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    The power of life: artists from the families of the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

    Posted On: March 20th, 2024
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Visual Arts, Ukrainians who saved Jews

    Marharyta Ormotsadze The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter continues to tell about the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations, people who saved Jews during the Shoah (Holocaust). This time, we have collected the stories of artists among the...

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    Transcript of a discussion held during the roundtable "Holocaust Education during Russia's War against Ukraine"

    Posted On: February 27th, 2024
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukraina Moderna, Other Programs

    During the Russo-Ukrainian War, educators who teach about the Holocaust have become witnesses to the Putin regime's instrumentalization of the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust, in order to justify its brutal...

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    Leader of the Bratslav Jewish community: There is more to Jewish history than tears and suffering

    Posted On: February 19th, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, History

    Faina Baiek talks about the Bratslav Jewish History Museum, the activities of the local Jewish community during the war, and her family's survival experience. Baiek is a native of Bratslav and has led the Jewish...

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    Ihor Mykhailiuk: We knew little about the Holocaust in the 1990s

    Posted On: February 8th, 2024
    Posted In: Culture, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Cinema

    Auschwitz was recreated in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in 1996 for shooting the Italian film Truce (La Tregua). Ihor Mykhailiuk, who worked as an interpreter on the set, talks about the film. Released in 1997, Truce...

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    The Holocaust: What was the postwar context?

    Posted On: January 15th, 2024
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, History

    About the division into "good" and "bad" Jews: those who survived concentration camps and ghettos, and those who were evacuated. How does this relate to Ukraine today? A conversation with Anatoly Podolsky, the head of...

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    Righteous Among the Nations from western Ukraine: those who overcame evil

    Posted On: December 19th, 2023
    Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Ukrainians who saved Jews

    We continue our series of articles dedicated to the Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations living in the cities affected by Russian aggression. Today, western Ukraine has become a place of refuge for several million people...

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    Righteous Among the Nations. Who are they?

    Posted On: December 6th, 2023
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, Ukrainians who saved Jews, History

    Volodymyr Muzychenko, a public figure, regional ethnographer, and author of the book Jewish Volodymyr, speaks about the stories of Ukrainians who rescued Jews during World War II. Volodymyr Muzychenko heads the Jewish community of Volodymyr...

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    Video: 'Ukraina Moderna': "The Holocaust in Ukraine: How the history of the crime is (not) written."

    Posted On: November 2nd, 2023
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Literature, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukraina Moderna, Outreach

    The idea for the thematic issue No. 34 of the magazine Ukraina Moderna arose before the start of Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine, but the issue itself was released after the war’s first year. Most...

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    Video: Babyn Yar: Listening to the past

    Posted On: November 1st, 2023
    Posted In: UJE Initiatives, Book Fairs/Festivals, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Publications, History, Outreach

    Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, was the site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. On 29–30 September 1941...

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    "If you want to have meaning in your life, you have to fight against fascism." What's wrong with the Russians' Holocaust rhetoric?

    Posted On: September 11th, 2023
    Posted In: Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Audio/Visual Media, History

    How does Russia really perceive the Holocaust? What is behind the derogatory statements about Jews and the tragedy of the Holocaust made by high-ranking Russian officials? At issue here are the remarks made by Russia's...

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      • Symposia
        • Israel’s Experience of Nation-Building: Lessons for Ukraine
      • Shared Historical Narrative
      • Exhibits
        • A Journey through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter
      • Outreach
        • Book Fairs/Festivals
        • Limmud FSU
        • World Jewish Congress
    • Sponsored Projects
      • Dukh i Litera Digital Library
      • Krytyka, "War is…"
      • Publications
        • eBook: "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence"
      • Audio/Visual Media
        • Hromadske Radio
        • Nash Holos
        • Kontakt TV
        • Finding Babel
      • Other Programs
        • Hadashot
        • Agnon Literary Centre
        • Ukraina Moderna
        • Zahid.net
        • The Odessa Review
        • Israeli Friends of Ukraine
        • Istorychna Pravda
        • Special Projects
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      • Did You Know?
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    Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline wins international recognition while countering Russian propaganda

    Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.

    Explore the UJE Timeline

    As Ukraine defends its very existence against Russia, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Timeline serves to counter the malicious and false narratives about Ukraine and its history. The Timeline demonstrates that Ukraine is home to diverse peoples and, for centuries, one of the world’s oldest and largest Jewish communities.

    Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:

    Web Excellence Awards:

    • Excellence — Website Non-profit (2023)

    w3 Awards:

    • Silver — Website Non-profit (2023)
    • Silver — Website Best Structure and Navigation (2023)
    • Silver— Website Best Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2023)

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    • Bronze — Website Digital and Innovative Experiences (2024)

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    • Gold — Website Non-Profit (2024)
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    • Silver — Website Visual Appeal and Aesthetics (2024).

     

    Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize  

    The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."

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