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  • Excursion to "Famous painters"
  • Excursion "Krasnokutskiy arboretum, Parkhomovka"
  • Excursion "Kharkiv architectural"
  • Excursion "Steading Korobov Hutor, Kazachya hill, Zmiyev fort"
  • Arboretum and historic estates
  • Excursion "Theater Kharkov"
  • Excursion “Dikanka. Village of Big Budyscha. Oposhnya”
  • Excursion "Poltava"
  • Excursion " Plant Prime"

Kharkov during the Great Patriotic War

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Kharkov - the only city in Ukraine, whose territory in the war years were three strategic operations involving troops of the three fronts and ten armies.

The city was occupied by the 24-25 October 1941 by the 6 th Army under the command of the Wehrmacht by Walter von Reichenau.

From the first days of occupation the Jews have experienced bullying and harassment. December 14, 1941 an order was issued in accordance with which the entire Jewish population of the city within two days was to move to the outskirts of town, the barracks of the machine tool factory. Disobedience was punished with execution. For several days, in the dead of winter, people went to meet his death. In designed for 70-80 people herded into the barracks to 800 people.

Kharkov Jewish

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Since the early 18 th century history of Kharkiv is inextricably linked with the history of the Jewish people. The first Jews began to arrive in Kiev from Poland and Turkey for the annual Epiphany fair since the early eighteenth century.

Despite the multiple oppression the Jewish population was grew in Kharkov. By 1917, already 25,000 Jews in Kharkov, development of community institutions and the educational system from kindergarten to the Jewish Gymnasium, a wide layer of Jewish intellectuals and philanthropists, five large synagogues. Choral Synagogue (1913) - the largest in Eastern Europe, built by the winner of the All-Russian contest Jacob Gevirts (1000 seats, 42-foot height to the dome).

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