Dniprovsky Historical Club
Dniprovsky Historical Club is another "Tkuma" Institute project conducted on the base of Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" in cooperation with Institute of Social Studies. Historical club was created as a platform for meetings of historians and those interested in history with the aim of informal communication. Famous Ukrainian and foreign historians are invited to participate in each session of the club.
Within the framework of the project meetings with Prof. Vladyslav Hrynevych, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Research Associate of the Institute of Politican and Ethnic Studies; Prof. Ivan Patrylyak, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Department of Modern History of Ukraine, Dean of the Faculty of History of Kyiv National University, and Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of Ukrainian Catholic University, Director of Institute of Historical Research of Franko Lviv National University were conducted.
The project attracts the attention of historians, teachers, students and the intellectual elite of the city. From 50 to 300 people participate in the sessions.
During the club meetings professional historians raise urgent problems of historical memory of the Jewish and Ukrainian peoples. Its main objective is to destroy the stereotypes that hinder the successful intergration of the Jewish community as an important part of Ukrainian society.
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On January 24, 2016 “Tkuma” Institute welcomed the regular session of Dniprovsky Historical Club dedicated to participation of Jews in underground movement during World War II and the Holocaust. Dr. Mykola Slobodyanyuk shared interesting information not only about the underground and motivation of its participants, but also on international relations before the war and the attitude to the “Jewish question”.
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On November 15 the regular session of Dniprovsky Historical Club was held. The topic of the session – "The Great Terror in the USSR and Liquidation of Agro-Joint (1937-1938)".
Dniprovsky Historical Club is one of "Tkuma" Institute projects conducted on the base of Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" in cooperation with Alexander Paul Institute (formerly - Institute of Social Studies). The club was created as a platform for informal communication of professional historians and those interested in history. The most famous Ukrainian and foreign researchers are invited to each session.
This time Mikhail Mitsel (New York, USA), Senior Archivist of Joint Archive, renowned historian, author of monographs on the history Joint and Agro-Joint, repression in the USSR, fate of Ukrainian Jews in the Soviet period.
Read more: Dniprovsky Historical Club "The Great Terror in the USSR and Liquidation of Agro-Joint"
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On August 16 regular session of Dniprovsky Historical Club, created by "Tkuma" Institute, Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" and Institute of Social Studies, was conducted. The Club organized meetings of city residents with famous Ukrainian and foreign historians and public figures. The regular session of the Club "The History of Our City: War and Rock'n'roll…" was devoted to the past of Dnipropetrovsk and its residents.
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On January 28, within the framework of Dniprovsky Historical Club, joint project of “Tkuma” Institute, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” and Institute of Social Studies, the presentation of “Kholodnyi Yar” movie was conducted. The presentation gathered about hundred viewers.
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On November 30, the session of Dniprovsky Historical Club took place. The event was timed to the Holodomor Remembrance Day, which is marked in Ukraine on November 22nd. Lyudmyla Hrynevych, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of Ukrainian Center for Holodomor Studies run by Kyiv Mohyla Academy became the guest of the session. Prof. Hrynevych is lead researcher of the Holodomor in Ukraine, head of research projects in Canada, the US and Europe, the author of fundamental research “Chronicle of Collectivization and the Holodomor in Ukraine” in four volumes, the first of which is dedicated to the famine of 1928-1929. The lecturer decided to discuss this little-known famine during the meeting of Historical Club. So the topic of the meeting sounded like “Unknown Famine in Ukraine in 1928-1929”.