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Conferences

  • Ukraine in European and World History: Contemporary Scientific and Educational Discourse

    On 15 March 2024, the XIII All-Ukrainian Drahomanov Readings of Young Historians "Ukraine in European and World History: Modern Scientific and Educational Discourse" conference was held at the Faculty of History of the Dragomanov Ukrainian State University in a mixed format.

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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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  • The impact of war and russian aggression against Ukraine on Holocaust research

    On November 28, 2022, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Study, candidate of historical sciences, Anatolii Podolskyi, spoke online at the meeting of the Academic Working group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which took place in Gothenburg (Sweden).

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  • International scientific and practical conference “Holocaust in Ukraine (Babyn Yar Tragedy Memorial Day)”

    The Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in cooperation with V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University organized international scientific and practical conference “Holocaust in Ukraine (Babyn Yar Tragedy Memorial Day)” which was held on September 29, 2022 in Kyiv. It was dedicated to the 81st anniversary of mass execution of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazi occupants in Babyn Yar during the World War II. Scholars, higher education institutions teachers, postgraduates and students took part in the conference.

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  • Memory of Babyn Yar and the Holocaust: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the start of murders in Babyn Yar

    As the first real-life conference after a long period of online events, on 23-24 September 2021 the seminary about the memory of Babyn Yar and the Holocaust took place in Taras Shevchenko University Kyiv.

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  • 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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  • Research seminar “Holocaust and mass violence on the Ukrainian territories in the first half of the XX century

    On the 9-11 of May 2019 research and methodological seminar “Holocaust and mass violence on the Ukrainian territories in the first half of the XX century” for the teachers of history from Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Volyn regions took place in Lviv. The seminar was carried out by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies together with M?morial de la Shoah (Paris) and Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror” (Lviv).

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  • Roma Genocide in Ukraine during WWII: research, teaching, commemoration

    In frames of honoring the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar tragedy a conference under the title “Roma Genocide in Ukraine during WWII: research, teaching, commemoration” was held by UCHS on 4.10.2016

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  • Ukrainian-French research seminar “Comparative Approach of the Genocide and Mass Killings” 3-8 October 2015

    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Department for History of T. Schevchenko Kyiv National Univesity and the French Memorial de la Shoah (Paris) held on 18-20 November 2105 an academic seminar for young researchers under the title “Comparative Approach of the Genocide and Mass Killings” with participation of leading Ukrainian and French experts in the topic.

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  • Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Tracks of national-socialist occupation of Ukraine. May 14-16, 2014, Kyiv

    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Science of Ukraine with the help of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies and Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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  • International conference "Babi Yar. History and memory of a massacre"

    International conference "International conference "Babi Yar. History and memory of a massacre"" is taking place in Kyiv on 24-25 October 2011 in frames of commemorating the 70 anniversary of Baby Yar murder.
    The conference was made possible due to the efforts of the French Embassy in Ukraine, National Center for Academic Research (CNRS), Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Memorial de la Shoah and French-Russian Center for Social Studies (Moscow).

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  • Conference "Crimes of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine: scientific and educational view"

    From 21-22 November 2009 the researching Center of the Holocaust and genocide (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) in cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies held the international scientific and methodical conference "Crimes of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine: scientific and educational view"

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  • Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine

    Civic Committee "Babyn Yar" and Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the support of State Committee for Nationalities and Religions and in cooperation with the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine have published proceedings of the second all-Ukrainian conference "Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine" which took place in Kyiv on October 30-31, 2006. 

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  • Conference on Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda

    On 21-22nd February 2006 in Kiev Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies conducted an international academic-methodical conference "Jewish Question" and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Mass Media of the Nazi-Occupied Ukrainian Territory, 1941-1944". The conference took place in the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of NAS of Ukraine

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  • The banality of evil: from Auschwitz to Mariupol

    The YouTube channel "10 Questions to a Historian" featured an interview about the history of the Auschwitz death camp, which has become an undisputed symbol of Nazi crimes in World War II. This is the story of how some people (including educated and seemingly mentally healthy people) killed other people on a scale and systematic basis that had never been seen before. The "banality of evil" was that the virtue of loyalty turned bureaucrats into committed genocide performers.

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  • Threats of totalitarianism today. Public lecture

    On 2 April 2024, a public lecture by historian Anatolii Podolskyi, Head of the UCHS, was held at the Kyiv Cooperative Institute of Business and Law. Threats of totalitarianism today. Comparison of the Nazi crimes and modern russian ideology in the war against Ukraine was the topic.

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  • Recommendations for the preparation of student competition works

    Dear colleagues and participants of the XXIV Medvinsky All-Ukrainian Student Competition "History and Lessons of the Holocaust"! The UCHS team has prepared recommendations and useful tips for the preparation of competition entries in one post for your convenience.

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  • Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community

    Kovel: the Life and Death of the Jewish Community/ Petro Dolhanov. — Kyiv : Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, 2023. — 101 p.

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  • Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), 2024

    Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (77), January-March, 2024 has been published.

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