Ukrainian
Jewish
Encounter
Toward a Shared
Ukrainian-Jewish Historical Narrative
The World War II Period in Ukraine
Experts Roundtable
of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative
in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Potsdam (Cecilienhof) and Berlin,
June 27-30, 2011
Program Schedule and
Participants Directory
Toward a Shared
Ukrainian-Jewish Historical Narrative
The World War II Period in Ukraine
Experts Roundtable/Conference
of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative
in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Potsdam (The Cecilienhof) and Berlin,
June 27-30, 2011
Program Schedule
MONDAY, JUNE 27 (KAS Academy, Berlin)
17:00-17:30 Welcome, opening remarks
17:30-18:45 “The Bloodlands, 1932-45: Context for Understanding
Ukrainian-Jewish-Polish Interaction during World War II”.
Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
19:00
Dinner
20:45
Transportation to Potsdam
TUESDAY, JUNE 28 (Potsdam)
(Each session will be introduced by two concise overview presentations, followed by 60
minutes discussion.)
9:00-10:30
Session 1—The First Stages of Violence: From Molotov-Ribbentrop to
Barbarossa (NKVD Murders and 1941 Pogroms)
Vladislav Hrynevych (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), on the Soviet occupation
Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto), on the pogroms
1. How did Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians interact with Soviet authorities
during the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland (western Ukraine) and
Bukovina? What was Soviet policy toward Jewish refugees and local
Jews? What was the scale of Soviet policy toward and repression of
the Polish and Ukrainian (non-Jewish) local population?
2. What impact did Stalinism and the Holodomor (Great Famine) have
on the views of western Ukrainians regarding Jews, and their views
and expectations regarding Germans and Germany? Were responses
to the arrival of German forces different in eastern Ukraine?
3. Were the July 1941 anti-Jewish pogroms in western Ukraine caused
by rage over the Soviet murder of Ukrainian prisoners and by Jewish
participation in Soviet organs of power (including the NKVD)? What
does the actual record tell of the origins, nature and extent of such
participation, and the impact of such participation and representation
thereof on attitudes?
4. What was the nature and impact of Nazi propaganda in the
period leading up to the pogroms and the Shoah in establishing or
exploiting the representation of Jews as allies or agents of Bolshevism/
Communist rule?
5. To what extent did the pre-war ideologies of the major Ukrainian
political movements in western Ukraine and in the European diaspora
contribute to (prepare the ground for) these events? How important
were preceding German-Ukrainian contacts?
6. To what extent were the events the result of planning and organization,
and/or participation, by political actors, German and/or Ukrainian?
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
TUESDAY, JUNE 28 (Potsdam cont’d)
10:45-12:15 Session 2—Evidentiary Sources (Written, Oral and Other):
Their Credibility and Use
Vadim Altskan (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington), on
use of archival sources for historical research vs. for legal purposes, and
credibility of Soviet archival material
Patrick Desbois and Andrej Umansky (Yahad-in Unum, Paris), on oral
testimony
1. What are the evidentiary sources for the history of this period, and for
attribution of responsibility or agency for crimes perpetrated during
the period? What are the differences in the use of these sources for
historical research and for legal purposes respectively?
2. What credibility may be lent to these sources? To what extent were
testimonies forced and documents falsified or altered by Soviet
authorities?
3. Access to archives: How significant are recently opened archives
to our understanding of this period? What has been the impact of
selective access or continued denial of access to relevant archives?
4. In what ways do oral testimonies, collected decades after the
events, contribute to our understanding of this period? What are the
methodological challenges posed by these sources?
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30- 15:00 Session 3—The Destruction of the Jews (the Shoah) on the Territory
of Ukraine
Wendy Lower (Towson University, Maryland and Ludwigs-MaximiliansUniversität, Munich), on German-occupied territories
Charles King (Georgetown University, Washington), on Romanian/
Hungarian-occupied territories
1. What is the relationship between the July 1941 violence in Germanoccupied Galicia and the Shoah?
2. How was the Shoah carried out in the different parts of the territory
of Ukraine – in what stages and under whose auspices (central and
eastern Ukraine, Kyiv region, western Ukraine/Galicia, Romanianoccupied regions, Transcarpathia)?
3. Was Nazi policy and German military presence a precondition for
mass killings? To what extent were pogroms and/or mass killings
carried out, particularly in rural areas, without the presence of
external occupiers (German, Romanian, Hungarian)?
TUESDAY, JUNE 28 (Potsdam cont’d)
4. What was the reaction to the Shoah on the territory of Ukraine on the
part of ethnic Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Crimean Tatar, and other
communities? [Note: Specific operational behaviours are treated in
Sessions 5, 6 and 7 below.]
5. What was the nature and impact of the Soviet evacuation of large
numbers of its citizens (including Jews, in particular from urban
centers) to the eastern regions of the Soviet Union?
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16:20 Tour of The Cecilienhof
16:30-18:00 Session 4 — Civilian and POW Deaths
Timothy Snyder (Yale University), on civilian and POW deaths
Karel Berkhoff (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam), on
Babi Yar
1. The scale of the killing: how many civilians and POWs (Jews, Poles,
Ukrainians and others) perished on the territory of Ukraine between
1939 and 1945? (i.e., deliberate, targeted killings?)
2. What is the record of mass starvation, “collateral” damage, and
indiscriminate killings of non-combatants during the war? (i.e., nonpremeditated/calculated killings?)
3. Babi Yar (Babyn Iar): What do we know about the number of victims,
their ethnic background, and the chronology and conditions of their
murder during the entire occupation of Kyiv, 1941-1943?
4. What do we know about German executions of Ukrainian
nationalists?
5. What were the politics and policies of punishment for resistance?
6. What is the record of the treatment of POWs under German and
Soviet occupation?
7. What impact did the experience of double or triple occupation have
on the nature and scale of the killings?
18:45
Dinner
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 (Potsdam cont’d)
9:00-10:30
Session 5—Collaboration
Frank Golczewski (University of Hamburg)
Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
1. The term “collaboration” is applied to a range of behaviors. Are there
more meaningful terms to describe acts that range from volunteering
to coercion, taking into account the special circumstances and variety
of roles under wartime conditions?
2. Under what circumstances and with what motivations did members of
various ethnicities (Ukrainian and other) come to serve in the Germancontrolled Auxiliary Police and other police units? What is known
about the conditions of recruitment and the role of these police units in
the Shoah?
3. Under what circumstances and with what motivations did members
of various ethnicities (Ukrainian and other) come to serve in clearing
ghettos and as guards at Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor?
4. How should one characterize the roles and behaviours of the Jewish
communal authorities and the Jewish police under Nazi/German
command?
5. What was the nature of collaboration and cooperation with the
Soviet NKVD and regime in those parts of prewar Poland that had
large Ukrainian populations? How much evidence is there of double
collaboration – with the Soviet and German regimes?
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 6—Collaboration and/or Resistance
John-Paul Himka (University of Alberta)
Volodymyr V’iatrovych (former Director, State Archive of Security Service
of Ukraine)
1. What does the historical record establish as to the role of OUN and
UPA in relation to resistance and collaboration, murder of Jews, and
the 1943 massacre of Poles in Volhynia?
2. How did the OUN conceive of the establishment of an independent
Ukrainian state within the reality of Nazi power (the German “new
order”)? Did this include the possibility of German puppet state status,
as was the case in Croatia or Slovakia?
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 (Potsdam cont’d)
3. How did the OUN’s positions with regard to the Nazis/Germans,
Jews, and other minorities evolve during the war?
4. To what extent did local administrations cooperate with the German
occupation in central and eastern Ukraine between 1941-1944?
5. What were Jewish responses and attitudes to Soviet rule during the
war? How were Jews treated by the Soviets?
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:45 Session 7—Sheltering Jews
Wolf Moskovich (Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Andrii Krawchuk (University of Sudbury, Canada)
1. What does the historical record tell us about the extent, and special
cases, of ethnic Ukrainians hiding or otherwise helping Jews
during the War, and about the attendant risks, motivations and
circumstances? What were the pressures and motivations that moved
others to denounce Jews?
2. What are the problematics of the term “Righteous Among the
Nations”?
3. The case of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts’kyi
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Session 8—Armed Formations, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency,
1943-1947
Olesya Khromeychuk (University College London), on the Diviziia
Alexander Gogun (University of Potsdam), on the Insurgency and
Counter-insurgency
1. Under what circumstances and with what motivations did ethnic
Ukrainians and members of other local populations come to serve
in armed formations under Nazi/German military command,
specifically, the Nachtigall Battalion and the Galician Waffen-SS
Division (Diviziia)?
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 (Potsdam cont’d)
2. What is known about the extent to which such armed formations
targeted civilians?
3. To what extent did non-Communist Ukrainian forces and movements
engage in anti-German military and partisan actions?
4. How did Soviet military forces and the NKVD pacify Ukraine?
5. What was the role and fate of the OUN and UPA as an
insurrectionary movement?
6. Was there a third path between Hitler and Stalin? If so, who
represented it?
7. The war and its aftermath: What do we know about the immediate
postwar experience with regard to (a) Soviet reprisals against civilians;
(b) ethnic cleansing of Poles; (c) deportations to Siberia; (d) Soviet
treatment of POWs; and (e) treatment of returning Jews by the local
population?
8. What were Soviet and NKVD policies and actions regarding Jews and
ethnic Ukrainians during this period?
9. What is known about anti-Jewish attacks and pogroms in territories
where the Soviet Union re-established control between 1943 and
1946?
16:45
Transportation to Berlin, KAS Academy
18:00-19:30 Commemoration Ceremony
Keynote address by Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the Bundestag
Addresses by representatives of the President of Ukraine, UJE, KAS, and
Jewish world
Musical Presentation
20:15
Transportation to Potsdam
21:30
Dinner
THURSDAY, JUNE 30 (Berlin, KAS Academy)
9:00
Transportation to Berlin
10:15-11:15 Working toward a Shared Historical Narrative: Review and
Recommendations
Alti Rodal and Adrian Karatnycky (UJE Co-Directors) – 10 min
presentations, followed by roundtable discussion
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Concluding Session: Responsibility, Acknowledgment, Understanding
Wilfried Jilge (Berlin)
Dominique Arel (University of Ottawa)
Followed by roundtable discussion
1. Was the experience, on the territory of Ukraine, of persecution, of
depredations and killing, of cooption and coercion, of saving or
exposing Jews, similar to or in significant respects different from that
in other territories under Nazi/German sway?
