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During this International book forum (May 30 – June 3, 2018) “Tkuma” Institute research associates took part in organization and conduction of various important public events.

On May 30, 2018 Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum, participated in the discussion “What the past can teach us about the future?”, organized jointly with the public initiative “Ukrainian Jewish Encounter” (Canada), informational portal “Istorychna Pravda”, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium.

In addition to Dr. Igor Shchupak, the discussion was jointed by – Adrian Karatnycky (Ukrainian Jewish Encounter), Vakhtang Kipiani (chief editor of the portal “Istorychna Pravda”), Prof. Vladyslav Hrynevych and Natalia Feduschak (Director of Communications, UJE).

Participants of the discussion and the audience tried to determine how the past continues to affect our present and future. What are the recipes for overcoming your traumatic past? Where is the boundary between historical education and propaganda? Why do human values and awareness of the past contribute to overcoming national selfishness in assessing the events of the past and, accordingly, in constructing prospects for the future? This is just an incomplete list of issues raised during the discussion, which continued after its formal end of book forum.

June 2, 2018, the discussion “What is stronger: patriotic duty or survival instinct?” took place and was joined by Dr. Jan Pieklo (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine), Yuriy Scherbak (Chairman of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee, former Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, Canada, Mexico, Israel), Dmitry Pavlychko (writer, diplomat), Mykhailo Slaboshpitsky (Yaroslaviv Val Publishing House), Emilia Yasyuk (advisor of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine), Prof. Wiesław Jan Wysocki (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University), Dr. Iegor Vradii, Dr. Igor Shchupak and others.

The discussion was dedicated to the appearance of Ukrainian version of book “Witold’s Report” – a unique historical document from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.