The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
The Ukrainian Institute of America
present
YALTA REMEMBERED:
images from the FDR Library and the National Archives
Rarely seen photographs of the tripartite meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin held in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine (February 4- 11, 1945)
Exhibit Dates: February 4 to March 4, 2005
Including a symposium re-appraising the Yalta Conference and its significance for the contemporary world
Yalta Symposium
Walter Nazarewicz, President
Ambassador William vanden Heuvel, Co-chair
Ukrainian Institute of America Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
We invite you to take part in a discussion on the Yalta Conference in 1945 and its legacy sixty years later. Our distinguished panelists will examine the impact of the Tripartite Meeting from an Eastern European perspective. The dramatic recent developments in Eastern Europe - Polish,Czech and Baltic membership in the EC and NATO; Orange Revolution in Ukraine; an evolving relation and a new sense of cooperation between Russia and a newly enlarged EC - shed new light on the historic meeting in Crimea when the prospect of a Europe free from Nazi tyranny was in sight. Please stay for wine and hors d'oeuvres and a chance to meet our panelists and other distinguished guests.
Tuesday March 1, 2005 at 6PM
Wine & hors d’oeuvres will be served
Moderator:
Adrian Karatnycky, Counselor and Senior Scholar and former
President of Freedom House
Panelists:
- Dr. David Woolner, Executiive Director of the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Professor, Marist College
- Professor Charles Gati, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, and a Fellow of the John Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute. Former Senior Advisor U.S. Department of State
- Dr. Vojtech Mastny, Senior Research Fellow, National Security Archives at George Washington University and coordinator of the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
- Professor John Micgiel, Director of East European Center Columbia University
For more information please contact Walter Hoydysh VP UIA
Telephone: 212 288-8660 email: programs@ukrainianinstitute.org
Also on view at our first and third floor galleries
- Photo exhibit - Crimea, Ukraine: the land, the people and their history.
- Contemporary Art of Crimea: paintings by Ramazan Useinov, Alexander Shurinov and Natalia Perova.
For Immediate Release
UKRAINIAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA TO HOLD EXCLUSIVE PHOTO EXHIBIT ON THE YALTA CONFERENCE TO MARK 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC MEETING
New York, NY (Jan.16, 2005) – Rarely seen photos of the famed meeting at Yalta between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin will be on view at the Ukrainian Institute of America (UIA) from Feb. 4 to March 5, 2005.
The exhibit, “Yalta Remembered: Images from The FDR Library and The National Archives,” will feature photos from the momentous meeting of the “Big Three Leaders,” which was held Feb. 4-11, 1945 – the final days of World War II – in The Crimea, Ukraine.
The exhibit, in conjunction with the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI), traces the historical developments of the conference, during which F.D.R., Churchill and Stalin planned the final defeat and division of Nazi Germany and dealt with issues relating to Eastern Europe, Poland and the Far East and with the creation of the United Nations.
“This is an opportunity to increase public awareness of the Yalta Conference and commemorate and assess the significance of the changes in the world that resulted from it,” said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR’s granddaughter and a member of FERI’s board of directors.
Founded in New York in 1948, the Ukrainian Institute of America, located at 2 East 79th Street, is a non-profit organization dedicated to showcasing Ukrainian culture and achievements.
Based at the F.D.R. Presidential Library in upstate Hyde Park, FERI is committed to informing new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
For more information on the exhibit, please call the UIA at 212-288-8660 or the FERI at 845-486-1150.
Yalta exhibit relives history
Highlights of confab in Crimea
By MILA ANDRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
It seems fitting that the Ukrainian Institute of America (2 E. 79th St.) should be the venue for an exhibit that marks the 60th anniversary of the Yalta Conference. After all, the meeting that was to mark the short-lived wartime "love affair" between Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union was held in Crimea - now part of the independent Ukraine. The exhibition, "Yalta Remembered: Images from The FDR Library and The National Archives," consists of rarely seen photographs taken during the famed meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on Feb. 4-11, 1945.
It was at that time that Stalin made certain demands and, because he was an ally, those demands were met - to the detriment of the free world for years to come. The trio dealt with issues relating to Eastern Europe, Poland and the Far East. And always, Stalin had his way. But the most important decisions discussed and planned were the final defeat and division of Nazi Germany (the war ended in May 1945) and the creation of the United Nations. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Ukrainian Institute of America worked together to put this historically important show on view.
It opens Friday, the anniversary of the opening of the 1945 conference, and will run through March 4. The show includes, among many other photos, the iconic image that represents the Yalta Conference: the "Big Three" posing for a group portrait in the courtyard of the Livadia Palace, where the meeting had been held, at the end of the conference.
Other images show President Roosevelt's jeep passing a Soviet honor guard at the Saki airfield with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and others walking alongside the jeep; Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov and Stalin talking inside Livadia Palace, with Ambassador W. Averill Harriman between them, and another one in which Stalin looks approvingly at Churchill as he removes a cigar from a case.
A symposium reappraising the Yalta Conference and its significance for the contemporary world complements the exhibition. For information, call (212) 288-8660 or (845) 486-1150.
In addition to the "Yalta" show, the center also is offering two related exhibits, "Crimea, Ukraine: the Land, the People and their History" and "Contemporary Art of Crimea," by painters Ramazan Useinov, Alexander Shurinov and Natalia Perova.
Originally published on January 30, 2005