Dear friends! Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" and "Tkuma" Institute together with FSU Limmud Labs initiates the creation of a School of the Young Guide HistoryLabs in Dnipro. HistoryLabs – is an offer for active youth of Dnipro and Zaporizhia, who are interested in the development of the tourist potential of our region and want to participate in the revival and preservation of the Jewish historical and cultural heritage of Ukraine. The school will host interactive classes on th...

October 13-14, 1941 the first stage of the total murder of the Jewish population of Dnepropetrovsk took place [1] – shootings on the territory of the Botanical Garden. Two years later, immediately after the liberation of the city from the Nazis, an investigation OF the tragedy began. We offer several sources that illustrate the evolution in the interpretation of the events of October 1941 by the Soviet authorities (including state security): from the objective fixation of the anti-Jewish nature...

79 years ago, almost with the beginning of the German-Soviet war, the Nazi policy of persecuting the Jews of Europe changed dramatically. In the summer of 1941, at first sporadically, but soon systematically and diabolically methodically, the realization of the Nazi dogma of the need to eliminate the "Jewish threat" began. Thousands of people have fallen victim to anti-Jewish pogroms, killings and humiliation on the streets of large cities, remote towns and villages. Later, mass shootings on the...

Dear friends, “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” receive many letters and messages, in the center of which are family histories of World War II period. All of them are the human dimension of the tragedies that unfolded in our country in the turbulent XX century. Each testimony, and sometimes an inquiry, a request for help in finding relatives and friends is a unique source that serves to reconstruct the most difficult pages of t...

The Holodomor of 1932-1933 is the first genocide on Ukrainian lands in the tragic 20th century. According to various estimates, from 4 to 7 million residents of Ukrainian villages and cities became its victims. On the one hand, the memory of the Soviet totalitarian state crime was carefully concealed and distorted by the communist regime, and, on the other hand, it continued to dominate as often an unconscious trauma over all residents of Ukraine - and those who were directly affected by the Hol...

In partnership with the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the World War II the Museum ”Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" is taking part in the project «PortraitsUA». It is devoted to the Ukrainians who saved Jews from their extermination during the World War II. The project is aimed at fixing and making public as many as possible saving stories and names of righteous all over the world, cherish specimen of their humanity in the historical memory. The scholars of the Museum ”Jew...