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Oct
7
Mon
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 7 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Oct
8
Tue
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 8 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Oct
9
Wed
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery
Oct 9 @ 11:00 – 19:00
In Fading Light: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe @ Tryptych Gallery | Kyiv | Ukraine

Kyiv fine art gallery Triptych: Global Arts Workshop with the support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv presents ‘IN FADING LIGHT: Jewish Traces in the East of Europe’.

Photographs by Christian Herrmann

🔸The exhibition will be on display 26th September to 9th October 2019, Mon-Sat 11.00-19.00.
🔸Sunday closed.
🔸Entrance is free.
🔸Private view: Thursday 26th September at 19.00.
🔸Artist Talk: Saturday 29th September at 17.30.

This exhibition is part of a wider programme of events commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre (29-30th September 1941). It presents for the first time 14 photographs of Jewish heritage sites taken during the photographer’s travels in Ukraine and Belarus in 2018 and 2019: synagogues, batei midrash, private houses, and cemeteries, some ruined or abandoned, others repurposed.

Jan
26
Sun
Holocaust and Memory. @ Jewish Museum London
Jan 26 @ 14:45 – 17:00
Holocaust and Memory. @ Jewish Museum London | England | United Kingdom

Dr Sofiya Dyak, Nikita Kadan and Professor Philippe Sands  discuss the evolution of the practices of Holocaust remembrance and its public discourse in Ukraine: How are these tragic events remembered across different communities and why? How to deal with histories of lands subjected to multiple occupations and mass murder across communities? How to write a historic narrative for the country, which is still in a state of war?

This event is part of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Dr Sofiya Dyak is the Director of the Lviv Centre of Urban History, a private institution which initiated a number of important initiatives commemorating Jewish community presence in Lviv in partnership with Lviv’s municipality, including the Space of Synagogues memorial. In 2017, the centre hosted the “Un-named” project, reflecting on mass violence in Ukraine between 1931 and 1945. The project included visual work by Nikita Kadan, Ukraine’s contemporary artist. Similarly, Professor Philippe Sands traced his family history back to Lviv, with the city becoming the focus of much of his literary work and intellectual reflection.

Mar
1
Sun
Devastated, Decayed, Revived – Former Synagogues in Poland and Ukraine @ Städtischen Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen
Mar 1 @ 16:00 – Mar 22 @ 18:00

And exhibition of photographs by Eva Maria Kraiss.

The exhibition is presented as part of the Week of Brotherhood 2020.

The opening is March 1 at 4 p.m. It will be open daily except Monday, from 2 – 6 p.m., and on Sundays also from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

See more details in the poster below:

 

Sep
23
Wed
Exhibition opening @ Lviv Museum of History of Religion
Sep 23 @ 16:00 – 17:00
Exhibition opening @ Lviv Museum of History of Religion | L'viv | L'vivs'ka oblast | Ukraine
The exhibition will feature 22 ritual items used in synagogues or by Jewish families as well as photos from the collection of Vladimir Rumyantsev and Yaroslav Yanchak, provided by the Center for Urban History of Central and Eastern Europe from its media archive.
 
Among the exhibits are Galician Hanukkah menorahs, a Torah crown, tzedaka boxes, and a post-war velvet parochot with an embroidered inscription dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust
 
Some of the items were kept during 1945–1962 in the Jakub Glanzer Synagogue. They were later confiscated by the Soviet authorities and transferred to the Lviv Historical Museum, and from there to the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism (Today – the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion). 
The curator of the exhibition is Maxim Martin, the head of the museum’s Judaism department.
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The exhibition will be up until the end of the year.
Mar
20
Sun
80th Anniversary of Destruction of Jewish Rohatyn @ Jewish cemetery
Mar 20 @ 13:00 – 14:00
80th Anniversary of Destruction of Jewish Rohatyn @ Jewish cemetery | Rohatyn | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast | Ukraine

Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the destruction of Jewish Rohatyn.

