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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Emilia | English |
Dimitri | English |
Valeria Boguslavskaya | English |
The power of Jewish tombstones | English |
On the Road and Off the Beaten Track in Ukraine | English |
Rose Petal Jam | English |
Leopold Zinger | English |
Henrich Zinger with school friends | English |
Henrich Zinger with his family | English |
Henrich Zinger | English |
Helena Zinger | English |
Henrich Zinger | English |
Bella Zeldovich with her siblings | English |
Bella Zeldovich and her parents | English |
Samuel and Sarah Zeldovich | English |
Samuel Zeldovich and his brother | English |
Leya Zeldovich | English |
Solomon Zeldovich | English |