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.
Soviet prisoners of war under the protection of German soldiers bury the bodies of Jews shot on September 29-30, 1941 in Babyn Yar.
Photo: Archives of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research