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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Revekka Mexina with cousin Fimochka | English |
Revekka Mexina’s father Mendel Mexin and mother Hana Mexina | English |
Revekka Mexina | English |
Revekka Mexina | English |
Zina Minevich’s son Anton Polisskiy | English |
Zina Minevich with her friend Geta | English |
Zina Minevich with her husband Vitaliy Polisskiy | English |
Zina Minevich’s mother Dvoira Minevich | English |
Zina Minevich’s aunt Tzyupa Minevich | English |
Zina Minevich’s uncle Isaac Minevich with his niece | English |
Zina Minevich’s uncle Isaac Minevich, grandmother Riva Grinberg and father Abram Minevich | English |
Zina Minevich | English |
Zinaida Minevich | English |
Faina Melamed and her son-in-law Andrey Makarenko | English |
Faina Melamed with her husband Eim Shpielberg and daughter Mila | English |
Melamed | English |
Faina Melamed’s father Efim Melamed’s partisan identity card | English |
Faina Melamed’s mother Leya Melamed. | English |