Babyn Yar : History and Memory  Babyn Yar: History and Memory 

• Product Details

  Product #

  5011177B

  Author(s)

  Hrynevych, Vladyslav

  City

  Kyiv 

  Country

  Ukraine 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789663784700 

  Date of Publication

  2016 

  Publisher

  Dukh i Litera  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  327 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Jewish Studies

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Hrynevych, Vladyslav

  Publisher

  Дух і Літера  

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• Description

  Babyn Yar: History and Memory

  During World War II Babyn Yar, like Auschwitz in present-day Poland, became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust. This deadly process began in September 1941 with the murder of nearly 34,000 Jews and continued over the next several years with the shootings of tens of thousands more Jews as well as the Roma people, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian national activists, Communist party members, and ordinary residents of Kyiv taken as hostages. These people were stripped of their dignity as individuals and subjected to inhuman brutality and then murdered. Babyn Yar became one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of World War II. The publication of this book, dedicated to the seventy-fifth anniversary of Babyn Yar, is the result of the collaborative effort of scholars working in various disciplines in Canada, France, Israel, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and the United States. All the contributors were united by a desire to inform the international community about the history of one of the twentieth century’s most terrible human tragedies and by their realization of the importance of preserving its memory.