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On November 23, 2016 within the project “See Ukraine with Your Own Eyes” “Tkuma” Institute and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” welcomed group of civil society activists from Russia. The project is organized by Russian Center “The Image of the Future” in cooperation with Internews Ukraine.
Read more: Meeting with Russian Public Activists within the project “See Ukraine with Your Own Eyes”
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On November 17, 2016 Dnipro Jewish community was visited by Nataša Prah, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia. Ambassador was accompanied by Anatoly Bondarenko, Honorary Consul of Republic of Slovenia in Kharkiv, and Leonid Sklyar, Member of the Board of Trustees of Dnipro Jewish community. After meeting with Shmuel Kaminezki, Chief Rabbi of Dnipro city and region, honored guests visited Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. Guided tour around the Museum was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director.
Read more: Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia Has Visited the Holocaust Museum
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November 13–14, 2016 saw research and commemorative visit to Dnipro of German historians and public activists from Wuppertal.
The group firstly visited Kyiv (including – Babyn Yar), and then came to our city. According to the project participants, the visit was stemmed from the desire to learn more about the Nazi occupation of Ukraine and in particular about crimes committed by Nazi mobile military groups – Einsatzgruppen. The group also wanted to visit local memorials at the places of mass shootings and pay tribute to the victims of Nazi policies.
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On November 11, 2016 within the framework of the second German-Ukrainian Writers’ Meeting “A Paper Bridge” the guided tour through the exhibitions of Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” was conducted.
Among the participants of this year’s meeting there were not only German and Ukrainian writers, but also translators, historians, culture activists: Oksana Zabuzhko, Yuri Andrukhovych, Jan Himmelfarb, Nancy Hunger, Andriy Krasnyashchykh, Dea Loher, Kateryna Mishchenko, Petra Morsbach, Fridolin Schley, Hryhoriy Semenchuk, Natalka Snyadanko, Ernest Wichner, Guido Hausmann, Sergei Zhuk, Katharina Raabe, Victoria Narizhna. The guided tour for the guests was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director, and Dr. Iegor Vradiy, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Head of Museum and Research Department.
After the guided tour the guests joined session of Dniprovsky Historical Club dedicated to the problems of historical memory about the Holocaust and World War II in Ukraine and Germany.
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On November 2-6, 2016 in Lviv meeting of participants of Ukrainian-Polish project “The New Ukrainian School” was conducted. The working group deals with development of new State Standards of education Dr. Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum director, is a part of this group.
Read more: Meeting of “The New Ukrainian School” Project Participants