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Book announcements

8/3/2020
"The Holocaust and city: space of murders – space of destruction"

The first issue of the urban studies journal "City: history, culture, society" has been published. The issue is called "The Holocaust and city: space of murders – space of destruction" and covers the topic of the Holocaust in urban spaces.
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12/30/2006
Jules Schelvis: Inside the Gates , A report of two years in German extermination and concentration camps

Being a Jew, Jules Schelvis, born in Amsterdam in 1921, was captured and deported together with his wife Rachel and her family, via Westerbork to Sobibor. His skills as a printer allowed him to survive with eighteen other people from a total of 34.313 Jews who were deported to Sobibor.
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12/30/2006
Rochelle G. Saidel: The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration camp

Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. During its six years of operation, there was a total of about 20.000 Jewish women in the camp. Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish women prisoners.
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12/30/2006
Robert Satloff: Among the Righteous, Lost stories from the Holocaust's long reach into Arab Lands

Robert Satloff tries to enlighten the much neglected topic of Holocaust research in Arab countries. Posing the question "Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust?" he "set off [..] to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history".
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12/30/2006
Jules Schelvis: Sobibor: a history of a Nazi death camp

"Sobibor", written by Holocaust Survivor Jules Schelvis is "a carefully researched and closely argued academic text that has employed the available testimonies and postwar trial documents to produce a comprehensive history of the camp."
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12/30/2006
Thomas Toivi Blatt: From the Ashes of Sobibor.

When Blatt arrived in the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor he was 15 years old. While all of his family was sent to the gas chamber in front of his eyes, Blatt was chosen for "Arbeitseinsatz" that means assigned to work as a shoe shiner for Karl August Frenzel, commandant at Sobibor.
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Announcements

9/11/2020
ENGLISH ONLINE COURSE "Learning from the past - acting for the future" Learning about the history of the Holocaust and human rights [More]
6/15/2020
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”. [More]
5/18/2020
Call for participation in an annual educational seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance” (Kamianets-Podilskyi, July 2020) [More]
11/8/2019
Exhibition “The Neglected Genocide” opened in Cherkasy [More]
11/7/2019
International Training on Holocaust Education – Entangled History as a perspective for non-formal education [More]

2/9/2021
Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 4 (64), 2020

Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 4 (64), October-December, 2020 has been published.
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1/26/2021
Roads of Memory: How to Organize Memorial Visits to Mass Grave Sites

We would like to present guidelines for teachers, students and anyone wishing to contribute to commemorate Ukrainian Jews and Roma, who were cruelly murdered during WWII. The book aims to help organize educational trips to local memorial sites and mass graves. It is based on the experience of the Protecting Memory Project and its participating teachers and local activists.

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1/26/2021
Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is glad to announce the Ukranian edition of “Clara’s War: One
Girl’s Story of Survival” by Clara Kramer.

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12/21/2020
Memorial Dates in December

Reminder of the project: “Babyn Yar, memory against history’s background” We want to draw your attention to four special days in December and our Teacher’s interactive guidebook.
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12/11/2020
(No) Child History

We already wrote about the UCHS‘s new project

https://fb.watch/27B5gYhMuV/

Now we will finally tell you more about it: Our project “(No) Child History“, which is also a travelling exhibition, tells the stories of 11 children and young adults (Jewish people, Sinti & Roma, Ukrainians) during World War 2 and Holocaust. The characters are describing their experiences with persecution, discrimination, resistance etc...By following the exhibition, you will learn about their lives, personal views and relations.
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