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Russian Forces Strik Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Site
On 1 March 2022 Russian forces struck the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre in a missile attack. The BYHMC, built on Europe’s largest mass grave of the Holocaust, recently unveiled “The Crystal Wall of Crying” by Marina Abramović on 8 October 2021, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the mass atrocity when Nazi forces murdered the entirety of Kyiv’s Jewish population, some 33,000 people, between 29 and 30 September 1941. The unveiling ceremony of the “Crystal Wall of Crying”, which was one of the largest art objects built in Europe in the last decade, was attended by the Presidents of Ukraine, Germany, and Israel. Testimony given at the Nuremburg Trials following the Second World war documented how further Jews, Roma, Ukrainians, and Prisoners of War were brought to Babyn Yar to be executed, suggesting that more than 100,000 people were murdered there. More recent studies suggest that that number could be as high as 200,000.
A Statement from the BYHMC Advisory Board Chair Natan Sharanksy
A BYHMC Press Release for the unveiling of “The Crystal Wall of Crying”
A Link to The Crystal Wall of Crying
