UKRAINIAN-POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS

01.06.2009 11:38:01

22-23 June 2009 International Scholarly Workshop “Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish Relations during Nazi Occupation and Holocaust (Ukrainian-Polish Borderlines, 1941-1944)” in Przemysl; Hotel Gromada, ul. Wyb. Jozefa Pilsudskiego 4

International Scholarly Workshop

“UKRAINIAN-POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONS DURING GERMAN OCCUPATION AND THE HOLOCAUST - UKRAINIAN-POLISH BORDERLINES, 1941-1944 ”

Przemysl, 22-23 June 2009

 
Conference program

On 22-23 June 2009 in Pshemyshl (Poland) Polish Center for Holocaust Research at Polish Academy of Sciences and Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies jointly with other scientific institutions and international organizations will conduct International Scholarly Workshop “Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish Relations during Nazi Occupation and Holocaust (Ukrainian-Polish Borderlines, 1941-1944)”

During the workshop, the organizers wish to discuss issues that so far have not been given much attention at international workshops, namely the social issues and the relations between Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews in the Ukrainian-Polish borderlands under the German occupation and the Holocaust 1941–1944. These issues, although dealt with by individual researchers in those countries, have not yet been studied comparatively, which, in turn, would make it possible to compare and confront research results. This is particularly important, given that those territories were the scene of the 'Final Solution'.

The workshop aims at a meeting and joint effort in dealing with issues concerning the Borderlands region (Western Ukraine), and an exchange of experiences and research approaches by Polish, Ukrainian, and Israeli scholars. It is our intention that this workshop develop into an extended comparative workshop and initiate dialog as well as facilitate contacts between scholars who deal with the history and social life of Poles, Ukrainians, and the fate of the Jews that inhabited those territories. By this initiative, the organizers hope that it will become a springboard for further fruitful cooperation and exchange, as well as for educational projects aimed at the dissemination of the knowledge of these issues.

The workshop is organized by the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, of the Polish Academy of Sciences and it’s Association, represented by Jakub Petelewicz with the Ukrainian TKUMA Center, represented by its director, Igor Shchupak, Ph.D. The Israeli coordinator is Prof. Aharon Weiss (JOINT, Jerusalem).

 During the workshop we would like to explore the following essential issues:

• Ukrainians, Poles, Jews in the eve and in the face of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust
• Issues of the Ukrainian national idea development and attitude to “Polish” and “Jewish” questions;
• “Ukrainian” and “Jewish’ questions before Polish eyes: political, military and social aspects;
• Jews during the Holocaust period, facing the “Ukrainian” and “Polish” questions.

Workshop languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, English

 PROGRAM:

9.00 – 9.15 CONFERENCE OFFICIAL OPENING:
Jakub Petelewicz (Polish Center for Holocaust Research)
Igor Shchupak (Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies)
Aharon Weiss (Scientific adviser of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies)

9.15 – 10.00 KEY LECTURE:
Prof. Dan Michman, Chief Historian of Yad-Vashem, professor of Bar Ilan University, Head of Tkuma International Academic Board, Jerusalem, Israel
The „Jewish Question” as Touchstone: The German Invasions of Poland (1939) and the Soviet Union (1941) and Their Meaning for Germans and Locals

PANEL 1.
REVIEW AND ANALYSES OF SOURCES ON HISTORY OF UKRAINIAN-POLISH-JEWISH RELATIONSHIPS DURING WORLD WAR II
Moderators:Prof. Dan Michman, Israel, Dr. Faina Vinokurova, Ukraine

10.00 – 10.20
Paweł Szapiro, BEIT Warsaw, Jewish Cultral Association, Poland
First months of the German occupation of Eastern borderlands of Poland as a theme in Polish underground press

10.20 – 10.40
Dr. Marta Cobel-Tokarska, School of Social Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
„Shoah by bullets” in the memory of the witness – the analysis of the interviews conducted by Patrick Desbois team, Yahad-In Unum, in Ukraine

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 11.20
Dr. hab. Grzegorz Hryciuk, Department of History, Wroclaw University, Poland
Survivors from the Holocaust. Jews in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia in 1944

11.20 – 11.40
Mgr. Łukasz Opozda, Center for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University in Crakow, Poland
Memory about the events in Jedwabne in the discourse of Polish right-wing extremists

11.40 – 12.00
Inessa Nosenko, senior lecturer of History of Khortytsia Educational-Rehabilitation Center, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Ukrainian historiography of Jewish-Ukrainian-Polish relationships during WWII

12.00 – 12.20
Prof. Jan Grabowski, Polish Center for Holocaust Research; Department of History, Ottawa University, Canada
Jewish cases in the files of Lviv Sondergericht

12.30 – 13.30 ROUND-TABLE
METHODOLOGY OF STUDYING OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS PROBLEMS IN PERIODS OF HISTORY CHANGES: SOURCES AND OBJECTIVITY OF ANALYSIS
Moderators: Prof. Dan Michman, Israel, Prof. Jan Grabowski, Canada, Prof. Maksym Gon, Ukraine

13.30 – 14.30 Break

PANEL 2.
NATIONAL QUESTION AND NATIONAL IDEA BEFORE THE TEST OF TIME
Moderators: Dr. Olena Suchkova, Ukraine, Prof. Wacław Wierzbieniec, Poland

14.30 – 14.50
Łukasz Biedka, Poland
Between sense of Shame and sense of Pride – psychological efforts around the national image in the historical debate

14.50 – 15.10
Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies, Dnipropetrovsk, scientific editor of “Premier” Publishing House, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
National ideas in Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish triangle (1941-1944)