2. How should we understand and discuss the massive suffering of
civilian non-Jews under the German occupation?
3. Who bears ultimate responsibility for the crimes of the period?
4. How should the massive suffering and injustice under Soviet rule be
acknowledged and memorialized?
5. How should we deal with the problem of unconsecrated Jewish and
non-Jewish mass graves? Are there adequate memorials for the Jewish
and non-Jewish victims of the War, of Hitler, and of Stalin? What
is the responsibility of governments, and of communities, in such
memorializing?
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Vadim Altskan (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington)
Andrej Angrick (Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, Germany)
Karel Berkhoff (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts
and Sciences, Amsterdam)
Alain Blum (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] and Institut National d’Etudes
Démographiques [INED] Paris, France)
Konstantin Bondarenko (Head of the Board, Institute of Ukrainian Politics, Ukraine)
Ray Brandon (Historian/Editor, Berlin)
Marco Carynnyk (Writer/Editor/Historian, Toronto, Canada)
Martin Dean (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington)
Patrick Desbois (Yahad - In Unum, Paris, France)
Evgeny Finkel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
Zvi Gitelman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US)
Alexander Gogun (Free University of Berlin, University of Potsdam)
Frank Golczewski (University of Hamburg, Germany)
John-Paul Himka (University of Alberta, Canada)
Liudmyla Hrynevych (Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Vladislav Hrynevych (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)
Taras Hunczak (Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, US)
Wilfried Jilge (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Olesya Khromeychuk (University College London, UK)
Charles King (Georgetown University, US)
Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto, Canada)
Andrii Krawchuk (University of Sudbury, Canada)
Wendy Lower (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany)
Christoph Mick (University of Warwick, UK)
Natalie Moine (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Wolf Moskovich (Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Tanja Penter (Helmut-Schmidt University/University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany)
Anatoly Podolsky (Director, Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv Ukraine)
Peter Potichnyj (Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, Canada)
Shimon Redlich (Professor Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Raz Segal (Clark University, US)
Igor Shchupak (Tkuma Center for Holocaust Studies, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
Timothy Snyder (Yale University, US)
Kai Struve (Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany)
Frank Sysyn (Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,
University of Alberta Canada)
Andrej Umansky (Yahad - In Unum, Paris, France)
Volodymyr V’iatrovych (former Director, State Archive of Security Service of Ukraine, visiting scholar Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute)
Rapporteur
Orest Zakydalsky (UCRDC, Toronto, Canada)
Session Chairs
Dominique Arel (Co-Chair, UJE Academic Council; Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa)
Paul Robert Magocsi (Co-Chair, UJE Academic Council; Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto)
UJE Board/Staff
James Temerty (UJE Chair)
Adrian Karatnycky (UJE Co-Director, UJE Board Member)
Berel Rodal (UJE Board Member and Chair, UJE Advisory Board)
Alti Rodal (UJE Co-Director)
Raya Shadursky (UJE Director of Operations)
KAS Principals/Staff
Gerhard Wahlers (Deputy Secretary General)
Jens Paulus (Head of Department, Europe and North America)
Gabriele Baumann (Head of Department, Domestic Programs)
Nico Lange (Director, Ukraine Office)
PARTICIPANTSDIRECTORY
ExpertsRoundtable
oftheUkrainianJewishEncounterInitiative
inpartnershipwiththeKonradͲAdenauerͲStiftung
Potsdam(Cecilienhof)andBerlin,June27Ͳ30,2011
TowardaSharedUkrainianͲJewishHistoricalNarrative
TheWorldWarIIPeriodinUkraine
SessionChairs
DOMINIQUEAREL(CoͲChair,UJEAcademicCouncil)isAssociateProfessorof
PoliticalScienceandChairofUkrainianStudiesattheUniversityofOttawa,
Canada.Hisresearchinterestsrangefromnationalismandlanguagepoliticsto
politicsofmemoryandidentityformation.Dr.ArelhascoͲeditedCacophonies
d’’Empire:Legouvernementdeslanguesdansl’’empirerusseetl’’Union
soviétique(Paris:CNRS,2010),ReboundingIdentities:ThePoliticsofIdentityin
RussiaandUkraine(Baltimore,MD:JohnHopkinsUniversityPress,2006)and
CensusandIdentity:ThePoliticsofRace,Ethnicity,andLanguageinNational
Censuses(Cambridge,UK:CambridgeUniversityPress,2002).HisrecentsingleͲ
authoredpublicationsinclude““UkraineSincetheOrangeRevolution:
DemocracyandtheUnruleofLaw””(forthcominginVickenCheterian,ed.,
ColouredRevolutions,London:Hurst,2011),““L’’Ukraine,laguerreetleprincipederesponsabilité
collective””(inGeorgeMink,ed.,Lepasséauprésent,Paris:Houdiard,2010),and““Recensementet
légitimationnationaleenRussieetdanslazonepostͲsoviétique””,CritiqueInternationale(December
2009).HehasheldtheAnnualDanyliwResearchSeminaronContemporaryUkrainesince2005atthe
UniversityofOttawaandhasservedasPresidentoftheAssociationfortheStudyofNationalities(ASN)
since2004.
PAULROBERTMAGOCSI(CoͲChair,UJEAcademicCouncil)isprofessorof
historyandpoliticalscienceattheUniversityofToronto,where(since1980)
healsoholdstheprofessorialChairofUkrainianStudies.HereceivedhisPhD
fromPrincetonUniversityin1972andapostͲgraduatedegreefromHarvard
University(SocietyofFellows1976).Amonghisover700publicationsare30
books,including:TheShapingofaNationalIdentity:SubcarpathianRus’’,1848Ͳ
1948(HarvardUniversityPress,1978);Galicia:AHistoricalSurveyand
BibliographicGuide(UniversityofTorontoPress,1983);HistoricalAtlasofEast
Central/CentralEurope(UniversityofWashingtonPress,1993/2002);A
HistoryofUkraine(UniversityofTorontoPress,1996);OftheMakingof
NationalitiesThereisNoEnd(ColumbiaUniversityPress,1999,2vols);The
RootsofUkrainianNationalism(UniversityofTorontoPress,2002);Ukraine:AnIllustratedHistory
(UniversityofTorontoPress,2007);andthefullyrevisedandexpandedHistoryofUkraine:TheLandand
ItsPeoples(UniversityofTorontoPress,2010).HeisalsotheeditorͲinͲchiefofTheEncyclopediaof
Canada’’sPeoples(UniversityofTorontoPress,1999)andcoͲeditorandmainauthoroftheEncyclopedia
ofRusynHistoryandCulture(UniversityofTorontoPress,2002).ProfessorMagocsihastaughtat
HarvardUniversityandtheHebrewUniversityinJerusalem.In1996hewasappointedapermanent
fellowoftheRoyalSocietyofCanadaͲCanadianAcademiesofArts,Humanities,andSciences.
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Scholars/Experts
VADIMALTSKANjoinedtheUnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseumin
WashingtonDCin1993,andcurrentlyservesasProjectDirectorforthe
USHMMInternationalArchivalProgramsDivision,CenterforAdvanced
HolocaustStudies.Heisresponsibleforthedevelopmentofprogramsand
archivalacquisitionsintheformerUSSR,formerYugoslavia,Greeceand
Bulgaria.HeservedearlierasaHistorianandDirectoroftheRegistryof
HolocaustSurvivors.AspecialistinthehistoryoftheHolocaustinUkraineand
RussianJewishhistory,VadimAltskanholdsdegreesinhistoryandarchival
sciencefromtheMoscowStateUniversityfortheHumanities
ANDREJANGRICKisahistorianattheHamburgFoundationforthePromotion
ofScienceandCulture––HamburgerStiftungzurFörderungvonWissenschaft
undKultur.Since1990,hisresearchhasfocusedontheGermandictatorship
undertheNaziregime,and,inparticular,onGermanruleintheEastandthe
politicsofgenocide.HehasservedasaconsultantforBritishandGerman
television,andasanexpertwitnessinanumberofGermancourtcases
(GhettorentenͲVerfahren).Heistheauthorandeditorofseveralbooksand
articlesonthesetopics,including:DerDienstkalenderHeinrichHimmler
1941/1942(togetherwithPeterWitteet.al.,Hamburg,1999);
BesatzungspolitikundMassenmord.DieEinsatzgruppeDindersüdlichenSowjetunion(Hamburg,2003);
DieGestaponach1945:Karrieren,Konflikte,Konstruktionen(Editor,togetherwithKlausͲMichael
Mallmann,Darmstadt,2009);The““FinalSolution““inRiga.ExploitationandAnnihilation,1941Ͳ1944
(togetherwithPeterKlein,NewYorkundOxford,2009).Forthcominginsummer2011isvolumeoneof:
EreignismeldungenUdSSRderSicherheitspolizeiunddesSD––1941(responsibleforeditingand
annotations,togetherwithKlausͲMichaelMallmann,MartinCüppersandJürgenMatthäus,Darmstadt,
2011).Angrickiscurrentlyworkingonamonographon““Operation1005””,asecretoperationconducted
from1942Ͳ1944,aimedathidingevidencethatmillionsofpeoplehadbeenmurderedonterritoriesof
NaziͲoccupiedPolandandEasternEurope.
