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On October 22, 2017 Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” celebrated the fifth anniversary! Several hundred people – residents and guests of Dnipro – came to congratulate us on the holiday. There were our longtime friends and partners as well – Valeria Lavrenko, Associate Professor of the Department of World History Dnipro National University; Yevhen Tokolov, Honored Artist of Ukraine, Head of “Prestige” Ensemble; Tetiana Khupova, the main keeper of the Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Art funds; representatives of the Dnipro Jewish community and many others.

During the day, guests enjoyed delicious meals, exciting master classes and games – due to Mykola Bulanyi, the Holocaust Museum research associate, everyone had an opportunity to create a doll “motanka” and try to write his/her own name in Yiddish, together with Olena Ishchenko and Iryna Radchenko – collect puzzle “Life in shtetl”. Yulia Mandich, vocalist Dnipropetrovsk Philharmonic, and Volodymyr Novikov, bard, the author of songs, sang for the guests; the magic mini-concert of classical music was presented by students of the Dnipropetrovsk Academy of Music Mykhailo Muzyukin, Oleksandr Melnikov, Olena Shpringer and philharmonic soloists Lyubov Beresneva and Svitlana Mykhailovska (separate gratitudes for organizing wonderful performances by musicians to Esther Takhterina). Throughout the day, visitors were also invited to guided tours through museum with a visit to the unique exhibition “Clocks that saw the past”.

Opening of a new exposition “Jews after the Holocaust” became the culmination of the celebration.

As part of the festive event, a roundtable “How the Museum was Created” was held. The participants of the event had an opportunity to communicate with those people who stood at the origins of our Museum – Viktor Hukailo, the main artist of the Museum; Valentina Kolesnik, employee of the financial department of the museum; Oleksandr Miroshnyk, the chief engineer of the “Menorah” Center; Oleg Rostovtsev, member of the Supervisory Board of the Museum, the head of the press service of the Dnipro Jewish community; Pavlo Rakhno and Ihor Sandul, modelmakers; Liudmyla Sandul, main keeper of the Museum funds.

Thanks to everyone who has joined our holiday!

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