Preservation of the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar: memorial contexts and political challenges of the present
An article by Anatolii Podolskyi, the Director of the UCHS, was published with that title in the Ukrainian scientific journal "Political Studies" 2022. №1 (3). Special attention in the study is paid to the current state of preserving the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar, the political component of this problem, in particular, the struggle against the pro-Russian project to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and the victims of Babyn Yar.
The study is devoted to the scientific analysis of the problem of memorialization of the terrain of Babyn Yar in the sovereign Ukraine, the historical context of the Babyn Yar tragedy, the crimes of National Socialism, the killing of the civilian population — both Jews and non-Jews of Kyiv — during the Nazi occupation of the city during the Second World War.
The full article can be found via the link (in Ukrainian)
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