Nadia Lipes
Nadia (Sarah-Beila) Ihorivna Lipes (, ) (born 24 December 1976, Balakliia, USSR) is a Ukrainian writer, historian, licensed tour guide, public figure. One of the leading genealogists in the post-Soviet states. Biography. Born into a Jewish family. in 1997 she immigrated to Israel. She studied at the International Solomon University, where she studied judaic and sociology. In 2004 she returned to Kyiv and worked as a realtor before the financial crisis. In 2008 she founded courses for Jewish guides in Ukraine, since 2009 she has been organizing tourism and working with archival documents, searching and restoring genealogical data . She gives lectures in Ukraine and in many other countries of the world, in particular in the US, Israel, Germany. She knows Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish and English. Activities. Since 2007 she has been engaged in the protection and documentation of old Jewish cemeteries, the author of numerous photographs of Jewish headstones of historical, cultural and artistic value. Author of numerous studies of archival documents. In 2013, in the , she discovered lists of Jews in Justingrad who were victims of pogroms, and her ancestors were also among the victims. She is also the author of numerous materials on the history  of Jews in the Russian Empire and Ukraine, studies on . Founder and author of a memorial site with a list of victims of pogroms, which she finances at her own expense. Restored or supplemented the Family tree of Dustin Hoffman, Isaac Babel, Leonid Utyosov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Mishka Yaponchik, , David Hofstein, , Menachem-Mendel Schneerson and other famous personalities. She indexed more than a million archival records from the times of the Russian Empire related to Jewish genealogy from the archives of Ukraine — and posted them online. Despite the fact that the stated goal of the site with a genealogical database is  to commemorate Nadia's ancestors who were killed in the pogroms of 1919, the site is a commercial project; to access each record, you need to pay 20-40 euros, the preliminary consultation on the relevance of paid information is estimated additionally at 100 euro. In September 2017, she participated in the international program conference «Riga Forum – Holocaust and Contemporary Radicalism» in Riga with more than 100 participants from 17 countries. In July–August 2019, she spoke at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Cleveland. In the summer of 2020, she participated in the opening of a memorial monument  to those who died in Tetiiv. Personal life. From 2004 to 2005 she was married to . She lives with her second husband, Alexey (Elisha), in Dénia. His son is an Israel Defense Forces serviceman, doing military service in the Golani Brigade.