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“Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum, Dnipro

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“Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum, Dnipro

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A museum of the history of Ukraine's Jews and of the Holocaust in the “Menorah” cultural and business centre, opened in October 2012.

The museum opened in October 2012 in the “Menorah” cultural and business centre in Dnipro. According to the museum, its creation was made possible by the work of the Jewish community of Dnipro headed by Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky and of the staff of the Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies “Tkuma”; the authors of the concept are Viktor Hukailo, Leonid Finberg and Ihor Shchupak, and the chief architect is Oleksandr Sorin. The exhibition area is 2,500 m², in four halls: “The World Destroyed by the Holocaust”, “The Holocaust”, “The World after the Holocaust. Jewish Culture” and “Clocks That Saw the Past”; the museum cites 1,200 unique exhibits, while in all, according to the “Menorah” centre, the collection numbers over 16 thousand items. The exhibition tells of Nazi ideology, life in the ghettos and the horrors of the concentration camps; its parts include the diorama “Babyn Yar” and a hall of memory of the dead, and among the exhibits are belongings of children and women killed by German bullets. Particular attention is paid to Ukrainian-Jewish relations and to the history of the Jewish community of Katerynoslav — Dnipro.

4/26 Sholom-Aleikhema Street, “Menorah” cultural and business centre, Dnipro. According to the official website (news item of 18.05.2026): Wednesday and Sunday 10:00–19:00, admission until 18:00; on Tuesday and Thursday guided tours by advance booking (travels.in.ua, 24.07.2025). Ticket according to travels.in.ua (24.07.2025): adult 50 UAH, for pupils, students and pensioners 20 UAH. The “Menorah” centre has a hotel and a kosher restaurant. Dnipro is regularly attacked by russia (including on 2 October 2026) — visits are interrupted during alerts, so check the schedule on the day of your visit.

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