KARELC.BERKHOFFisSeniorResearcherattheNIODInstituteforWar,
HolocaustandGenocideStudiesoftheRoyalNetherlandsAcademyofArtsand
Sciences.From2003to2011,heworkedattheCenterforHolocaustand
GenocideStudiesinAmsterdam,whichhasmergedwiththeNetherlands
InstituteforWarDocumentation(abbreviatedasNIOD).Healsoteachesatthe
UniversityofAmsterdam.HereceivedaPhD.inhistoryfromtheUniversityof
Toronto,anM.A.inRegionalStudies(SovietUnionProgram)fromHarvard
University,andtwoDoctorandusdegrees(M.A.equivalent)inRussianstudies
andhistoryfromtheUniversityofAmsterdam.HewasaSeniorScholarͲinͲ
ResidenceattheCenterforAdvancedHolocaustStudiesoftheU.S.Holocaust
MemorialMuseumfor2010––2011,conductingresearchforaprojectonhistoryandremembranceof
BabiYar.Dr.BerkhoffistheauthorofamonographonSoviethomefrontpropagandafrom1941Ͳ1945
(forthcomingwithHarvardUniversityPress)aswellasthebook,HarvestofDespair:LifeandDeathin
UkraineunderNaziRule(HarvardUniversityPress,2004;2008),whichwonthe2001FraenkelPrizein
ContemporaryHistory,CategoryA,andisnowavailableinUkrainian(Kiev:Krytyka,2011).Hehaswritten
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articlesontreatmentoftheHolocaustintheSovietMedia,1941Ͳ45;theBabiYarmassacre;andthe
attitudeoftheOrganizationofUkrainianNationaliststowardGermansandJews.
ALAINBLUMisDirectoroftheCenterforRussian,CaucasianandCentralͲ
EuropeanStudiesattheEcoledesHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales(EHESS)
andSeniorResearcherattheInstitutNationald’’EtudesDémographiques
(INED)inParis,France.HeiscoͲleaderoftheinternationalprojectSound
ArchivesͲEuropeanMemoriesoftheGulaganditsvirtualmuseum
(museum.gulagmemories.eu/en).HeistheauthorofL’’Anarchie
bureaucratique.StatistiqueetpouvoirsousStaline(EditionsLaDécouverte,
2003)andNaître,vivreetmourirenURSS,1917Ͳ1991(Plon,1994)andoneof
theeditorsof““Families,EastandWest:AHalfCenturyofChangesinEurope””,
Revued’’étudescomparativesEstͲOuest,2009.Historiananddemographer,hehasinitiatedmajor
collaborativeresearchprojectsonthehistoryofforceddisplacementsofpopulation,thehistoryof
demographicstatistics,andthehistoryofdemographyinImperialRussiaandintheSovietUnion,aswell
asaprojectofcomparativestudiesconcerningEuropeancontemporarychangesinfamilybehaviors.
AlainBlumisamemberoftheeditorialboardofthejournalKritika:ExplorationsinRussianandEurasian
History.
KOSTIANTYNBONDARENKOisaUkrainianpolitologistandheadoftheboard
oftheInstituteofUkrainianPolitics.HeholdsaPhDinhistory,specializingin
thehistoryofinternationalrelations.Inparticular,hisresearchdealswith
GermanpolicytowardUkraineduringWorldWarII.Besidehisscholarlywork,
hewasinvolvedinmanyjournalisticprojects,includingpositionsasthe
politicaleditorat"Postup",and,morerecently,leadeditorofthe"Livyibereg"
analyticalnewspaper.Hehasledseveralthinktanksandwasamemberof
publiccouncilsadvisingthePresidentofUkraine,theSpeakerofthe
VerkhovnaRadaofUkraine,andtheMinistryofForeignAffairsofUkraine.He
hasauthoredmorethan3,000articlesinthegeneralpressandmorethan50
scholarlyworks.
RAYBRANDONisafreelancetranslator,historian,andresearcherbasedin
Berlinsince2003.HebecameinterestedintheHolocaustinUkrainewhile
workingasaprogramofficerfortheInternationalResearchandExchanges
BoardinKiev(1993Ͳ1995).AfterearninghisM.A.atJohnsHopkinsSchoolof
AdvancedInternationalStudies,hewenttoWarsawasaFulbrightScholar
(1997Ͳ1998)andextendedhisstaywithagrantfromtheGermanHistorical
Institute(1999).FromWarsaw,hemovedtoGermanytoworkasaneditorat
theFrankfurterAllgemeineZeitung,EnglishEdition(2000Ͳ2002).HeiscoͲ
editor,withWendyLower,ofTheShoahinUkraine:History,Testimony,
Memorialization(IndianaUniversityPress,2008),whichwillappearin
Ukrainianlaterthisyear,and,withTimothySnyder,ofStalinismandEurope:
Terror,War,Domination,1937Ͳ1947(forthcoming).HealsotranslatedAndrej
AngrickandPeterKlein,The““FinalSolution””inRiga:ExploitationandAnnihilation,1941Ͳ1944(2009).
Currently,heisworkingonadissertationaboutDmytroPaliïvandeasternGaliciaduringtheinterwar
periodandtheSecondWorldWar
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MARCOCARYNNYKisawriter,editor,translator,andhistoricalresearcher.As
awriterhehaspublishedpoetry,articles,andessaysonliterature,film,and
twentiethͲcenturyhistoryandpoliticsinEnglishandUkrainian,whichhave
beentranslatedintoFrench,German,Italian,Portuguese,Polish,Russian,and
Ukrainian.Hishistoricalstudiesareconcernedwiththefamineof1933in
Ukraine,SovietandNazirepressionsinthe1930sand1940s,andJewishͲ
Ukrainianrelations.Asaneditorandtranslator,Carynnykhaspublished
translationsofthefilmmakerAlexanderDovzhenkoandhaslecturedon
DovzhenkoattheVeniceBiennale,HarvardUniversity,andtheDovzhenko
StudioinKyiv.OthermajortranslationsbyCarynnykincludefiction,poetry,andSovietdissident
memoirs.HispublicationsonissuesrelatingtotheWorldWarIIperiodinclude:anarticleonthepogrom
inZolochivinJuly1941intheKyivjournalKrytyka(October2005);““ThePalaceontheIkva––Dubne,
September18th,1939,andJune24th,1941””inSharedHistory––DividedMemory:JewsandOthersin
SovietͲOccupiedPoland,1939Ͳ1941,eds.ElazarBarkan,ElizabethA.Cole,andKaiStruve(Leipzig:
Universitätsverlag,Leipzig,2007;alsoinUkrainianintheKyivjournalIehupets’’(18[2009]);and““Foesof
ourrebirth:UkrainiannationalistdiscussionsaboutJews,1929Ͳ1947””inNationalitiesPapers:TheJournal
ofNationalismandEthnicity(Vol.39,No.3,May2011).
MARTINDEANisanAppliedResearchScholarattheUnitedStatesHolocaust
MemorialMuseum’’sCenterforAdvancedHolocaustStudiesinWashington,
DC.HereceivedhisPhDinHistoryfromQueens’’College,Cambridgein1989
andworkedastheSeniorHistorianfortheMetropolitanPoliceWarCrimes
UnitinLondonfrom1992to1997.Hispublicationsinclude:Collaborationin
theHolocaust:CrimesoftheLocalPoliceinBelorussiaandUkraine,1941Ͳ44
(London,2000);RobbingtheJews:theConfiscationofJewishPropertyinthe
Holocaust,1933Ͳ1945(CambridgeUniversityPress,2008);andMartinDean,
ConstantinGoschlerandPhilippTher(eds.),RobberyandRestitution:The
ConflictoverJewishPropertyinEurope(NewYork,Oxford,2007).Hehasalso
writtenmanybookchaptersandarticlesontheHolocaustfocusedmainlyontheissuesofghettos,
collaboration,andJewishproperty.HeistheVolumeEditorofVolume2oftheU.S.HolocaustMemorial
Museum’’sEncyclopediaofCampsandGhettos1933Ͳ1945,whichdealswithghettosinoccupiedterritory
underGermanadministration(IndianaUniversityPressinassociationwiththeUnitedStatesHolocaust
MemorialMuseum,2011).
PATRICKDESBOISisaRomanCatholicpriestanddirectoroftheEpiscopal
CommitteeforRelationswithJudaismfortheFrenchConferenceofBishops.
GrandsonofaFrenchdeporteetotheRawaRuskacamp(locatedinUkraine
today),hejoinedleadersintheFrenchCatholicandJewishcommunitiesin
2004infoundingYahadͲInUnum("together"inLatinandinHebrew).The
organization'spurposeistofurtherrelationsbetweenCatholicsandJews.Its
mostambitiousinitiativeistolocatethesitesofmassgravesofJewishvictims
oftheNazimobilekillingunits(theEinsatzgruppen)inUkraineandBelarus,
andtovideoͲrecordwitnessesofthemassacres.Todate,Yahadissaidtohave
discoveredmorethan800massgravesandrecordedalmost1,700eyeͲwitness
testimonies.FatherDesboispublishedthebookTheHolocaustbyBullets:APriest'sJourneytoUncover
theTruthBehindtheMurderof1.5MillionJews(PalgraveMacMillan,2008).Hehasreceivedanumberof
awardsforhiswork,inFranceandintheUnitedStates.
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EVGENYFINKELisaPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofPoliticalScience,
UniversityofWisconsinͲMadison,USA.HewasborninLviv,Ukraine,andgrew
upinIsrael.Hisresearchinterestsincludepoliticalviolence,politicsofmemory,
nationalidentity,andpostͲSovietpolitics.Hisdissertation,““Victims'Politics:
JewishBehaviorduringtheHolocaust””exploresthevariationinindividualand
collectivebehaviorofJewishvictimsoftheHolocaust,withaspecialfocuson
theghettosofLviv,Cracow,andMinsk.Hisarticleshavebeenpublishedand
forthcomingineditedvolumesandjournalssuchasComparativePolitics,
GlobalSociety,EastEuropeanPoliticsandSocieties,GenocideStudiesand
Prevention,Democratization,andOsteuropa.
