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Nash Holos: Shimon’s Returns

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Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. An astonishing new film called Shimon’s Returns proves the point in a…

The Memory of Babyn Yar During the Soviet Period

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The historian Vitaliy Nakhmanovych talks about Babyn Yar in the postwar period, the Kurenivka mudslide, the 1966 demonstration, and the 2016 commemoration of the executions in 1941. Andrii Kobaliya: Please explain to our listeners why in…

The Shoah Foundation Founded by Steven Spielberg has Preserved 53,000 Video Testimonies of the Holocaust

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

Steven Spielberg created the Shoah Foundation after he made the movie Schindler’s List. Today there are 53,000 video testimonies in the collection. Anna Lenchovska, the Ukrainian coordinator of the Foundation, talks about the preservation of…

Nash Holos: Absence and Presence—The Space of Synagogues in Lviv

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Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Leszek Allerhand vividly remembers that day in the summer of 1941, when he was a ten-year-old boy. The Germans had recently…

Nash Holos: Yana Rathman and Memories of Babyn Yar

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Today we have a special story for our listeners, a story that transcends time and generations. A story from the heart. And a story that reminds us of the powerful role that memory plays in…

Timothy Snyder — A Ukrainian Political Nation is Being Formed Thanks to the Maidan and War

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

Timothy Snyder is an American historian and professor of Yale University. He came to Ukraine [in January 2016] to present a new translation of his work Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which was first…

A Holocaust Survivor and His Guardian Angel, Canada and Ukraine

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By Professor Paul Robert Magocsi On February 28, 2016, the small village of Kushnytsia in the very center of far western Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region was the site of a special commemorative event. Two individuals, both…

Babyn Yar is a Complete Mystery—Vladyslav Hrynevych

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A talk about the new monograph Babyn Yar: History and Memory Vladyslav Hrynevych is our guest on the program “Encounters.” He is a doctor of political science (Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the…

Nash Holos: The Extraordinary Alfred Schreyer

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Welcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio. I’m Peter Bejger. Imagine everything that is dear to you in life has been lost. Imagine your world destroyed. And imagine if you can…

BBC: Ukrainians visit Nazi atrocity sites as taboo ends

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

Ukrainians are never far from painful episodes in their history, such as the mass state-enforced famine in Soviet times that killed millions. And now Ukrainians are beginning to explore another difficult chapter – the destruction of Jewish communities that were a fixture of Ukrainian life before World War Two.