About the project

Tsal Kaplun Foundation (TKF) is leading the Atlas “Shoah Atlas Map-Ukraine” project.
Dr. Alexander Kruglov is the Scientific Editor of the Shoah Atlas.
The project began in 2019 and is being helped by a grants from the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) .
The Shoah Atlas project
The Tsal Kaplun Foundation (TKF) is leading the "Shoah Atlas-Ukraine" project, supported by grants from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Launched in 2019, this initiative aims to create a digital atlas documenting Holocaust killing sites across Ukraine.
Objectives of the Shoah Atlas
The Shoah Atlas aims to illustrate the vast scope of the Holocaust by providing comprehensive information on the locations of Holocaust atrocities in Ukraine. Ukraine hosts the largest number of Holocaust killing sites worldwide, totaling approximately 2,000 sites scattered across its forests, villages, and towns. Significantly, about 20% of these sites are not documented in existing publications and are known only to local residents.
The primary goal of the project is to provide a detailed portrayal of the immense tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine, where between 1941 and 1944, Nazis and their collaborators brutally murdered around 1.5 million Jews.

Content of the Shoah Atlas
  • Detailed maps and information about each killing site and affected communities
  • Individual markers and profile pages for every site
  • Key data, photographs, and relevant links on killing site and community pages
  • Time slider tool illustrating the chronological progression of mass killings
  • Regional overviews of Holocaust events
  • Search engine enabling searches by localities

Methodology
Researchers involved in the project utilized a diverse array of online and offline sources, including publications from leading Holocaust research organizations, reports from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission (ChGK), court documents from Germany and the Soviet Union, as well as archives from central and regional institutions in Ukraine.

They examined books, memoirs, testimonies, and articles published in Russian, Ukrainian, German, and English sources. The gathered data, detailing the locations, victims, and dates of killings, was meticulously analyzed and cross-referenced with information from Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Yahad In-Unum, and the Jewish Art Center at Hebrew University. Dr. Alexander Kruglov,

Scientific Editor of the Shoah Atlas and author of two seminal books on the Holocaust in Ukraine, oversees the data verification process.
Bibliography

The Atlas short description  in English, in Ukrainian
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