COLEBROOK, Conn. – Since 2011, the Bobriwka campsite in northwestern Connecticut has hosted a weeklong music workshop where children and parents have learned how to play the traditional Ukrainian instrument, the bandura. This year, in addition to the usual bandura lessons, choral rehearsals, nature walks, sports and outdoor activities, the children and parents at the “Bandura at Bobriwka” reunion were privileged to host a very special guest.
“Nostalgic tourism”: Why do foreign Jews go to Western Ukraine?
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceSummer is an active time for the descendants of various groups of foreign Jews to travel to towns and cities of Ukraine. What drives these people and what are they seeking on Ukrainian soil? In…
Ukrainian priests and a rabbi pray together in memory of Galicia’s Holocaust victims
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An Israeli hero of the Sobibor death camp uprising was awarded the Order of Ukraine
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceUkraine’s Ambassador to Israel Hennady Nadolenko presented on 16 May 2018 the Ukrainian Order of Merit III degree to the Israeli citizen Semyon Rosenfeld, a participant in the uprising in the Sobibor death camp. The…
Hromadske Radio: There is no Holocaust of One Nation—the Holocaust Applies to All
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Address by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the 70th anniversary of commemorating Holocaust victims
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceJanuary 27, 2015 is the date of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the death camp at Auschwitz, where for a short time there were exterminated about two million people, with the…
Nash Holos: January 27th marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceWelcome to Ukrainian Jewish Heritage … a radio series on Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio … sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based in Toronto, Ontario. January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of…
Jewish News: Jewish musical drama theater of Kiev prepares premiere for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceThe Sholom Aleichem Jewish music and drama theater has prepared its first premiere of the New Year for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
JP: Ukrainian president to mark Auschwitz liberation in Prague
Posted In: Holocaust RemembranceUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko is set to travel to Prague in January to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz.