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Omer Bartov: “I feel a particular responsibility for understanding the history of the Jewish people”

Posted On: May 5th, 2021

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

Professor Bartov, please tell us what influenced your choice of the profession of historian? What personal factors and people contributed to your choosing research topics? I have been interested in history since my youth, possibly…

Book Review: Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz*

Posted On: April 21st, 2021

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

This review of Omer Bartov’s book Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Vladyslava Moskalets first appeared in the quarterly journal Ab Imperio (2019. No 2. Pp. 115–122.)….

The “Eastern Action” of the OUN(b) and the Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941: The Cases of Smotrych and Kupyn

Posted On: April 7th, 2021

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

This article by Andriy Usach originally appeared in Euxeinos, Vol. 9, No. 27/2019 (Pp. 63-84). We thank the editors for their permission to reuse these materials. Abstract: The article analyses the role of the OUN(b)…

How the police chief of Budaniv gave up his life for the Jews

Posted On: April 5th, 2021

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

The western Ukrainian village of Budaniv (Pol. Budzanów) in the Ternopil region boasts a number of Jewish historical monuments. Recently, the traditional triad of “synagogue–Jewish development–cemetery” was supplemented by the installation of a monument to…

“A tragedy of guilty victims”? Memory of the Roma genocide in postwar Ukraine, part 3

Posted On: March 10th, 2021

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

In the third part of his article, the author examines another important type of Soviet “space of memory” about the war: the sphere of artistic representation. Films, music, and literary works had a huge potential…

“A 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,…