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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Sima Shvarts' father Yankel Shvarts with a friend | English |
Sima Shvarts' aunts Fruma, Rakhil and Chaya Vainstein | English |
Sima Shvarts with her mother Risya Shvarts | English |
Sima Shvarts' mother Risya Shvarts | English |
Iosif Shubinsky's family | English |
Etl Shubinskaya and Boris Shubinsky | English |
Chavah Shubinskaya | English |
Sonya Varenburg and Meyer Shubinsky | English |
Iosif Shubinsky | English |
Manya Shubinskaya | English |
Veniamin Shubinsky | English |
Golda Vishvevetskaya | English |
Zoltan Shtern's certificate of rehabilitation | English |
Zoltan Shtern | English |
Zoltan Shtern with his family | English |
Zoltan Shtern with his family | English |
Zoltan Shtern | English |
Sarra Shpitalnik with her collegues at the parade on October Revolution Day | English |