[aaus-list] Conf.: The Holocaust in Ukraine, Netherlands 11.9.09

[Andreas Umland]

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.