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On July 25, 2018, group of undergraduate students of University of Potsdam Faculty of Arts visited Dnipro city. The guests were invited by the deputy of the city council Asher Cherkaskyi. The group was led by Dr. Vitali Vilenchyk (Institute of History, University of Potsdam) and Dr. Olaf Glöckner (The Moses Mendelssohn Center). The main purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the history and present of Jews in Ukraine, find out how the memory of the Holocaust is preserved and supported in our state and how different national and socio-cultural groups interact with each other.

Accompanied by Asher Cherkaskyi and Oleg Rostovtsev, Potsdam guests visited “Menorah” Center and “Golden Rose” synagogue, and then Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. Dr. Denys Shatalov, deputy head of research department of the Holocaust Museum, conducted fascinating guided tour and told German educators about not only key facts about the history of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, but also with the peculiarities of the representation of the complex and tragic pages of the past in the museum space.

After the guided tour through the Holocaust Museum the guests med Dr. Igor Shchupak and discussed the features of preserving the memory of the Holocaust in Ukraine and Germany, as well as the “German vector” in “Tkuma” Institute international cooperation. The visitors were impressed by the fact that the topic of “final solution of the Jewish question” is mandatory for school students and is included in school textbooks on history. Together with “Tkuma” Institute staff opportunities for further cooperation and joint scholarly and educational projects were discussed, first of all for young scholars studying Jewish history and the Holocaust.