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UWC pledges support for National Babyn Yar Memorial Project

Posted On: August 6th, 2021

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

In the leadup to the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Babyn Yar tragedy, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has pledged over $20M to support the realization of a National Babyn Yar Museum and Memorial Complex...

A difficult maneuver between politics and memory: The President of Ukraine at the Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem

Posted On: January 28th, 2020

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

Ukraine could well have been lost among the four dozen countries at the global forum in Jerusalem dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. In addition, there was a...

Jerusalem Post: How to save the mass graves of the Holocaust from oblivion

Source: jpost.com

Posted On: November 8th, 2019

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The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, is perched high atop Mount Herzl, surrounded by pine trees and silence.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed participants of the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony in Bukovina

Posted On: September 16th, 2019

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

To the participants of the ceremony to commemorate Holocaust victims in Bukovina Ladies and Gentlemen! The Holocaust. When we hear this word, it conjures up images of horror, pain, and despair on the black-and-white film...

Holocaust survivor praises Sheptytsky, shares childhood experiences with youngsters at Bobriwka

Source: The Ukrainian Weekly

Posted On: August 20th, 2018

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

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 On: August 6th, 2018

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

Summer 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

Posted On: July 7th, 2018

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

Events took place at the Great Palace of Zolochiv Castle on July 3, 2018 in memory of the Jews who were killed in a pogrom 77 years ago. Among the participants and speakers were Mayor...

An Israeli hero of the Sobibor death camp uprising was awarded the Order of Ukraine

Posted On: May 19th, 2018

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

Ukraine'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

Posted On: October 1st, 2015

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

Dr. Aron Shneyer works in the Hall of Names of Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority. For the program “Encounters” he will talk about the particulars of the museum’s work and its...

Address by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the 70th anniversary of commemorating Holocaust victims

Posted On: January 28th, 2015

Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance

January 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...