HOLOCAUST MEMORY, RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS: CHALLENGES DURING WAR
On February 3, 2026, Anatolii Podolskyi, a leading researcher at the Department of Ethnopolitical Science of our Institute, Candidate of Historical Sciences, delivered a lecture (online) for students of the Faculty of History of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University on the topic “Holocaust Memory, Research and Educational Aspects: Challenges during War”.
The lecture was given as part of the project of the Department of World History of DNU “European Multiculturalism as an Experience and a Path to the European Integration of Ukraine” under the EU Erasmus+Jean Monnet program. This time, colleagues and students from other educational institutions of Dnipro and the region also joined the lecture for students of the special course of DNU – the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technology, the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, and the Novooleksandrivsky Lyceum of the Dnipro District.
Anatolii Podolskyi
During the lecture, the lecturer emphasized the scale of the Holocaust tragedy on Ukrainian lands: about 25% of all Holocaust victims were Ukrainian Jews, and more than 2,000 mass graves have been recorded on the territory of Ukraine. Special attention was paid to the fact that independent Ukraine has taken important steps in creating memorials to Holocaust victims, while modern Russia, with its terrorist actions, is destroying both monuments and the culture of memory itself. An important emphasis was also the fact that Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of Righteous Among the Nations. Overall, the lecture was informative, profound in content, and important in terms of the formation of historical memory and civic responsibility.
During lecture