Announcement of the 18th All-Ukrainian I.B. Medvinsky Competition of Students’ Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust”, 2017 - 2018 academic year
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and the Embassy of the State of Israel in Ukraine announces call for papers by students of Ukrainian secondary schools for the annual contest of research and creative papers «History and Lessons of the Holocaust» named after I. B. Medvinsky in the 2017-2018 academic year.
Applications must be submitted by February 10, 2018.
Completed papers must be submitted by April 10, 2018.
The presentation of papers will be held in the end of May 2018 in Kyiv.
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