15.10 – 15.30
Mgr. Tetiana Meleshchenko, lecturer of Methodology of History Teaching Department, M. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
National ideology and national history (on the basis of Ukrainian-Polish relations materials during WWII)

15.30 – 16.30 QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00 ROUND-TABLE
Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish national idea and problems of international relations
Moderators: Prof. Tetiana Ladychenko, Ukraine, Dr. hab Grzegorz Motyka, Poland, Dr. Igor Shchupak, Ukraine 

TUESDAY, JUNE 23rd

PANEL 3.
JEWS DURING THE HOLOCAUST PERIOD, FACING THE “UKRAINIAN” AND “POLISH” QUESTIONS. UKRAINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT AND JEWS
Moderators: Dr. Tamara Bakka, Ukraine, Dr. Yaroslav Kit, Poland

9.00 – 9.20
Dr. Aharon Weiss, scientific adviser of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies, Jerusalem, Israel
Dynamics of development of OUN-UPA policy relative to Jews in 1939-1944 (in the Ukrainian-Polish borderlines)

9.20 – 9.40
Dr. hab Andrzej Żbikowski, Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Jewish Historical Institute
Disputes about scale and meaning of anti-Jewish pogroms in Lvov in July and August 1941.

9.40 – 10.00
dr. Oleksandr Kruglov, associate professor of Philosophy Department of Kharkiv National University of Radio and Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine
International mutual relations and Jewish pogroms in Western Ukraine in summer 1941.

10.00 – 10.20
Marco Carynyk, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
“Jews, Poles and other rabble”: OUN and pogrom in Lviv on 1st of July 1941
Short presentation:
Roman Szuchewicz, Nachtigall, OUN, Yad Vashem, SBU: From Polish and Ukrainian archives

10.20 – 10.40
Dr. hab Grzegorz Motyka, Institute of Political Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Jews 1942-1945

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee break

PANEL 4.
UKRAINIANS, POLES, JEWS IN THE EVE AND IN THE FACE OF NAZI OCCUPATION AND THE HOLOCAUST
Moderators: Dr. hab Andrzej Żbikowski, Poland, Prof. Tetiana Ladychenko, Ukraine

11.00 – 11.20
Prof. Maksym Gon, the head of Politic Sciences Department of Rivne State Humanitarian University, Ukraine
Strangers in the orbit of conflicting nationalisms: Jews between grindstones of Ukrainian-Polish confrontation (1923-1941)

11.20 – 11.40
Prof. Wacław Wierzbieniec, Institute of History, Rzeszow University, Poland
Is there possible model of specificity of the Polish-Jewish-Ukrainian relations in one city? The example of Brzeżany and Przemyśl during the Second World War

11.40 – 12.00
Dr. Faina Vinokurova, deputy director of Vinnitsa Region State Archives, scientific secretary of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust studies, Ukraine
Ukrainian-Jewish-Polish relations in 1939-1944

12.00 – 12.20
Dr. Yaroslav Kit, European Collegium of Polish and Ukrainian Universities in Lublin, Department of Humanistics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska Lublin University, Poland
Daily life in Lviv: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians.

12.20 – 12.40
Dr. Monika Szabłowska-Zaremba, Catholic University in Lublin, Poland
Stories by A. Chciuk and H. Grynberg about Atlantis in Drohobycz – the land of three nations.

12.40 – 14.00 Break

PANEL 4 (continuation).
UKRAINIANS, POLES, JEWS IN THE EVE AND IN THE FACE OF NAZI OCCUPATION AND THE HOLOCAUST
Moderators: Dr. hab. Grzegorz Hryciuk, Poland, Prof. Maksym Gon, Ukraine

14.00 – 14.20
Prof. Tetiana Ladychenko, Head of Methodology of History Teaching Department, M. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Position of the Western Ukrainian Jews under conditions of Polish emigration policy

14.20 – 14.40
Dr. Olena Suchkova, associate professor of History of Ukraine Department of Donetsk National University, Ukraine
Deportation of Polish population from the Western regions of the Ukrainian SSR (February, 1940 – June, 1941)

14.40 – 15.00
Dr. Tamara Bakka, associate professor of Methodology of History Teaching and Social and Political Disciplines Department of M. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Ukraine
Stereotypes of Jews perception in Ukrainian and Polish national ideology (on basis of Western Ukraine materials during WWII)

15.00 – 15.20
Alex Denisenko, independent researcher, Lviv, Ukraine
Sokal as example of “Judenstadt” – war time population in- and out- flows, relations between ethnical groups.

15.20 – 15.40 Coffee break

15.40 – 17.00 ROUND-TABLE
Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish relationships during WWII: problems and perspectives of studying. Summing-up of the Conference
Moderators: Aharon Weiss, Israel, Jakub Petelewicz, Poland, Igor Shchupak, Ukraine
 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24th

9.00 – 17.00 Closed seminar for Polish and Ukrainian teachers

All sessions will be conducted in Hotel Gromada, Przemysl, ul. Wyb. Jozefa Pilsudskiego 4

FREE ENTRY

Contacts:

Poland:                                                                                         Ukraine:
Jakub Petelewicz                                                                        Igor Shchupak
e-mail: centrum@holocaustresearch.pl                                e-mail: historyXX@ukr.net     tkuma@tkuma.com
tel: +48 603 257 594                                                                  tel: +38-056-744-07-23
fax: +48 22 657 28 74                                                                fax: +38-0562-36-87-11
                                                                                                       cell: +38-050-340-45-66

Conference organized thanks to the financial suport  by grant #2008-40 by: