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On April 5-7, 2016 Dnipropetrovsk hosted All-Ukrainian Practical Seminar for Museum Specialists organized by Dnipropetrovsk Children and Youth Center for International Cooperation. The final stage of the seminar work was conducted on April 7 on the base of Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” within the framework of the project “Holocaust Studies in Ukraine for Formation of the Atmosphere of Tolerance”.
The participants visited the Museum and had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with new exhibits and multimedia technologies used in it.
During the seminar at the Holocaust Museum participants met soldiers – ATO veterans Viktor Bonyak and Yuriy Fomenko, who told about the difficulties that museum workers may face the while creating exhibitions dedicated to the ATO and Russian aggression against Ukraine.
After the guided tour participants had an opportunity to meet Dr. Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director. He particularly emphasized the role of historical memory for modern Ukraine: “…The war didn’t begin in the east of Ukraine, but it did in the minds of people. Soviet-Russian model of historical memory is not just false, it distorts the understanding of the modern world, imposes desire to “greatness” of the new version of totalitarianism and promoting war against Ukraine”. I. Shchupak announced museum and educational projects and programs organized jointly by “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum and proposed some ways of cooperation of museum and educational institutions from different regions of Ukraine.
At the end of the seminar all participants got scholarly and methodological publications released by “Tkuma” Institute.
Working day of the seminar in our Museum turned out to be successful due to our partners – Nelya Honchar, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Children and Youth Center for International Cooperation, Larysa Hrychanivska, The Center employee, Anastasiya Haydukevych, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Researcher, museologists – seminar participants, as well as Iryna Piskariova, Iegor Vradiy and other “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum staff.
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On April 4, 2016 within the framework of visit to Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community delegation of the Jewish Federation of Richmond(Virginia, USA) visited Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. The delegation was led by Mark B. Sisisky, Chair of the FSU Executive Committee, and Shmuel H. Asher, Chief Executive Officer at Jewish Community Federation of Richmond. The guided tour for the guests was conducted by Dr.Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Holocaust Museum Director.
Read more: The Jewish Federation of Richmond Has Visited the Holocaust Museum
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The JDC Jewish charity organization and its subsidiary Agro-Joint played major role in the history of European and Ukrainian population of 1920-30’s. The JDC became the first in organizing campaign for overcoming the consequences of famine as well as provided financial and economic assistance to the Jewish agricultural colonies of USSR in 1921-1923.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (“Joint”, the JDC) was created in 1914 on the initiative of the USA Jewish leaders to assist Jews who suffered during World War II. Gradually the organization started to help needy Jews around the world, including Ukrainian Jews. Few people know that in 1920-1930s Ukrainian office of the JDC was located in Dnipropetrovsk, not in Kyiv or Kharkiv – the capital of Ukraine of that time.
One of the main JDC activities was providing the assistance to children affected by famine and civil war. For example, in late 1922 the JDC supported 913 orphanages in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, where 37.5 thousand children lived. The JDC also supported other children's institutions.
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On March 11, 2016 Stepan Khmara, the Hero of Ukraine, dissident and Ukrainian nationalist, visited Dnipropetrovsk. He noted that two years ago the city showed a real “miracle” as it were Dnipropetrovsk city residents who had stopped the Russian aggression.
Accompanied by Natalya Khazan and other Ukrainian patriots, Stepan Khmara visited Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, met Shmuel Kaminezki, Chief Rabbi of Dnipropetrovsk city and region. The guided tour through the Holocaust museum exhibitions was conducted by Dr. Igor Shchupak, “Tkuma” Institute and the Museum director.
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On February 24, 2016 Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” and “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies welcomed the group of Russian journalists within the framework of “See Ukraine with You own Eyes” Project. Through this project, public figures, journalists, bloggers from the Russian Federation have the opportunity to look at the modern Ukraine not through TV screens but directly visiting it. The meeting, attended by activists from Vologda, Kirov, Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities became the sixth one in the project.