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Today is the 28th of Tevet. On this day in 5640 (1880) in the city of Nikolayev the mother of the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson was born to this world. The Hasidim called Rebbetzin Chana - mother of the Jewish people. Her parents were Rabbi Meir Shlomo Yanovsky, who was the Rabbi of Nikolayev and rebbetzin Rachel, daughter of Rabbi Yitzhak Pushnich, rabbi of the city Dobrenko.

On the 13th of Sivan 5660 (June 10, 1900), she married Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. In 5669 (1908) Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was appointed as rabbi of the city of Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro). Over thirty while being the rabbi of Ekaterinoslav the Rebbbetzinn stood next to him in his holy work. In addition to the fact that the Rebbet… Читать дальше »

Chassidim from around the world traveled to Ukraine last week to spend Shabbos at the Ohel resting place of the first Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, in the town of Hadiach.

Despite the bitter cold, guests enjoyed comfortable accommodations thanks to the fully furnished shul built on-site by the late philanthropist Sami Rohr OBM and a Hachnosas Orchim lodging building run by the Deitsch family.

With the 24th of Teves, the day of the Alter Rebbe's yartzeit, falling out on Sunday, some 450 men and even children made the trip to Ukraine from Israel, the United States.
Among the guests were mashpiim Rabbi Chaim Sholom Deitsch of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Ofen of Jerusalem, Rabbi Zalman Landa of Bnei Brak who spoke … Читать дальше »

January 27 at the small hall of the Kiev National Palace "Ukraine" a memorial ceremony "Six million hearts", dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be held.

The event will start at noon. The program is divided into three parts - music, theater and a memorial. As part of the memorial performances of government and public figures of Ukraine will be held.

In Kiev, commemorative events take place since January 27 every year, in 2012, Ukraine for the first time celebrated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the state level.

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January 27, Lviv will hold a memorial service and a requiem concert to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In the morning the participants of the funeral procession will lay wreaths at the monument to victims of the Lviv ghetto and hold interfaith prayers for those who were killed in the Valley of Death Yanovsky concentration camp.

By day the All-Ukrainian Jewish Charitable Foundation "Hesed-Arieh" will hold a ceremony in the Center of the Central Western European urban history "to remember the past for the future", and in the evening a memorial concert-requiem will be held at the Lviv Regional Philharmonic.

The organizers of the memorial events was also the International Center "Holocaust&q… Читать дальше »

In honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day the center "Menorah" will be the opening a photo exhibition by Luigi Toscano "Against Forgetting". The organizers are the museum "Memory of the Jewish people and the Holocaust in Ukraine," Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies "Tkumah" with the support of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

"Against Forgetting" - is a unique collection of stories of human destiny. During the year, a photographer and film director Luigi Toscano met with victims of National Socialism and former prisoners of concentration camps in Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Israel and the USA, allowing almost the last time to tell th… Читать дальше »

The tragedy occurred on January 11, 1942, when the Nazis closed more than 3 thousand people in a tunnel.

Bachmuth Residents of Donetsk region, which from 1924 to 2016 was called Artem, commemorated the victims of the tragedy in 1942, when during the occupation of the city more than three thousand people were buried alive by the Nazis in the tunnel. A memorial ceremony was held on January 11 on the day of the 75th anniversary of Bachmut "Babi Yar."

Protesters gathered at the scene. They lit candles and laid flowers to the monument, read the memorial prayer and paid tribute to the minute of silence.

The ceremony was attended by Director of the Museum of Local History Elena Smirnova, who shared the historical data of the t… Читать дальше »