Book announcements
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Book exhibition "The Holocaust History and Human Rights"
Publications of the Ukrainian Center for the Holocaust Study can be seen at the book exhibition "The Holocaust History and Human Rights" in the library of the Erudyt Lyceum in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region.
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Sociopolitical and historical aspects of developing the modern Jewish community in Ukraine: European context
That is the title of monography which was published by the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that has been a partner of UCHS for many years. The monography examines the development of Hasidism at the present stage, the historical fate of the Krymchaks, the peculiarities of Babyn Yar complex memorialization, the relationship of Jewish communities of the European Union with state governments, the possibility of borrowing and applying this experience in Ukraine, etc. The author’s team consists of well-known Ukrainian historians and political scientists including scholars from our Centre.
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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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International Partnership Forum at Yad Vashem - the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, March 13-15, 2023
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is part of a large and friendly community of state and public organizations that implement Yad Vashem approaches in research, teaching, and methodological work. The 2023 Yad Vashem Partner Forum once again proved the importance of international cooperation and support, bringing together representatives of 55 countries. In the conditions of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, the participants of the Forum expressed their sincere support for the UCHS in the fight against discrimination and xenophobia, caused by the war crimes and violation of human rights by the russian occupiers.
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Submission of works to the History and Lessons of the Holocaust Competition named after I.B. Medvinsky
Dear colleagues! We received more than 50 applications for participation in the Annual Competition of Students’ Research and Art Works "History and lessons of the Holocaust" named after I.B. Medvinsky.
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World War II on the map of Ukraine
In the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, a unique and extremely important project was presented - the digital cartographic project "World War II on the map of Ukraine".
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Forum of Ukraine Moderna magazine: Holocaust in Ukraine
In 2023, the international intellectual magazine "Ukraine Moderna" is preparing a special issue of the magazine: "Holocaust in Ukraine Forum: how the history of the crime is (not) written".
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Events within the international project "Memory Network" in the local history museum of Okhtyrka
On February 20, "DOCUpanorama" film club was opened in the museum. Spectators were representatives of the city's Jewish community, residents of Okhtyrka. The film "Wordless" directed by Anna Malakhova and Anna Dorozhko was on, the project's historical consultant was Andriy Usach. This film is about the Holocaust and the culture of memory.
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