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On February 13, 2017 Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” hosted opening of photo exhibition “Adult Crimean Childhood”, dedicated to the fate of political prisoners’ children of Crimea, annexed by Russia. The event was organized by – “Crimean House” in Lviv with the support of the Embassy of Canada in Ukraine, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Read more: Opening of the Exhibition “Adult Crimean Childhood” at the Holocaust Museum
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February 15, 2017, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” welcomed Jacek Zur, deputy Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine. Mr. Jacek Zur is a longtime partner of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, one of originators of the most successful project in the field of inter-religious and inter-ethnic dialogue – “The Ark” seminar, which annually unites Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish and Crimean Tatar young people.
Read more: Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” welcomed Jacek Zur
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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.