Under the support of the Tkuma Center eight youth groups in a number of Ukrainian cities (Poltava, Odessa, Feodosia, Kharkiv, Severodoneck, Chernovci, Dnepropetrovsk, Lviv) hold interesting monthly meetings, which allow informal communication among the young. It is not surprising that all of them have agreed to name their groups “Tkuma” (“Revival”) to resurrect the past for the sake of their own future.

 The phrase «The people who has forgotten its past has no future» became the epigraph of the youth group «Tkuma» in Odessa. Odessa has been the stronghold of the national and religious lives of the Jews for many years. The group leader, Ira Zdanovich, believes that people should learn more about their nation’s history to restore their Jewish identity. It is especially fruitful at the age of 16-20 when one is bursting with aspirations. 

 Nastya Chernozhukova , the head of “Tkuma” group in Severodoneck, reports that her group members are especially attracted by such controversial topics as “The contemporary view on the Jewish awareness”, “the Holocaust message to the young generation”, and “Humanism role in the modern society ”, to name a few. 

 The project «History in pictures», conducted on the initiative of the “Tkuma” group leaders, Artyom Kobzan and Maksim Geybovich, in Kharkiv entails the photo session on the events from the Jewish traditional and contemporary history.  Thanks to this interactive approach the study of the historic events become more gripping and entertaining. 

In Poltava a myriad of young people had not been engaged in any Jewish organizations for a long time. Tkuma became the place where they could realize their desire to socialize, learn their people’s history, and feel their belonging to the noble culture. Alina Yanko, the manager of the youth group in Poltava, suggests conducting interesting creative projects in cooperation with the Tkuma center in Dnepropetrovsk.

“Tkuma” youth meeting in Dnepropetrovsk has already acquired some characteristic features.  To begin with, the overriding discussion topic has long bee the peculiarities of the Jewish life in Yekaterinoslav before the revolution. It was here that Rebe’s religious precepts, Mahno’s revolutionary ideas, (whose surrounding contained many Jews   ) and Zionist notions of the pioneering BILU groups were formulated.  

Secondly, group members are interested not only in studying but also in interpreting, conceiving, and summarizing the historical benchmarks, which could be later used in their daily lives.  To crown it all the group contributes to the creation of the National Holocaust Museum “Tkuma” in Ukraine. The work and socialization are facilitated by the regular meetings with the curator of the museum projects, Max Lurye and close cooperation with the “Hessed-Menachem” in Dnepropetrovsk.