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The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies recently hosted the event “Echoes of Atrocity in Ukraine.” The event, meant to recognize the recent invasion of Ukraine as well as pay tribute to those lost in this region both in the past and present, featured presentations by the Ackerman faculty as well as musical performances by students and faculty from the School of Arts and Humanities. The program included poetry, music and testimony. One moment of powerful testimony was shared by undergraduate students Nicholas and Brandon Blitshtein, the grandsons of a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor. The event highlighted the significance of Holocaust memory in Ukraine and shed light on the dire circumstances that the area is faced with today, while also emphasizing the connections between the atrocities committed in Ukraine in the past and happening now in the present.