Lesia Hasydzhak participated in the round-table “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust”

On January 27, 2025, Lesia Hasydzhak, Director General of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, participated in the 18th round-table “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges”, organised by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies with the support of the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine and the House of Europe program.

This year’s round-table, “Ukrainian Society and the Memory of the Holocaust,” continued the discussion of issues of memory preservation and educational and museum challenges in the context of a full-scale war unleashed against our state. The focus of this year’s reports by Ukrainian and foreign experts is on the present, protection of heritage, commemoration of victims, and learning through history, heritage, and museum work. After all, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the Nazi Auschwitz camp, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 80th anniversary of the creation of the UN, the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, and eleven years of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Large numbers compel us to deeper reflection, reassess, and analyse the difference between the declared “Never Again” and reality.

As part of the round-table, Lesia Hasydzhak participated in the session “Memory, Heritage, Museums” along with Vitaliy Nakhmanovych (senior researcher at the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv), Tymur Korotkyy (Genocide Museum “Territory of Memory”, Odesa) and Matthias Richter (coordinator of the International Project “Tracks of Memory”). She talked about the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, its main work today, the projects related to commemoration that the museum is implementing, and what problems and challenges it has to deal with.