Lecture in Ukraine by Stephen D. Smith: “Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies”

Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, speaks at the Interdisciplinary Judaic Studies Program of the National University Kyiv–Mohyla Academy.

Audience members at Stephen D. Smith's lecture at the Interdisciplinary Judaic Studies Program of the National University Kyiv–Mohyla Academy.

On September 8, Stephen D. Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, gave a lecture titled The Power of Words: Testimony in an Age of Violent Ideologies, and demonstrated the Visual History Archive at the Interdisciplinary Judaic Studies Program of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Smith visited Ukraine for the opening of the exhibition "Shoah by Bullets: The Mass Shootings of the Jews in Ukraine 1941-1944," presented by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in partnership with Mémorial de la Shoah, Yahad-In Unum, and the Ukrainian Embassies of Israel, France, Germany, and the United States. The exhibition will be on display at the Ukrainian House (2, Khreschatyk, Kiev) from September 9 to October 3. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies have developed an educational program to enhance the exhibition; to learn about the program, click here.

Album posted on: September 12, 2011