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Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Remembrance: The Experience of the Modern War Against Ukraine

insidethegatesOn Friday 26 January 2024, on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the XVII annual roundtable discussion "Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Remembrance: The Experience of the Modern War Against Ukraine" was held in Kyiv. This year, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies held the event with the support of the Goethe-Institut Ukraine and House of Europe, the Jewish community of Düsseldorf, and the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies and the Master's Programme in Jewish Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

[Broadcast of the Roundtable opening]

[Photo gallery] 

[Programme of the Roundtable]

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