International organizations’ activities in rescue of European Jews during the Holocaust: personal dimension

Authors

  • Iryna G. Radchenko Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, 72 Gagarina Avenue, Dnipro 49010, Ukraine; «Tkuma» Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, 4 Sholom-Aleichem Street, Dnipro 49000, Ukraine; «Jewish Memory and the Holocaust in Ukraine» Museum, 4/26 Sholom-Aleichem Street, Dnipro 49000, Ukraine

Keywords:

Holocaust, personality, international organization, rescue, humanitarian mission, European Jewry
Supporting Agencies
Author is grateful to doctor of historical sciences I. Shchupak, Director of the «Tkuma» Ukrainian Institute for the Holocaust Studies and program Coordinator at the Center for Jack, Josef and Morton Mandel at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington) E. Jakel for opportunity to conduct the necessary research to write this article. The author also expresses special gratitude to her scientific adviser PhD O. N. Kakovkina for valuable advice in the planning of research and recommendations on the formulation of the article.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the international organizations’ activities in rescue the Jewish population of Europe during the Holocaust through the prism of representatives of these organizations. Thanks to the personal approach, humanitarian missions of the international community aimed at saving European Jewry are reviewed and analyzed. Materials from the leading American archives, the latest literature for research of identities of the international institutions’ representatives are involved. Little-known facts about the activities of organizations’ certain representatives regarding the salvation of the Jewish population in European countries are revealed. Chronological stages, during which the humanitarian activity of international organizations’ representatives was carried out, has been indicated and characterized. It was revealed that aid and rescue for the affected Jewish population of Europe came during the entire period of the Holocaust, but the most active rescue of Jews began in the last period of the war (1944–1945), when it became possible to engage all international institutions, diplomatic missions for the organization of the process of rescue.

Author Biography

  • Iryna G. Radchenko, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, 72 Gagarina Avenue, Dnipro 49010, Ukraine; «Tkuma» Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, 4 Sholom-Aleichem Street, Dnipro 49000, Ukraine; «Jewish Memory and the Holocaust in Ukraine» Museum, 4/26 Sholom-Aleichem Street, Dnipro 49000, Ukraine

    postgraduate student at the department of World History, faculty of history, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University; researcher, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, «Tkuma» Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, «Jewish Memory and the Holocaust in Ukraine» Museum

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2018-10-17

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No. 4 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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World History

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Radchenko, I.G. 2018. International organizations’ activities in rescue of European Jews during the Holocaust: personal dimension. Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 4 (Oct. 2018), 98–108.