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8/19/2021
Presentation of the UCHS’s publications at the 10th Kyiv Book Arsenal

On 25^th June 2021, for the first time in its history, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies presented its scientific, pedagogical and memorial publications at the 10^th Kiev Book Arsenal.
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8/18/2021
A new academic publication on Holocaust history in Ukraine

Before and during the retreat of the Wehrmacht 1943/44 Ukraine became an arena of mass violence. Until spring 1944, Wehrmacht units, police, SS and SD began committing mass killings in different manners. As a part of the guerilla-war concept (Bandenkampf) they burned down villages and killed or deported their residents, stole their food and products.
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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Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish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

1/15/2022
Volunteer project in Germany and Poland [More]
12/17/2021
Exhibition “(No) Children’s Stories” at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University [More]
10/25/2021
Presentation of Ida Fink’s book in Kyiv: “Сад відпливає” [More]
10/23/2021
International Literature and Art Festival "The Return of Ida Fink" [More]
9/14/2021
“Memory is imperishable: Holocaust on the terrain of our region” [More]

11/26/2021
Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (67), 2021

Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (67), July-October, 2021 has been published.
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11/22/2021
Webinar “Personal Stories of Holocaust Remembrance”

On 19th November 2021, the webinar “Personal Stories of Holocaust Remembrance” was held within the framework of the project “Youth Reflects on the Holocaust and World War II”.

This project is implemented by the Space for Tolerance Educational Center in cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies.
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11/18/2021
Exhibition “(No) Children’s Stories”

In 2021, the project and the interactive exhibition "(No)Children's Stories" return to work with school students. In early November, a series of webinars was held to train guides in one of the schools in Kiev.
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11/16/2021
Learning from the Past - Acting for the Future: Teaching about the Holocaust and Human Rights

From October 28 to November 1 in 2021, the five-day seminar-school “Learning from the Past -Acting for the Future” took place in Pushcha-Vodytsia. Twenty-five educators from all around Ukraine participated in the program. The seminar-school aims to improve the level of learning about the history of the Holocaust and human rights in Ukraine. It provides an opportunity to combine Ukrainian and international experience in teaching these topics and the relevance of historical events in the present.
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11/10/2021
International Memorial Project “Against Oblivion” in Odessa

On 22th October 2021, the first stone of the memorial complex “Against Oblivion” was laid in Odessa. It remembers the tragedy of the mass extermination of Jews in October 1941 and the ceremony was dedicated to 80th anniversary of local Jew’s deaths.
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