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Book announcements

3/31/2024
Bauman Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust / translated from English by Kateryna Dysa. Kyiv: DUKH I LITERA, 2022. 344 p. (in the original Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions)

The book Modernity and the Holocaust by the renowned sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman occupies a special place among the numerous works on the tragedy of European Jewry.
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3/31/2024
Monolatii I. Ethnoperipherality. Participation of the subjects of the Western Ukrainian ethnopolitical sphere in interethnic interaction, interstate conflicts and culture of memory. Drohobych: Posvit, 2022, 576 p.

In his book, historian Ivan Monolatii highlights the "mnemonic figures" - literary images through which Ukrainian writers of the 1930s-1980s
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3/31/2024
Monolatii, Ivan. Overcome grief. Mnemonic figures of (non)state literature. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileya-NV, 2020. - 256 p.

In his book, historian Ivan Monolatii highlights the "mnemonic figures" - literary images through which Ukrainian writers of the 1930s-1980s
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3/31/2024
Bohdan Tkachuk. The Abyss of Sin. From the Holocaust to the Genocide. Lviv: Rastr-7, 2022. 116 p.

The book by the well-known journalist and editor Bohdan Tkachuk covers a black page in the tragic history of the Jewish community of Kolomyia during the Second World War.
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3/31/2024
The Operation of the NKVD of the USSR against the Zionists. 1937-1938 / Authors-compilers: Valerii Vasyliev, Roman Podkur, Andrii Kohut. Kyiv: V. Zakharenko Publishing House, 2021. 864 p.

The publication contains documents from the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR about the mass repressive operation against Zionists that lasted from December 1937 to December 1938.
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3/31/2024
Ethno-political factors of consolidation of the contemporary Ukrainian society / edited by O. Rafalsky (head), V. Voynalovych, M. Riabchuk. Kyiv: I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 2020. p. 336

The book is based on the results from the research on Ethno-political factors of consolidation of the contemporary Ukrainian society carried out by the scholars of the ethno-political department of the I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies in 2017-2019.
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3/31/2024
Stiazhkina Olena. Rokada: Four Essays on the History of the Second World War. KYIV: DUKH I LITERA, 2020. - 272 p. (The Second World War series)

The book Rokada: Four Essays on the History of the Second World War discusses the need for a Ukrainian perspective in the history of the war. This includes the formation of a European perspective for analysing events and the return of subjectivity to communities and people who have been appropriated by other people's historical narratives.
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12/14/2022
Book exhibition "The Holocaust History and Human Rights"

Publications of the Ukrainian Center for the Holocaust Study can be seen at the book exhibition "The Holocaust History and Human Rights" in the library of the Erudyt Lyceum in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region.
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9/26/2022
Sociopolitical and historical aspects of developing the modern Jewish community in Ukraine: European context

That is the title of monography which was published by the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine that has been a partner of UCHS for many years. The monography examines the development of Hasidism at the present stage, the historical fate of the Krymchaks, the peculiarities of Babyn Yar complex memorialization, the relationship of Jewish communities of the European Union with state governments, the possibility of borrowing and applying this experience in Ukraine, etc. The author’s team consists of well-known Ukrainian historians and political scientists including scholars from our Centre.
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8/19/2021
Presentation of the UCHS’s publications at the 10th Kyiv Book Arsenal

On 25^th June 2021, for the first time in its history, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies presented its scientific, pedagogical and memorial publications at the 10^th Kiev Book Arsenal.
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8/18/2021
A new academic publication on Holocaust history in Ukraine

Before and during the retreat of the Wehrmacht 1943/44 Ukraine became an arena of mass violence. Until spring 1944, Wehrmacht units, police, SS and SD began committing mass killings in different manners. As a part of the guerilla-war concept (Bandenkampf) they burned down villages and killed or deported their residents, stole their food and products.
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8/3/2020
"The Holocaust and city: space of murders – space of destruction"

The first issue of the urban studies journal "City: history, culture, society" has been published. The issue is called "The Holocaust and city: space of murders – space of destruction" and covers the topic of the Holocaust in urban spaces.
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12/30/2006
Jules Schelvis: Inside the Gates , A report of two years in German extermination and concentration camps

Being a Jew, Jules Schelvis, born in Amsterdam in 1921, was captured and deported together with his wife Rachel and her family, via Westerbork to Sobibor. His skills as a printer allowed him to survive with eighteen other people from a total of 34.313 Jews who were deported to Sobibor.
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12/30/2006
Rochelle G. Saidel: The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration camp

Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. During its six years of operation, there was a total of about 20.000 Jewish women in the camp. Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish women prisoners.
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12/30/2006
Robert Satloff: Among the Righteous, Lost stories from the Holocaust's long reach into Arab Lands

Robert Satloff tries to enlighten the much neglected topic of Holocaust research in Arab countries. Posing the question "Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust?" he "set off [..] to find an Arab hero whose story would change the way Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history".
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12/30/2006
Jules Schelvis: Sobibor: a history of a Nazi death camp

"Sobibor", written by Holocaust Survivor Jules Schelvis is "a carefully researched and closely argued academic text that has employed the available testimonies and postwar trial documents to produce a comprehensive history of the camp."
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12/30/2006
Thomas Toivi Blatt: From the Ashes of Sobibor.

When Blatt arrived in the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor he was 15 years old. While all of his family was sent to the gas chamber in front of his eyes, Blatt was chosen for "Arbeitseinsatz" that means assigned to work as a shoe shiner for Karl August Frenzel, commandant at Sobibor.
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Announcements

11/12/2024
European Research Discourse on the Holocaust: Modern Dimensions and Research Prospects. International Scientific Conference [More]
10/1/2024
We invite article submissions for a joint publication of the journal Ukraina Moderna and the Memory Culture Platform Mynule / Maibutnie / Mystetstvo (Past / Future / Art) [More]
8/15/2024
Open Day of the Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies [More]
7/10/2024
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR-SCHOOL "THE HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN UKRAINE: RESEARCH, EDUCATION, COMMEMORATION", Kyiv, August 2024 [More]
6/5/2024
TURN OF HISTORY. THE PATH TO JUSTICE FOR WAR VICTIMS IN UKRAINE [More]

11/6/2024
Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (79), 2024

Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 3 (79), July-September, 2024 has been published.
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10/27/2024
The past helps to understand the present – UCU opens the Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History

On 17 October in Lviv, the Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History had its ceremonial opening. The center was jointly founded by Ukrainian Catholic University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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10/20/2024
On Guard of Saint Sophia. Exhibition project

Starting 18 September 2024, the Kyiv History Museum invites you to visit the large-scale multimedia exhibition project On Guard of Saint Sophia. This unique exhibition demonstrates the modern Russian-Ukrainian war as a result of the centuries-long confrontation between two civilisations with their completely opposite values.
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10/10/2024
Holocaust Remembrance in the Ukrainian Regions

Interview with Olha Limonova, coordinator of the UCHS Formal Education Department, on Hromadske Radio about the problems and changes in Holocaust Remembrance.

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10/7/2024
Seminar on Teaching Holocaust History at High School in Chernivtsi

On 4-6 October 2024, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University hosted a research and methodological seminar for university professors entitled ‘Teaching Holocaust History at High School’. The seminar was organised by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with and the financial support of the International Project “Tracks of Memory” of the Düsseldorf Jewish Community.
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