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5/27/2026
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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3/6/2026
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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2/12/2026
Holocaust Memory: Academic and Educational Challenges in Wartime

On February 3, 2026, Anatolii Podolskyi, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, delivered an online lecture for students of the Faculty of History at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University on the topic Holocaust Memory, Academic and Educational Aspects: Challenges in Times of War.
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1/8/2026
Bibliographic Database “Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine”

The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies has begun work on a project to create a bibliographic database entitled Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine. The project envisages the creation of a reference resource covering various types of academic publications, as well as dissertations and educational publications
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12/25/2025
The Formation of Holocaust Scholarly Discourse in European Nations

On December 16, 2025, the State Institution Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine held the International Scientific Conference The Formation of Holocaust Scholarly Discourse in European Nations.
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11/28/2025
Claims Conference European Workshop for Shoah Research, Education and Documentation Organizations

On 17–20 November 2025, an international seminar for teachers and researchers of World War II and Holocaust history was held in Amsterdam at the National Holocaust Museum.
Scientists and educators from 44 European countries and representatives of organisations from the United States took part. The event was organised by the international organisation Claims Conference (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany).
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10/9/2025
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).
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3/27/2025
XIV ALL-UKRAINIAN DRAGOMANOV READINGS

On 21 March 2025, the XIV Drahomanov Readings of Young Historians took place at the History Faculty of the Mykhailo Drahomanov National University of Ukraine.
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12/10/2024
European Holocaust Studies: Modern Dimensions and Research Prospects. International Conference

On 12 November 2024, the Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine hosted an international scientific conference entitled European Research Discourse on the Holocaust: Modern Dimensions and Research Prospects. The conference discussed current issues of Holocaust studies in Ukraine and the world, the theoretical foundations of modern scientific discourse on the Holocaust.
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11/11/2024
International Conference on Holocaust Distortion and Education: Current and Emerging Challenges. National Measures in Place

On 28-29 October 2024, the International Conference Distortion and Education: Current and Emerging Challenges. National Measures in Place. The conference was organised by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the support of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), in consultation with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
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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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10/7/2024
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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8/7/2024
Presentation of the project "Bykivnia, Babyn Yar, Bucha - Between the massacre and memory about it".

Today, it is important not only to compare the crimes of the three dictatorial regimes, but also to explain their nature, under what circumstances there is a real possibility of mass murder and its justification. This project shows that it is possible and worthwhile to compare the two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century without diminishing the memory of either of them, and that it is also worth analysing Ruscism in the context of communism and Nazism.
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5/5/2024
The Modern Russian-Ukrainian War as a Conflict of Values and Ideologies

On 2 May 2024, the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies hosted the VI panel discussion "The Modern Russian-Ukrainian War as a Conflict of Values and Ideologies". The event was organised by the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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3/21/2024
Ukraine in European and World History: Contemporary Scientific and Educational Discourse

On 15 March 2024, the XIII All-Ukrainian Drahomanov Readings of Young Historians "Ukraine in European and World History: Modern Scientific and Educational Discourse" conference was held at the Faculty of History of the Dragomanov Ukrainian State University in a mixed format.
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3/22/2023
International Partnership Forum at Yad Vashem - the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, March 13-15, 2023

The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is part of a large and friendly community of state and public organizations that implement Yad Vashem approaches in research, teaching, and methodological work. The 2023 Yad Vashem Partner Forum once again proved the importance of international cooperation and support, bringing together representatives of 55 countries. In the conditions of russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, the participants of the Forum expressed their sincere support for the UCHS in the fight against discrimination and xenophobia, caused by the war crimes and violation of human rights by the russian occupiers.
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12/9/2022
The impact of war and russian aggression against Ukraine on Holocaust research

On November 28, 2022, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Study, candidate of historical sciences, Anatolii Podolskyi, spoke online at the meeting of the Academic Working group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), which took place in Gothenburg (Sweden).
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10/10/2022
International scientific and practical conference “Holocaust in Ukraine (Babyn Yar Tragedy Memorial Day)”

The Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in cooperation with V.I. Vernadsky Taurida National University organized international scientific and practical conference “Holocaust in Ukraine (Babyn Yar Tragedy Memorial Day)” which was held on September 29, 2022 in Kyiv. It was dedicated to the 81st anniversary of mass execution of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazi occupants in Babyn Yar during the World War II. Scholars, higher education institutions teachers, postgraduates and students took part in the conference.
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10/23/2021
Memory of Babyn Yar and the Holocaust: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the start of murders in Babyn Yar

As the first real-life conference after a long period of online events, on 23-24 September 2021 the seminary about the memory of Babyn Yar and the Holocaust took place in Taras Shevchenko University Kyiv.
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6/10/2021
Cooperation with the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies

