Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (Ukrainian: Меморіальний центр Голокосту «Бабин Яр» officially called in English, The Foundation and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center) is an educational institution that documents, explains and commemorates the Babi Yar shootings of September 1941 and aims to broaden and sustain the memory of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, taking into account geopolitical changes during the 20th century. In 2016 the discussion of the Memorial project began. The Memorial Center is planned to be created in Kyiv, Ukraine, by 2023.[1]

Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
Меморіальний центр Голокосту «Бабин Яр»
Established2016
LocationKyiv
TypeMemorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
Websitebabiyar.org

Babi Yar

On September 29–30 1941, in Babi Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, the Nazis slaughtered more Jews in two days than in any other single German massacre, killing 33,771 Jews. In total, from September 29, 1941, until October 1943, the Nazi occupation authorities killed nearly 100,000 people in and near Babi Yar.[2]

History

On September 29, 2016, on the 75th anniversary of one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War, members of a broad international coalition gathered in Kyiv to announce their commitment to create a new memorial and educational center in Ukraine.[3] Creation of the Memorial was supported by the city authorities and President Petro Poroshenko.[4]

On March 19, 2017, the Supervisory Board of the Memorial was founded. The Supervisory Board is headed by the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel Natan Sharansky and consists of philanthropists German Khan, Mikhail Fridman, Victor Pinchuk, and Pavel Fuks, the chief rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine Yakov Dov Bleich, artist Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, world heavyweight champion Volodymyr Klitschko, the former Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova, former President of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Joschka Fischer.[5]

References
  1. "Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center". babiyar.org. Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  2. "БАБИН ЯР". resource.history.org.ua. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  3. "В Києві з'явиться Меморіальний центр Бабин Яр". Retrieved 2018-05-17.
  4. "Ніколи знову. Трагедія не має повторитися - Президент спільно з громадськими діячами ініціював створення Меморіального центру "Бабин Яр" — Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України". Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  5. "The Supervisory Board of Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center". BYHMC. Retrieved 2017-12-05.

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