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During October 31– November 03, International Conference “Limmud Ukraine” held in Odesa. Dr. Igor Shchupak was one of the presenters, who read several lectures on history for the conference participants – guests from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, USA.
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We are sad to inform you, that Dr. Paul Levine, a famous scientist and the Holocaust researcher suddenly died a few days ago in Berlin (Germany). He was an associate professor and senior lecturer at the Hugo Valentin Centre of Uppsala university (Sweden), specialized in the Holocaust history and memory.
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On October 28, Ukraine celebrates – victims commemoration day on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Nazi invaders expulsion from the Ukrainian territories. Exactly this day, Holocaust remembrance ceremony dedicated to the anniversary of the Jews mass extermination beginning in our city during the Holocaust was held Y. Haharin park in Dnipro.
Read more: Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony was held in Dnipro
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On October 20, “Tkuma” Institute celebrated anniversary– 20 years of existence. We have organized several festive events on this occasion:
Read more: 20 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF “TKUMA” UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
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Recently, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” received unique exhibits – personal items of an extraordinary person, a famous memoirist, Red Army soldier Volodymyr Gelfand. In 1933, being 10 old boy, he and his family moved to Dnipropetrovsk, where he studied before the Germany attack on the Soviet Union. During World War II, 19-year-old Volodymyr came to the front as a private soldier, became a lieutenant and commanded a mortar platoon. He fought near Kharkiv, took part in the defense of Stalingrad and in the liberation of Ukraine and Poland. He came to Berlin and ended the war in Germany, where he remained with the occupation corps until September 1946. Everything that he saw and experienced, Volodymyr noted in a diary, which he kept from April 1941 to December 1946 – both at the front, and in the military hospital, and at the school of young officers.
Read more: Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” received unique exhibits as a gift