Roman Shvartsman was born in Bershad, to the north of Odesa in Ukraine, in 1936. As a child, he was deported to the Bershad ghetto in the summer of 1941 because of his Jewish faith. Today, Shvartsman is chairman of the Ukrainian Association of Jews – Former Prisoners of Ghetto and Nazi Concentration Camps, among other positions
ZMINA published a TED Talk by Anton Drobovych, Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and military serviceman, titled "Remembering the past. Fighting for the future."
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