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"Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies conducts international scholarly conferences, releases scholarly literature (monographs, scholarly journal, textbooks, manuals, collections of documents and memoirs, etc.), coordinates and implements important research projects.
One of the main "Tkuma" Institute research topics is the feat of Righteous Among the Nations who rescued Jews during the Holocaust risking their own lives and lives of their families.
The mechanism of the Nazi "final solution of the Jewish question" in occupied Ukraine, problems of international relations during the World War II, the Holocaust, resistance etc. hold the important place in "Tkuma" Institute research.
Among "Tkuma" Institute publications issued in the first half of 2015 there are: new issue of the scholarly journal "Holocaust Studies", collection of memoirs "Reviving Memory", Proceedings of the International Scholarly Conference "Righteous and Other Rescuers during the Holocaust: Ukraine's Example in Comparative Context", album of photographs and documents "Nazi New Order in Ukrainian Cities" and others. We plan to release books on the Holocaust in Ukraine, the phenomenon of Righteous Among the Nations, research on regional aspects of the Holocaust.
"Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies closely and effectively cooperates with research, museum and archival institutions from Ukraine, Austria, Belarus, Canada, Germany, Israel, Moldova, Polans, Russia, the USA, Sweden, etc.
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On June 13-14, 2018 Warsaw hosted International Scholarly Conference “Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives”, organized by the German Historical Institute Warsaw, University of Geneva, the Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin. Dr. Denys Shatalov, deputy head of Museum and Research Department, was invited to join the discussion.
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May 27, 2018, Drohobych welcomed All-Ukrainian Scholarly and Practical Conference “Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish Relations in Eastern Galicia (the first half of the XX c.): historical experience, lessons for the present”. The event was organized by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, Uzhhorod National University and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies.
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On December 6-8, 2017 Warsaw hosted International Conference “The Nations Occupied Europe Facing the Holocaust”, organized by the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland. Leading scholars – researchers of the history of the Holocaust from Germany, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine and other countries became the participants of scholarly event. Dr. Igor Shchupak, director of “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum, was invited to participate in this conference as well.
Read more: International Scholarly Conference of Holocaust History in Warsaw
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During October 9-14, 2017 Berlin welcomed educational seminar for educators, organized by "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" together with Jewish Museum Berlin and other partners under the support of Consulate General of Federal Republic of Germany in Donetsk / Dnipro office. Within the seminar participants visited JMB, meet Educational Department staff and discussed educational and academy programs.
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During September 21 – October 05, 2017, Iryna Radchenko, research associate of "Tkuma" Institute and the Holocaust Museum, was on inyernship at Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the holocaust (Bucharest, Romania). Established in 2009 by the Romanian Government, the institute has a large amont of documents on the Holocaust from the state archives of Romania, and due to its contacts with international scientific institutions - from the USA, Canada, Germany and other countries as well. Having a national status, the Institute holds a series of scholarly conferences, methodological seminars for teachers to study the role of Romania in the Holocaust. The Library of the Institute contains many books devoted to both the Holocaust itself in Romania and other topics (anti-Semitism, inter-ethnic relations after the Second World War, etc.).
Read more: Internship at the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Bucharest