«Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background» Presentation of the album-catalog and discussion about the problems of commemoration.
The problem of adequate commemoration of the victims of Babyn Yar has recently become a subject of fierce public debates. Lack of a comprehensive vision and scientific approaches, lack of public compromise and state responsibility prevent dealing with it proprely.
In 2016 two significant projects were implemented jointly by a number of scientific, state and public organizations: the International Architectural Ideas Competition for Complex Integration of Memorial Area in Kyiv «Babyn Yar – Dorogozhytsky Necropolis» and the multimedia exhibition «Babyn Yar: Memory against History’s Background ».
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Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (85), 2026
Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 1 (85), January-March, 2026 has been published.
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Seminar “How to Talk About the Holocaust with Schoolchildren” (March 27–29, 2026, Kyiv)
On March 27–29, 2026, Kyiv hosted a methodological seminar How to Talk About the Holocaust with Schoolchildren for graduates of the online course of the same name.
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Filling the Silence: Stories of Survivors of the Babyn Yar shootings
The media outlet Local History has published an essay by one of our researchers, Tetiana Shyshkina, historian and PhD candidate at the University of Hesse. For the Stolpersteine project, she and her sister researched and prepared the biography of Rakhil Kozyra - a deeply personal story.
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Call for Applications: International Seminar ‘The Holocaust as a Starting Point’
The Holocaust as a Starting Point (HSP) program, launched by the Mémorial de la Shoah and partners, supports Holocaust education through international teacher training. Within the “Polish-Ukrainian Dialogue,” the Polish Centre for Education Development (ORE), the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Mémorial de la Shoah will host two seminars for 45 teachers from Ukraine and Poland.
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Challenges of Today” on the UCHS YouTube Channel
Recordings of the presentations from the XIX Annual Roundtable “Holocaust Commemoration and the Ukrainian Society: Heritage and the Challenges of Today” are now available on the official YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies.
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