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On February 21, 2016 Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” hosted opening of the exhibition “Ukrainian World War II” created by joint efforts of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and the Liberation Movement Research Center.

The exhibition has already been shown in Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa, and Cherkasy and now will be demonstrated in Dnipropetrovsk. The exhibition presents 24 photo and documentary posters that show a new look at the causes, course and consequences of the Second World War and the role of Ukraine in it. In addition, the exhibition tells about undeservedly forgotten heroes of Ukraine who fought against Nazism on other fronts – in France, North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, etc. The exhibition shows the events starting from September 1, 1939 when the Ukrainians as a part of the Polish Army engaged in battle with the Nazi aggressors, until the last shots at the Far East during the war with Japan. According to the creators of the exhibition, it is symbolical that it was Ukrainian General Kuzma Derevyanko who had put his signatory on behalf of the Soviet Union in the final document of the war – the Act of Surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945

You can view the exhibition at: 4, Sholom Aleichem Street, “Menorah” Center, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine, the 2nd floor.