On Sunday, September 28 at 1:00 p.m., Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” will host the opening of the international exhibition “A Scar Across Europe: Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact.” The project is implemented by the Berlin-Karlshorst Museum and the Department of Eastern European History at the Heinrich Heine University (Düsseldorf) with the support of the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media of Germany, the Rhine Regional Council, the Civil University of Düsseldorf, and the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Northeastern Europe.

The exhibition “A Scar Across Europe: The Consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact” is dedicated to one of the darkest periods in European history – August 1939, when the Non-Aggression Pact between the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and its secret additional protocol effectively led to the redistribution of Central and Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the USSR. The consequences of this pact left deep wounds in the territories from the Baltic to the Black Seas, affecting the fate of millions of people from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and Finland.

The biographies, archival documents, visual materials and personal memories presented in the exhibition demonstrate to the audience how the tragic events of 86 years ago, preserved in collective memory, have a lasting impact not only on academic and public discussions, but also continue to define the present. The lessons of the 20th century are of particular relevance now - during the criminal war waged by the Russian Federation, which repeatedly emphasizes its role as the heir to Russian imperialism and Soviet totalitarianism.

Entrance to the event is free.

We are waiting for you at the addres:

Dnipro, Sholom Aleichem St. 4/26, Menora Cultural and Business Center, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine.”

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