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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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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Babyn Yar: Thousands of Memory Ravines Across Ukraine
On 9 September 2025, the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience held a teleconference between Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Zakarpattia, dedicated not only to the tragedy of Babyn Yar, but also to tens of thousands of sites of mass crimes throughout Ukraine.
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Seminar ‘How to Talk About the Holocaust with Schoolchildren’
On 26-28 September 2025, a methodological seminar entitled How to Talk About the Holocaust with Schoolchildren was held in Kyiv. Educators from nine regions of Ukraine gathered to learn, exchange experiences and seek answers to difficult questions. The seminar participants had already successfully completed the online course How to Talk About the Holocaust with Schoolchildren, which began on 10 June 2025, and now had the opportunity to continue their training in the format of direct professional communication.
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Unveiling of the Stumbling Stone in honour of Petro Chetverykov
📅 23 September at 16:00
📍 25a Beresteyskyi Avenue (near the T. H. Shevchenko Central Library for Children)
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A Ukrainian Jewish Century
The exhibition A Ukrainian-Jewish Century, organised by the educational organisation Centropa and previously shown in numerous cities across Ukraine, opened in early September at the Menachem Begin Heritage Centre in Jerusalem, Israel.
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