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Genocide Studies Center. Rafael Lemkin

Updated: 2/6/2023

"Genocide is a new word, but the disaster it describes is old"

Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies is created by Kherson State University.

The aftermath of World War II had a profound effect on the development of international law. The Nuremberg Trials of 1945-1946 first condemned Nazi crimes as crimes against humanity. According to the decision of the tribunal, representatives of state bodies that in the future will authorize torture or genocide against their population should be held criminally liable in accordance with international law. Therefore, the tragedy of the Holocaust was to be a revelation that would change the situation in the world forever.

The next step in this case was the adoption of the Convention on the Crime of Genocide of December 9, 1948, which significantly improved the understanding of the essence of this crime and was to help prevent similar actions in the future. The convention was based on the ideas of the famous lawyer Raphael Lemkin.
However, the following decades of history have demonstrated the failure to master the tragic genocidal experience of mankind. The events in Rwanda in 1994 and Srebrenica in 1995 showed the world the possibility of a repeat of the crime at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries.
Ukraine on the world map of genocide is characterized by unpleasant statistics, as a state in whose territory during the twentieth century. Several such crimes took place: the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the Holocaust of the Jews, the Genocide of the Roma, the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.
Historical and legal assessment of these phenomena requires new interdisciplinary research that will help rethink these tragic events and develop a strategy to prevent their recurrence in the future.
To this end, our work combines educational, research and educational components aimed at studying the history and protection of human and civil rights in modern conditions.

Advisory board

Yurii Kaparulin, Director of Center, PhD in History, MA in Law, Associate Professor in Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement, Kherson State University.

Maksym Gon, Doctor in Political Science, Head of the Department of Political Sciences of Rivne State Humanities University.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern, The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Jewish History, Department of History Northwestern University.

Vasyl Stratonov, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of National, International Law and Law EnforcementKherson State University; Honored Lawyer of Ukraine; Honorary Member of the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine, retired Colonel.

Natalya LazarPhD in Politology, Ph.D. Candidate in Holocaust Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts.

Alina Gavlovska, PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Department of National, International Law and Law Enforcement.

Nataliia Ivchyk, PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Sciences of Rivne State Humanities University.

 

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2024

    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.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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  • Tuesday, October 17, 2023

    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


  • Sunday, September 17, 2023

    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.

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  • Tuesday, June 13, 2023

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

    Read more - Suspilne


  • Tuesday, April 18, 2023

    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


  • Monday, February 06, 2023

    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.


  • Tuesday, January 24, 2023

    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.

    Detailed by link


  • Wednesday, December 07, 2022

    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)



  • Saturday, October 15, 2022

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


  • Monday, October 03, 2022

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

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  • Friday, May 27, 2022


  • Wednesday, February 23, 2022

    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".

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  • Friday, January 21, 2022

    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

    Link YouTube

    Link Facebook


  • Thursday, December 09, 2021

    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


  • Wednesday, October 27, 2021

    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."


  • Monday, September 20, 2021

     

    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).


  • Sunday, July 25, 2021

    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

    Read


  • Monday, May 17, 2021

    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.


  • Friday, May 14, 2021

    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


  • Monday, April 12, 2021

    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.


  • Sunday, March 14, 2021

    We invite you to watch the video from the last webinar

    Link


  • Tuesday, March 09, 2021

    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.

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  • Thursday, January 28, 2021

    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


  • Sunday, January 10, 2021

    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


  • Wednesday, February 12, 2020

    We invite you to participate in the webinar

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

    December 10


  • Wednesday, November 18, 2020

    Dear colleagues and students!
    Our center organizes a series of webinars on the history of crimes against humanity.
    We begin with the story of August Virlich, a political prisoner, Ukrainian local historian and human rights activist.


  • Thursday, October 22, 2020

    A special issue of the magazine "City: History, Culture, Society" was recently presented in Kyiv. The Holocaust and the City: Spaces of Murder, Spaces of Destruction, Spaces of Memory. We are pleased to receive a copy for the library fund of our center.
    The issue includes an article by the head of the center Yuri Kaparulin on the history of the Jewish ghetto in Kherson in 1941. We hope for interest from readers and thank colleagues for their cooperation.
    NGO «CSMP« Mnemonics »
    and editions City: history, culture, society.


  • Friday, October 09, 2020

    Congratulations on Lawyer's Day!

    08.10.2020 within the autumn school of international law Classes were held on the topic: "Crime of genocide: the history of invention and implementation of international law" for students 1-3 courses.


  • Tuesday, July 14, 2020

    The head of the Center Yuriy Kaparulin co-authored a documentary on the history of the Holocaust in southern Ukraine

    Official trailer


  • Monday, June 22, 2020

    Наш центр разом із Українським інститутом національної пам'яті виступив організатором вебінару присвяченому життєвому шляху та науковій спадщині видатного юриста, творця терміну "геноцид" Рафаеля Лемкіна.

    Захід приурочено до 120 річниці від дня народження Р. Лемкіна (1900-1959 рр.)

    Запис дискусії доступний за посиланням


  • Sunday, June 21, 2020

    22 червня відбудеться дискусія із професором Генадєм Побережним. Цього разу йтиметься про автора концепції геноциду Рафаїла Лемкіна: наскільки осмислена в сучасній Україні його спадщина.
    До розмови долучаться Юрій Капарулін – керівник Центру студій геноцидів імені Рафаїла Лемкіна Херсонського державного університету та Володимир Зілінський – старший зберігач фондів Державного архіву Львівської області.
    Початок – о 13:00.
    Трансляцію дискусії можна буде переглянути наживо на фейсбук-сторінці Українського існтитуту національної пам'яті.


  • Sunday, June 07, 2020

    Discussion dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide
    YouTube


  • Sunday, June 07, 2020

    Documentary film

    "Kherson at the Holocaust"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ju5v3Kcyo&t=445s