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On February 18, 2016 Kees van Baar, Human Rights Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Minke van der Sar, Policy Officer at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Riny Bus, Deputy Ambassador, and Kateryna Ostashkova, Political Section Officer, made a short visit to Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community.
Read more: Human Rights Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands visited the Holocaust Museum
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On February 17, 2016 Ambassador Andreas Peschke, Federal Foreign Office Director for Eastern Europe, visited Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community. He was accompanied by Wolfgang Moessinger, Consul General for Germany in Ukraine, and Daniel Schemske, Desk officer for economic relations.
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On February 16, 2016 Marius Yanukonis, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Lithuania to Ukraine visited “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. He was accompanied by a representative delegation headed by Vitaly Pivnyak, Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Dnipropetrovsk, and Prof.Vytautas Magnus. Dr.Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, conducted the guided tour for the special guests as well as negotiated regarding the possibilities of cooperation.
Read more: Ambassador of Lithuania to Ukraine visited the Holocaust Museum
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On January 27, 2016 Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” hosted the Holocaust Memorial Ceremony. By the decision of the UN General Assembly dated November 1, 2005 each year International Holocaust Remembrance Day in marked in January 27. This day in 1945 the troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberated the Polish town of Oświęcim, where Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, terrible symbol of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes during World War II, was located.
Read more: The Holocaust Memorial Ceremony in Dnipropetrovsk
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On January 15, 2016 Ukrainian Catholic University hosted the session of German Ukrainian Commission of Historians.
The Commission work was joined by Martin Schulze Wessel (Co-Chair of the Commission), Guido Hausmann (both represented Ludwig Maximilians University Munich), Tanja Penter (Heidelberg University), Prof. Jutta Scherrer (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak (Co-Chair of the Commission, Ukrainian Catholic University), Prof. Yuri Shapoval (NAS of Ukraine), Prof. Oleksandr Lysenko (Institute of History of Ukraine , NAS of Ukraine), Prof. Helinada Hrinchenko (Chief Editor of “Ukraine Moderna”), Prof. Polina Barvinska (I. Mechnikov Odesa National University), Prof. Frank Sysyn (University of Alberta, Canada), Dr. Igor Shchupak (“Tkuma” Institute, the Holocaust Museum). Mark vonHagen (Arizona State University) participated in the Commission work as invited guest.
Read more: The Session of German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians