Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
{{Short description|Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine}}
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Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center ({{Langx|uk|Меморіальний центр Голокосту «Бабин Яр»|translit=Memorialnyy tsentr Holokostu «Babyn Yar»}}), officially the Foundation and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, is an educational institution that documents, explains and commemorates the Babyn 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. On September 29, 2016, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, together with public figures and philanthropists, initiated the creation of the first Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/mournful-ukraine-marks-75-years-since-babi-yar-massacre/|title=Mournful Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar massacre|publisher=Times of Israel|website=timesofisrael.com|author=Tamar Pileggi|date=2016-09-29}} The Memorial Center is planned to be opened in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2025/26.{{Cite web|url=https://babynyar.org/en/about|title=About the Center|website=Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center|language=en|access-date=2022-03-01}}
Babi Yar
On September 29–30, 1941, in Babyn Yar (also known by the Russian transliteration 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 Babyn Yar.{{Cite web|url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Babyn_Yar|title=БАБИН ЯР|website=resource.history.org.ua|access-date=2017-12-06}}
History
On September 29, 2016, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, together with public figures and philanthropists, initiated the creation of the first Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. In his opinion, the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Babyn Yar can become a symbol of the unity of the nation and mother of greatness for the whole world.{{cite web|url=https://24tv.ua/kyivnews/memorialniy_tsentr_zhertv_golokostu_zyavitsya_u_kiyevi_n731905|title=Меморіальний центр жертв Голокосту з'явиться у Києві|publisher=Channel 24|date=2016-09-29}} Poroshenko himself and the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, were present at the ceremony.{{Cite web|url=http://www.president.gov.ua/news/nikoli-znovu-tragediya-ne-maye-povtoritisya-prezident-spilno-38319|title=Ніколи знову. Трагедія не має повторитися - Президент спільно з громадськими діячами ініціював створення Меморіального центру "Бабин Яр" — Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України|language=uk|work=president.gov.ua|date=2016-09-29|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102044854/http://www.president.gov.ua/news/nikoli-znovu-tragediya-ne-maye-povtoritisya-prezident-spilno-38319|archivedate=2016-11-02}}
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.{{Cite news|url=http://babiyar.org/en/foundation/supervisory|title=The Supervisory Board of Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center|work=BYHMC|access-date=2017-12-05}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
On October 19, 2017, the leadership of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center met with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman. The Prime Minister expressed support for the project to build a memorial complex in Kyiv to commemorate the victims of Babyn Yar, and noted the importance of preserving historical memory in order to prevent the recurrence of past mistakes in the future.{{cite web|url=https://babynyar.org/ua/news/296|title=Український уряд висловив підтримку Меморіальному центру Голокосту "Бабин Яр"|website=babynyar.org|date=2017-10-20}}
On 6 October 2021, following the 80th anniversary of the massacre, the Memorial Center released the first 161 names of Nazi soldiers who were perpetrators of the crimes at Babyn Yar. It described the release of names as the first installment of ongoing research into those who committed the murder of 33,771 Ukrainian Jews on September 29 and 30, 1941.{{Cite web|date=6 October 2021|title=80 years on: The true faces of the Babyn Yar Murders are being revealed|url=https://babynyar.org/en/news/455/80-rokiv-po-tomu-staly-vidomi-spravzhni-imena-vbyvts-zhertv-babynoho-yaru|url-status=live|website=The Babi Year Holocaust Memorial Center|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006065512/https://babynyar.org/en/news/455/80-rokiv-po-tomu-staly-vidomi-spravzhni-imena-vbyvts-zhertv-babynoho-yaru |archive-date=2021-10-06 }}
On 1 March 2022, the site of Babyn Yar was hit by Russian missiles and shells during the (part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine) battle of Kyiv, killing at least five people.{{Cite web |last=Harkov |first=Lahav |date=2022-03-01 |title=Russia strikes Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site in Ukraine |url=https://www.jpost.com/international/article-699034 |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}} Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andriy Yermak, chairman of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, condemned the missile attack, as did Israeli leaders including Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai.{{Cite news |last=Treisman |first=Rachel |date=2022-03-01 |title=Russia bombards a Kyiv TV tower and the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site |language=en |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083733323/russia-bombards-a-kyiv-tv-tower-and-the-babyn-yar-holocaust-memorial-site |access-date=2022-03-01}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/zelenskiy-contribution-of-ukrainians-in-victory-over-nazism-huge.html|title=Zelenskiy: Contribution of Ukrainians in victory over Nazism huge - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice|date=9 May 2019}} Ynet journalist Ron Ben Yishai reported that Babyn Yar remained unscathed after the Russian attack.{{Cite news |last=Ben-Yishai |first=Ron |date=2022-03-02 |title=Babi Yar memorial said to be undamaged by Russian missile strike |language=en |work=Ynetnews |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk8byetx9 |access-date=2022-03-03}}
In a February 2023 interview, art director of the Babyn Yar Memorial Foundation Ilya Khrzhanovsky mentioned that German Khan and Mikhail Fridman (at the time both under sanctions due to their alleged role in the 2022 Russian invasion) had withdrawn from the project and that Ronald Lauder had recently become a major donor.{{cite web |title=On Putin and Babyn Yar|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ilya-khrzhanovsky-interview|date=2 February 2023|access-date=5 September 2023|language=English|website=Tablet}} Khrzhanovsky himself resigned from the project on 5 September 2023.{{cite web |title=Ilya Khrzhanovskyi resigned as head of the Babyn Yar Memorial Center|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2023/09/5/163103/|date=5 September 2023|access-date=5 September 2023|language=Ukrainian|website=Istorychna Pravda}}
See also
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Further reading
- {{cite magazine |last1=Gessen |first1=Masha |title=The Holocaust Memorial Undone by Another War |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/18/the-holocaust-memorial-undone-by-another-war |work=The New Yorker |date=11 April 2022}}
- {{cite magazine |last1=Shuster |first1=Simon |title=Is Ukraine’s New Holocaust Memorial Also an Instrument of Kremlin Propaganda? |url=https://time.com/6102593/ukraine-holocaust-memorial-kremlin-propaganda/ |work=TIME |date=30 September 2021 |language=en}}
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- {{Official website|https://babynyar.org}}
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Category:The Holocaust in Ukraine