Three historical IWalks for high school students, college students, and teachers.
Three cities: Kyiv, Zhytomyr, and Ostroh.
The IWalk was developed as part of the “Youth Reflects on the Holocaust” project.
The project is implemented in Ukraine by the NGO “Kyiv Educational Center “TolerSpace” and the Ukrainian Center for the Study of the History of the Holocaust with the support of the “Memory, Responsibility, Future” foundation.
The project activities included:
The IWalk Concept
IWalk is an interactive educational program combining a visit to a Holocaust memorial with excerpts from eyewitness accounts. For these tours to take place, we train high school guides who conduct tours for their peers and teachers.
The video clips are selected from eyewitness accounts from the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. These testimonies, along with photographs, documents, maps, and other primary sources are published on the website. They tell a story combining past events with the present landscape, thus translating abstract political history into a set of individual human destinies.
Listening to the stories of witnesses in the same locations where the historical events took place, the students can feel how the memory of the place becomes their own memory, just as our today’s lives are part of tomorrow’s history.
In 2021, 3 new historical walks were created
IWalk
Kyiv, Forced Labor
The walk reveals details of forced labor of Ukrainians in Nazi Germany using the example of residents of Kyiv and the Kyiv region—from the recruitment process to the return, repatriation, and post-war life of former forced laborers.
The tour uses video testimonies of Vasylyna Sytko (Grynzhevska), Viktor Sosov, and Maria Kobzysta (Shevchenko)
IWalk
Ostroh
The tour uses video testimonies of Vasyl Moiseiovych Waldman and Ielyzaveta Palamarchuk (Lisa Rondel)
IWalk
Zhytomyr
The tour uses video testimonies of Faina Shaivna Gelman (name at birth—Feiga).
Educational editor editor: Vitalii Bobrov
Literary editor: Iaroslava Muzychenko