ZVIGITELMANisProfessorofPoliticalScience,PrestonTischProfessorof
JudaicStudiesandwasDirectoroftheFrankelCenterforJudaicStudiesandof
theCenterforRussianandEastEuropeanStudiesattheUniversityofMichigan,
AnnArbor.Heistheauthororeditoroffourteenbooksandover100articlesin
scholarlyjournals,includingBitterLegacy:ConfrontingtheHolocaustinthethe
SovietUnion(1997).HisbestknownbookisACenturyofAmbivalence:The
JewsinRussiaandtheSovietUnion,1881tothePresent(twoAmerican
editions,alsoinJapaneseandRussian)HismostrecenteditedbookisReligion
orEthnicity?JewishIdentitiesinEvolution(2009).In2012,Cambridge
UniversityPresswillpublishhismonograph,UncertainEthnicity:Jewish
IdentitiesinPostͲSovietRussiaandUkraine,basedpartlyon7,000interviews.Gitelmanisamemberof
theUnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialCouncil.Inthepasttwoyears,hewasaMember,Schoolof
HistoricalStudies,InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton;aVisitingFellowattheKennanInstitutefor
RussianStudiesandattheInternationalCentreforHolocaustResearch,YadVashem,Israel;andasenior
fellowattheDavisCenterforRussianStudiesandtheUkrainianResearchInstitute,bothatHarvard
University.HeisresearchingtheHolocaustintheUSSR,focusingonSovietgovernmentpolicyandthe
experienceofSovietJewsincombat.
ALEXANDERGOGUNiscurrentlyworkingtowardsaseconddoctoraldegreeat
theFreeUniversityofBerlin,whilealsobeingalecturerinModernand
ContemporaryHistoryattheUniversityofPotsdam.AgraduateoftheHerzen
RussianStatePedagogicalUniversity,hedefendedaPhDthesisin2006atthe
NorthͲWestAcademyofPublicAdministration,St.Petersburg,titled:““The
ActivitiesofArmedNationalistGroupsontheTerritoryofWesternAreasofthe
UkrainianSSRin1943Ͳ1949””.Hispublicationsincludesome30articlesonsuch
topicsas:UkraineduringWorldWarII,Nazipropaganda,foreignpolicyofthe
USSRin1939Ͳ1945,insurgenciesduringandimmediatelyfollowingWWII,and
theactivitiesoftheSovietsecretpoliceinNaziͲoccupiedSovietterritory.He
hasalsopublishedseveralmonographsinRussian,including:BetweenHitler
andStalin.TheUkrainianInsurgents(St.Petersburg,2004);Stalin’’sCommandos:TheUkrainianPartisan
Groups,1941Ͳ1944(Moscow,2008,alsoinaPolishedition,2010);aswellascollectionsofdocumentson
Nazipropaganda;andtheRedPartisansinUkraine,1941Ͳ1944.Avolumeofdocumentsonthepolice
andthepartisans,1941Ͳ1944,drawnfromEasternUkrainematerials,isnowinpress.
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FRANKGOLCZEWSKIis(since1994)ProfessorofEastEuropeanhistoryatthe
UniversityofHamburg.From1969to1973hestudiedattheUniversityof
Cologne,thesubjectsofhistory,Slavicstudies,Englishlanguageandliterature,
philosophyandeducation.HereceivedaDr.phil.inhistoryin1973fromthe
UniversityofCologne.Dr.GolczewskiwasaresearchassociateoftheOstkolleg
oftheFederalAgencyforCivicEducationandtheCollegeofEducationat
Neuss.In1979,hereceivedhisHabilitationattheUniversityofCologneonthe
subjectofPolishͲJewishrelationsfrom1881to1922.Followinganacting
professorshipattheUniversityofOsnabrückinVechta,hewasprofessorof
modernEuropeanhistoryattheUniversityoftheBundeswehrHamburg.His
publicationsincludethefollowingmonographs:DeutscheundUkrainer,1918––
1939(Schöningh,Paderborn,2010);KölnerUniversitätslehrerundder
Nationalsozialismus.PersonengeschichtlicheAnsätze(Böhlau,Köln,1988);withWillibaldReschka:
Gegenwartsgesellschaften:Polen(Teubner,Stuttgart,1982);PolnischͲjüdischeBeziehungen1881––1922
(Steiner,Wiesbaden,1981);andDasDeutschlandbildderPolen1918––1939(Droste,Düsseldorf,1974).He
wastheeditorofGeschichtederUkraine(Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,Göttingen,1993)and(togetherwith
GertrudPickhan)RussischerNationalismus.DierussischeIdeeim19.und20.Jahrhundert.Darstellung
undTexte(Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,Göttingen,1998).
JOHNͲPAULHIMKAisprofessorofUkrainianandEastEuropeanhistoryatthe
UniversityofAlberta.HereceivedhisPhDin1977fromtheUniversityof
Michigan.HeservedascoͲeditorforhistoryforTheEncyclopediaofUkraine,
vols.3Ͳ5.HehaswrittenfourmonographsonUkrainianhistory,themost
recentbeingLastJudgmentIconographyintheCarpathians(Universityof
TorontoPress,2009).HehasalsoeditedorcoͲeditedsixotherbooks,including
(withHansͲJoachimTorke)GermanͲUkrainianRelationsinHistorical
Perspective(CanadianInstituteofUkrainianStudies,1994).Currentlyheis
workingonamonographonUkrainiannationalistsandtheHolocaust,andcoͲ
editingwithJoannaMichlicacollectionofarticlesexaminingthereceptionof
theHolocaustineverycountryofpostͲcommunistEurope.Hehaspublishedadozenarticlesonthe
HolocaustandcloselyrelatedissuesinscholarlyjournalsinNorthAmericaandUkraine.Articlesonthe
OrganizationofUkrainianNationalistsanditsarmedforceshaveappearedrecentlyinAbImperio4
(2010)andEastCentralEurope37(2010).His2009MohylalecturehasbeenpublishedbyHeritagePress
(Saskatoon)underthetitleUkrainians,JewsandtheHolocaust:DivergentMemories.InMarch2011he
receivedtheJ.GordinKaplanAwardforExcellenceinResearch.
LIUDMYLAHRYNEVYCHisaseniorresearchassociateoftheInstituteof
HistoryofUkraine,NationalAcademyofSciencesofUkraine,whereshehas
workedsince1991.Shegraduatedin1986fromKyivStateUniversity,and
receivedaPhDinHistoryafterdefending(in1995)adissertation,““Military
Building(RedArmy’’sReform)inUkraineinthe1920sand1930s:Ethnic
Aspects””.HerresearchinterestshavefocusedonaspectsofUkrainiansociety
undertheStalinistregime.From1998to2004,shetookpartintheworking
groupoftheStateCommissionstudyingtheactivitiesofOUNͲUPA.Shehas
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preparedcollectionsofdocumentsandscholarlypublicationsonthesetopics.Mostrecently,she
participatedinthepreparationofthefourͲvolume““ChronicleofCollectivizationandHolodomorin
Ukraine””.ShehasalsoconductedresearchonthehistoryofJewsinUkraineandhasactivelycooperated
withtheInstituteofJudaicainKyiv,servingastheacademiceditorofitsforthcomingpublication,
EncyclopediaoftheHistoryandCultureoftheJewsofUkraine.Sheistheauthorofanumberofarticles
forthisEncyclopediaandotherarticlesonthehistoryofJewsinUkraine,including““TheKyivUnionof
JewishSoldiers1917Ͳ1918””.
VLADYSLAVHRYNEVYCHisAssociateProfessor(since2005)atKyivͲMohyla
Academy,wherehehastaughtcourseson:GenocideandHolocaustinthe20th
Century;andHistoricalMemoryandthePoliticsofHistoryofWorldWarIIin
Europe.AftergraduatingfromKyivStateUniversity,hestudiedattheInstitute
ofHistoryofUkraine,NationalAcademyofSciencesofUkraine.In1994,he
defendedhisKandidatskaiadissertationon““NationalProblemsintheRed
ArmyduringtheperiodofLiberationofUkraine(1943Ͳ1944)””.From1997,he
wasSeniorResearchAssociateattheKurasInstituteofPoliticalandEthnic
Studies,NationalAcademyofSciencesofUkraine,wherehereceiveda
DoctorateinPoliticalSciencefromtheDepartmentofTheoryandHistoryof
Politics(2006).Hehasproducedmorethan80publicationstodate.HismostrecentbookisSocialand
PoliticalMoodsandMoralityofthePopulationinUkraineduringtheSecondWorldWar(Kyiv,2007,in
Ukrainian).FellowshipsincludetheFulbrightͲKennanScholarprogramattheWoodrowWilsonCenterin
WashingtonD.C.in2008;andin2006,studyfellowshipswithCIUSinEdmontonandToronto,Canada,
andwiththeCenterforHolocaustandGenocideStudiesinAmsterdam.In2006healsoparticipatedina
professionalexchangeproject,““U.S.PerspectivesonHolocaustandHolodomorStudies””,developed
undertheframeworkoftheInternationalVisitorLeadershipProgrambytheU.S.Government.
TARASHUNCZAKisEmeritusProfessor,RutgersUniversity,wherehetaught
historycoursesfor44years––includingHistoryofEasternEurope;WorldWar
II;IntellectualandSocialHistory;HistoryoftheSovietUnion,Poland,Russia,
andUkraine;aswellasapopularcourseontheDevelopmentofWestern
Civilization.AfterB.Sc.andM.A.degreesfromFordhamUniversity,NewYork,
hestudiedhistoryattheUniversityofViennawhereheobtainedaPhDin
1960.Hehasauthoredseveralbooks,includingUkraine:thefirsthalfofthe
20thcentury(Kyiv,1993);Umundyrakhvoroha(Kyiv,1993);MoyispohadyͲ
StezhkyzhyttiaandUkrainaXXstolittia(Kyiv,2005);andSymonPetliuraand
theJewsͲAReappraisal(UkrainianHistoricalAssociation,2008).Hehasalso
editedRussianImperialism;Ukraine1917Ͳ1921——AStudyinRevolution;
UkraineandPolandinDocuments;UPAintheLightofGermanDocuments(““LitopysUPA””,vols6&7),and
hascoͲeditedwithDmytroShtohrynUkraine——TheChallengesofWorldWarII.AFulbrightScholarship
enabledhispublication(inKyiv)ofthe14volumecollectivework,AThousandYearsoftheUkrainian
SocialandPoliticalThought.HehaspresentedpapersatmanyconferencesinNorthAmerica,Great
Britain,Germany,UkraineandPoland,andhaswrittennumerousarticles.HehaslecturedattheLondon
SchoolofEconomicsandtheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem,andwasvisitingprofessoratColumbia
UniversityandtheUniversityofPennsylvania.
