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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Yuriy Paskevich and his friends | English |
Yuriy Paskevich | English |
Yuriy Paskevich | English |
Orlikova Elena’s father Zinoviy Orlikov and his brother Mikhail Orlikov | English |
Orlikova Elena’s cousin Gusta Oguz | English |
Orlikova Elena | English |
Orlikova Elena’s grandfather's sister Manya Kats | English |
Orlikova Elena’s mother Maria Orlikova | English |
Orlikova Elena’s father Zinoviy Orlikov | English |
Orlikova Elena’s father ‘s family | English |
Orlikova Elena and her daughter Luda | English |
Elena Orlikova | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko with her husband Vitaliy Nikiforenko | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko with her sister Polia Zelyonaya brother Boris Zelyony and with their friends | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko’s father Shaya Zelyony, mother Enta Zelyonaya and her brother Idl Platkov | English |
Sarra Nikiforenko with her family | English |