The museum is planned to be built in Babyn Yar, where the largest executions were committed by Nazi Germany in Ukraine. Around 100,000 people were executed, including around 70,000 Jews, according to historian Vitaliy Nahmanovych. Project...
For the Russian leadership, the May celebration was of paramount importance. It was assumed that 2020 will see the crescendo of the Kremlin’s policy to instrumentalize the memory of WWII. In Russia itself, hysteria about the...
Respected Anti-Defamation League and its survey on antisemitism: what’s wrong This season’s first accusation of Ukraine’s purported antisemitism came from an unexpected place – the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an old,...
“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
What if a girl had an Instagram account during the Holocaust? The account Eva.Stories on the popular social network attempts to make one of the most tragic episodes in human history closer to the social media generation by showing it...
Many of Vladimir Putin’s supporters only ten days ago were expressing concern that he had not launched his campaign with the kind of speeches that would mobilize the population around his plans for the next six years. But such people may...
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point of view. I’m not coming to you as an American saying “we’ve understood our past and th6.erefore...
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the largest Jewish community in Europe before the World War II, Ukraine was a cradle of Jewish culture and homeland of prominent Jewish artists,...
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as a crime against the Jewish people and the Holodomor as a crime against the Ukrainian people. The Kremlin intended Holodomor to...
On May 22 Volodymyr Katriuk, a Ukrainian World War II veteran and a suspected participant in the massacre of the 186 inhabitants of the Belarusian village of Khatyn 1 passed away in Canada. For years his name had been at the center of a...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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