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WILFRIED JILGE is a historian and lecturer at the University of Leipzig. He
studiedEastEuropeanHistory,SlavicPhilologyandEconomicsattheJohannes
Gutenberg University in Mainz; and has taught at the universities of Leipzig
and Potsdam and Humboldt University in Berlin. Until 2010 he worked as a
research associate at the Center for the History and Culture of East Central
Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig, involved in the research project ““Visual and
historical cultures in East Central Europe in the process of modernization of
stateandsocietysince1918””.Hisfocusinthisprojectwasontherelationship
betweenUkrainianstate andnational symbolism,andremembrancecultures
andnationͲbuildinginmodernUkraine(1917/1921tothepresent).Hehasauthoredanumberofarticles
onthesethemes,including““CompetingVictimhoods––PostͲSovietUkrainianNarrativesonWorldWarII””
in Shared History –– Divided Memory. Jews and Others in Soviet Occupied Poland, 1939Ͳ1941 (Leipzig:
Universitätsverlag,Leipzig,2007);““NationalistͲUkrainianStruggleforLiberation:TheReͲevaluationofthe
SecondWorldWarinUkraine(2008,inGerman);and““TheGreatFamineinHistoryandMemoryCulture
of Ukraine”” (2008, in German). Since 2005, he has been a member of the ““Kievan Dialogue””, a
permanentNGOForumundertheauspicesofGerman,EuropeanandUkrainianmembersofParliament,
andhasadvisedmembersofparliamentinthefieldsofmemory,relationsoftheEuropeanUniontoits
neighbours in the ““Eastern Partnership””, as well as German/EuropeanͲUkrainian political and cultural
relations.
OLESYAKHROMEYCHUKiscurrentlycompletingherPhDthesisatUniversity
CollegeLondon,SchoolofSlavonicandEastEuropeanStudies.Herresearch
focusesonthepostͲwardisplacementofpopulations,Ukrainianmilitary
formationsduringtheSecondWorldWarperiodandthecivilianizationprocess
oftheWaffenSS““Galicia””Division.ShewasborninLviv(Ukraine)andwas
educatedintheUK.SheholdsanMScinRussianandEastEuropeanStudies
(St.Antony’’sCollege,UniversityofOxford)andaB.A.(Hons)inSociology
(GoldsmithsCollege,UniversityofLondon).
CHARLESKINGisProfessorofInternationalAffairsandGovernmentat
GeorgetownUniversity,Washington.Helectureswidelyoninternational
affairs,socialviolence,andethnicpolitics,andhasworkedwithmajor
broadcastmediasuchasCNN,NationalPublicRadio,theBBC,theHistory
Channel,andMTV.Hepreviouslyservedaschairmanofthefacultyof
Georgetown’’sEdmundA.WalshSchoolofForeignService.Hisbooksinclude
Odessa:GeniusandDeathinaCityofDreams;TheGhostofFreedom:AHistory
oftheCaucasus;TheBlackSea:AHistory;andTheMoldovans:Romania,
Russia,andthePoliticsofCulture.King’’sarticlesandcommentaryhave
appearedinmagazinesandnewspaperssuchasForeignAffairs,ForeignPolicy,
TheWashingtonPost,TheLosAngelesTimes,andTheTimesLiterarySupplement,aswellasinleading
academicjournals.KingstudiedhistoryandphilosophyattheUniversityofArkansasandlaterearned
master’’sanddoctoraldegreesattheUniversityofOxford,wherehewasaBritishMarshallScholar.
BeforecomingtoGeorgetown,hewasajuniorresearchfellowatNewCollege,Oxford,andaresearch
associateattheInternationalInstituteforStrategicStudiesinLondon.
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JEFFREYKOPSTEINisProfessorofPoliticalScienceandfrom2005Ͳ2011was
theDirectoroftheCentreforEuropean,Russian,andEurasianStudiesatthe
UniversityofToronto.StartinginJuly2011hewillbetheActingDirectorofthe
UniversityofToronto’’sCentreforJewishStudies.HeholdsaB.A.,M.A.,and
PhDdegreesfromtheUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley,andhasheld
fellowshipsatHarvardUniversity’’sCentreofforEuropeanStudies,Princeton
University’’sCenterforInternationalStudies,andtheUniversityofMunichas
anAlexandervonHumboldtFellow.Heistheauthorandeditorofthreebooks
andfortypeerreviewedscholarlyarticlesinthefieldsofEuropeanandJewish
politicsandhistory.HisforthcomingcoͲauthoredbook,IntimateViolence:
AntiͲJewishPogromsasPreludetotheHolocaust,isastudyofthewaveof
deadlypogromsinPolandandUkrainethatoccurredintheweeksafterthe
NaziinvasionoftheSovietUnionin1941.Havingdevotedtwentyyearstoundergraduateandgraduate
education,ProfessorKopsteinhasreceivedmultipleteachingawards,includingthePhiSigmaAlpha
TeachingAwardoftheHonorsSocietyoftheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociationandtheOutstanding
TeachingAwardoftheFacultyofArtsandSciencesattheUniversityofToronto.
ANDRIIKRAWCHUKisProfessorofReligiousStudiesattheUniversityof
Sudbury(Canada).Degreesinclude:D.Th.(St.Paul,Ottawa),Ph.D.(University
ofOttawa),L.Th.M.(AccademiaAlfonsiana,Rome),B.Th.,B.A.(McGill,
Montreal).Heistheauthorof:ChristianSocialEthicsinUkraine:thelegacyof
AndreiSheptytsky(EdmontonͲToronto,1997);numerousarticles,including
"DueapprocidellaChiesacattolicaucrainaalproblemadell'unitadeicristiani:
SeptyckyjeSlipyj,"Storiareligiosadell'Ucraina.(Gazzada,2007);and"Christian
SocialEthicsduringtheGermanOccupationofGalicia,1941––1944"(L'viv,
2000).Heistheeditorof:ActsoftheMetropolitanOrdinariateofL'viv,1941––
1944.AnarchivalManuscriptfromthePeriodoftheGermanOccupation(Kyiv,
2003);IndextotheUkrainianCatholicPeriodicalLiteratureofGalicia,1871––
1942(L'viv,2000);MetropolitanAndreiSheptytsky:hisLifeandWorks.Vol.2:TheChurchandtheSocial
Question.Part2:Correspondence(L'viv,1999);Vol.2:TheChurchandtheSocialQuestion.PartI:
PastoralTeachingandWork(L'viv,1998);Vol.1:TheChurchandChurchUnity(L'viv,1995);Episcopal
ConferencesoftheUkrainianGrecoͲCatholicChurch,1902––1937(Lviv,1997);MoralityandReality:the
LifeandTimesofAndreiSheptyts'kyi,P.R.Magocsi,ed.withtheassistanceofAndriiKrawchuk
(Edmonton,1989).HeisCoͲchair,ReligioninEuropeConsultation,AmericanAcademyofReligion;
Representative,CanadianAssociationofSlavists;andMemberoftheExecutive,InternationalCouncilfor
CentralandEastEuropeanStudies.
WENDYLOWERiscurrently(since2007)aResearchFellowandLecturerinthe
DepartmentofModernHistoryattheLudwigMaximilianUniversity,Munich,
Germany.ShereceivedherM.A.andPhDfromAmericanUniversityin
Washington,DC.PriortoherrelocationtoGermany,Dr.LowerwasDirectorof
VisitingScholarsProgramsattheU.S.HolocaustMemorialMuseum’’sCenter
forAdvancedHolocaustStudies;taughtcoursesinmodernEuropeanhistory,
Soviethistory,andHolocausthistoryatAmericanUniversity,Georgetown
University;andwasassistantprofessorofhistoryatTowsonUniversity.She
hasservedonvarioustaskforcesforHolocausteducation,andhasledseveral
teachingworkshopsforAmericanandEuropeanhistoryfaculty.Sheisa
memberoftheInternationalAdvisoryBoardforYahadͲInͲUnum(Paris),andof
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theJournalofGenocideResearch.Besidesbookchaptersandjournalarticles,LowerauthoredanawardͲ
winningbook,NaziEmpireBuildingandtheHolocaustinUkraine(2005/Ukrainianedition2010).ShecoͲ
edited(withRayBrandon)TheShoahinUkraine:History,TestimonyandMemorialization
(2008/Ukrainianedition2011),andrecentlyannotatedthediaryofSamuelGolfard,EscapingOblivion:
TheHolocaustinEasternGalicia(RowmanLittlefield,2011).Sheisfinishingabookmanuscriptonfemale
perpetratorsinUkraine,PolandandBelarus.Hernextmonograph,fundedbytheGermanResearch
Foundation,isacomparativebiographicalstudyofHolocaustperpetratorsinpostwarUkraine,Austria,
EastGermanyandWestGermany.
CHRISTOPHMICKisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofHistoryatthe
UniversityofWarwick.Hestudiedmodernhistory,politicalscienceand
GermanliteratureattheUniversityofTübingen,wherehealsocompleteda
doctorate(Dr.phil.)in1992.HereceivedhisvenialegendiinEastern
Europeanhistory(Dr.habil.)in2004.Hehaspublishednumerousarticleson
thehistoryofGermanͲSovietrelationsintheinterͲwarperiod,thehistoryof
scienceintheSovietUnion,andwarexperiencesinEasternEurope,including
severalarticlesthattreattopicsofrelevancetoUkrainianͲJewishrelations:
““IncompatibleExperiences:Poles,UkrainiansandJewsinLvivunderSovietand
GermanOccupation,1941Ͳ44””,JournalofContemporaryHistory(46,no.2,
2011);““‘‘OnlytheJewsdonotwaver……’’LvivunderSovietOccupation””,inElazar
Barkan,ElizabethA.Cole,KaiStruve(eds),SharedHistory––DividedMemory.
