Research and Guide Services:
I highly recommend Tomasz Jankowski who is a Polish academic based in Lviv, Ukraine. Tomasz is fluent in several languages including Polish, Ukrainian, English, and Hebrew.
Websites:
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National Council on Public History: http://ncph.org/history-at-work/re-encountering-the-jewish-past-in-ukraine/
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JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org/
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Gesher Galicia: https://www.geshergalicia.org/
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Yahad in Unum: http://www.yahadinunum.org/ (map room: http://yahadmap.org/#map/q_pays.1/)
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Virtual Shtetl: http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en
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Golden Rose Synagogue Project in Lviv: http://jewish.lviv.travel/en_US/
Reading:
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"Sefer Horodenka" (English translation now available)
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Horodenka Survivor Memoir: "Someone Must Survive to Tell the World" by Tosia Szechter Schneider
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Obertyn Survivor Memoir: "The Strange Ways of Providence in My Life" by Krystyna Carmi
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Gwozdziec Synagogue: "Resplendent Synagogue" by Thomas Hubka
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"Ordinary Men" by Christopher Browning
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"Black Earth" and "Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder
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"Erased" by Omer Bartov
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"Holocaust by Bullets" by Patrick Desbois
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"Fear" by Jan T. Gross
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"The Lost" by Daniel Mendelsohn
Hotels in Ukraine:
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Kolomyja: Hotel Pysanka (available via Booking.com)
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Horodenka: Hotel Deluxe (available via Booking.com)