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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Recruitment for the project “One Stone – One Life: 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv” is ongoing
Recruitment will remain open until 9 September 2025.
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Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
Today, we celebrate not just a date on the calendar — we honour the strength, dignity, and resilience of the Ukrainian people.
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Research team needed for “One Stone, One Life: 80 Stumbling Stones for Kyiv” Project
If you are a teacher, lecturer, student, staff member of an educational center, informal education organization, or a civic initiative working with teenagers — we invite you to join!
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Educational seminar-school “History of the Holocaust in Ukraine: Research, Education, Commemoration”
From 13 to 16 August 2025, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, in partnership with Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies, held its annual seminar The History of the Holocaust in Ukraine: Research, Education, Memory.
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Invisible. Resilience: The Past and Present of the Roma
On 2 August 2025, International Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, the exhibition Invisible. Resilience: The Past and Present of the Roma opened at the Living Memory Exhibition Centre of the Babyn Yar National Memorial Museum.
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