JewsandOthersinSovietͲOccupiedPoland1939Ͳ1941(Leipzig:Universitätsverlag,Leipzig,2007);““Die
'Ukrainermacher'undihreKonkurrenten.StrategiendernationalenVereinnahmungdesLandesin
Ostgalizien””,inComparativ(2005)and““EthnischeGewaltundPogromeinLemberg1914––1941””,in
Osteuropa53(2003).Hisbook,KriegserfahrungenineinermultiethnischenStadt.Lviv1914Ͳ1947(War
experiencesinamultiethniccity:Lviv1914Ͳ1950)waspublished.inApril2011
NATHALIEMOINEisaFellowofLeCentreNationaldelaRecherche
Scientifique(France)andamemberofLeCentred’’EtudesdesMondesRusse,
CaucasienetCentreͲeuropéen(Paris,France).Sheisaspecialistonthesocial
historyofStalinism.ShewroteherPhDonmigrantsandmarginalsinMoscow
duringthe1930sandpublishedseveralarticlesonrelatedissues,inparticular,
ontheconstructionofsocialandgeographicalmarginalitythroughthe
introductionofaninternalpassportatthebeginningofthe1930sandits
evolutioninthefollowingdecades.Hercurrentprojectandrecentpublications
areaboutprivatepropertyofSovietcitizensduringWorldWarIIandthe
postwaryears,includingGermanpoliciesofdestructionandspoliationinthe
Sovietoccupiedterritories,Sovietuseofinternationallawregardingthe
conceptualizationofreparationsandtrialsofwarcrimes,westernhumanitarianhelpforSovietcivilians,
andthepostwarhierarchyofSoviet““victimsoftheoccupation””.
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WOLFMOSKOVICHisProfessorEmeritus,formerlyProfessorandChairperson
oftheDepartmentofRussianandSlavicStudiesattheHebrewUniversityof
Jerusalem(1976Ͳ2004).HismainfieldsofinterestincludeSlavicstudies
(Ukrainianstudiesinparticular),JewishcultureandhistoryinEasternand
CentralEurope(Yiddishstudiesinparticular),interrelationsbetweenJewsand
Christians,andlanguagesandculturesincontact.HestudiedatChernivtsi
StateUniversity,receivedhisPhD(1965)fromtheMoscowInstituteof
ForeignLanguages,andDr.Hab.(1971)fromtheAcademyofSciencesofthe
USSR,Leningrad.From1965to1974hewasalsoseniorresearcherand
laboratorydirectorincomputationallinguisticsandcognitivestudiesforthe
CommitteeforInventionsandDiscoveriesoftheUSSR,Moscow.Hehasbeen
VisitingProfessorattheuniversitiesofLondon,Oxford,Cornell,Penn,Rome(SapienzaandTorVergata),
andBratislava.Hehasover300publications,including12monographs,mainlyinthefieldsoftheoretical
andSlavicphilology,andJewishandUkrainianculturology.HehasservedasEditorinChiefofthebook
seriesJewsandSlavs(volumes1Ͳ21,Jerusalem)since1993.Honoursreceivedinclude:ForeignMember
oftheNationalAcademiesofSciencesofUkraine,RussiaandSlovenia;andtheV.ZhabotinskyGold
MedaloftheUkraineͲIsraelFriendshipSociety(Kyiv)forpromotingmutualunderstandingamong
nations.
TANJAPENTERholdstheprofessorshipforhistoryofEasternEuropeatthe
HelmutͲSchmidtUniversity//UniversityoftheArmedForcesinHamburg,
Germany.ShecompletedaPhDthesisattheuniversityofCologne/Germany
onthehistoryoftheRussianRevolution:““Odessa1917.Revolutionander
Peripherie””(Koeln,Wien2000)andahabilitationthesisattheuniversityof
Bochum/Germanyonworkingandeverydaylifeexperiencesofthepopulation
intheEasternUkrainanDonbassregionduringStalinismandGerman
occupationinWorldWarII(““KohlefürStalinundHitler.ArbeitenundLebenim
Donbass1929Ͳ1953““,Essen2010).Sheisauthorofnumerousarticlesonthe
historyofRussiaandUkraineduringthe19thͲ20thcenturiesandreceivedvariousfellowships.In2005
shewasaresearchfellowattheUSHolocaustMemorialMuseuminWashington,D.C.Hercurrentfields
ofresearcharecomparisonbetweenStalinismandNationalͲSocialism,Sovietwarcrimestrials,forced
labour,andquestionsoftransitionaljusticeandcompensationintheSovietUnionandthepostͲSoviet
countries.
ANATOLIYPODOLSKYisDirector(since2002)oftheUkrainianCentrefor
HolocaustStudiesinKyiv;alecturerofHolocaustHistoryattheNational
UniversityKyivͲMohylaAcademy;andteacherofJewishHistoryinBeitͲSefer
Simkha.Since1993,heisResearchAssociateattheDepartmentofJewish
HistoryandCulture,InstituteofEthnicandPoliticalStudies,NationalAcademy
ofSciencesofUkraine.HecompletedaPhDinHistoryin1996,withathesison
““TheNaziGenocideofJewsinUkraine,1941Ͳ1944””.Heistheauthorofmore
than70articles––publishedinUkrainian,RussianandIsraeliresearchjournals
––onthehistoryofJewsinUkraine,thehistoryoftheHolocaustinUkraineandEasternEurope,teaching
abouttheHolocaust,andtoleranceeducation.Hehasparticipatedin,andpresentedpapersonthese
topicsatnumerousinternationalconferencessincetheearly1990s––inUkraine,Israel,Poland,
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Lithuania,Germany,theU.S.andtheU.K.Recentpublicationsinclude:““CollaborationinUkraineduring
theHolocaust:AspectsofHistoriographyandResearch””inCollaborationwiththeNazis.PublicDiscourse
aftertheHolocaust,editedbyRoniStauber(Routledge––OxonandNewYork,2011);““TheTragicFateof
UkrainianJewishWomenunderNazioccupation,1941Ͳ1944””inSexualViolenceAgainstJewishWomen
DuringtheHolocaust,editedbyS.M.HedgepethandR.G.Saidel(BrandeisUniversityPress,2010);and
thetextbookLessonsofthePast:HistoryoftheHolocaustinUkraine(Kyiv,PublishingHouse
““Zovnishtorgvydav””––inUkrainian,EnglishandRussian,2009).
PETERJ.POTICHNYJisProfessorEmeritusatMcMasterUniversity.He
completedhishighereducationintheUnitedStateswithaB.A.fromTemple
University,andanM.A.,aCertificateinRussianStudies,andaPhDfrom
ColumbiaUniversity.HetaughtPoliticalScienceatUppsalaCollege,SirWilfred
Laurier,UkrainianFreeUniversityandMcMasterUniversity.HeservedasDean
ofLawandSocialScienceattheUkrainianFreeUniversity;asPresidentand
SecretaryGeneraloftheCanadianAssociationofSlavists;andasSecretaryof
theInternationalCommitteeofSovietandEastEuropeanStudies.Healso
servedontheBoardofDirectorsoftheSocialScienceandHumanities
ResearchCouncilofCanada,andasChairpersonoftheInterdepartmentalCommitteeonCommunistand
EastEuropeanAffairsatMcMasterUniversity.HeisSeniorFellowofCERES,UniversityofToronto;
MemberoftheScientificCouncil,HrushevskyInstituteofUkrainianArcheography,NationalAcademyof
Science,Kyiv;HonoraryProfessorofEastChinaUniversityinChina,andNationalUniversity““Lviv
Polytechnic””inUkraine.Heistheauthor,coͲauthorandeditorof35booksandauthorofover100
articles.HeisalsoEditorͲinͲChiefoftheLitopysUPA,ofwhich80volumesofdocumentsandmemoirson
theUkrainianliberationstruggleinthe20thcenturyhavebeenpublishedtodate.In2008hewas
decoratedbyPresidentYushchenkoofUkrainewithTheOrderofMeritIIIClass.
SHIMONREDLICHisProfessorEmeritusinModernJewishHistory,BenͲGurion
University,wherehetaughtfrom1970to2003.BorninLwow(Lviv),helived
90kmawayinBrzezanyuntiltheSecondWorldWarandduringtheSoviet
rule,1939Ͳ1941.AftersurvivingtheHolocaustintheBrzezanyGhettoandin
thenearbyvillageofRaj,hesettledwiththeremnantsofhisfamilyinLodzin
1945,andimmigratedtoIsraelin1950.HereceivedaB.A.inHistoryand
LiteraturefromtheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem(1960),anM.A.inRussian
Studies,HarvardUniversity(1964),andaPhDinJewishHistory,NewYork
University(1968).HehaslecturedatWhitmanCollege,HunterCollege,BarͲ
IlanUniversity,HebrewUniversity,andUniversityofPittsburgh.PositionsheldatBGUinclude:Chairman
oftheHistoryDepartment,DirectoroftheCenterforEastEuropeanJewishStudies,andDirectorofthe
RabbCenterforHolocaustStudies.PublicationsincludebooksandarticlesontheHistoryoftheJewsin
Russia,PolandandintheSovietUnion,suchas:War,HolocaustandStalinism:ADocumentedHistoryof
theJewishAntiͲFascistCommitteeintheUSSR(1995);TogetherandApartinBrzezany:Poles,Jewsand
Ukrainians,1919Ͳ1945(2002,publishedinPolishUkrainianandHebrew),andLifeinTransit:Jewsin
PostwarLodz,1945Ͳ1950(2010).
