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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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8/3/2020
"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Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish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

9/14/2021
“Memory is imperishable: Holocaust on the terrain of our region” [More]
9/13/2021
We announce the selection of participants for the third seminar-school “Learning from the past – acting for the future” [More]
5/31/2021
Summer-school with Holocaust Studies in Ukraine [More]
5/23/2021
Selection of participators for this year’s seminar-school: “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance” [More]
5/7/2021
Holocaust history – an online dialogue between Ukraine and Poland [More]

9/7/2021
Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 2 (66), 2021

Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 2 (66), April-June, 2021 has been published.
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7/26/2021
From the 5th to 26th July 2021 this year’s summer seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance” took place

On the 26th of July this year’s summer seminar-school “Holocaust history in Ukraine: studying, teaching, remembrance”, which has been supported by the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) and the Yad Vashem Memorial (Jerusalem), ended
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7/19/2021
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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7/12/2021
Marking the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Bukovina

The memorial site “Memory threshold” in Chernivtsi has been introduced on 06^th July 2021, in honor of the Holocaust victims in northern Bukovina and the city of Chernivtsi. In the very beginning of July 1941, Jews of Chernivtsi have been deported to camps in Transnistria.
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7/8/2021
The UCHS presents its publications

On the 25^thJune 2021, the UCHS presented its publications at the Kiev Book Arsenal, which is the publishing event of the year. For us this has been an important and symbolic event.
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