Nadia Lipes

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.

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 State Archives of the Kyiv region [uk], 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 Jewish pogroms during the revolution and the Civil War in Ukraine [he]. 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 Margolin [uk], David Hofstein, Simcha Lieberman [mk], 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.

From 2004 to 2005 she was married to Ihor Yevhenovych Branovytskyi [uk] and recently divorced her third husband Alexey (Elisha). Her son Nikita has served in Israel Defense Forces, doing military service in the Golani Brigade.

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.

Nadia (Sarah-Beila) Ihorivna Lipes (Ukrainian: Надія Ігорівна Ліпес, Russian: Надежда Игоревна Липес) (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.