Book announcements
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Presentation of the UCHS’s publications at the 10th Kyiv Book Arsenal
On 25th June 2021, for the first time in its history, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies presented its scientific, pedagogical and memorial publications at the 10th Kiev Book Arsenal.
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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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"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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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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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Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish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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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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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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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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Online discussion “Help during the war”
“Network for Help to Victims of National Socialist Crimes”, set up in Germany, is organizing offline and online events from 18th to 29th June. In particular, the online discussion “Help during the war” will take place on June 20, where Ukrainian, Polish and German colleagues will share their experiences. Anatolii Podolskyi, scholar and director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, will be among the participants in the discussion. The discussion will be conducted in German and English. The organizers believe that such events will unite people in support of the Network.
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The XXII. All-Ukrainian competition of student works on "History and lessons of the Holocaust" I.B. Medvinsky.
Important message!!! In these difficult and tragic times we are pleased to inform that there are events in our world that even the war cannot cancel!!!
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On June 28-29, 2022, the final part of All-Ukrainian competition "History and lessons of the Holocaust" named after I.B. Medvinsky will be held online.
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The “Connecting Memory” project presents and distributes the book-catalogue “Mass shootings. The Holocaust from Baltic to Black Sea 1941-1944”.
The book-catalogue “Mass shootings. The Holocaust from Baltic to Black Sea 1941-1944” was published within the framework of the international German-Ukrainian project “Connecting memory”. This catalogue was created as a part of the exhibition organized by the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” and “The Topography of Terror” foundations. This is a powerful result of joint research work of German, Ukrainian and Belarusian historians.
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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture supports Ukrainian researchers.
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (MFJC), which promotes the development of Judaica academic research and supports scholars and leaders of Jewish communities around the world, has announced the launch of a special program to support scholars studying Jewish history and who are currently in Ukraine. Only researchers can apply for this grant.
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Video conference for teachers and students of the Asia-Pacific region
On May 12, 2022 the director of UCHS Dr. Anatolii Podolskyi gave a lecture dedicated to Ukrainian resistance during the war in Ukraine and russian aggression that has been going on for more than 3 months. It was an online conference held in French cultural centre in Tokyo. Approximately 200 university and high school students together with their teachers participated in such an important event. Colleagues and their students represented 7 countries of the Pacific region: Japan, Australia, Cambodia, China, South Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam.
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