The two-year project “Ukrainian Books for Education in Tolerance,” done by a number of Ukrainian non-governmental organizations with financial support by the Netherlands organizations Anne Frank House and the Fund for Eastern and Central European Book Projects (CEEBP), has ended in Ukraine. Among the Ukrainian organizations directly responsible for publishing the books and disseminating them through the regional, city, and neighborhood libraries were the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine (CNCU, Executive Vice President – Chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Council (EAJC) Josef Zisels, Executive Director – Anna Lenchovskaya), the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (Director – EAJC General Council member, Dr. Anatoliy Podolsky), the NaUKMA Center for the Study of History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry (Director – EAJC General Council member Leonid Finberg), and others. The project was coordinated by the Ukrainian Center for Civic Education (headed by Andrei Tarnovsky).

Over twenty books were published and freely disseminated through seminars all over Ukraine within the project. The seminars were held for different groups of people – deputy principals and school history teachers, librarians, students who study journalism, history, and law. Among the coaches and lecturers of the project were psychologist Kird Kreiderman (leader of the Chisinau Tolerance Club, created under EAJC patronage), editor-in-chief of the CNCU newspaper “Forum of Nations” Tatyana Horunzhiya, famous historian Mikhail Tyagly, CNCU Executive Director Anna Lenchovskaya, EAJC General Council member, politologist Vyacheslav Likhachev, and many others.

The last seminars of the project were in libraries, schools, and universities of Zaporizhya, Berdyansk, Nikolayev, and Donetsk.