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February 04, 2018, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” was visited by honorable guests – Honored Artist of Ukraine, leading actor and director of the theater “KVN DGU» Yevhen Chepurniak and the well-known Ukrainian director and documentarian, whose films became prize-winners of the Cannes International Film Festival Serhii Loznytsia. Guided tour through the Holocaust Museum exhibition was conducted by research associate Olena Ishchenko.
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On January 29, 2018 within the framework of All-Ukrainian Scholarly and Pedagogical Seminar, dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Zoriana Bondar and Dr. Iegor Vradii, “Tkuma” Institute staff, presented recent scholarly and methodological literature. In particular, these were: Ukrainian translation of the book by P. Głuchowski and M. Kowalski “Apte. Unfinished Story”, devoted to the tragic fate of a talented young man who died during the Holocaust; monograph by historians O. Kruglov, A. Umansky and I. Shchupak “The Holocaust in Ukraine”, where the modern scholarly picture of the history of “the final solution of the Jewish question in Ukraine” is shown; reference book “Righteous Among the Nations”, where information about all the inhabitants of Ukraine – rescuers of Jews is collected; collection of methodological developments of teachers “Lessons of the Holocaust – Courage, Memory, Compassion”.
Read more: Presentation of “Tkuma” Institute New Publications
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January 29, 2018 Museum “Jewish memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” hosted Holocaust commemorative Ceremony. Six candles, in the memory of six million Jews killed, were lit by Yonatan Leifer, Director of JDC Programs in Eastern Ukraine, Wolfgang Mössinger, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dnipro, Raisa Yevtushenko, Chief Specialist of the Department of General Secondary and Preschool Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Barbara Gaffin, head of “Kehillah Project” charitable organization (Boston, USA), Solomon Flaks, Chairman of the Council of Jewish veterans and participants of military operations of Dnipro, Pavlo Khazan, deputy of the regional council, ATO veteran.
Dr. Igor Shchupak moderate commemorative event.
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January 24, 2018 opening of the exhibition “Righteous Among the Nations – Rescuers and Holocaust Survivors” was held within the commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium). Organizers – the European Network of Memory and Solidarity; POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; the Silent Heroes Memorial Center at the German Resistance Memorial Center. The exhibition, which tells Holocaust survivors from the nine European countries and their rescuers, will be open from January 24 to March 5. Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of “Tkuma” Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” was invited to participate in the official opening.
Read more: Exhibition Devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations Was Opened in Brussels
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The posters on the tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine and in the world have appeared on the central streets of Dnipro city these days. Dnipro City Council initiated this educational campaign timed to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The posters present terrible statistics of the Holocaust tragedy, which killed 6 million European Jews, nearly 1.5 million of whom were children.
Read more: Posters Dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day Appeared in Dnipro