Second Research Seminar on Comparing the History of the Holocaust in Ukraine and France
On 5 - 9 October 2009 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and the well-known European research, educational and memorial center "Memorial de la Shoah" in Paris have for the second time held a research seminar for Ukrainian history teachers on comparing the fates of Jewish communities under the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust on Ukrainian and French territories. This way the Centre continued the cooperation with the French colleagues.
15 participants of this seminar represented eight regions of Ukraine (Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Poltava, Kyiv, Sumy, Sebastopol, Lviv, Ternopil). Traditionally, below are some of their feedback essays in Ukrainian.
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