the International Cooperation department, and deputy director general for research. Ex-coordinator of educational programs of the Museum. Participant of national and international exhibitions, particularly those representing the documentation of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war by the Museum. His spheres of professional interest include museification and memorialization of traumatic history, cultural diplomacy, museum education.
What is the polyphony that you work with or tackle in your everyday work?
Tad Stahnke spoke of the experience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as “a living memorial, specifically a place where Americans could come and learn how and why the Holocaust happened.” The polyphonic situation at the USHMM includes the narrative about different social groups persecuted by the Nazis and the American role at the time. Dmytro Hainetdinov presented the situation of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, established in the 1970s and influenced much by the mythology of the Great Patriotic War. Currently, beside the story of WWII and the Holocaust, the museum explores the topic of the current war in Ukraine, trying to make the museum “not only a national but also an international place of remembrance of such historic events.”