“Here I see God”: Omelian Kovch, the Ukrainian priest who saved hundreds of Jews & died in Majdanek concentration camp
On January 9, 1999, the Jewish Council of Ukraine proclaimed Omelian Kovch a “Righteous of Ukraine”. Until his…
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crimes of Nazi Germany in Ukraine
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May 14: Day of Remembrance of Ukrainians who saved Jews during World War II
As of January 1, 2020, 2,659 Ukrainians have been honoured by the State of Israel with the title…
Memory wars and other battles
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…
Hanna from the forests of Volyn: life & death in Ravensbrück KZ
And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not…
In Memoriam. An eternal guelder rose on the grave of Dariya “Oda” Lebed, survivor of Ravensbrück KZ
“Shadows billow over me” Vasyl Stus Dariya’s elderly mother, Oleksandra Hnatkivska, stood in the row of prisoners during…
Ravensbrück concentration camp hospital – factory of death
In July and August 1944, barrack no.12 was filled with women prisoners from Ukraine – hundreds of exhausted…
Roll call in Ravensbrück concentration camp for women
The night was coming to an end. Four a.m… and not enough sleep. Dozia (Teodoziya) Hayvas and I…
Ukrainian women in Nazi prisons & concentration camps
The year was 1943… Almost every inhabitant of Ukraine knew that Hitler’s Third Reich was losing the war.…
Jewish survivors of Babi Yar Holocaust massacre recall events, reconstruct exact shooting location
The massacre committed by the Nazis and local collaborators in the Babi Yar ravine on 29-30 September 1941,…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
The forgotten tragedy of Koryukivka: How the Nazis exterminated a town of 7,000 souls
In the French village of Oradour (June 1944), Nazis murdered 642 inhabitants; in the Czech village of Lidice…
Excavations in Ternopil Oblast reveal mass grave of OUN members executed by Gestapo
Volodymyr Kharchuk, deputy director of “Dolya” stated that no one knew the exact place of the grave, but…
Story of Frants Brzhezytsky, last Ukrainian survivor of Majdanek concentration camp
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on…
Nazi dreams of an enslaved Ukraine: the blind spot of Germany’s historical memory – Timothy Snyder
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…