On May 8, Ukraine commemorates the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. 80 years ago, Ukrainians of various ethnic origins and religions as part of the armies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition finally nullified the claims of the Nazi regime to world domination. For Ukraine and Ukrainians, this day is extremely important, because it was our country that fully underwent all possible inhuman trials to which A. Hitler and his henchmen planned to doom the world. The executioners took the lives of almost 5 million civilians, killed 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews (every fourth victim of the Holocaust relates to the territory of our country). The German Nazis and their sympathizers left behind more than 5,000 places of mass shootings in Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of people were deprived of their homes, families and forcibly displaced.

The terrible Ukrainian account of the war, as well as how this important day, on which we honor the memory of the victims of Nazism, as well as those who gave their lives in the fight against it, is being turned into an outright blasphemy against memory by the heirs of totalitarian regimes, was discussed during a presentation for students of the International Humanitarian and Pedagogical Institute “Bet Hana” and students of the Chai-Mushka Schneerson Humanitarian Specialized Lyceum, which took place on May 8, 2025. The lesson was conducted by Yehor Vradii, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”.