorandum between Center for Holocaust Studies at Jagiellonian Universtiy in Krakow and Kyiv based Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies took place. It happened during an international conference “Mass Murder Sites: Research and Commemoration” organized by IHRA.

Soviet Partisans and the Holocaust – New Research and New Approaches

Dear Colleagues,
I would like to inform you that the International Institute for Holocaust Research of Yad Vashem will conduct (in English) a workshop "Soviet Partisans and the Holocaust – New Research and New Approaches" from 13 to 14 January 2014.
Detailed information about the workshop may be found in the files attached to this letter.
We will be happy if you agree to participate.