Book announcements
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"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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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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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Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Girl’s Story of Survival” by Clara Kramer. -
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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(No) Child History
We already wrote about the UCHS‘s new project
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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