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The “tragedy of guilty victims”? The memory of the Roma genocide in postwar Ukraine, part 2 : Knowledge “for internal use,” or the “tip of the iceberg”: Channels of information and the formation of the picture of the occupation

Posted On: February 24th, 2021

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

The second part of the article examines the “tip of the iceberg” of the Soviet culture of memory of the victims of the Roma genocide, that is, the documentation of the occupation period which the…

“A tragedy of guilty victims”? The memory of the Roma genocide in postwar Ukraine, part 1

Posted On: February 10th, 2021

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

Despite the fact that an inclusive memory of the victims of the Nazi regime is being formed in Ukraine, why does the Roma genocide remain on the sidelines? To a significant degree, this is a…

Ukrainian mayor appeals to Jews abroad to become partners in developing the city of their forefathers

Posted On: February 4th, 2021

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Diverse Voices

The mayors of a number of cities in Ukraine issued statements on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January 2021). The city managers of Kyiv, Odesa, and Lviv addressed themselves to this sad date, noting the…

The Holocaust is a Ukrainian loss, not just a Jewish one: Matviy Vaisberg

Posted On: January 27th, 2021

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

[Editor’s note: Today the world is honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945 Soviet troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp,…

Beneficiaries of the Holocaust: The Role of “Neighbors” in the Plunder of Jewish Property in Volyn during the Nazi Occupation

Posted On: December 8th, 2020

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

To the Raion Administration in Dąbrowica! The request of Pinkevych, Petro, who resides in Dąbrowica on 31 Shosova Street In keeping with permission granted to me to open a photography establishment, I request the transfer,…

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…