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RAZSEGALiscompletingadoctorateattheStrasslerCenterforHolocaustand
GenocideStudies,ClarkUniversity.Hisdoctoraldissertation,Embittered
Legacies:GenocideinSubcarpathianRus’’,isamultidisciplinaryanalysisof
massviolenceinWorldWarIIHungaryͲruledSubcarpathianRus’’.Segalhas
receivedseveralfellowships,includingaFulbrightDoctoralFellowship.He
completedhisM.A.inJewishHistoryatTelͲAvivUniversityin2007.Hehas
presentedhisresearchinanumberofacademicconferencesinIsrael,
Hungary,Canada,andtheU.S.HealsoproposedandorganizedtheFirst
InternationalGraduateStudents’’ConferenceonHolocaustandGenocide
Studies(ClarkUniversity,April2009).Thesecondconferenceisplannedfor
April2012.HisfirstbookhasjustbeenpublishedinHebrew:DaysofRuin:TheJewsofMunkácsduring
theHolocaust(Jerusalem:YadVashemPublications,2011).Hehasalsopublishedarticles,including:
““BecomingBystanders:CarpathoͲRuthenians,Jews,andthePoliticsofNarcissisminSubcarpathianRus’’””
inHolocaustStudies:AJournalofCultureandHistory(2011);and““TheJewsofHusztbetweentheWorld
WarsandintheHolocaust””(2006);andentriesonghettosinSubcarpathianRus’’intheUnitedStates
HolocaustMemorialMuseumEncyclopediaofCampsandGhettos,1933Ͳ1945(forthcomingin2012).
IGORSHCHUPAKisDirectorofthe““Tkuma””InstituteforHolocaustStudiesand
theMuseumofHistoryofJewsinUkraineandHolocaustHistory
(Dnipropetrovsk).HeisalsoeditorͲinͲchiefof““Premier””PublishingHouse
(Zaporizhzhya).HestudiedhistoryattheZaporizhzhyaStateUniversity
(Ukraine),andobtainedaPhDinhistoryfromtheUniversityofToronto
(Canada)in2002.Heistheauthorofmorethan100scholarlyworks(published
inCanada,Israel,Poland,Russia,andUkraine)onthehistoryofUkrainian
Jews,Holocausthistory,andproblemsofinterethnicrelationsontheterritory
ofUkraine.HeisalsotheauthorofahistorytextbookforUkrainianschools,
whichisrecommendedbytheMinistryofEducationandScienceofUkraine.
Hispublicationsinclude:““NaziAntiͲSemiticPropagandaamongtheLocal
PopulationofUkraine””inHolocaustStudies,2006,Issue3(Dnipropetrovsk,2006);““MetropolitanAndrei
Sheptyts’’kyi:PersonalityandSymbolinHistory””inHolocaustStudies,2007,Issue4,(Dnipropetrovsk,
2007);““HolocaustHistoryResearchinUkraine””inZagųada‚ydów.StudiaiMateriaųy,2008,t.4(coͲ
author,Warsaw,2008);TheHolocaustinUkraine:inSearchofAnswerstoHistoryQuestions
(Dnipropetrovsk,2009);TheHolocaustinUkraine:MultimediaeͲBook(Kyiv––Dnipropetrovsk,2009);and
WorldHistory:ModernPeriod(1939––2011):Textbookfor11FormofPublicSchoolsofUkraine
(Zaporizhzhya,2011).
TIMOTHYSNYDERisprofessorofhistoryatYaleUniversity,specializinginthe
politicalhistoryofcentralandeasternEurope.HereceivedhisB.A.from
BrownUniversityandhisdoctoratefromtheUniversityofOxford.Hehas
heldfellowshipsinParis,Warsaw,andatHarvard.Afrequentguestatthe
InstituteforHumanSciencesinVienna,hespeaksfiveandreadsten
Europeanlanguages.Hispublicationsincludefivebooks:Nationalism,
Marxism,andModernCentralEurope:ABiographyofKazimierzKellesͲKrauz
(1998);TheReconstructionofNations:Poland,Ukraine,Lithuania,Belarus,
1569Ͳ1999(2003);SketchesfromaSecretWar:APolishArtist’’sMissionto
LiberateSovietUkraine(2005);TheRedPrince:TheSecretLivesofaHabsburg
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Archduke(2008);andBloodlands:EuropeBetweenHitlerandStalin(2010).Allhavebeentranslatedand
allhavereceivedawards.Bloodlandsisbeingtranslatedintotwentylanguagesandwasnamedtotwelve
bookͲofͲtheͲyearlistsfor2010.MostrecentlySnyderhelpedthelateTonyJudtcomposeaspokenbook,
ThinkingtheTwentiethCentury(forthcoming).Heiscoeditorof:WallAroundtheWest:StateBorders
andImmigrationControlsinEuropeandNorthAmerica(2000)andStalinismandEurope:Terror,War,
Domination(forthcoming).HisscholarlyarticleshaveappearedinPastandPresent,theJournalofCold
WarStudies,andotherjournals;hehasalsowrittenforTheNewYorkReviewofBooks,TheTimes
LiterarySupplement,TheNation,TheNewRepublic,TheNewYorkTimes,TheWallStreetJournal,and
otherdailynewspapers.HetakespartincurricularconferencesonHolocausteducationandsitsonthe
editorialboardsoftheJournalofModernEuropeanHistoryandEastEuropeanPoliticsandSocieties.
KAISTRUVEisaresearchfellowattheInstituteofHistoryofMartinLuther
UniversityinHalle,Germany.HereceivedhisPhDin2002attheFree
UniversityofBerlinandheldpositionsattheHerderInstitute,Marburg,and
theSimonDubnowInstituteofJewishHistoryandCultureatLeipzig
University.AmonghispublicationsareBauernundNationinGalizien.Über
ZugehörigkeitundsozialeEmanzipationim19.Jahrhundert(Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht,2005);““RitesofViolence?ThePogromsof
Summer1941””,in:Polin24(2011Ͳforthcoming),and““Tremorsinthe
ShatterͲZoneofEmpires:EasternGaliciainSummer1941””,in:OmerBartov,
EricWeitz(eds.):Borderlands:Peoples,Nations,andCulturesinthe
ShatterzoneofEmpiressince1848(IndianaUniversityPressͲforthcoming).
HecoͲeditedwithElazarBarkanandElizabethA.Cole,SharedHistory––
DividedMemory:JewsandOthersinSovietͲOccupiedPoland,1939Ͳ1941(Leipzig:Universitätsverlag,
Leipzig,2007).HeiscurrentlyworkingonabookͲlengthstudyonviolenceagainstJewsintheinitial
phaseoftheGermanͲSovietwarduringsummer1941.
FRANKE.SYSYNisdirectorofthePeterJacykCentreforUkrainianHistorical
ResearchattheCanadianInstituteofUkrainianStudies,UniversityofAlberta,
andeditorͲinͲchiefoftheHrushevskyTranslationProject.Aspecialistin
UkrainianandPolishhistory,heistheauthorofBetweenPolandandthe
Ukraine:TheDilemmaofAdamKysil,1600––1653(1985),Mykhailo
Hrushevsky:HistorianandNationalAwakener(2001),andvariousstudieson
theKhmelnytskyUprising,Ukrainianhistoriography,andearlymodern
Ukrainianpoliticalculture.HeisalsocoͲauthor,withSerhiiPlokhy,ofReligion
andNationinModernUkraine(CanadianInstituteofUkrainianStudiesPress,
2003).Dr.SysynservesontheeditorialboardsoftheEncyclopediaofUkraine,
HarvardUkrainianStudies,andtheJournalofUkrainianStudies.
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ANDREJUMANSKYworkswithYahad––InUnum,whereheisresponsiblefor
researchingGermanhistorical,militaryandlegalarchives,aswellas
translating,investigatingandservingasaresearchassistant.Hewasbornin
Kiev,toaUkrainianmotherandJewishfather,andnowresidesinGermany.
MultiͲlingual(fluentinRussian,German,French,EnglishandUkrainian),
AndrejjoinedYahadin2004.Hehasalsoservedasaresearchassistantto
professorsattheUniversityofCologne,whereheobtainedaMastersin
FrenchandGermanlaw.HealsohasaMastersinLawfromtheUniversityof
ParisI,andanotherMastersdegreeinthehistoryoftheHolocaustinEastern
EuropefromtheUniversityofParisIV.
VOLODYMYRV’’IATROVYCHisaUkrainianhistorianwhospecializesinresearchof
thehistoryoftheUkrainiannationalistliberationmovement.Between2008and
2010,hewastheDirectoroftheStateArchiveoftheSecurityServiceofUkraine,
taskedwithdeclassifyingandmakingaccessiblepreviouslysecretKGBarchives.In
2002,hefoundedtheCentreforResearchontheLiberationMovement(CDVR)
www.cdvr.org.uaͲanonͲgovernmentalorganizationthatdealswithvarious
aspectsoftheUkrainiannationalistmovementinthe20thcentury.CDVRpublishes
thescientificjournal““UkrainianLiberationMovement"(editedbyDr.Viatrovych),
andcollaborateswithacademicandstateinstitutionsofUkraine,Lithuania,PolandandSlovakia.In2010Ͳ
2011,hewasaseniorvisitingscholarattheHarvardUkrainianResearchInstitute.Hispublications,in
Ukrainian,includetwobooks:TheUkrainianInsurgentArmy'sRaidsonCzechoslovakterritories(LvivͲ˃oronto,
2001);andTheAttitudetoJewsAdoptedbytheOrganizationofUkrainianNationalists(Lviv,2006).Hehas
alsoeditedacompilationofdocuments,PolishͲUkrainianRelationsinDocumentsofOUNandUPA,1942Ͳ1947
(Lviv,2011).
