Lipes Nadia Ihorivna

Nadia Lipes is a Ukrainian writer, historian, tour guide and genealogist who researches Jewish family history and the pogroms in Ukraine.

born 1976Jewish genealogy researchDocumenting pogroms in UkraineDocumenting old Jewish cemeteries

Born: 24 December 1976, Balakliia
Occupation: writer, genealogist
Education: International Solomon University

Lipes Nadia Ihorivna was born in 1976 in Balakliia

Nadia Lipes was born on 24 December 1976 in Balakliia, in the Ukrainian SSR, to a Jewish family. In 1997 she immigrated to Israel.

She studied Judaics and Sociology at the International Solomon University. She speaks Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish and English.

In 2004 she returned to Kyiv and worked as a realtor until the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008 she founded courses for Jewish guides in Ukraine, and since 2009 she has organized tourist trips. She also works with archival records, restores genealogical data and lectures in Ukraine, the United States, Israel, Germany and other countries.

Since 2007 she has worked to protect and document old Jewish cemeteries. She writes on Jewish history in the Russian Empire and Ukraine and on the pogroms of the revolution and Civil War, and she funds a memorial site listing pogrom victims. She has indexed more than a million archival records and traced family trees of figures such as Dustin Hoffman, Isaac Babel and Menachem Mendel Schneerson.