Exhibition

A virtual exhibition based on Centropa’s 264 interviews in Ukraine. Click any of the categories and you’ll find pictures and stories that range from the 1890s to the early 2000s

Jewish life

At school

Stories and photographs taken in classrooms between 1910 to 1967

At work

Pictures taken of factory workers, doctors, teachers and merchants

On vacation

On the beach, in the cities and in the mountains

Portraits

Studio and creditrmal portraits of families, children and Czarist soldiers

Jewish Community Life

Youth groups, religious classes and weddings

In dark times

In dark times 1932-1944

An introduction to Ukraine’s darkest years: 1932-1945

Holodomor

The great famine: induced by Stalin, more than 4 million Ukrainians starved to death

Women in the army

Jewish women who served as engineers, translators and doctors

Men in the army

Pictures and stories of Jewish front line soldiers, from privates to colonels

The ones I lost (Holocaust)

Pictures our interviewees let us scan, showing us family members murdered by Germans

Babyn Yar

That most infamous of ravines, where Germans shot more than 33,000 Jews in Kyiv in two days

In evacuation

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews survived the German onslaught by fleeing eastward

The Path of Destruction

A map and timeline of mass murder