The staff of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" sadly announce the irreparable loss: after a serious illness died Anna Shvydko – a prominent Ukrainian historian, teacher, great man. Without exaggeration, self-made woman.
Born in 1944 in the village of Bazhany, Dnipropetrovsk region, in a family of collective farmers, the girl had to work since childhood. Despite excellent grades in the certificate, after school she remained on the collective farm. Only a few years later she entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Dnipropetrovsk University. Thanks to her exceptional abilities and diligence, Anna Shvydko has come a long way in science: defense of PhD and doctoral dissertations, head of the Department of History of Ukraine restored at the Faculty of History of Dnipropetrovsk University. Scientific articles, monographs, textbooks… Continuing the tradition of source studies at the Faculty of History, she founded a school for the study of sources on the history of the Cossacks. Under the supervision of Anna Shvydko, 20 candidate and 4 doctoral dissertations were defended. For the last few decades she has worked at the Dnipro Polytechnic. For more than 20 years she headed the Dnipropetrovsk regional organization of the All-Ukrainian Union of Local Historians. The work of Professor Anna Shvydko is recognized by the state. In 1997 she was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, and in 2004 she was awarded the Order of Princess Olga of the 3rd degree.
Anna impressed everyone who communicated with her with her natural delicacy, nobility, and refined sense of humor.
The staff of Museum and Institute express their condolences to the family of Anna Shvydko.