The president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish studies, Vitaliy Chernoivanenko, and the director of the UCHS, Anatoliy Podolskiy met on 02.June.2021 in order to develop paths for their future cooperation and to discuss the opportunity for future joint academical projects. The organizations exchanged their publications and magazines.
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6/5/2019
Research seminar “Holocaust and mass violence on the Ukrainian territories in the first half of the XX century

On the 9-11 of May 2019 research and methodological seminar “Holocaust and mass violence on the Ukrainian territories in the first half of the XX century” for the teachers of history from Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Volyn regions took place in Lviv. The seminar was carried out by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies together with M?morial de la Shoah (Paris) and Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror” (Lviv).
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10/4/2016
Roma Genocide in Ukraine during WWII: research, teaching, commemoration

In frames of honoring the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar tragedy a conference under the title “Roma Genocide in Ukraine during WWII: research, teaching, commemoration” was held by UCHS on 4.10.2016
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11/18/2015
Ukrainian-French research seminar “Comparative Approach of the Genocide and Mass Killings” 3-8 October 2015

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Department for History of T. Schevchenko Kyiv National Univesity and the French Memorial de la Shoah (Paris) held on 18-20 November 2105 an academic seminar for young researchers under the title “Comparative Approach of the Genocide and Mass Killings” with participation of leading Ukrainian and French experts in the topic.
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5/14/2014
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Tracks of national-socialist occupation of Ukraine. May 14-16, 2014, Kyiv

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Science of Ukraine with the help of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies and Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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10/24/2011
International conference "Babi Yar. History and memory of a massacre"

International conference "International conference "Babi Yar. History and memory of a massacre"" is taking place in Kyiv on 24-25 October 2011 in frames of commemorating the 70 anniversary of Baby Yar murder.
The conference was made possible due to the efforts of the French Embassy in Ukraine, National Center for Academic Research (CNRS), Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Memorial de la Shoah and French-Russian Center for Social Studies (Moscow).
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10/21/2009
Conference "Crimes of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine: scientific and educational view"

From 21-22 November 2009 the researching Center of the Holocaust and genocide (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) in cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies held the international scientific and methodical conference "Crimes of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine: scientific and educational view"
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10/30/2006
Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine

Civic Committee "Babyn Yar" and Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the support of State Committee for Nationalities and Religions and in cooperation with the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine have published proceedings of the second all-Ukrainian conference "Second World War and the Fate of Nations of Ukraine" which took place in Kyiv on October 30-31, 2006.
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2/22/2006
Conference on Nazi Anti-Semitic Propaganda

On 21-22nd February 2006 in Kiev Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies conducted an international academic-methodical conference "Jewish Question" and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Mass Media of the Nazi-Occupied Ukrainian Territory, 1941-1944". The conference took place in the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of NAS of Ukraine
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Announcements

5/15/2026
International Research-Practical Conference “Unity in Diversity: The Historical, Socio-Cultural and Geopolitical Dimension of the EU’s Core Idea for Ukraine” [More]
4/10/2026
The XXVI I.B. Medvynsky All‑Ukrainian Competition of Student Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust” (2025–2026 Academic Year) [More]
3/15/2026
Call for Applications: International Seminar ‘The Holocaust as a Starting Point’ [More]
2/12/2026
THE HOLOCAUST AS A STARTING POINT Ukrainian teachers training in France [More]
1/31/2026
Regulations of the XXVI I.B. Medvynsky All‑Ukrainian Competition of Student Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust” (2025–2026 Academic Year) [More]

5/27/2026
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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5/21/2026
The XXVI I.B. Medvynsky All Ukrainian Competition of Student Research and Art Works “History and Lessons of the Holocaust”

On May 16-17, 2026, Kyiv hosted the XXVI I.B. Medvynsky All‑Ukrainian Competition of Student Research and Art Works History and Lessons of the Holocaust. This year, 106 entries were submitted from across Ukraine, with 52 reaching the final stage. Nearly 100 participants from 14 regions took part.
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5/14/2026
Day of Remembrance for Ukrainians Who Rescued Jews During World War II

On the Day of Remembrance for Ukrainians who rescued Jews during World War II, Anatolii Podolskyi, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, took part in a conversation on Radio Kultura.
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5/10/2026
Unveiling of the Stumbling Stone in honour of Isaak Libovych

On May 6, Kyiv unveiled its 15th Stumbling Stone in honour of Isaak Libovych. The ceremony, held on the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism, was part of the international project One Stone - One Life. 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv.
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5/7/2026
Exhibition “(No) Children’s Stories” in Kovel

After its run in Kyiv in April, the exhibition (No) Children’s Stories will be hosted in Kovel from May 5 to 22, 2026. Created by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with support from the international project Paths of Memory III.
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