The history of relations between Jews, Poles and Ukrainians contains tragic and good pages. It happened that the national hero of one nation was perceived as an enemy for another. It happens that history is used not to build bridges to the future, but to build walls between nations. And yet, repeating the motto of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter — "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The participants of this panel discussion, which took place on 11 September at the Lviv International BookForum Festival, were Professor of NaUKMA and the University of Warsaw, Ola Hnatiuk; Historian and documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Zinchenko (Kyiv); and Director of the "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and UJE Board Member Dr. Igor Shchupak (Dnipro). Andriy Pavlyshyn moderated the event.
How trials make us stronger: Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in the face of challenges of the past and the future, Lviv, 11 September 2026
Left to right: Director of the "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and UJE Board Member Dr. Igor Shchupak (Dnipro); Professor of NaUKMA and the University of Warsaw, Ola Hnatiuk; Moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn.
At the event.
At the event.
Left to right: Director of the "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and UJE Board Member Dr. Igor Shchupak (Dnipro); Historian and documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Zinchenko (Kyiv); Professor of NaUKMA and the University of Warsaw, Ola Hnatiuk; Moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn.
Left to right: Director of the "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and UJE Board Member Dr. Igor Shchupak (Dnipro); Historian and documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Zinchenko (Kyiv).
Myroslav Marynovych, Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, former Soviet dissident, longtime vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
Prominent Ukrainian literary scholar, Germanist, essayist, and translator Petro Rykhlo.
Moderator Andriy Pavlyshyn.
After the event.
Photos: Maria Masiuk, Lviv International BookForum Festival
