AMERICAN DOCTORS IN DNIPRO AND IN OUR MUSEUM

21.09.2021

We are happy that more and more people want to live "in real life" instead of online. Today we were glad to welcome five organized groups - more than a hundred people - to our Museum "Jewish Memory and  Holocaust in Ukraine". People are different, interesting and not indifferent.
Together with the head of the scientific department of Museum and "Tkuma" Institute, Dr. Iryna Radchenko, we met a group of doctors from the United States who came to Dnipro for the first time to share their unique medical experience. For several days, American specialists together with Ukrainian doctors perform the most complex operations on children with dysfunction of the upper and lower extremities free of charge (the operations take place on the basis of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital). The leader of the delegation is Gennady Fuzailov, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a doctor at one of the largest medical institutions in the United States, Massachusetts Hospital in Boston. Probably many Ukrainians still remember the story of five-year-old Nastya Ovchar, a girl who saved her younger sister in a fire in 2005 and received burns to almost 80% of her skin. Then the funds for her treatment were taken over by the American Shriners Hospitals. And it was Nastya who was Dr. Fuzailov's first Ukrainian patient.
American doctors, many of whom are members of the American Jewish community, visited the synagogue with special interest, visited the Menorah Center and, of course, the exhibits of our Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine".
And today we were visited by freshmen of the Faculty of History of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, who are just beginning their journey in the study of historical sciences. Together with the Museum's researchers Dr. Olena Ishchenko and Tetyana Selyutina, they got acquainted with the spiritual world of Ukrainian Jews, Ukrainian-Jewish coexistence in Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk-Dnipro; touched on the themes of World War II and the Holocaust.
In the following days, groups of students and pupils from various educational institutions of Dnipro, Zaporizhia, etc. are recorded on the excursion to our museum. It is important for us to develop a system of museum-educational work, when students get acquainted with certain issues of history during the school year, in several classes. And in this we see new opportunities for cooperation with our partners and friends - city museums, universities, schools.
Thank you for the photo and text material to Maryna Strilchuk.

Igor Shchupak