Exodus-2022 (Testimonies of Jewish Refugees from the Russo-Ukrainian War)
- Documentation is ongoing
- Michael Gold
- https://exodus-2022.org/about-ua
- https://exodus-2022.org/about-ua
- CherkasyChernihivChernivtsiCrimeaDnipropetrovskDonetskIvano-FrankivskKharkivKhersonKhmelnytskyiKropyvnytskyiKyivLuhanskLvivMykolaivOdesaPoltavaRivneSumyTernopilVinnytsiaVolynZakarpattiaZaporizhiaZhytomyr
- 24.02.2022 - 12.04.2024
- Mykhailo Hold, head of the project
- [email protected]
The project is dedicated to documenting and preserving the personal testimonies of Jewish refugees about the days following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The blood of Jewish refugees, of course, is not redder than the blood of others. However, the official goal of Russia’s “special operation” was to denazify and protect the Russian-speaking population. Therefore, the stories of Russian-speaking Jewish refugees whose lives were destroyed by the “liberators from Nazism” are particularly revealing. Everyone had their own “Jewish” experience of the war. One woman recalled how, on the eve of Passover, she baked matzah with an old Soviet Primus stove and felt for the first time that she was “departing from Egypt.” The second one, after the occupation of Mariupol by the Russians, was forced to hide her “Magen David” (the Star of David) under her blouse for the first time in her life.
The geography of Exodus-2022 includes Kharkiv, Mariupol, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Bucha, Irpin, Zaporizhzhia, Vasylkiv, Kramatorsk, and other cities. The map of the final evacuation points covers the whole of Europe, as well as Cyprus, cities in Israel and, of course, Western Ukraine.