The Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine

The Holocaust by Bullets in Ukraine

A Conference for Researchers and Educators

11 September 2009
Vught, the Netherlands

http://www.chgs.nl

Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in
Amsterdam, an organization of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Sciences and the University of Amsterdam (http://www.chgs.nl ), this
conference marks the arrival in the Netherlands of the exhibition
“The Holocaust by Bullets: The Mass Shooting of Jews in Ukraine
1941-1944, devoted to the pioneering oral history and
archeological work by the team of Father Patrick Desbois (Yadhad in
Unum, Paris; http://www.holocaustbybullets.com/). One aim of the
conference is to further and, indeed, initiate scholarly and
educational networking across disciplines and state borders. There
will plenary sessions and simultaneous sessions on Ukraine’s Shoah;
both the event and its aftermath in commemoration and teaching,
within and beyond Ukraine. Apart from the meetings there will be
poster presentations by Dutch and Ukrainian educators. The invited
speakers, chairs, and discussants are coming from various countries.
Participants include Dutch teacher-trainers, their Ukrainian
colleagues (present in the Netherlands as part of an exchange
program), and most of the alumni of a fellowship program in genocide
studies for Ukrainian citizens, in existence at the CHGS between
August 2006 and June 2009.

Guest of honor and speaker will be Father Patrick Desbois, who with
others will also open the exhibition “The Holocaust by Bullets”
at Camp Vught National Memorial on Thursday, 10 September 2009, at 2
p.m.; http://www.nmkampvught.nl/.

The conference language is English. The program is available at
http://www.chgs.nl.