Holocaust

“Hitler´s Furies. German Women in the Nazi Killing fields”

The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies published an Ukrainian edition of Holocaust scholar Wendy Lower´s Book “Hitler´s Furies. German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields”.

«Babyn Yar: History and Memory of a Massacre»

To the anniversary of the tragedy of Babyn Yar (1941-2017) The 2nd edition of the scientific collection «Babyn Yar: History and Memory of a Massacre» was published.

Bjorn Westlie. My Father’s War

(Translated from Norwegian by D. Nikandrov, M. Schchyrba; published by UCHS)

During the Second World War a young Norwegian Petter Westlie was a Nazi supporter and a Waffen-SS volunteer to fight for Gemany on the Eastern Front. When his son Bjorn grew up to realize his father’s actions, he broke off with him. It was only in many years that Brojn felt that his father wanted to tell his son about this past. Finally, Petter Westlie recorded the story on tape for him.

Persecution and mass murder of the Roma in Ukraine during the World War II: Collection of documents, testimonies and related materials (Ed. by Mikhail Tyaglyy). Kyiv: Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, 2013, 208 p. [in Ukrainian]. ISBN 978-966-2214-31-4

 The aim of the collection is to attract attention of the historians, educators and wider audience to the problematic of the persecution and extermination of the Roma in Ukraine occupied by the Nazis in 1941-44. The book presents the issues understudied, the patterns of the historical sources which are still unexplored by the scholars, and the original testimonies recorded from the Roma survivors and those non-Roma eyewitnesses of the persecution.
 

Babi Yar: History and Memory of a Massacre: Materials of the international scholarly conference 24-25 October 2011, Kyiv

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and “Babi Yar” Civic Committee published under the support of the French Embassy in Ukraine the collection of materials of the international scholarly conference “Babi Yar: History and Memory of a Massacre”, held in Kyiv on 24-25 October 2011.

The Crimes of the Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine: Scholarly and Educational Perspectives. Materials of the International Scholarly Conference held in Vinnytsia on November 21-22, 2009

In Ukraine the totalitarian regimes led by Hitler and Stalin committed huge crimes - the Holodomor (Great Famine), the Great Terror, and the Holocaust. How could all that happen? What do we need to know about these events? How does one teach about these subjects? These issues were the focus of the conference "The Crimes of the Totalitarian Regimes in Ukraine: Scholarly and Educational Perspectives".

The Ukrainian edition of the Wendy Lower's book has been published by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kiev, Ukraine)

The monograph by Dr. Wendy Lower "Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine" (originally published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press) has just been published in Ukrainian in Kiev by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Transl. by Sergii Kolomiiets, Evgen Rovnyi. Ed. by Mikhail Tyagly. 368 p.).
ISBN 978-966-8274-24-4.

The book "Erased" by famous American historian Omer Bartov

The book "Erased" by famous American historian Omer Bartov is devoted to certain aspects of historical memory about the Holocaust and its formation in modern Ukraine. The main focus of the book is erasing of the materials heritage and memory of Jewish life in western Ukraine (eastern Galicia).

Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine

Civic Committee "Babyn Yar" and Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the support of State Committee for Nationalities and Religions and in cooperation with the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine have published proceedings of the second all-Ukrainian conference "Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine" which took place in Kyiv on October 30-31, 2006. Contributors to the issue are well-known Ukrainian historians representing academic institutions and universities from every region of Ukraine.