In partnership with the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the World War II the Museum ”Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" is taking part in the project «PortraitsUA». It is devoted to the Ukrainians who saved Jews from their extermination during the World War II. The project is aimed at fixing and making public as many as possible saving stories and names of righteous all over the world, cherish specimen of their humanity in the historical memory.
The scholars of the Museum ”Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" joined the project after its presentation at the Museum seminar–workshop ”Patriotic and Educational Mission of a Modern Museum” held in Kyiv in June, 2018. According to the data given by National Memorial of Holocaust Yad Vashem (Izrael), 24 people honored with ”Righteous Gentiles” lived in Dnipro. All in all, they saved 78 Jews while the youngest among the saved reached 1 year old.
These people’s names and their stories ought to be opened not only to the inhabitants of Dnipro but to all the Ukrainians and other countries’ citizens. Therefore, the project ”PortraitsUA” is urgent and important. The first stories about the righteous people from Dnipro (Zinaida Zbarakh, Vasyl and Maria Zubkov, Motrya and Pavlo Ponomarenko, Hanna and Nadia Chernov and others) are already on the site. The biographies research include texts, photodocuments, videorecordings of remembrancies of every personality.
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