Historian Every Saturday: Anatoliy Podolsky. The ashes of the dead knock at our hearts (27.01.2024)

A lecture by historian Anatoliy Podolsky (head of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies; the “Historian Every Saturday” series, marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Key points: the Holocaust as part of the history of Ukraine; parallels between rashism and Nazism (Ukrainophobia / antisemitism as cornerstones); the Soviet silencing of Babyn Yar; and Russia’s instrumentalization of Holocaust memory through the pro-Russian “Memorial Center” of 2016, whose narratives portray Ukrainians as “wholesale collaborators.” A source for the article on the Holocaust, Babyn Yar, and the struggle over memory.