Jews and Non-Jews During the Holocaust in the USSR: The Perspective of Inter-ethnic Relations
The proceedings will take place in the Lecture Hall (Room 223)
Administration and Research Building
Yad Vashem, Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem, Israel
With the generous support of The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
MONDAY, 28 November 2016
10:00-12:30 Session 1
Opening Remarks: Dan Michman
Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair of Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem; Bar-Ilan University
Chair: Arkadi Zeltser
The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
John-Paul Himka
University of Alberta, Canada
What Were They Thinking? Antisemitism in the Thinking of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists on the Eve of the Holocaust
Discussion
Karel Berkhoff
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocides Studies, Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam
Ukrainian Activists during the Holocaust in Kiev
Discussion
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Session 2
Chair: Lea Prais
International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Diana Dumitru
The State Pedagogical University Ion Creanga in Chisinau, Moldova
Manufacturing Outcasts: The Impact of Anti-Jewish Propaganda in Transnistria during World War II
Discussion
Saulius Suziedelis
Millersville University, Pennsylvania, USA
From Rivals to Enemies, from Neighbors to Victims: Evolving Lithuanian Perceptions of Jews, 1939 – 1945
Discussion
TUESDAY, 29 November 2016
10 :00-12:00 Session 3
Chair: Iael Nidam-Orvieto
The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marco Carynnyk
Research Fellow, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto
Dangerous Liaisons: Milena Rudnyts’ka, Ivan L. Rudnytsky, and the Ukrainian Discourse about Jews
Discussion
Leonid Rein
The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
"Every Jew is Worth of the Gallows": The Image of the Jew on the Pages of Belaruskaia Hazeta
Discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
1 3:00-15:00 Session 4
Chair: Dina Porat
Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Kantor Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv
Nikita Lomagin
European University at St. Petersburg
Antisemitism in Leningrad before and during World War II
Discussion
Gennady Estraikh
New York University
A Soviet Literary Prism for the concept of Wartime "Peoples'
Discussion
Conclusion and discussion on the next stages of the project
