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On June 17, 2025, a lecture on the topic ““Double Crime”: The Holocaust in the Dnipro and the Struggle for the Memory of the Victims” was held at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, which was held by Dr. Yehor Vradii, Deputy Director of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. The listeners, and there were about 60 of them on Tuesday evening, had the opportunity to learn not only about the course of the Holocaust in a large urban center that fell under Nazi occupation, but also to learn about the interim results of the lecturer’s research project on the phenomenon of the transmission of the Holocaust memory between different generations of Jews and non-Jews – residents of Dnipro.
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On April 11, the world celebrated a memorable date - the International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps. It was established in memory of the uprising of prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which took place on April 11, 1945. During the years of the camp's existence (from 1937 to 1945), about 250 thousand people became its prisoners - Jews, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, political prisoners. Of these, more than 50 thousand died.
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What were interethnic and interreligious relations in history? How do they affect the modern world? Is it possible to discuss complex issues of history without prejudice? These are the topics discussed during the next “historical webinar” organized by “Tkuma” Institute and “Orion” Publishing House on March 19.
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On March 12, a “historical webinar” was held by “Tkuma” Institute and “Orion” Publishing House on the topic: “Ukrainian nobility; right and honor; what history can teach young people.” The guest speaker was Prof. Nataliya Starchenko, a research associate at the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies and the Institute of Ukrainian History of the NAS of Ukraine, co-author and scientific editor of history textbooks for grade 8 at the Orion UOC. The online meeting was moderated by Dr. Igor Shchupak.
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The 24th meeting of the Ukrainian-Polish Commission on Improving the Content of School History and Geography Textbooks was held in Uzhhorod on January 27-30. This year, the opening of the intergovernmental commission, which has been operating since 1995, was dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.