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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany represents world Jewry in negotiating for compensation and restitution for victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs. The Claims Conference administers compensation funds, recovers unclaimed Jewish property, and allocates funds to institutions that provide social welfare services to Holocaust survivors and preserve the memory and lessons of the Shoah. http://claimscon.org
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The American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee, established in 1906 by a small group of American Jews deeply concerned about pogroms aimed at Russian Jews, determined that the best way to protect Jewish populations in danger would be to work towards a world in which all peoples were accorded respect and dignity.
Over 100 years later, AJC continues its efforts to promote pluralistic and democratic societies where all minorities are protected. www.ajc.org -
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE (AJWS)
American Jewish World Service [AJWS] is an independent not-for-profit organization founded in 1985 to help alleviate poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the world regardless of race, religion or nationality. It breathes life into Judaism's imperative to pursue justice and helps American Jews act upon a deeply felt obligation to improve the chances for survival, economic independence and human dignity for all people.
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THE JEWISH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND
The Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of American Jewish World Service, is a philanthropic organization dedicated to supporting grassroots Jewish renewal and human rights programs in the former Soviet Union where the third largest Jewish community in the world resides. JCDF's work is driven by the valued ideals of democratization, respect for creative and diverse approaches to reviving Jewish relgion, education and culture, and the recognition of the need for a diversity of option for building Jewish life. For more information about JCDF and the projects it supports, please visit its website at www.ajws.org/jcdf
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Anne Frank House (Netherlands)
Established May 3, 1957, Anne Frank House maintains the original home of the Secret Annex as a museum. In addition, this organization focuses on the fight against anti-Semitism and racism worldwide. Educational ends are primarily met through means such as the “Out of Line” and “Anne Frank: A History for Today” exhibitions. These programs place particular emphasis on the role of living in a multiform society with people of diverse origin. Material for their work has been translated into over 30 languages to this end. Their intention to reach international communities continues with a joint project between Anne Frank House and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. Together we are bringing the “Anne Frank: A History for Today” to eleven cities in Ukraine, with an additional three parts added to the program. The supplemental materials include aspects of the Holocaust specifically about the Ukrainian territories: mass executions, ghetto building, and deportations to death camps. This joint effort began November 2002 and will continue through December 2004.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Chartered by a unanimous act Congress in 1980 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum remembers the memory of victims and promotes a highly charged educational agenda. Its primary mission is to advance and disseminate knowledge about the unprecedented tragedy of the Holocaust. The Museum breaks their efforts into several categories: Museum, Education, Research, Remembrance, and Conscience. The Museum displays an extensive permanent collection as well as a variety of exhibitions. There are many resources designed to take lessons from the Holocaust into the classroom for its educational goals. Research through the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies promotes worldwide collaboration addressing critical challenges and trends affecting scholarly on related topics. The original charter included Days of Remembrance as part of annual Holocaust commemorations. The museum poses questions of moral and spiritual conscience to visitors as a final goal. Their collaboration with Center for Ukrainian Holocaust Studies includes sharing information from the Ukrainian government’s archives, preparing a Holocaust Research Magazine in Ukraine, and to create an International Holocaust Conference in Ukraine.
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Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem memorializes the Holocaust’s legacy through multifaceted efforts. All parts of the organization collaborate to meet their individual goals. The archives comprise the world’s largest collection relating to Holocaust materials, including tens of millions pages of text and nearly 263,000 photographs. The library features over 88,000 titles printed in a variety of languages. Their collected materials have helped display the Holocaust’s history in the Art and History museums to name a couple. One project, the Hall of Names really speaks to one of their missions: personalizing the experience of the Holocaust. Yad Vashem works vehemently as an educator worldwide offering new insight through the International Institute for Holocaust Research, International School for Holocaust Studies, and Encyclopedia of Communities. Millions of people connect with Yad Vashem annually by countless efforts ensuring the Holocaust’s lessons will not be forgotten. Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies’ collaboration with Yad Vashem is two-fold. Teachers from Ukraine are being selected as representatives to visit Yad Vashem for training to teach lessons specific to the Holocaust, and the other effort is a Shoah youth essay competition.
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EURO-ASIAN JEWISH CONGRESS (EAJC)
Congress is created to defend rights and legitimate interests of the Jewish people, to promote satisfying community interests and needs and also to officially represent, together with organizations and associations of Jewish communities of individual states, Jewish communities of the Euro-Asian region in the governments of a given region countries and in international organizations.
Congress together with World Jewish Congress sets to itself the following tasks:
- To promote unity of the Jewish people, to see to creating, functioning and uniting Jewish organizations, communities and professional structures which activity is directed at further development of the national life;
- To support Israel, to side with the Jewish State in the international community;
- To struggle for human rights and respect for all people, promote national and religious tolerance, defend the individual right of Jews and Jewish communities to profess Judaism;
- To develop and improve relations with Christian confessions, Islam and other religions;
- To develop tolerance, oppose xenophobia and anti-Semitism;
- To render necessary assistance to establishments of culture, education and science which study, spread and develop Jewish culture;
- To study and computerize a complete, objective and exact picture of Jewish life in the Euro-Asian region;
- To contribute to preservation of Jewish material and spiritual heritage, to the return and restoration of illegally confiscated and nationalized Jewish communities' property;
- To promote just compensations to Jews and members of their families-Holocaust victims;
- To bring changes through legitimate means to regional countries' legislations for them to better correspond to international law norms regarding laws on national minorities, national cultural autonomies, rehabilitation of deported peoples, restitution, taxation.The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies cooperates with the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in the project “Tolerance and Holocaust”. Employees of the Center organize and carry out methodical seminars in field of the Holocaust Studies. Seminars pass in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia.
