Ukraine in the Centropa Archive
Our largest and most comprehensive project. In total, we interviewed 264 elderly Jews and digitized 2,944 of their family pictures and personal documents.
Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were carried out between 2001 and 2006 under the guidance of Professor Leonid Finberg, director of the Institute of Jewish Studies in Kiev. Marina Karelstein worked as our coordinator, and Ella Levitskaya, Ella Orlikova and Zhanna Litinskaya were among our most productive interviewers.
Ukraine is an enormous country and the pre-Holocaust Jewish experience quite varied: from Jews born in interbellum Romania (Czernovitz) to interbellum Poland (Lvov), as well as Jews who had been born in shtetls and small towns in the east of the country and in the Black Sea port of Odessa, where most of our interviews were conducted by Natalia Fomina.
Centropa’s interviews in Ukraine were underwritten by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, The Jack Buncher Family Foundation, The Rich Foundation for Education and Welfare, The Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture, Art, and Education.
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Title | Language |
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Leib Kogan with relatives | English |
Gersh Kogan | English |
Leib Kogan with his father Gersh Kogan | English |
Susanna Sirota’s letter of reference | English |
Susanna Sirota’s Komsomol membership card | English |
Susanna Sirota | English |
Susanna Sirota with her mother Anna Sirota and aunts Esther Sirota and Polia Kostyl | English |
Susanna Sirota with her son Valentin Markelov | English |
Susanna Sirota with her husband Lev Markelov and friend Semyon | English |
Susanna Sirota with her friends | English |
Susanna Sirota with her friend Nikolay Makarov | English |
Avraam Sirota with his brothers Iosif and Lev Sirota | English |
Sirota | English |
Susanna Sirota | English |
Susanna Sirota with her father Avraam Sirota and mother Anna Sirota | English |
Avraam Sirota | English |
Ehza Sirota | English |
Aaron Sirota | English |