Borys Mykhaylovych Zabarko (born 18 November 1935) is a
Ukrainian
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historian and president of the Ukrainian Association of Survivors of Concentration camps and
Ghettos.
Life
Zabarko escaped the ghetto of
Sharhorod as a child. After the
Second World War he studied at the
Chernivtsi University
Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...
, and did his PhD at the Institute for History at the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in
Kiev
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, where he received a PhD in 1971. From 1969 until 1988, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for History and from 1971 until 1991 he was a member of the Soviet–German Commission of Historians. He worked as a research assistant at the ''Institute for Global Economy and International Relations'' of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1989 until 2002.
Zabarko is the author of about 200 books and articles, published in Israel,
Austria, Russia,
Czechoslovakia, the
Ukraine and
Hungary. In Germany, a book series on the
Shoa
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in the Ukraine and a remembrance book, published by himself, were released. Furthermore, he is the initiator of a record–keeping project about antisemitic writings and violent crimes in the Ukraine. Since 1998 he is the director of the Institute for Social and Parish Workers and since 2004, he has also been the president of the Ukrainian association of former Jewish prisoners of ghetto and
Nazi concentration camps.
On 21 October 2009, he was awarded the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the seventh Ukrainian to do so.
Published works
* Holocaust in the Ukraine. London, Vallentine Mitchell, 2005.
* Life in the shadow of death. Recent memories about the Holocaust in Ukraine; vol 1 – 2. Melitopol: Publishing house of Melitopol, 2019.
References
External links
(German)
Історія України - History of Ukraine (Інститут історії України)(Ukrainian)
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20th-century Ukrainian historians
Living people
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Chernivtsi University alumni
Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
1935 births