New edition to start the UCHS series “Library of the Holocaust Memoirs”
New edition to start the UCHS series “Library of the Holocaust Memoirs” The book “Light in Darkness”, by Phyllis Sterling Jacobs is, as said in subtitle “as survivor’s story by Simon Sterling as told to Phyllis Sterling Jacobs” – the moving and deep dialogue between the daughter and her father, who only in 1980s could find strength and courage to tell his story of survival in Ukrainian-Polish borderland during the events of the Holocaust and the following return to life in Germany and the USA. Around 2000 the daughter found strength to share this story. To the advantage of the readers of English and now of Ukrainian. The plain story of struggle and will to life in the terrible conditions is a vivid experience for any reader, willing to learn history firsthand.
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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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Annual Report of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies for 2025: Events, Media, Publications
We are pleased to share with you the annual report of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. It includes a list of events held during the year, links to programs, video and audio materials, photo galleries, and publications - everything we managed to accomplish in 2025.
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International Forum in Berlin in Support of Ukraine
On February 23, 2026, Berlin hosted the international forum Café Kyiv on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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THE HOLOCAUST AS A STARTING POINT Ukrainian teachers training in France
From February 9 to 12, Paris hosted the scholarly and methodological seminar Holocaust as a Starting Point, organized by the Shoah Memorial in cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. The program featured lectures, workshops, museum practice, and excursions.
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