In addition to the information presented during our webinars, our guest speakers often provide supplementary reference information .. whether it be books they have published, or resources used in their research. Following is a listing of these resources by date of the webinar:
November 2024 Webinar (“Ukrainian Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp” by Kalyna Bezchlibnyk-Butler (Solonynka) and Lydia Eliashevsky-Replansky)
In this month’s webinar, author Kalyna Bezchlibnyk-Butler and editor, Lydia Replansky, daughter of one of the few Ravensbrück camp survivors, describes the horrors of everyday life at the camp including graphical details from Lydia’s mother’s personal recounts.
The webinar reflects several years of research by Kalyna Butler as she collaborated closely with descendants of survivors of Ravensbrück to create an informative and compelling homage to voices who remain oft-forgotten in the shadows of history. Their stories are documented in her book “Ukrainian Women of Ravenbrück Concentration Camp: Voices of Prisoners”. The book includes a Foreword by eminent historian Dr. Tetiana Pastushenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Additional details on the book may be found here.
October 2024 Webinar (“German Immigration in the 18th and 19th Centuries To Western Ukraine (Galicia) and the Discovery
Of My Grandfather Kindraczuk’s German Ancestry” — Part I)
Galicia became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1770s and with this political annexation began the substantial movement of German speaking immigrants into Galicia. In this webinar, Dr. Romana M. Bahry mentions the various Austro-Hungarian proclamations that encouraged Germanic settlement in Galicia. She also describes published sources for the study of the Germanic immigration movement including government directories and Galizien Village Family Books documenting the centres of German settlement. Details on the sources of her information can be found here.
September 2024 Webinar (“The DP Experience: One Family’s Story” by Zonia Keywan)
In this presentation, Zonia Keywan recounts her family’s experience as refugees from Western Ukraine during and after World War II. Her discussion is based on two autobiographical novels authored by her mother, Maria Adriana Keywan. The talk is illustrated by family documents and other visual material noted here.
April 2024 Webinar (“Ghosts in a Photograph” by Myrna Kostash)
The April 2024 presentation was based on Myrna Kostash’s recently published book “Ghosts in a Photograph”. Her book delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn of the twentieth century. But rather than the book itself being the focus of her presentation, Myrna delved deeply into her approach to discovering her families’ history; her sources of information and how to address those gaps where details are either missing or incomplete Throughout her webinar, Myrna weaved excerpts from her book to bring her story to life. Information about this book can be found at the publisher’s website.
February 2023 Webinar (In the Maelstrom : the Waffen-SS ‘Galicia’ Division and Its Legacy by Dr. Myroslav Shkandri)
Dr. Myroslav Shkandrij, professor emeritus of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba spoke about his forthcoming book “In the Maelstrom : the Waffen-SS “Galicia Division and Its Legacy”, which brings to light the underexplored Ukrainian experience in the “Galicia” Division during and after the war. Information about his book and other related sources can be found here.
September 2022 Webinar (“Researching the Biography and Genealogy of my Scientist Grandfather Dr. W.S. Kindraczuk…”, by Dr. Romana M. Bahry, Professor Emerita, York University)
As described in her webinar, Dr. Romana M. Bahry, a granddaughter of Dr. Wolodymyr (Włodzimierz) Sylvester Kindraczuk, PhD Chemistry, conducted extensive research for documents and details of her family history for her biographical book about her grandfather.
Her book (see here for details) describes his discovery of the new probiotic bacteria Bacillus carpathicus in Hutsul huslianka in Vienna in 1912, his pharmacy in Łańcut, Poland and his immigration to Canada with his wife and family.