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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Golda Ravikovich | English |
Dora Slobodianskaya with her family | English |
Fira Shwartz's family | English |
Sima Shvarts with her cousins | English |
Sima Shvarts with her cousins Boris and Mark Kamenkovich | English |
Avram Shubinsky | English |
Zoltan Shtern and his family | English |
Marina Shoihet's uncle Emil Reznik | English |
Evgenia Shapiro's grandparents Fania and Yuri Gershenovich | English |
Ani Sternschein | English |
Sara Hudi Seiler | English |
Max Sternschein at a wedding | English |
Melitta Seiler | English |
Sara Hudi Seiler | English |
Sara Hudi Seiler with her family | English |
Henrik Mestitz | English |
Sofia Ryzhevskaya with her son Lev and mother Olga Gitina | English |
Haya-Sora Monashkina with husband and grandsons. | English |