Kherson State University

A representative of Kherson State University joined a seminar for university professors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).

The seminar was held from January 8 to 12, 2024 in Washington, DC.

It focused on the topic of restitution, reparations, and homecoming after the Holocaust and related issues. In particular, it was about the restoration of property rights of indigenous peoples in the United States at the present stage.

As a result of the seminar, working in groups, teachers had the opportunity to develop their own draft assignments for students for further integration into their courses and teaching practice.

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On October 18, the educational and cultural Hub "Interesting Ukraine" will be opened at the office of Kherson State University in Ivano-Frankivsk. The event starts at 15:30.
The "Interesting Ukraine" Hub was created with the support of the USAID Democratic Governance in Eastern Ukraine (DG East) project. 
The event will feature a public online lecture by Yurii Kaparulin, Associate Professor of the Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement at KSU, entitled "The Crime of Genocide: Historical Aspects, Memorial Laws, and Political Discussions in Ukraine." You can join the lecture at the link - Zoom Conference https://ksu-ks.ua.zoom.us/j/85324976465... Conference ID: 853 2497 6465 Access code: 897230

Kherson State University, with the support of The Claims Conference University Partnership program in Holocaust Studies, invites applicants (bachelor's and master's degrees) to register for courses on the history of the Holocaust and genocides in the first semester of the 2023-2024 academic year.

Presentation of a study on the history of the Nazi occupation of Kherson during World War II.

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Center Director Yurii Kaparulin spoke at a symposium at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) where he presented research on the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine and drew attention to the challenges faced by researchers of the topic during the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine Link

Director of the Center Yurii Kaparulin took part in the International Conference "Russia's War of Aggression Against Ukraine", which was held on February 1-3 in Berlin at the Piletsky Institute.

On January 27, the University of Michigan will host a screening and discussion of the documentary film Kalinindorf.

The central theme of the film is the history of the Holocaust in southern Ukraine, but the discussion will also include a reflection on the contemporary violence on these territories in the context of the Russian Federation's war against Ukraine today.

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We are invite you to join the presentation of a new episode of the documentary project "UnKnown Holocaust. Prisoners of War".

Facebook event

Link to watch the premiere on YouTube (December 9, 20:30, Kyiv time)

How to Stay in Academia: Personal and Institutional Displacement as a Result of Russia's War against Ukraine.

We invite you to participate in the webinar "Raphael Lemkin: historical and legal construction of the crime of genocide"

Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies became a member of the coordinating council of the international conference "Eastern European Displaced Persons, Refugees, and POWs during and after the Holocaust" which will be held September 5-9, 2022 in Riga, Latvia . The conference is organized by Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia and Museum "Jews in Latvia".

We invite you to join the online viewing of the documentary ""Unknown Holocaust: Kherson Ghetto"

The event is dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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December 9 - International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime (A / RES / 69/323)
This date was set by the decision of the UN General Assembly in September 2015.
The original text of the resolution was Link

On October 5, Director of the Center, Yurii Kaparulin, addressed an international conference in Kyiv entitled "Mass Shootings during the Holocaust as a Criminal Trial."

On September 13, the Jubilee Concert Hall hosted a presentation of the documentary project “(Un) Famous Holocaust. Kherson ghetto ".

The authors of the project were Yuriy Kaparulin, Associate Professor of the Department of International and Public Law and Law Enforcement at Kherson State University, and director Les Kasyanov (Yahad-In Unum).

We invite you to read this new publication of the head of the center Yurii Kaparulin on the page of the leading Ukrainian intellectual magazine Ukraine Modern

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An evening in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people took place on May 15 in Kherson.

The band DahaBrakha and singer Jamala performed.

Kherson is one of the first cities in Ukraine where a memorial to the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people was erected and is the closest regional center to the temporarily occupied Crimea.

To commemorate the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation and the Day of Victory over Nazism in World War II, the head of the center Yurii Kaparulin took part in a special program for Susypilnoye UA

To the Day of Remembrance of Catastrophe and Heroism
of European Jewry Yom Ha-Shoa, head of the center Yuri Kaparulin, together with staff
Hesed Shmuel Jewish Charitable and Community Center gave a lecture
on the topic: "Uprising in the Nazi death camp Sobibor: Kherson trace."
The event was joined by about 150 participants from Ukraine, Germany, Israel, Belarus and South Africa.

We invite you to watch the video from the last webinar

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We invite teachers and students to the next webinar on "The Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals and the Case of Ivan Demyanyuk: Discussion on the Documentary Series" Devil in the Neighborhood ". In Unum (French Republic), a participant in court cases against Nazi criminals Andriy Umansky, as well as to give their thematic presentations.

For the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we offer you the publication of an interview with the head of the center Yurii Kaparulin for BBC News Ukrainian

During the Second World War, mass killings of Jews and Roma, prisoners of war, communists and psychiatric hospital patients took place in the Kherson region.

The stories of these people must go beyond dry statistics in order to rethink and prevent similar crimes in the future.

Голокост біля моря. Забута історія херсонського гетто

Вітаємо усіх вас з прийдешнім 2021 роком!

Нехай він буде повен приємних несподіванок, а світ у якому ми всі живемо стане трохи кращим!

Маємо приємні новини!

Незабаром наш центр відзначатиме рік свого існування!

З-поміж інших, однією із головних цілей у минулому році стало формування бібліотеки центру і сьогодні ми отримали справжній передноворічний подарунок від

BABYN YAR Holocaust Memorial Center

- останні україномовні витання зі студій Голокосту та геноцидів. Висловлюємо за це нашу подяку! Отже, з другого семестру, книжки будуть доступні для прочитання студентам

Херсонський державний університет

We invite you to participate in the webinar

"Investigation of crimes against humanity through the prism of forensic archeology"

December 10