The first stage of the project “80 Stumbling Stones for the 80th Anniversary of Babyn Yar Tragedy”
The joint project of the UCHS, the German embassy in Ukraine and the Kiev City Counsel continues. Participants of the project, teachers and students of Ukrainian schools along with professional historians selected biographies, that will be implemented in the first stage. Next, there is a matter of agreeing on the right exact places for the Stumbling Stones with the Kiev City Counsel and preparing for their installation in September 2021, in occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy.
You as well have the opportunity to become a part of the following stages of the project.
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Meeting of the Research Teams for the "One Stone, One Life" Project
On June 9, 2026, the Maidan Museum's Information and Exhibition Center in Kyiv hosted the final meeting of the research teams for the international project One Stone, One Life: 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv. Six teams of young researchers gathered to review their work since October, joined by speakers Oleksandr Voroniuk, Nadiia Ufimtseva, and Anatolii Podolskyi.
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Stumbling Stone Unveiled in Honor of Liia Bubnova
On June 3, 2026, Kyiv’s 16th Stumbling Stone was installed on Bulvarno-Kudriavska Street in honor of Liia Bubnova - a Kyiv pharmacist, mother, wife, and Jewish woman who perished in Babyn Yar in 1941. The installation is part of the project One Stone – One Life. 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv, initiated by the German Embassy in Kyiv and implemented by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with the Kyiv City State Administration
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Museum Practices and Transformations in the Commemoration of World War II
On May 27–28, 2026, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War hosted the international conference Museum Practices and Transformations in the Commemoration of World War II, funded by Germany's EVZ Foundation. The event brought together scholars and museum professionals from 43 leading institutions across 15 countries, including the Imperial War Museum (UK), the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland), the Terezín Memorial (Czech Republic), and the NEMO network.
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Ukraine in European and World History: Contemporary Scholar and Educational Discourse
On May 22, 2026, the Faculty of History at Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University hosted the landmark 15th All-Ukrainian Drahomanov Readings of Young Historians: Ukraine in European and World History: Contemporary Scholar and Educational Discourse. This online conference with international participation brought together scholars, lecturers, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and young researchers from various regions of Ukraine and Poland.
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International Scientific-Practical Conference “Unity in Diversity: The Historical, Socio-Cultural and Geopolitical Dimension of the EU’s Core Idea for Ukraine”
On May 14-15, 2026, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University hosted the International Scientific-Practical Conference Unity in Diversity: The Historical, Socio-Cultural and Geopolitical Dimension of the EU’s Core Idea for Ukraine. The event was held within the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module project European Multiculturalism as an Experience and a Path for Ukraine’s European Integration with financial support from the European Union.
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