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Library of the Holocaust Memoirs

  • Jack Glotzer. I Survived the Holocaust Against All Odds. A Unique and Unforgettable Story of a Struggle for Life

    Jack Glotzer was born into a family of assimilated Jews in Rohatyn in early 1925. He was the eldest of three children, part of a large family that included his parents, uncles, aunts, and five cousins who lived together. Between the ages of 16 and 19, Jack witnessed the murder of almost the entire Jewish community of his hometown by the Nazi occupiers and their accomplices. 

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  • Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival

    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is glad to announce the Ukranian edition of “Clara’s War: One
    Girl’s Story of Survival” by Clara Kramer.

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  • A New Edition of Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies: Michael Hauptman «Forgotten Tombs»

    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is pleased to present a new edition of the «Library of the Holocaust Memoirs» series. «The Daughter we have always wanted. The story of Marta» is the first edition of the Center, which has been adapted for readers over 10 years old. The original book was created by Yad Vashem and the Ukrainian version appeared upon the initiative of the NGO «Helsinki Initiative-XXI» – localized in Chortkiv, Marta’s birthtown. Thanks to Tigran Sogoyan, this story talks to us not only through text and family photos, but also through wonderful illustrations. A new publication within the «Library of the Holocaust Memoirs» series appeared.

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  • A new edition in the «Library of the Holocaust Memoirs» series: The Story of Marta

    Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is pleased to present a new edition of the «Library of the Holocaust Memoirs» series. «The Daughter we have always wanted. The story of Marta» is the first edition of the Center, which has been adapted for readers over 10 years old.

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  • New publications by Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies

    In the series “Library of the Holocaust Memoirs” of UCHS the Ukrainian edition of the diary by Michael Diment, a native from the village Svynyuhy (now Pryvitne, Lokachy region, Volhyn oblast) who survived the Holocaust in Volhyn, was published. In the 1970s and 1980s the diary was translated from Yiddish into English by his son Shmuel Yahalom. “The Lone Survivor: A Diary of the Lukacze Ghetto and Svyniukhy” , edited by Shalom Yahalom (Diment), Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, 2016, 200 p.

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  • It Was Here That I Felt a Human Again...

    «Тільки тут я відчув себе людиною...». Історичні та методичні матеріали до документального фільму «З Галичини до Ааргау». – К.:Український центр вивчення історії Голокосту, 2014. – 92 с. (It Was Here That I Felt a Human Again… Historical and methodological materials to the documentary film “From Galicia to Aargau”)

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  • 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.

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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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