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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Frida Khatset with her mother Nehama Khatset, brother Boris Khatset and governess Olga | English |
Frida Khatset with her husband Alfred Lieberman | English |
Lieberman | English |
Frida Khatset | English |
Vladimir Khalfin | English |
Vladimir Khalfin and his wife Silva Khalfina | English |
Vladimir Khalfin’s sister Clara Khalfina and brother Itzyk Khalfin | English |
Vladimir Khalfin’s mother Golda Khalfina | English |
Khalfina | English |
Vladimir Khalfin finishing evening school | English |
Vladimir Khalfin | English |
Mozes Katz with his son Vladimir Katz at the synagogue | English |
Mozes Katz with his wife Vera Katz | English |
Mozes Katz with his family | English |
Mozes Katz with his sister Ghitlia Mechlovich, his wife Vera Katz, her sister Raya Yanovich, and mother Taiba Boldur | English |
Laicha Katz, Surah Katz, and Ghitlia Mechlovich | English |
Hendl Katz | English |
Usher Katz | English |