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 THE MEETING OF THE DNEPROPETROVSK JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS AND YAD
VASHEM CHIEFS IN DNEPROPETROVSK
On December 13th, at the “Gold Rose” synagogue main hall in
the frames of cooperation project of Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community and
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem the official
reception has been initiated by the Igor Kolomoiskiy, where the meeting of Dnepropetrovsk
Jewish Community Trustee Committee with Avner Shalev, (Chairmen of the Yad
Vashem Directorate) and Arie Zuckerman (Special Advisor to the Yad Vashem
Chairman) has been held.
 The Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk
Region Shmuel Kaminetskiy has opened the reception with introduction of the
meeting participants and narrated about the Yad Vashem role for Jewish
spiritual heritage and the connection of the Chief Israel Museum with
Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community.
 Avner Shalev emphasized the
importance of preserving the historical memory of Jewish nation, in particular
the remembrance about Holocaust. The participants showed keen interest to the Mr.
Shalev narration about his meeting with the Ukrainian President – Viktor
Yushchenko, where relevant and complicated issues of WWII history have been
discussed, including OUN-UPA activity, exploits of Ukrainians – Righteous among
the Nations, etc. The President delivered to the Israeli guest documents about
members of Yushchenko family, who participated in rescuing of the Jews from
Nazi genocide during the Holocaust period. In his speech, Avner Shalev
underlined the importance of cooperation Yad Vashem and Dnepropetrovsk Jewish
Community and expressed gratitude to Mr. Gennadiy Bogolubov and Mr. Igor
Kolomoiskiy for initiative to conduct the reception and for tremendous
contribution in Yad Vashem Memorial development.
The meeting has been marked with
the speeches of Gennadiy Bogolubov (Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community Director), Alexander
Dubilet (“Privatbank” President), Igor Kolomoiskiy (member of Dnepropetrovsk
Jewish Community Trustee Committee), Mark Shlyak (member of Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community
Trustee Committee and Chairman of Tkuma (“Revival”) All-Ukrainian Center for
Holocaust Studies Advisory Committee),
Igor Shchupak
(Director of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies).
 Igor Shchupak described the
main directions of Tkuma Center activity focused on studying, teaching and
preserving the historical memory about Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as told
about joint Tkuma and Yad Vashem projects, which have been successfully implemented
recently. Among them – translated from the Hebrew and issued for the first time
in Ukraine the monographs of the leading Israeli researches on Holocaust
History, i.e. Prof. Dan Michman (Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, Chairman of Tkuma
International Academic Board) “Holocaust Historiography. Jewish Perspective:
Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches and Fundamental Issues”, and Ytzhak
Arad (ex-chairman of Yad Vashem, prominent researcher) “Jewish Catastrophe on
the occupied territories of the Soviet Union (1941-1945)”. On December 23rd the
group of Ukrainian educators is being sent by Tkuma Center to Israel to
participate in Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies.
Tkuma Center is essential Yad
Vashem partner in realization of the project of Documentation and Commemoration
of the names of Jewish people, who perished during the Catastrophe on the
territory of FSU.
During the meeting a lot of new
perspectives as well as new directions of Tkuma Center partnership with Yad
Vashem have appeared, which to promote the development of innovative
educational, research and museum projects.
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