About the project

The exhibition project “A Short History of Violence: World War II and the Holocaust in Western Volhynia”presents the era of Soviet and Nazi repression from the perspectives of peopleof various ethnic and social backgrounds as well as political beliefs, people with different individual experiences. To create the project, our team processed eyewitness accounts, photographs, and documents from archives in Ukraine and abroad. Many of them are presented in Ukraine for the first time.

Throughout 2024, the exhibition “A Short History of Violence” was exhibited in six exhibition spaces in the Rivne, Volyn, and Ternopil oblasts.

February 14 – March 30
the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore (the Rivne oblast).
April 24 – May 31
the KremenetsRegional Museum of Local Lore (the Ternopil oblast). 
June 4 – July 19
the ZdolbunivRegional Museum of Local Lore (the Rivne oblast). 
September 27 – October 31
the History Museum of the Holoby Lyceum (the Volyn oblast).
November 13 – November 30
the Rivne RegionalInstitute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education.
The project was implemented by the “After Silence” NGO in cooperation with the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore and the Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education and with the support of the EVZ (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future) Foundation. The content of the project is the sole responsibility of its authors and does not represent the views of the EVZ Foundation.

Project team:

Petro Dolhanov –coordinator and researcher
Mariia Kravchenko –exhibition coordinator
Tetiana Samsoniuk –local coordinator
Andrii Usach –researcher
Anna Yatsenko –communications manager
Viktoriia Eismunt –literary editor
Metamuseum –exhibition and website design
Olha Limonova –lesson script author
Maryna Dolhanova – photographer
Anna Dorozhko and Anna Malakhova – videographers
Yuliana Dradrakh –accountant
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The exhibition uses materials from the archives of the “After Silence” NGO, the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, the USBU in the Volyn, Rivne, and Ternopil oblasts, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, the Visual History Archive USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Bundesarchiv, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Yad Vashem Archives, the State Archive of the Rivne oblast, the Memorial Books of Mizoch, Tuchyn, and Ratne.

‍Contacts

‍"After Silence" NGO: website, Facebook, Instagram.
The Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education: website, Facebook.
The EVZ (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future) Foundation: website, Facebook, Instagram.

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The project was implemented with the support of the EVZ (Remembrance,Responsibility and Future) Foundation. The content of the project is the sole responsibility of its authors and does not represent the views of the EVZFoundation.