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"We are ashamed": Ukrainian government establishes Holocaust Remembrance Center in Babi Yar - Walla! news

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80 years after the Babi Yar massacre, the Ukrainian government, led by President Zlansky, will hold the first official memorial service for Holocaust victims. This, in parallel with the establishment of a museum complex that includes 12 buildings, monuments and memorial exhibits. PM Shmigel: "The issue is a top priority to commemorate the Holocaust for future generations"


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"We are ashamed": The Ukrainian government establishes a Holocaust memorial center in Babi Yar

80 years after the Babi Yar massacre, the Ukrainian government, led by President Zlansky, will hold the first official memorial service for Holocaust victims.

This, in parallel with the establishment of a museum complex that includes 12 buildings, monuments and memorial exhibits.

PM Shmigel: "The issue is a top priority to commemorate the Holocaust for future generations"

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Eli Ashkenazi

Friday, 18 June 2021, 17:37

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The Ukrainian government will hold state commemorations on October 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the massacre of Avi Yar, Ukrainian Prime Minister Dennis Shmigel and Ukrainian Presidential President Andre Yarmak said this week.

The two made the announcement at a joint press briefing with the Holocaust Remembrance Center in Babi Yar.



The event will be attended by heads of state, Jewish and Israeli leadership, families of Holocaust survivors from Ukraine, Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations and Holocaust researchers from around the world.

Additional memorial events are expected to take place in other places around the world, including in Israel.

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Tear Wall Exhibition, Ukraine (Photo: Official Website, BYHMC)

The two also announced that two new memorial structures would be erected at the Holocaust Memorial Center, along Death Valley, to commemorate and tell the story of 2.5 million Eastern European Jews, 1.5 of them from Ukraine alone, who were murdered and buried in mass graves near their homes.



The memorial center is a large museum complex, comprising a dozen buildings. In the past year, several monuments and memorial structures have been inaugurated, including the names of the murdered, a symbolic synagogue, a perforated display of bullets known as the "Holocaust in bullets," and exhibits through which pre-Nazi occupation Kiev can be seen and heard. At the event to be held in October, the "Exhibition of Tears" and "The Memorial Tel" will be inaugurated.



Babi Yar is the largest mass grave in Europe. In September 1941, in just two days, almost all the Jews of the city of Kiev, 33,771 Jews, were shot dead by the Nazis. During the entire war, about 100,000 victims were murdered and buried in Babi Yar, the vast majority of them Jews.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Dennis Shmigel (Photo: Official Website, BYHMC)

The Ukrainian prime minister said at a briefing that President Vladimir Zlansky had signed a presidential decree to support a project to commemorate the victims of the massacre in Avi Yar. He added that the Ukrainian government is behind the project and will lead the commemorative events to be held in Kiev in October: "The establishment of an international-scale commemorative center is a top priority of the Ukrainian government. This commemorative center has a unique artistic concept that will tell this story to future generations."



The head of his bureau, Yarmak, referred to the fact that only now, decades after the massacre, did the Holocaust Remembrance Center be established in Ukraine: "The massacre in Avi Yar is one of the most horrific tragedies in the Holocaust. Holocaust museums are all over the world." "Very significant and important. We are ashamed that after so many years there is in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where this terrible tragedy happened, almost nothing (only the Lamp Monument, AA)".



"President Zalansky," Yarmak continued, "took under his wing this important project, the construction of which has already begun, and instructed us to establish the museum complex within a few years. Everything will be done for the project to progress quickly. The memorial events at Babi Yar will symbolize such an event." himself".

Exhibition at Babi Yar (Photo: Official Website, BYHMC)

Natan Sharansky, chairman of the advisory committee of the Babi Yar Memorial Center, himself a native of Ukraine, thanked the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine for their continued support, leadership and cooperation in establishing the Memorial Center.



Sharansky noted that there was a double crime in Babi Yar: The Jews were in the hands of the Nazis, and the silencing of crime by the Soviet authorities, he said.

When they built the monument, it was written that it was only for the sake of the Soviet citizens, the Jews were not mentioned.

The establishment of a memorial center is closing the circle and correcting the historical injustice.

We will tell the story of the "Holocaust in bullets" for Ukraine, the Jews and the whole world. "

The largest mass grave in Europe.

Exhibition at Babi Yar (Photo: Official Website, BYHMC)

Father Patrick Dubois, a French Catholic priest who has been researching the mass graves in Eastern Europe for two decades, joined the Memorial Center several months ago as Director of Strategy and Research, and as head of the Academic Council. He said that "Babi Yar is the place where one of the greatest crimes of the Holocaust took place in broad daylight. The Germans murdered Jew after Jew. The crime was personal, personal. What the Babi Yar Memorial Center is doing is an anthropological revolution. The center will be built over what was the Great Brotherhood Tomb Most in Europe during the Holocaust. "



Dubois added that as someone who has spent years on the killing fields in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries as a "Holocaust bullet" researcher, he is sorry to say the lesson has not been learned.

"Today, when Holocaust deniers all over the world claim that the Holocaust did not take place, when the distortion of the Holocaust occurs, the importance of establishing the center increases."

Dubois further referred to his work today in Iraq and Syria as a mass grave investigator in Syria and Iraq, saying that "gas camps did not arise after the Holocaust. Massacre of bullets continues to happen worldwide, including in Iraq and Syria where I investigate ISIS mass graves, as I investigated the graves in Ukraine and Eastern Europe" .

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