A Brief History of Violence – World War II and the Holocaust in Western Volhynia

The exhibition tells the story of the events of 1939–1945 in the territory of the present-day Volyn, Rivne, and northern Ternopil regions and how the extreme violence of World War II affected the inhabitants of the region. The era of Soviet and Nazi repressions is presented from the perspectives of people of different ethnic and social backgrounds, political beliefs, and individual experiences. For this purpose, eyewitness memories, photographs, and documents from Ukrainian and foreign archives have been processed. Many of them will be presented in Ukraine for the first time.