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Memory of the Holocaust during the Soviet period: permitted and proscribed practices

Posted On: July 15th, 2019

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

The historian Iryna Sklokina discusses the unofficial memory of the Holocaust during Soviet times, the search for unknown heroes, and the struggle to establish monuments. Today we will be talking about a lecture that took…

A chat with Julia Korsunsky of RememberUs.org

Posted On: April 29th, 2019

Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Today we’ll be speaking with Julia Korsunsky, whose story we first heard on Nash Holos last year. Julia is the Executive Director of RememberUs.org, a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts. Her organization is involved in…

Josef Zissels ponders what the Babyn Yar Museum should be like

Posted On: February 11th, 2019

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

The history behind the creation of various projects to memorialize Babyn Yar is recounted by Josef Zissels, a former dissident and the current co-president of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities, the VAAD of…

Heritage and memory discussion panel in London

Posted On: January 30th, 2019

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Special Projects

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is a supporter of the program “Jews and Ukrainians: Re-Assessing the Past and Looking Into the Future” at the Ukrainian Institute London, U.K. The following is a review of a panel…

Memoir by Holocaust survivor Jack Glotzer

Posted On: December 4th, 2018

Posted In: Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, The Holocaust in Ukraine

Rohatyn is a city in western Ukraine with a centuries-old Jewish heritage that was almost completely destroyed by the Holocaust and its aftermath. Like many cities and towns across Ukraine, however, work is being done…

Sheptytsky and Holocaust is discussed in London

Posted On: October 26th, 2018

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

UJE Board Member Wolf Moskovich appeared with Holocaust survivor Lili Stern-Pohlmann at a presentation sponsored by London’s Ukrainian Institute and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter on 4 October 2018 to discuss the legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky,…

How and what do we want to remember? The Historian Andriy Portnov discusses genocides in Ukraine

Posted On: July 30th, 2018

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

The historian Andriy Portnov is at the Encounters studio today. Our conversation is pegged to the annual roundtable “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust: Scholarly and Educational Aspects,” which took place on 27…

Exploring the legacy of the Holocaust in Ukraine

Posted On: May 14th, 2018

Posted In: Commentary, Literature, Nash Holos, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Commentary and Analysis

Guilt, justice, and family ties. These dramatic themes are recalled today due to the recent publication of the Ukrainian-language edition of East-West Street by Phillip Sands, a book presented by the author at the 2017…

Toronto Presentation of the new book “Don’t Tell the Enemy”

Posted On: March 13th, 2018

Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Symposia, History

Prize-winning writer Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch unveiled her book Don’t Tell the Enemy in Toronto to an enthusiastic audience made up largely of young people on February 23, 2018. Don’t Tell the Enemy is the story…

How the Soviet Union suppressed The Holocaust to fight “Nationalism”

Posted On: February 12th, 2018

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

The Soviet authorities didn’t want their own historical narrative to face competition. That meant obliterating memory, rebuilding historical narratives, and suppressing literature. This essay by Ola Hnatiuk appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of The…