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The grandchildren of Ukrainians who saved Jewish children receive awards from Yad Vashem

Posted On: December 2nd, 2020

Posted In: Hadashot, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History

The Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine, Joel Lion, recently presented the medal and diploma certifying the title of Righteous Among the Nations to Dmytro Stetsiuk of Zhytomyr, whose grandfather and grandmother were…

Overcoming death: A Ukrainian-Jewish love story

Posted On: October 27th, 2020

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

In 1936 a young Ukrainian named Nestor Sniadanko, a native of the city of Sokal, in Galicia, began his studies at the Faculty of German Philology at Lviv University. There he met a fellow student,…

A Ruthenian-Ukrainian bishop holds the title of Righteous Among the Nations

Posted On: October 16th, 2020

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Pavlo Petro Goidych (1888–1960), bishop of the Greek Catholic Church of Slovakia and a distinguished religious figure of Ruthenian-Ukrainian background, to whom Israel awarded the…

Borys Zabarko: New books on the Holocaust in Ukraine for foreign audiences

Posted On: September 8th, 2020

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

Recent sociological surveys have shown that more than thirty percent of Europeans and more than half of the world’s population know nothing about the Holocaust. On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust…

The daughter of a “batiar”: Ukrainian woman recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in Israel

Posted On: August 27th, 2020

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

Why did her family save Jews during the Holocaust? What was the truth behind survival and the ordinariness of death during the occupation through the eyes of a child? I spoke about all this with…

The Janowska concentration camp: What we know and don’t know

Posted On: July 31st, 2020

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

The Janowska (Ukr. Yanivsky) concentration camp is a blank spot in the history of Lviv and the Holocaust on the territory of Ukraine. It has become obscured within the context of Eastern Europe and the…

Volyn: A Ukrainian student researches the Holocaust in her village

Posted On: July 24th, 2020

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

In July 2020 alone, a group of activists in Rivne oblast led by Hryhorii Arshynov from Ostroh installed four new monuments at the sites of mass shootings of Jews during the Holocaust. The dedicated group…

“We have done more research on the killers than the victims”: A historical monograph on the Belzec death camp

Posted On: June 22nd, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Today we are speaking with Anatoly Podolsky, the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, about the Ukrainian translation of the Polish historian Robert Kuwałek’s book The Bełżec Death Camp. Andriy Kobalia: Who was…

The Holocaust child and adult survivors’ memoirs

Posted On: June 8th, 2020

Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Today we are speaking with Anatoly Podolsky, the director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, about the memoirs of two individuals who never knew each other, but who had very similar experiences. These are…

Now available with English captions: Andriy Pavlyshyn: Fate and Memory

Posted On: March 10th, 2020

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Outreach

Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is a Canadian philanthropic organization that has been working since 2008 to strengthen relations between our two peoples. This year marks the sixth time we are presenting our organization’s initiatives and…