This lecture will explore the story of Israel Friedlander, a world famous scholar, member of the JDC Board, and head of the JDC Committee on Russia (including Ukraine), and Bernard Cantor, a rabbi of the Free Synagogue in Flushing, New York and JDC volunteer assigned to Eastern Galicia in 1920. Both men were brutally murdered in Ukraine in July 1920 during their humanitarian mission to aid Jewish victims of the post-WWI crisis, famine, and pogroms in Eastern Europe. The talk will explore issues of historical memory surrounding the “Friedlander – Cantor mission”. It will reveal JDC’s attempts not only to hold a series of commemorative ceremonies in honor of Friedlander and Cantor in Ukraine (during the Polish period) in the early 1920s, but also to shape a broader culture of remembrance of their tragic mission. Finally, the lecture will examine how modern Ukrainian society both consciously and unconsciously remembers and forgets one of the most important attempts before the Holocaust to ease the suffering of Ukrainian Jews. It will highlight the specific way this piece of history is remembered, the challenges of forming a common, rather than divided, memory, and the issue of “Others” in modern Ukrainian history.