Nine studies on the local history of Jewish communities in Ukraine are now available on the Foundation’s website .
They are dedicated to Jewish life in the mostly small communities of Holoby and Melnytsia, Druzhkivka, Rava-Ruska, Ratne, Raihorod and Sobolivka, Ostrozhets, Mizoch, Kysylyn and Kovel, their destruction in the Second World War and the development of the local culture of remembrance of the Holocaust. The depictions are based on sources from Ukrainian and international archives, scientific literature and private collections. They were prepared by Ukrainian historians and supplemented with important information in cooperation with the local communities. The research and publications were developed as part of the “Connecting Memory” project and successfully completed in 2022 and 2023 under difficult working conditions for Ukrainian colleagues. These studies are in Ukrainian and include an English summary as well as bilingual captions.
The series of studies was developed in close cooperation with the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in Kyiv. These publications are intended to preserve the history of Jewish communities and their extermination in the Holocaust and to make them accessible to a wide circle of interested parties. The Russian war of aggression not only threatens the citizens of Ukraine, but this war also threatens the work of important commemorative initiatives, many historians, public organizations, and local and national museums and archives.
Both the project and the historical research and the preparation of the publications were funded by the Federal Foreign Office.
