meters, with 10 6-meter-high columns installed on it. The columns and the disk were shot through by bullets of the same caliber that the Nazis used during execution in Babyn Yar.
The names of victims sound at the installation around the clock. During the day, the sky is reflected in it. At night, light and sounds of memory pass through the bullet holes, while rays from the tops of the columns illuminate the sky.
Additional powerful memorials will be unveiled later this year to mark the massacre’s 80th anniversary. Visitors will have no doubt about the exact death that took place there.
“Never Again” demands bringing tragedies such as Babyn Yar to greater academic and public attention. The work of BYHMC provides real insight into how the challenges of Holocaust remembrance can be overcome, despite decades of attempted suppression of the horrors.