Exhibition on the genocide of Roma in Transnistria
During 2015-2016 the German organization Bildungswerk für Friedensarbeit (Education for cooperation) was carrying out a project focused on the history of Roma genocide in the so called “Transnistria” – the region between the Dniester and the Southern Bug rivers that was occupied by Romania during the Second World War.
The group of young people, Roma and non-Roma, from Ukraine, Moldova, Germany and Romania visited places in Southern Ukraine, where Roma deported from Romania, Bessarabia and Bukovyna found themselves in 1942-1944. Many of those Roma died of starvation, epidemics and humiliation from local authorities, sometimes – of intentional mass killings. Participants of the trip also met Roma who managed to survive the genocide and local non-Roma citizens who witnessed what happened to people doomed to die. The result of the project is an exhibition that perfectly combines different dimensions of this tragic event and its meaning for today.
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies took part in preparing and editing the Ukrainian and Russian versions of the exhibition. With the organizers’ kind permission, the exhibition is located on “The Genocide of Roma (Gypsies) during the occupation of Ukraine (1941-1944): Research, Teaching, and Commemoration” website. It is made for everyone interested in this subject, especially Ukrainian Roma, and for scholars, teachers and people who are interested in Roma history on the territories of Ukraine during the Second World War.
Announcements
MoreLatest News
-
Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (83), 2025
Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (83), July-September, 2025 has been published.
[More] -
Unveiling of the Stumbling Stone in honour of Serafima Kozachynska
On 16 October 2025, a Stumbling Stone was installed at 14 Ivan Mazepa Street in honour of Serafima Kozachynska. This is the thirteenth Stone on the map of Kyiv.
Thank you to everyone who came. Thank you for your flowers, words, and sincere involvement in preserving memory.
[More] -
The 14th Robert Kuvalek Seminar ‘The History of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland’
From 12 to 17 October 2025, Lviv and Lublin hosted the 14th Robert Kuvalek Seminar, “The History of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland.”
[More]
Experienced history teachers — graduates of UCHS educational programs — took part in the event, supported by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the Polish Institute in Kyiv. -
Stumbling Stone Unveiled in Honor of Klavdiia Vynokurova (Pianykh)
On 7 October 2025, a Stumbling Stone was unveiled in honour of Klavdiia Vynokurova (Pianykh). This is the twelfth Stumbling Stone installed in Kyiv. Despite the cool, rainy weather and air raid sirens, a large crowd gathered for the ceremony - people who came to honour the memory and show that the past continues to live alongside us.
[More] -
Research on the Jewish Historical and Cultural Heritage of Ukraine
On 1 October 2025, [the Judaica Department of the Manuscript Institute] at the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine held a seminar entitled Research into the Jewish Historical and Cultural Heritage of Ukraine (on the 10th anniversary of the Ukrainian Association of Judaica).
[More]




