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The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (UCHS) was established in 2002. It is a non-governmental organization founded in partnership with I. Kuras Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The main directions of the UCHS's activities embrace Holocaust research and Holocaust education. The research direction comprises regional aspects of the Holocaust on Ukrainian lands; reflection of the Holocaust in the mass-media of the Nazi-occupied Ukraine; Nazi ideology and the mechanisms of its implementation, anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, comparative research of the Holocaust and other cases of genocide. The UCHS holds scholarly conferences and seminars on these issues. In frames of the educational activities the UCHS consults Holocaust history teachers of secondary schools and higher educational establishments, promotes the creation of curricula and manuals on the Holocaust, organizes annual competitions of students' research and art works. Alongside with the main working directions the UCHS is actively involved into publishing and has its own periodical editions: semi-annual scholarly journal "Holocaust and Modernity" and bi-monthly informative-pedagogical bulletin "Lessons of the Holocaust". The UCHS also participates in international projects in alliance with academic and educational institutions all over the world. Presentation of activities UCHS

School Competition of Research and Art Works "Babyn Yar: Person, Authority, History. To 70th Anniversary of the Tragedy" On June 5, 2011 in Kyiv Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and Public Committee to Perpetuate the Memory of the Victims of Babyn Yar ("Babyn Yar" Public Committee) under the support of the French Embassy in Ukraine held a competition of pupils' research works, educational and art projects on "Babyn Yar: Person, Authority, History. To 70th Anniversary of the Tragedy", where pupils and teachers of Kyiv secondary schools took part. Foto… Programme…

Scholarly journal "Holocaust and Modernity" № 2 (8) 2010 The new 2 (8) 2010 volume of the "Holocaust and Modernity. Studies in Ukraine and the World" scholarly journal has been published. Details...

Podium discussion "Unnoticed Victims: The Genocide Against The Roma" "Social exclusion, oppression and persecution didn't begin with the takeover of the Nazis and it didn't end after 1945. Even today Sinti and Roma are threatened in a special way through xenophobia and racism." Petra Rosenberg At the 7th of April 2011 the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" organized a podium discussion with the title "Unnoticed Victims: The Genocide Against The Roma". It was the second event within the annual series with the topic "70 years after the invasion of the Soviet Union". The discussion was held at the representation of the European Commission in Germany in Berlin. Details... Program

School Competition of Research and Art Works "Babyn Yar: Person, Authority, History. To 70th Anniversary of the Tragedy" Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies and Public Committee to Perpetuate the Memory of the Victims of Babyn Yar ("Babyn Yar" Public Committee) announce for 2010-2011 academic year a competition of students' research and art works, public projects and social programs "Babyn Yar: Person, Authority, History. To 70th Anniversary of the Tragedy". Invited to participation are students and teachers of secondary schools in Kyiv and Kyiv oblast.

The Ukrainian edition of the Wendy Lower's book has been published by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Kiev, Ukraine) he monograph by Dr. Wendy Lower "Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine" (originally published in 2005 by the University of North Carolina Press) has just been published in Ukrainian in Kiev by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Transl. by Sergii Kolomiiets, Evgen Rovnyi. Ed. by Mikhail Tyagly. 368 p.). ISBN 978-966-8274-24-4. On July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goering's economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps. Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving together official German wartime records, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, Wendy Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine. In her analysis of the murderous implementation of Nazi "race" and population policy in Zhytomyr, Lower shifts scholarly attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs, aims, and practices. More...

Research-Methodical Seminar "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland" Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with Belzec Memorial Museum and Majdanek National Museum (Poland) and under the support of American Jewish Committee and Claims Conference are holding on 14-20 August 2010 a research-methodical seminar for Ukrainian secondary school teachers of history and humanities "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland". The seminar consists of lectures and discussions accompanied with visits to memorial sites of the Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland. Its main focus lies in history and culture of Polish and West-Ukrainian Jewish communities before and during WWII. The seminar will start in Lviv (Ukraine) and proceed to Lubin, Krakow (Poland). Program of the seminar...

New publication by the Center The book "Erased" by famous American historian Omer Bartov is devoted to certain aspects of historical memory about the Holocaust and its formation in modern Ukraine. The main focus of the book is erasing of the materials heritage and memory of Jewish life in western Ukraine (eastern Galicia). To emphasize the significance of such erasure and show some reasons for this process, the author begins with a short history of Jewish communities in many cities and villages in Galicia before WWII and then tells how they were killed during the German occupation of the region. During his trip in eastern Galicia the author lived a personal shock: he was amazed at almost total absence of memory about the killings of Galician Jews. The work by O.Bartov has a turning point around readiness or unreadiness of the modern Ukrainian state and society to see the history of the Holocaust, generally the history and culture of Ukrainian Jews, as a part of own national history and national heritage with its all positive and negative events in the history of Ukrainian-Jewish relations. We hope that the Ukrainian translation of the book "Erased" will serve the historians dealing with the Jewish studies, the Holocaust, WWII and that it will foster open discussion on forming the complex and true memory about the past and responsibility for this memory in Ukrainian society today. The book was printed by "Zovnishtorgvydav Ukrainy" and Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of Matra Programme of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Anne Frank House, and Central and East European Book Publishing Projects Fund (Amsterdam).