On March 20, 1942, the largest and deadliest of the Nazi “aktions” resulted in the final liquidation of Rohatyn’s Jewish population. 3,500-5,500 victims, half of which were children, were executed and buried in a common grave in the fields south of city center. Rohatyn Jewish Heritage invites all those who wish to remember the victims on-site at 13.00 on 20 March 2022 for prayer and a moment of silence led by Rabbi Kolesnik of Ivano-Frankivisk.

GPS: 49°24’12.7″N 24°37’39.4″E

(Photo shows longtime local activist, the later Mykhailo Vorobets, at the south mass grave in Rohatyn in 2012. Photo © RJH)

May
23
Mon
5th World Litvak Congress @ various
May 23 – May 26 all-day
5th World Litvak Congress @ various | Lithuania

A gathering of Lithuanian Jews and descendants, which includes an academic conference, a cultural fest, guided tours to Jewish heritage in several towns and cities around the country — Vilnius, Kaunas, Panevėžys, Šeduva, Pakruojis — and more.

Click here to see the full program

Pre-registration is required by filling out the following form:

https://forms.gle/VJa9nMHaHjH4t5Lf6

Jan
25
Thu
Sataniv: the lost world of the ancient Jewish cemetery @ “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Museum
Jan 25 – Mar 3 all-day
Sataniv: the lost world of the ancient Jewish cemetery @ “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" Museum | Dnipro | Dnipropetrovs'ka oblast | Ukraine

An exhibition of art-enhanced photographs by Dmytro Polyukhovich based on the carvings on the centuries-old matzevot in the Jewish cemetery in Sataniv (which unfortunately has suffered extensive damage in recent years by a self-appointed Haredi man claiming to restore it).

The images for the exhibition focus on specific details of the carved iconography, which combines religious tradition with folk art — floral motifs, animals (and imaginary animals), symbols, religious allegories, and more.

To create the exhibition pieces, Polyukovich manipulated his original photos of the matzevot in Adobe Photoshop, cutting away everything except for the specific detail of the carving  that he wanted to highlight and then adding color.

NOTE: The exhibition will be open every Wednesday and every Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. It is also possible to organize group tours every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

 

Mar
1
Fri
Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival @ Jewish Museum Frankfufrt
Mar 1 – Sep 1 all-day
Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival @ Jewish Museum Frankfufrt | Frankfurt am Main | Hessen | Germany

A multimedia exhibition by the artist, architect and historian Natalia Romik dedicated to the creativity of Polish Jews seeking to survive the Shoah in hiding.

In Poland and Ukraine during World War II, approximately 50,000 people survived persecution by the German occupying forces in hiding. The majority of them were Jewish. They found refuge in tree hollows, closets, basements, sewers, empty graves, and other precarious locations. Natalia Romik’s exhibition “Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival” pays tribute to these fragile places of refuge and explores their physicality. The show poses basic questions about the relationship between architecture, private life, and the public sphere: it addresses the protective function of spaces and emphasizes the creativity those in hiding brought to bear in their attempt to survive.

In a research project extending over several years, Natalia Romik and an interdisciplinary team of researchers consulted oral histories to identify several hiding places, which they explored using forensic methods. The multimedia exhibition “Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival” presents the results of this research. It consists of sculptures bearing a direct connection to the sites and includes documentary films, forensic recordings, photos, documents, and objects found in the hiding places.

“Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival” is presented in cooperation with the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and the TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin. On the occasion of the show at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, a catalogue will be published in German and English editions by Hatje Cantz Verlag.

The exhibition was curated by Kuba Szreder and Stanisław Ruksza with the help of Aleksandra Janus (scientific collaboration). For the presentation in Frankfurt, Katja Janitschek, curator of the Judengasse Museum, was responsible for the curatorial project management. We would like to thank the Evonik Foundation for their generous support.

 

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