Every year on September 29, Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. It was in the last days of September 1941 that, in accordance with the order of the occupation authorities, thousands of Kyiv Jews marched through the city streets towards the intersection of Degtyarivska and Melnikova streets (now Yuriy Ilyenka Street). From there, children and elderly people, men and women, were sent to the Babyn Yar tract district. It was chosen by the German Nazis as the place of mass murder of the Jews of Kyiv. In just two days (September 29-30, 1941), 33,771 people were shot by units of the special command of Einsatzgruppe C, the German security police and other auxiliary units.

In the future, Babyn Yar would turn into a place of occupation terror, the victims of which were the mentally ill, prisoners of war, Roma, clergymen – thousands and thousands of people of various faiths and ethnicities – those who, according to the Nazis, posed a threat to the “New Order”.

Honoring the memory of the Babyn Yar victims, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” held several events. Moreover, to the thematic excursions and museum classes, which continued during the last week, on September 25, an online meeting of the students of the “Hesed Menachem” took place with the deputy director for scientific work of the Museum, Dr. Yehor Vradii. The participants had the opportunity to talk about why Babyn Yar became the main symbol of the Holocaust in Ukraine, how this tragedy was remembered and forbidden to be remembered in the post-war period, and why the Memory of those killed in Babyn Yar and the Holocaust in general are an integral and important part of Ukrainian history.

And already on September 29, the Museum organized a special screening of the feature film “Ladies' Tailor” (the director of the film is the famous Ukrainian cinematographer Leonid Horovets). Created in 1990 based on the play of the same name by Oleksandr Borshchagovsky, this film tells about the last day and night in the life of the Jewish family of the old tailor Isak – one of the thousands of families shot by the Nazis in Babyn Yar. Despite the fear, hostility and violence that pervades the environment of occupied Kyiv, Isak, with his wisdom and kindness, helps others to preserve human feelings, dignity and peace.

Thank to everyone who joined our events and honored the memory of hundreds of thousands of people who became victims of Nazism's inhuman policy.