She systematically arranges sources ranging from ego documents to archival publications, capturing both Jewish and non-Jewish perspectives on persecution, survival, and inter ethnic relations. In doing so, the article demonstrates the growing contribution of Ukrainian scholarship to Holocaust studies and to the preservation of historical memory.
The history of the Holocaust remains of preeminent interest to researchers because of its profound impact on the history and memory of European societies – Ukrainian society in particular. The Ukrainian scholarly community, alongside with its European counterparts, has undertaken extensive research into the history of the Holocaust and continues to work toward the preservation of its memory. A central objective of these efforts is the cultivation of tolerance among younger generations toward the Jewish community, which has resided in Ukraine for centuries and whose sons and daughters, as citizens of contemporary Ukraine, serve in the national defense and scarify themselves in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War.
Since Ukraine’s independence, the Holocaust has been the subject of attention from numerous local researchers. Most of their works are devoted to the study of regional peculiarities of the Holocaust and interethnic relations. A considerable amount of materials has been accumulated on the course of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Especially primary sources catch our attention, since they allows us to investigate the suffering of both Jewish and non-Jewish survivors who witnessed the genocide during the Nazi occupation.
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I have collected, analyzed and systematized published primary sources on the Holocaust in Ukraine, diverse in origin, nature, purpose, content, and genre. These sources of personal character make it possible to conduct a comparative historical study of Nazi policies toward the Jewish population across in various occupation zones of Ukraine. The source base comprises written sources published in Ukraine in both Ukrainian and Russian, as well as Polish, German and English sources published in translation. Translations from other languages are also discussed, although their number is small. The categories are:
1) Ego documents (memoirs, letters, diaries, reflections) – These are primarily recorded by Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians who describe their experiences during the Holocaust.
2) Interviews with Holocaust survivors – Most of the interviews present the recollections of Jews and Ukrainians.
3) Collections of documents and materials published in Ukraine. These sources are diverse, of German, Soviet, Hungarian, and Romanian origin, and relate to various territories of Ukraine that were part of the German, Romanian, and Hungarian occupation zones.
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