ORESTZAKYDALSKYreceivedaB.A.inpoliticalsciencefromtheUniversityof
Guelphin2004.In2007hereceivedanM.A.fromtheUniversityofToronto’’s
CentreforEuropean,RussianandEurasianStudies.Histhesisanalyzed
Ukraine’’spoliticalpartysystemandtheshifttoproportionalrepresentation
thattookplacetherein2006.In2008hebeganworkingasaresearcheratthe
UkrainianCanadianResearchandDocumentationCentreinToronto.From
2008Ͳ10,heconductedinterviewswithHolodomorsurvivorslivinginCanada,
andeditedandtranslatedtheseinterviewsaspartofajointprojectwiththe
UkrainianCanadianCongress,SharingtheStory.Theresultofthisprojectwas
awebsiteofinterviewswithHolodomorsurvivors,www.holodomorsurvivors.ca.In2010,hebegan
workingonajointprojectwiththeCentrefortheStudyoftheHistoryandCultureofEastͲEuropean
Jewry,KyivMohylaAcademy,IamMyBrother’’sKeeper,whichseekstoidentifynewcasesofUkrainian
Righteouswhohid,rescuedorotherwiseassistedtheJewishneighborsduringWWII.Theprojectis
supportedbytheUkrainianJewishEncounterInitiative.In2004and2010heservedasaninternational
observerwiththeCanadiangovernmentforpresidentialelectionsinUkraine.
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UkrainianJewishEncounterPrincipals/Staff
JAMESC.TEMERTYisChairmanofNorthlandPowerInc.,amajorCanadian
independentpowercompanyandalsoChairoftheBoardofTrusteesof
NorthlandPowerIncomeFund.Mr.Temertyisanentrepreneurwithover40
yearsofbusinessexperience.BeforeestablishingNorthlandPowerin1987,he
hadasuccessfulcareerincomputerͲrelatedcompanies,buildingtheworld’’s
largestchainofComputerlandfranchisesandguidingSoftchoiceCorporation
toitspositionasaleadingNorthAmericanprovideroftechnologysolutions
andservices.Mr.Temertyisalsoactiveinphilanthropy,servingasChairofthe
BoardofGovernorsoftheRoyalOntarioMuseumfrom2002to2009.
Internationally,heisChairmanoftheKyivMohylaBusinessSchoolanda
TrusteeoftheChildren’’sHospitaloftheFutureinKyiv,Ukraine.Hewas
appointedamemberoftheOrderofCanadain2008.
BERELRODALisamemberoftheBoardofDirectorsandChairmanofthe
AdvisoryBoardoftheUkrainianJewishEncounterInitiative.Heprovides
strategicadviceandrelatedservicestoselectclientsinboththeprivateand
publicsectors.Heserves,aswell,asaPartner,advisortoorontheBoardsof
growthͲoriented,innovativeinvestmentandtechnologyenterprises,NGOs,
andthinktanksinNorthAmerica,Europe,andAsia.Hisprofessional
experienceasaseniorofficialintheGovernmentofCanadafortwentyyears
includedpolicy,planning,andexecutiveresponsibilitiesintheforeignaffairs,
internationaltrade,defense,security,economic,andsocialdomains.Hewasa
memberoftheCanadianteamthatnegotiatedtheCanadaͲUSFreeTrade
Agreement,precursorofNAFTA,thelargestsuchagreementeverconcluded.
Hewritesandlecturesonnationalismandpoliticalidentity,thestateandgovernanceissues,and
internationalpoliticalandsecurityaffairs.Heistheauthorofavarietyofpublications,includingThe
SomaliaExperienceinStrategicPerspective.HeholdsdegreesfromMcGillandOxfordUniversities.He
servesasViceChairoftheInternationalCenteronNonviolentConflict,basedinWashington,DC,andisa
founderoftheNorthAmericanForum.
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UJECoͲDirectors
ADRIANKARATNYCKYisamemberoftheBoardofDirectorsoftheUkrainian
JewishEncounterInitiative.HeisaSeniorFellowattheAtlanticCouncilofthe
U.S.anddirectorofitsUkraineͲNorthAmericaDialogue.From1993until2003,
hewasPresidentofFreedomHouse,duringwhichtimehedeveloped
programsofassistancetodemocraticandhumanrightsmovementsinBelarus,
Serbia,Russia,andUkraineanddevisedarangeoflongͲtermcomparative
analyticsurveysofdemocracyandpoliticalreform.Fortwelveyearshe
directedthebenchmarksurveyFreedomintheWorldandwascoͲeditoroftheannualNationsinTransit
studyofreforminthepostͲCommunistworld.HeisafrequentcontributortoForeignAffairs,Newsweek,
TheWashingtonPost,TheWallStreetJournal,TheFinancialTimes,TheInternationalHeraldTribune,and
manyotherperiodicals.HeiscoͲauthorofthreebooksonSovietandpostͲSovietthemes.
ALTIRODALisahistorian,writer,formerprofessorofJewishhistory,and
formerofficialandadvisortotheGovernmentofCanada.Shewasbornin
Chernivtsi(Czernowitz)inUkraine,andreceivedherearlyschoolinginIsrael.
ShewaseducatedatMcGill,OxfordandHebrewuniversitiesinthefieldsof
historyandliterature.HerprofessionalexperienceincludesadecadeoffullͲ
timeandsessionalteachingatuniversitiesinMontreal,Ottawa,andOxford;
researchandwriting,underacademic,policyinstitute,governmental,and
otherauspices;andtwentyͲfiveyearsofsenioradvisoryandmanagement
experienceingovernmentinCanada,includingwiththePrivyCouncilOffice,
RoyalCommissions,federalgovernmentcentralagenciesanddepartments,andprovincialagencies.She
istheauthorofavarietyofstudiesandreportsforgovernment,aswellasscholarlyandotherwritingon
aspectsofidentity,Jewishhistoryandculture,interͲcommunalrelations,andpublicpolicy.Shehasalso
servedontheboardsofseveralnationalCanadianNGOs/communityorganizations.
UJEDirectorofOperations
RAYASHADURSKYhascomefromtheprivateandnotͲforͲprofitsectors,
whereshehasheldseniormanagementpositions,includingWesternRegional
Director,InstituteofCanadianBankers,andCanadianDirectoroftheCertified
EmployeeBenefitsSpecialistprogram.Asacommunityactivist,shehasserved
innumerousleadershiproles,includingasPresident,UkrainianCanadian
ProfessionalandBusinessFederation;memberoftheNationalExecutiveand
ChairoftheCommunicationsCommitteeoftheUkrainianCanadianCongress;
ChairofFamilyCouncilfortheUkrainianCanadianCareCentre;Chair,Vision
CommitteefortheCouncilofUkrainianCreditUnionsofCanada;Memberof
theOrganizingCommitteeandWorkshopModeratorfortheForumforCentral
andEasternEuropeanBusinessDevelopment;BoardDirectorfortheNationalCouncilofEthnicCanadian
BusinessandProfessionalAssociations;ExecutiveDirectoroftheTorontoUkrainianFestival,thelargest
UkrainianFestivalinNorthAmerica;foundingmemberofEtobicokeSunriseRotary;andmemberofthe
OrganizingCommitteeforaTelethonfortheQueenStreetMentalHealthHospitalOutreachFacilityͲ
Archway.RayacurrentlycontinueshervolunteerinvolvementasChair,FundraisingCommitteeofthe
UkrainianCanadianSocialServices––Torontobranch,andChair,BestPracticesCommitteeandmember
oftheGovernanceCommitteeoftheMississaugaRatepayers’’AssociationNetwork.
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KonradͲAdenauerͲStiftungPrincipals/Staff
GERHARDWAHLERSisDeputySecretaryGeneral(sinceOctober2007)ofthe
KonradͲAdenauerͲStiftung(KAS)inBerlin.Uptotheearly1980s,hestudied
history,sociology,economicsandpoliticalscienceattheWestfälische
WilhelmsͲUniversitätinMünsterandalsodidmilitaryservice.Between1986
and1988heconductedresearchstudiesinLatinAmericawithfundingfrom
theGermanAcademicExchangeService(DAAD),primarilyinVenezuela,as
wellasinColumbia,theDominicanRepublic,Chile,Argentina,andBrazil.He
wasawardedascholarshipbytheKonradͲAdenauerͲStiftung,andthen
obtainedaPhDinphilosophyattheWestfälischeWilhelmsͲUniversitätin
Münsterin1989.HejoinedKASasaDeskOfficerintheInternational
CooperationDivisionin1990.HethenheadedKAS’’officeinJerusalem/Israel
between1994Ͳ1997,andKAS’’officeinWashington/USAfrom1997to2003.
SinceMay2003,hehasservedasHeadoftheInternationalDivisionofKASHeadquartersinBerlin
JENSPAULUSisHead(since2010)oftheEuropeandNorthAmerica
DepartmentoftheKonradͲAdenauerͲStiftung(KAS).Followingmilitaryservice,
hestudiedpoliticalscience,historyandphilosophy,firstatJustusͲLiebigͲ
UniverstitätGießen(1993Ͳ1995)andthenAlbertusͲMagnusͲUniversitätin
Cologne,Germany(1995Ͳ1999).Between1999Ͳ2002heworkedatthe
ResearchInstituteforPoliticalScienceandEuropeanAffairsatAlbertusͲ
MagnusͲUniversitätinCologne.HethenworkedasKAS’’representativein
Abuja/Nigeria(2002Ͳ2005).In2005Ͳ2006,hewasDeskOfficeratKASͲ
InternationalCooperationDivision(Europe/NorthAmericaDepartment)in
Berlin,andfrom2006to2010wasHeadofKASͲExecutiveOfficeinBerlin.
GABRIELEBAUMANNisHead(since2008)oftheDomesticPrograms
Department,InternationalCooperationDivision,oftheKonradͲAdenauerͲ
Stiftung(KAS)inBerlin.SheobtainedaMastersDegreeinSlavonicLanguages
andEastEuropeanHistoryin1987inMunich,Germany.From1994to2000,
shewasDirectoroftheTranslatingandConsultingenterprise,SPRACHDIENST
RUSSISCH.From2000to2005,shewasDirectoroftheKASofficeinSt.
Petersburg,Russia.Between2005and2008,sheheadedKAS’’EasternEurope
DivisioninBerlin.
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