The “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum invites you to a lecture-conversation by Daria Pazushenko, a museum staff member and research fellow at the “Territory of Terror” Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes (Lviv), titled “Family Archives as a Source for Studying the History of the Holocaust and Other Genocides.”
When: November 27 (Thursday) at 3:00 PM.
Join the meeting via the link
Conference ID: 820 1826 3704
Passcode: 258969
The organizers announce:
“On November 6, 1941, by order of SS Major General Fritz Katzmann, head of the Distrikt Galizien, a Jewish ghetto was established in Lviv – one of the largest in Nazi-occupied Europe. The establishment of the ghetto marked a radically new and virtually fatal stage in the history of Galician and Lviv Jewry. By the fall of 1943, about 250,000 Jews had been killed within its confines and behind the barbed wire of the Janowska camp.
Eight decades later, in 2023, a woman wishing to remain anonymous visited the ‘Territory of Terror’ Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes in Lviv and handed its staff a folder of documents. As it later turned out, the folder contained a unique archive of the Jewish Rosenthal family, with materials chronologically spanning the period from 1838 to 1960.
During the session, we will discuss the Rosenthal family archive as a testimony to life before, during, and after the Second World War – through the history of one Jewish family that lived in Lviv.
Together, we will examine archival documents and photographs, and try to ‘glimpse’ the everyday life of a Lviv Jewish family on the eve of the war that turned their world upside down. We will reflect on the opportunities that family archives open up for history teachers and lecturers, helping to ‘bring the past to life’ and, consequently, to understand its lessons more deeply.”
