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.
Films
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Thematic websites
Partners
Title | Language |
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Lidia Lieberman with a colleague | English |
Lidia Lieberman and her fellow students | English |
? Simon | English |
Lidia Lieberman’s maternal grandparents Shama and Sura-Beila Ostrovskiye | English |
Sophie Gingold as a pupil | English |
Lidia Lieberman’s maternal grandmother Surah-Beila Ostrovskaya | English |
Lidia Lieberman’s mother's brother Michael Ostrovski | English |
Lidia Lieberman’s mother's relatives | English |
Lidia Lieberman’s father's sister Sonia Koldertsova | English |
Lidia Lieberman and her future second husband Naum Balan | English |
Lidia Lieberman | English |
Tsylia Liatun | English |
Polina Levina with work colleagues | English |
Polina Levina | English |
Polina Levina with her colleague and a pupil | English |
Rosa Levina | English |
Polina Levina with her daughter Valeria Sokolova and her husband's younger sister Lubov Miach | English |
Vassili Miach | English |