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The Tsal Kaplun Foundation (est 2016) is an American not-for-profit organization named in honor of Tsal Kaplun. The organization’s stated mission is to preserve the Jewish culture, communities, and heritage in former Soviet republics.

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Shoah Atlas

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The Shoah Atlas-Ukraine Project (2016-present)

Commenced in 2016, the Shoah Atlas aims to create profiles of individual Holocaust killing sites for all regions of Ukraine, present essential information about the Jewish communities in Ukraine destroyed during the Holocaust, and to feature maps equipped with an interactive timeline of the mass killings.

Shoah Atlas-Ukraine is meant to be an interactive educational, research, and reference tool that allows students and scholars alike to learn about the destruction of Jewish communities during the Holocaust. The Shoah Atlas seeks to document many unknown and less researched places in Ukraine, where some 1.5 million Jews were murdered by Nazis and local collaborators as part of the Holocaust.

The Shoah Atlas features profile pages for individual killing sites that present historical data about the Holocaust event at that site, including a summary, photos, and links to comprehensive sources; Jewish community history pages that provide links to information on the history of the local Jewish community, descriptions of Holocaust events in the local Jewish community, victims’ names, survivors’ memoirs, witness testimony, as well as documentary films; and overviews of Holocaust events in each Ukrainian region; a search engine that facilitates easy access to each killing site location, as well as the site’s profile pages.

As of March 2023, TKF completed research in fourteen Ukrainian regions, creating profile pages for some 1200 killing sites and 350 former Jewish communities as of February 2023. In the process, their researchers uncovered over 250 killing sites that had been missed by well-known published sources.

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The Tsal Kaplun Foundation receives the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant for 2020 from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) for its Map of Jewish Communities in the Russian Empire c. 1897.

TKF mentioned as a "hidden gem of Jewish genealogy" in a comprehensive review of Jewish genealogy sites.

Jewish Age mentions TKF's Ukrainian Shtetl Finder in 2020.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance mentions TKF's Shoah Atrocities Map, created in partnership with the Izyaslav Region Administration and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies.