Sheptytsky and Holocaust
Date and time:
Thursday 4 October, 2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Main Hall of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family
21 Binney Street
London
W1K 5BQ
Andrei Sheptytsky, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, is an extraordinary figure among Christian church hierarchs of the 20th century. He presided over the Church under the Nazi occupation of Galicia during WW2. Despite having saved the lives of 150 Galician Jews, Metropolitan Sheptytsky has not been recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.
This event is supported by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE), an organization striving to promote the Ukrainian-Jewish dialogue. This organization has long campaigned to highlight Sheptytsky’s achievements.
Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London, will moderate this event. The Institute would like to thank the London Eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for providing a venue for this event.
This event will be held in English.
£10 standard
Speaker
Dr Wolf Moskovich
Dr Wolf Moskovich is a board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, Professor Emeritus and formerly Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of interest include Slavic studies, Jewish culture and history in Eastern and Central Europe (Yiddish studies in particular), interrelations between Jews and Christians, and languages and cultures in contact. He studied at Chernivtsi State University in Ukraine, received his PhD from the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, and Dr. Hab. from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Oxford, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the book series Jews and Slavs since 1993. He is President of the Israeli Committee of Slavists.
Speaker
Lili Stern-Pohlmann
Lili Stern-Pohlmann was born in then Polish Lwow, but brought up in Krakow. In 1939, her family escaped to Lviv, as western Poland came under the Nazi occupation. In 1942, Lili lost her father and younger bother to Holocaust. Two more perilous years followed in Nazi-occupied Lviv. In 1942, Lili escaped from the ghetto, and for one year she and her mother found refuge with a German civil servant. From November 1943, they got protection with leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the great humanitarian Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, who placed them in a convent and orphanage. Lili and her mother survived the war. In 1946, Lili emigrated to the UK, joined by her mother a year later. In adult life, she consistently petitions Yad Vashem to recognise Metropolitan Sheptytsky as a Righteous among the Nations. Lili lives in London.
