The collection includes the texts of the reports of the participants of the scientific conference. The articles highlight the role of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky in saving Jewish children in Galicia in 1941-1944. A number of articles are devoted to the analysis of Nazi policies regarding national and religious minorities. The mechanisms of coexistence with the occupation authorities, life in cities during the years of occupation are studied in detail. Separately, the problems of overcoming Soviet myths about the history of World War II are considered, as well as the scale and specifics of the repressions of the Soviet regime are investigated - from the beginning of World War II to the occupation of the territory of Western Ukraine.