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The village of Ksaveriv and Its Jewish Past

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The village of Ksaveriv and Its Jewish Past

The village of Ksaveriv, located in the Polissia region, has a rich history. An important aspect of its past was the Jewish community that lived here for many centuries. Memories of this community have almost vanished, remaining only in the recollections of a few long-time residents and archival documents, but researchers and local historians continue to uncover the village’s history. Nestled among the forests of Zhytomyr Polissia, far from major roads, was the small village…

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80 years on: The true faces of the Babyn Yar Murders are being revealed

Posted on by Igor Kulakov
80 years on: The true faces of the Babyn Yar Murders are being revealed

    Between 29-30 September, 1941, the Nazis murdered 33,771 Jewish Ukrainians in the Babyn Yar Ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv. –       Perpetrators have never been convicted – despite extensive testimonies gathered after the War, now revealed by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. –       Having already uncovered new information about the victims and the Massacre, the Memorial Center has begun compiling evidence and testimonies shedding light on the perpetrators…

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The Holocaust Memorial will be built in Kyiv: the concept of memorialization of Babyn Yar was presented

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The Holocaust Memorial will be built in Kyiv: the concept of memorialization of Babyn Yar was presented

The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center presented the creative concept of the Memorial and the results of its work for 2020. On January 14, the concept was presented to the Supervisory Board and on January 21 to the Public Council of the Memorial Center. During the presentation, the site of the Memorial Center was subjected to a powerful hacker attack, because of which we were forced to close our on-line archive. An international group of…

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Алена Новгородская, Ukrainian Israeli Innovation Summit: “Украинцы и израильтяне нужны друг другу”

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Алена Новгородская, Ukrainian Israeli Innovation Summit: “Украинцы и израильтяне нужны друг другу”

Почему украинским компаниям важно работать с израильскими, и в чем взаимная выгода? Правда ли то, что украинцы – “руки”, а израильтяне – “мозги”? Как провести Саммит в онлайне во время пандемии? Обо всем этом знает наша собеседница – Алена Новгородская, израильтянка украинского происхождения. Алена создала и развивает бизнес-платформу для эффективного сотрудничества между Украиной, Израилем и другими странами Global Israeli Initiative, а также является организатором Ukrainian Israeli Innovation Summit. Третий UIIS прошел 29 октября 2020 года,…

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Norman Naimark joined the Scientific Council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

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Norman Naimark joined the Scientific Council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

Norman Naimark, a well-known American historian and Professor at Stanford University, joined the Scientific Council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. Norman Naimark is a Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University and specializes in the Region’s recent history. In particular, Professor Naimark is recognised as one of the leading American and world experts in the history of the Soviet era. His academic interests include genocide and ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe, the…

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Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

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Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

(JTA) — For most of his life, all the information Igor Kulakov had about his paternal great-grandparents was their picture, their names and the fact that they had been murdered during the Holocaust. The assumption in his family had always been that Sheindle and Mordechai Sova were shot at Babyn Yar (often spelled “Babi Yar”), a ravine on Kyiv’s outskirts where German troops massacred at least 33,000 Jews in September 1941, in one of the…

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Adv. Moshe G. Medved: “Cryptocurrencies? No one talks about it”!

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Moshe Medved provides legal services to the firm’s clients in the corporate, VC, high-tech, M&A, and intellectual property department with a focus on multinational commercial transactions, start-ups and managing foreign investments and family wealth in Israel. Israeli Innovation Week in Ukraine (IIWU) will bring together more than 600 top managers, IT entrepreneurs, government representatives, start-ups, venture capital investors and business angels. It will be a first tech week of business events and projects in Ukraine…

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