This conference highlights the latest historical research on the Holocaust in Ukraine, including discussions of new sources of documentation. Topics include perpetration, collaboration, and local reaction; documentation, physical evidence, and testimony; the history, responses, and resistance of Jews and other victim groups; and aspects of historical memory and representation. This conference has been jointly organized by the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris; the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.; Yahad-In Unum: Catholiques et Juifs ensemble, Paris; and the Centre d’Histoire de l’Europe Centrale of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1
Conference Location for the First Day:
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Main Building
54 rue Saint-Jacques
75005 Paris

Metro: Odéon or Cluny-Sorbonne
RER: Luxembourg
Buses: 21, 27, 38, 63, 82, 87

9–9:15 a.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor Welcome
Jean-Robert Pitte, President, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Jacques Fredj, Director, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris

Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Father Patrick Desbois, President, Yahad–In Unum: Catholiques et Juifs ensemble, Paris Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, Executive Director, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris

9:15–9:45 a.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor

Keynote Address
The Holocaust in Ukraine: The State of Research—Dieter Pohl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany

9:45–11:15 a.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor
PANEL 1: German Occupation Authorities—Nazi Attitudes and Vision of a Future Ukraine Moderator: Edouard Husson, Maître de Conférences, Histoire de l’Allemagne et de l’Europe au XXème siecle, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

The Reichskommissar in the Decision-Making Processes of the Ukrainian Holocaust—Ralf Meindl, University of Freiburg, Germany

The Black Sea Germans and the Holocaust: 1941–42—Eric Steinhart, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Nazi Policy, the “Jewish Question,” and the Fate of Ukrainian Roma, 1941–44—Mikhail Tyaglyy, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine, and Executive Editor, Holokost i suchasnist’’(Holocaust and Modernity)

11:30–1:15 p.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor
PANEL 2: The Role of Ukrainians

Moderator: Father Patrick Desbois, Yahad–In Unum, Paris Collaboration in Ukraine during the Holocaust: Aspects of Historiography and Research—Anatoly Podolsky, Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine

Anti-Jewish Violence in Ukraine, Summer 1941: Varied Histories and Explanations—Wendy Lower, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

Division of Labor and Cooperation: The Local Administration in Eastern and Central Ukraine under German Occupation, 1941–44—Markus Eikel, International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands

Nazi Antisemitic Propaganda among the Local Population of Ukraine—Igor Shchupak, Tkuma Center, Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine

1:15–2:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2:30–4:15 p.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor

PANEL 3: Holocaust Testimonies from Ukraine
Moderator: Anne-Marie Revcolevschi, Executive Director, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah

Testimonies from Ukrainian Witnesses: Research Findings of Yahad–In Unum—Father Patrick Desbois, Yahad–In Unum, Paris

Video Interviews on Ukraine in the University of Southern California Shoah

Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive—Crispin Brooks, University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, Los Angeles, USA

Dina Pronicheva’s Testimonies about the Babi Yar Massacre–Karel Berkhoff, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Comment: Claude Lanzmann, Director and Filmmaker, Paris

4:15–5:45 p.m. Salle des Actes, First Floor
PANEL 4: The Murder Process—New Documentation and Physical Evidence
Moderator: Vadim Altskan, Program Coordinator, International Archival Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Evidence on the Ground and Soviet Archives: The Work of Yahad–In Unum—Patrick Desbois, Yahad–In Unum, Paris

An Understated Document: The Reich Main Security Administration’s “Directives on the Jewish Question” of 1941 and the Understanding of the Perpetrators’ Local Initiatives—Edouard Husson, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

German Ghettoization in Occupied Ukraine: Regional Patterns and Sources—Martin Dean, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Supplying Genocide: Ukrainian Police Ammunition-Use Reports, Lviv, August 1942—David Alan Rich, Office of Special Investigations, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2
Conference Location for the Second Day:
Mémorial de la Shoah
17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 Paris
Metro: St-Paul or Pont Marie
RER: Chatelet les Halles
Buses:

9:30–11:15 a.m. Edmond J. Safra Auditorium
PANEL 5: Jewish Perspectives
Moderator: Jacques Fredj, Director, Mémorial de la Shoah

Jewish Losses in Ukraine, 1941–44—Alexander Kruglov, Kharkiv National Radio Electronics University, Ukraine

Escape: The Flight of Ukrainian Jews from the Crimea in 1941–42—Kiril Feferman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yad Vashem, Israel

The Return of the Jews to Post-Holocaust Kyiv, 1943–46—Martin Blackwell, Gainesville State College, Georgia, USA

Jewish Galicia, Past and Present—Omer Bartov, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m. Edmond J. Safra Auditorium

PANEL 6: Regional Case Studies of the Holocaust in Ukraine
Moderator: Serge Klarsfeld, President, Les Fils et Filles des Deportés Juifs de France, Paris

The Destruction of Jewish Minorities in Crimea, 1941–42—Norbert Kunz, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Where Archeology and Mass Murder Meet: The Mogila Popowa Excavation of the Summer of 1943—Martijn Eickhoff, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam

Eyewitness to an Occupation: Collaboration and the Holocaust in Olevs’k, Zhytomyr Region—Jared McBride, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

1:15–2:15 p.m. LUNCH BREAK

2:15–4 p.m. Edmond J. Safra Auditorium
PANEL 7: Postwar Studies

Moderator: Christian Ingrao, Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Deputy Director, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Present, CNRS, Paris

The Memory and Oblivion of the Holocaust in Soviet Lviv, 1944–87—Tarik Cyril Amar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

“Where You Sit Is Where You Stand”: Perspectives on Jews and Ukrainians in World War II—Zvi Y. Gitelman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Local Pogroms in Eastern Galicia, June–July 1941: Their Representation in Ukrainian Historiography and Museology—Delphine Bechtel, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Teaching Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Modern Ukraine: Problems and Perspectives—Viktoriya Sukovata, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

4–6 p.m. Edmond J. Safra Auditorium
Concluding Roundtable and Discussion
Moderator: Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Participants:

Omer Bartov, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Vladyslav Grynevych, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine

Christian Ingrao, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris

Dieter Pohl, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany

This conference has been made possible through the generous support of Deanie and Jay Stein, the Morris Family Foundation, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation of Ukraine, and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.