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Book announcements

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upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish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

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]
5/4/2021
A new, easier way to support the Center! [More]
9/11/2020
ENGLISH ONLINE COURSE "Learning from the past - acting for the future" Learning about the history of the Holocaust and human rights [More]

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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6/17/2021
Holocaust history and history of extreme violence in Eastern Europe: Ukrainian-Polish dialogue

In the beginning of June 2021 the international seminar “Holocaust history. Ukrainian-Polish dialogue” took place, initialized by the “Mémorial de la Shoah” (Paris) and organized by the UCHS in cooperation with the POLIN-museum (Warsaw).
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6/10/2021
Cooperation with the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies

The president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish studies, Vitaliy Chernoivanenko, and the director of the UCHS, Anatoliy Podolskiy met on 02.June.2021 in order to develop paths for their future cooperation and to discuss the opportunity for future joint academical projects. The organizations exchanged their publications and magazines.
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6/5/2021
Ukrainian Memory Coalition

On 18^th June 2021, the Ukrainian Memorial Coalition has been found with the Initiative of the National Memorial Complex of Heroes of Heavenly Hundred - Museum of the Revolution of the Dignity
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6/1/2021
XXI All-Ukrainian I.B. Medvinsky Competition of Students’ Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust” Winners of the Competition

On the 14^th, 16^th and 17^th June 2021 the XXI All-Ukrainian I.B. Medvinsky Competition of Students’ Research and Art Works“History and Lessons of the Holocaust” took place in Ukraine. This year as well, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concourse had to be held online.
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