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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Mikhail Leger with his classmates | English |
Mikhail Leger | English |
Paya Minkovetskaya, her brother Faivish Minkovetskiy and her sister Rachil Lerner. | English |
Leger | English |
Mikhail Leger with his daughter Klara Leger, and wife Yelena | English |
Mikhail Leger | English |
Faivish Minkovetskiy | English |
Mikhail Leger’s father Gilel Leger | English |
Judita Haikis | English |
Mikhail Goshovskiy and Yekaterina Herzog | English |
Judita Haikis with her grandchildren Mikhail Goshovskiy and Yekaterina Herzog | English |
Judita Haikis with her family | English |
Judita Haikis with her husband Adolf Haikis | English |
Judita Haikis with her sister Klara Lowenberg and cousin Adolf Edelmann | English |
Mikhail Leger and his friends | English |
Faivish Minkovetskiy with his friends | English |
Judita Haikis | English |
Bluma Katz | English |