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On October 11, 2015 Iriney, Metropolitan of Dnipropetrovsk and Pavlograd, met Shmuel Kaminezki, Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk city and region, and for the first time visited the Golden Rose Synagogue. After the meeting with the Rabbi Dr Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, conducted guided tour around the Museum. Special attention was paid to the Righteous among the Nations as among them there were priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
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On October 7, 2015 “Menorah” Center hosted the events dedicated to the German Unity Day. During the visit to Dnipropetrovsk Bundestag representative delegation met Shmuel Kaminezki, Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk city and region, as well as visited Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. Dr Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, participated in the meeting with German delegation where wide range of issues related to the current political situation in Ukraine and the world, as well as the current state of the Jewish community were discussed.
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On September 28 – October 2, 2015 in the premises of Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University the 18 Meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Committee of Experts on the Improvement of School Textbooks on History and Geography was conducted.
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On September 30, 2015 Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" conducted commemorative ceremony devoted to Babyn Yar victims.
Dilfuza Hlushchenko, "Tkuma" Institute Research Department Head; Jonathan Leifer, Chairman of the Board at Joint in Eastern Ukraine; Anatoly Pleskachevsky, Director of "Hesed Menachem" Foundation; Igor Romanov, Executive Director of the Association of Jewish Religious Communities of Dnipropetrovsk Region; Ester Takhterins, Journalist of "Shabbat Shalom" newspaper took floor at the ceremony. Reuven Milman read memorial prayer for the Holocaust victims.
The ceremony ended with a moment of silence in memory of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust.
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On September 23-27 Ivano-Frankivsk hosted the 13 International MitOst Festival. MitOst is a German NGO that is interested in inter-cultural exchanges and development of civil society in Europe and neighboring regions. This is a kind of platform for dialogue between people of different nationalities, cultures and religions to exchange experience in various areas of society (from the current political situation in certain countries to the discussions of new trends in contemporary music).