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RUSSIAN FUND "HOLOCAUST"
The Fund "Holocaust" was created in June, 1992 as the Scientific-Educational Center. The Fund became the first organization in territory of the Former Soviet Union, put by the purpose preservation of memory of victims of the Holocaust by means of creation of museums, documentary expositions, gathering of documents, certificates, realization of memorial meetings, teaching of a history of the Holocaust at secondary schools and high schools of Russia.
Work of Fund includes the following directions of activity:
- The organization and realization of the international competition of works among teachers, pupils and students on a theme of the Holocaust History. For today representatives take part in competition more than from 40 regions of Russia.
- The project "Alive History" is carried out in cooperation with embassy of Sweden in Moscow, Institute of Open Society. The project is focused on teachers of the Holocaust History in high schools of Russia.
- "International School": the program developed together with the Moscow Institute of Open Education. Within one academic year all interested persons have an opportunity to visit lectures and seminars on a theme "Education of tolerant consciousness through studying of a history of the Holocaust" and also to get acquainted with modern method of training of a history of the Holocaust. Known Russian and foreign scientists, political and public figures, writers and journalists teach at “International School”. The fund "Holocaust" provides students of School with the free-of-charge educational both scientific literature and methodical materials.
- "Youth Center". The fund "Holocaust" unites students and pupils from Moscow and other cities of Russia. Participants of "Youth Center" accept active participation in gathering of letters of the period of the Second World War, documents about Righteous of Nations. Once a month pupils meet in Fund and listen to lectures on different themes of a history of the Holocaust.
- Annual Youth International Conferences for Holocaust Studies. It is annual conference passes in Brest. Pupils meet former prisoners of a Ghetto, Righteous of Nations. Reports of participants of conferences and winners of competitions are published in editions of Fund "Holocaust".
- The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies cooperates with the Russian Fund “Holocaust” in two directions: scientific and pedagogical. In a scientific direction the Center is the partner of Fund in preparation of the Encyclopedia “History of the Holocaust in territory of the USSR”; articles, concerning a history of the Holocaust in territory of Ukraine. In a pedagogical direction the Center work with pupils, teachers and students for participation in the International School, and also for participation in annual international conferences which organizes and will carry out Fund “Holocaust”. -
Institute of Jewish Studies
The Institute of Jewish Studies aims to organize and coordinate academic research in the field of Jewish history and culture in Ukraine.
Institute's Main Activities:
Research Projects
Historical-Archival Programs
-Description of Jewish funds and documents in the archives of Ukraine;
- Study of the history of repression against Jews and Jewish culture according to the archives of DPU, NKVD, KGB;
- Formation of the "Jewish World" photo-archive (photographs dated 1870-1927);
- Revival of the well-organized Jewish life in Ukraine. 1987-1998;
- Study of the history of Jewish parties and movements in Ukraine at the end of the 19th- beginning of the 20th centuries;
- Study of the history of Jewish literature and arts in Ukraine at the end of the 19th- beginning of the 20th centuries;
- Study of the history of the HOLOCAUST;
- Formation of the "Ukrainian Jewry" Encyclopedia.Programs in Sociology, Demography and Political Science
- Project "Fates of Jews of Ukraine in the 20th century" -recording of oral stories of older people;
- Project "Family" jointly with Centropa organization
- Monitoring of problems in ethnic relations;
- Monitoring of xenophobic, anti-Semitic actions, publications, and statements.
- Programs for promotion of tolerance and multiculturalism in the Ukrainian society.Arts Programs
Organization of exhibitions: Jewish theme in pictorial, graphic and plastic arts of Ukrainian artists.
Conferences, Seminars, Lectures
Since the year of 1993, the Institute organizes and annually holds International Scientific Conferences on the subject "Jewish History and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe".
Publishing Activities
The Institute had published approximately 40 books devoted to the history and culture of the Jews at the territory of Ukraine and abroad. Regular issues: The literary-sociopolitical almanac "Yehupets" (#1-12), Materials of the International Scientific Conference "Jewish History and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe" (1994-2000), Jewish art calendars.
The Institute cooperates with the University of "Kiev Mohyla Academy", research institutions of Ukraine (The Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Sociology, Institute of Political and Inter-ethnical studies), universities and research centers of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, London, Paris, New-York.
Institute is a public organization cooperating with all interested persons and organizations.
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies cooperates with Institute of Jewish Studies in the projects of preparation and publication of a database in the places of the Holocaust in the territory of Ukraine; documents’ collections of the Holocaust History; and also in the organization and realization of seminars and round tables in the field of the Holocaust Studies.
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I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies was created by the decision of the Presidium Academy Science of Ukraine in December, 11, 1991 as all-Ukrainian Research Center, which the basic purpose is deep and all-round studying of the problems which have arisen after the announcement of Ukraine as of the Independent State:
modern dynamics of political processes;
political and ethnic relations;
necessity of creation of new ways for ethnic and national development;
prevention of conflicts in national sphere;
modeling of optimum variants ethnic policy;
technologies of management in spheres of political and interethnic relations;
realization of state and not state development programs in different spheres of public life.The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies cooperates with Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies in preparation of scientific collective and individual monographs in the field of the Holocaust Studies in the territory of Ukraine.
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