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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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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(No) Children’s Stories Exhibition in Odesa. Completion of Work
The exhibition (No)Children’s Stories has come to an end at the “Memory” Cinema Museum of Odesa Lyceum No. 56 of the Odesa City Council. We sincerely thank the staff of the Lyceum for the high level of organization and execution of the exhibition.
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IN MEMORIAM Semen Gluzman (10.09.1946 – 16.02.2026)
On February 16, 2026, at the age of 80, Ukraine lost a great public figure, psychiatrist, and dissident - Semen Gluzman.
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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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Bulletin «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 4 (84), 2025
Dear colleagues! The fresh issue of information-pedagogical bulletin of UCHS «Lessons of the Holocaust», № 4 (84), October-December, 2025 has been published.
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