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Arkadi Zeltser: "In Israeli historiography, considerable attention has always been paid to the problems of Jewish life and suffering during the Holocaust"

Posted On: April 23rd, 2024

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukraina Moderna, History

[Editor's note: The interview with the author took place before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.] Abstract: A conversation with Dr. Arkadi Zeltser, who is an Israeli historian and specialist in the...

Righteous Vasyl Nazarenko speaks on WWII and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

Posted On: April 18th, 2024

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

We continue our series of publications about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. Most of the 2,700 Ukrainian Righteous recognized by Yad Vashem have passed away, and only four are still with us. Three of...

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

Posted On: April 10th, 2024

Posted In: Commentary, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

By Borys Lozhkin President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Over two years after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians are still fighting valiantly. Two years on, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still spewing baseless...

What was the "anatomy" of the Holocaust in tri-national Galicia? Ukraїna Moderna

Posted On: April 8th, 2024

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Other Programs

Mykhaylo Gaukhman Historians like delving into the past, and I am no exception. Thus, I propose to start a discussion about a reviewed monograph by comparing two historical situations. In September 1655, the armies of Bohdan...

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Posted On: March 20th, 2024

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts

Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...

Transcript of a discussion held during the roundtable "Holocaust Education during Russia's War against Ukraine"

Posted On: February 27th, 2024

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Ukraina Moderna, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs

During the Russo-Ukrainian War, educators who teach about the Holocaust have become witnesses to the Putin regime's instrumentalization of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in order to justify its brutal...

Leader of the Bratslav Jewish community: There is more to Jewish history than tears and suffering

Posted On: February 19th, 2024

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Audio/Visual Media

Faina Baiek talks about the Bratslav Jewish History Museum, the activities of the local Jewish community during the war, and her family's survival experience. Baiek is a native of Bratslav and has led the Jewish...

Ihor Mykhailiuk: We knew little about the Holocaust in the 1990s

Posted On: February 8th, 2024

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, Culture, History, Cinema

Auschwitz was recreated in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in 1996 for shooting the Italian film Truce (La Tregua). Ihor Mykhailiuk, who worked as an interpreter on the set, talks about the film. Released in 1997, Truce...

The Holocaust: What was the postwar context?

Posted On: January 15th, 2024

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

About the division into "good" and "bad" Jews: those who survived concentration camps and ghettos, and those who were evacuated. How does this relate to Ukraine today? A conversation with Anatoly Podolsky, the head of...

Righteous Among the Nations from western Ukraine: those who overcame evil

Posted On: December 19th, 2023

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

We continue our series of articles dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations living in the cities affected by Russian aggression. Today, western Ukraine has become a place of refuge for several million people...

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Arkadi Zeltser: "In Israeli historiography, considerable attention has always been paid to the problems of Jewish life and suffering during the Holocaust"

Righteous Vasyl Nazarenko speaks on WWII and the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war

Ukrainian nationalist Ivan Vovchuk's story must be brought to light — Opinion

What was the "anatomy" of the Holocaust in tri-national Galicia? Ukraїna Moderna

The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

Transcript of a discussion held during the roundtable "Holocaust Education during Russia's War against Ukraine"

Leader of the Bratslav Jewish community: There is more to Jewish history than tears and suffering

Ihor Mykhailiuk: We knew little about the Holocaust in the 1990s

The Holocaust: What was the postwar context?

Righteous Among the Nations from western Ukraine: those who overcame evil

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