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…
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…
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…
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…
This is a transcript of a speech delivered by historian Timothy Snyder of Yale University at a conference on Germany’s Historical Responsibility towards Ukraine held in the German Bundestag, on 20 June 2017. The event…
Today the focus of our conversation on Encounters is Timothy Snyder’s book, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, the Ukrainian translation of which was recently issued by the Medusa publishing house. My guest…
Ihor Shchupak, the director of the Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, is our guest on the program Encounters. Iryna Slavinska: You are listening to Hromadske Radio with Iryna Slavinska and the program Encounters. Today…
The revelation came in California. “We went to one of the redwood parks. I was looking at redwood trees, sequoia trees, and I saw them and I remember just thinking about how much those trees…
A quiet village set amidst rolling hills, forests, and ravines. A revered monastery. And four stories of salvation. A compelling article by Oksana Sikorska in the Ukrainian journal Zbruch outlines the remarkable role of the…
On today’s show, we are talking with Ola Hnatiuk about her book Courage and Fear. This work will be of interest to readers who are fascinated by national history as seen through the prism of…