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The banality of evil: from Auschwitz to Mariupol
The YouTube channel "10 Questions to a Historian" featured an interview about the history of the Auschwitz death camp, which has become an undisputed symbol of Nazi crimes in World War II. This is the story of how some people (including educated and seemingly mentally healthy people) killed other people on a scale and systematic basis that had never been seen before. The "banality of evil" was that the virtue of loyalty turned bureaucrats into committed genocide performers.
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Threats of totalitarianism today. Public lecture
On 2 April 2024, a public lecture by historian Anatolii Podolskyi, Head of the UCHS, was held at the Kyiv Cooperative Institute of Business and Law. Threats of totalitarianism today. Comparison of the Nazi crimes and modern russian ideology in the war against Ukraine was the topic.
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Recommendations for the preparation of student competition works
Dear colleagues and participants of the XXIV Medvinsky All-Ukrainian Student Competition "History and Lessons of the Holocaust"! The UCHS team has prepared recommendations and useful tips for the preparation of competition entries in one post for your convenience.
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Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community
Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community/ Petro Dolhanov. — Kyiv : Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, 2023. — 101 p.
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Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), 2024
Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), January-March, 2024 has been published.
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Ukraine in European and World History: Contemporary Scientific and Educational Discourse
On 15 March 2024, the XIII All-Ukrainian Drahomanov Readings of Young Historians "Ukraine in European and World History: Modern Scientific and Educational Discourse" conference was held at the Faculty of History of the Dragomanov Ukrainian State University in a mixed format.
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Post-project meeting of the Museums: Rethinking
At the end of 2023, UCHS, with the support of the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education 2023 of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, completed the project Museums: Rethinking. The project was aimed to support local Ukrainian museums and cultural institutions, encourage their networking and communication with each other, and brought together participants from 16 cultural institutions from all over the country.