The 20th-anniversary national Illya Medvynskyi Students Competition "History and lessons of the Holocaust". The winners
On the 15th-17th of May 2020, the 20th-anniversary national Medvynskyi Students Competition "History and lessons of the Holocaust" took place in Ukraine. This year the competition was somehow unusual; due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine restrictions in Ukraine, we organized the competition online. All the events and defense sessions were conducted via anonline platform Zoom. This year we received around 60 students' works, including researches, artworks, literary, and video works. Thirty-eight participants made it to the final. Congrats to all the winners of the competition!
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