Multiple Memory: How to Talk about the History of the Holocaust Against the Backdrop of War. Call for applications

Center for the Study of Interethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv, together with the Center for Urban History, Lviv, with the support of the Claims Conference, the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ), is pleased to announce the call for applications for the second summer school "Multiple Memory: How to Talk about the History of the Holocaust Against the Backdrop of War." The school will take place on August 17-24, 2025, in Uzhhorod.

We invite those interested in the history of the Holocaust and in the development of interregional networks to disseminate knowledge about the Shoah in Ukraine to join the summer school. We are looking for applications from media representatives, digital content creators, museum and archival staff working on Holocaust history and willing to develop their knowledge and skills and share experiences with colleagues.

The Shoah, the murder of millions of European Jews between 1933 and 1945, affected every region of Ukraine. The killers were the German Nazis and their allies, as well as collaborators. Ukrainian Jews were killed by deportation to concentration camps, during mass shootings, in ghettos, and right next to their own homes. The lives of Ukrainian Jews and their neighbors before, during, and after the Holocaust are an important part of the history of World War II and our history in the twentieth century.

The school will offer a core academic course in Holocaust studies. The course will pay attention to the regional peculiarities of the Shoah in Ukraine in the context of a multicultural approach, as well as to thematic and methodological perspectives on Holocaust studies in the 2020s. At the same time, the school's focus is on contemporary ways of creating narratives about the past, in the form of multimedia maps and visualizations, as a tool for working with Holocaust memory. Guest lecturers with experience in implementing such projects will share their experiences with students.

The school's goal is to create a space for the exchange of experience, where focused discussions will take place between experts and participants on the topic of the Holocaust. It is also to develop a network for the regional dissemination of Holocaust education through digital approaches that we will be able to implement during the school.

The school envisages continuing education through the creation of a network of participants from different regions of Ukraine united by common interests and new knowledge that they can use in their activities. This will also be facilitated by cooperation with the school's lecturers. An important emphasis in the selection of participants is the interest of potential students in studying, teaching, and popularizing the Holocaust in the future. We also focus on motivated media professionals, museum and archival workers, and digital content creators.

The school organizers cover transportation costs and offer accommodation to participants.

The working language of the school is Ukrainian, but English is required to understand the lecture material and have good communication skills.

To apply for the summer school, please send a resume/CV (up to 3 pages) and a motivation letter (up to 500 words) by July 18 to ethnickh@gmail.com.

The selection results will be announced no later than July 25. The school program will be sent to the selected participants.

Contact persons:

• Artem Kharchenko, 81archi19@gmail.com
• Nadiia Skokova, n.skokova@lvivcenter.org.ua

Organizing Committee:

• Artem Kharchenko, Center for the Study of Interethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv
• Pavlo Lenyo, Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod
• Nadiia Skokova, Center for Urban History, Lviv

Credits

Cover Image: Office of the Chief U.S. Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Axis Crimes, Documentation Division, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (circa 1945). In the public domain.