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
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Annual ICHEIC Forum in Jerusalem
The Annual ICHEIC Forum in Yad Vashem will take place on 14-17th February 2010. During the Forum a wide range of topics pertaining to Holocaust education will be examined to ultimately work towards the creation of an active network of educators contributing to the Holocaust education in Europe. Participants in the ICHEIC Forum are European representatives of institutions working in the field of Holocaust education, who have the opportunity for discourse during discussions and in an exchange of ideas.
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27 January - International Holocaust Commemoration Day
 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine held on 27 January 2010 the annual round-table meeting "Ukrainian Society and Holocaust Commemoration: Educational Perspective", devoted to the International Holocaust Commemoration Day marked annually according to the UN resolution # 60/7. It was on this day in 1945 that the Soviet army liberated the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, located on Polish territories, where about one million Jews from all over Europe had been murdered.
Among the participants of the commemoration meeting were teachers, students, pupils, scholars and journalists. It needs to be specially noted that the opening ceremony was attended by the Ambassadors or representatives of the Embassies of Israel, the USA, Germany, France, the UN Mission in Ukraine, Ukrainian Ministries of Education and Foreign Affairs.
The broad range of topics discussed included issues and perspectives of Holocaust education and research in modern Ukraine, historical memory about the Holocaust, place of the Holocaust and other tragedies of the XX century in educational process and state curricula.
The program of the event is available at
http://holocaust.kiev.ua/
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Seminar for history teachers from Ukraine in the Yad Vashem Museum.
From 15-26 November 2009 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies together with Yad Vashem Memorial Institute (Jerusalem, Israel) organized for the fourth time running educationally-methodical seminar on the history of the 2nd World War and the history of the Holocaust.in Europe. It was held for the teachers of humanitarian disciplines from Ukraine. The seminar took place in Jerusalem. This time our participants were teachers-historians from 14 regions of Ukraine.
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Tetiana Verkovets
Ruslan Chelabyiev
Liudmyla Nazarenko
Maksym Gon
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Conference "Crimes of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine: scientific and educational view"
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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).
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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).
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Educational-Methodical Study Trip for Swedish Teachers
 Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of Swedish Committee against Anti-Semitism and in the partnership with Lviv Center for Urban History of East Central Europe organizes an international research seminar for history teachers from Sweden, who are interested in history of Ukrainian Jews and the Holocaust in Ukraine. The seminar will take place on 11-21 June 2010 in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv. The participants will visit sites of Jewish history and the Holocaust in Lviv, Zhovkva, Stary Sambir, Drohobych, Kolomiya, Sniatyn. Theoretical discussions will take place at Lviv Center for Urban History.
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A Collection of Best Students' Research Works in 2006-2009 printed
 Історія і уроки Голокосту: Збірник науково-дослідних учнівських робіт, 2006-2009 рр. - К.: Український центр вивчення історії Голокосту; Зовнішторгвидав України, 2010. - 400 с.
The suggested publication is a special volume of scholarly journal "Holocaust: Contemporary Research. Studies in Ukraine and the World". The volume is devoted to the Xth All-Ukrainian Competition of Students' Research and Art Works "History and Lessons of the Holocaust" (2009-2010) which is one of the most important annual educational activities of Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. This journal represents a collection of students' research works submitted for the competition for the past three years (2006-2009). These are all prize-winning research contributions, total 16 in number, that were presented on the past three competitions and gained the highest jury evaluation (1-3 places). The works of young researchers touch upon various aspects of historical fate of Ukrainian Jews in WWII, history of the Holocaust in Ukraine. The suggested edition will be important first of all for senior grade students of secondary educational establishments of Ukraine, who are interested in XX century history and plan to apply for the following competitions in Holocaust studies, as well as for everyone interested in the topic.
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Х Annual Competition of Student Research and Art Works
"History and Lessons of the Holocaust"
On 2 May 2010 at the I.F. Kuras Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of NAS of Ukraine Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies under the support of Democracy Grants Program of the USA Embassy in Ukraine and Eurasian Jewish Congress are holding the opening ceremony for the Х Annual Competition of Student Research and Art Works "History and Lessons of the Holocaust"
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