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Babi Yar

SOURCE: The Conversation
3/7/2022

The History of the Holocaust Site Recently Struck by a Russian Missile

by Jeffrey Veidlinger

The memorialization of the Nazi killing field at Babi Yar near Kyiv has long been entangled with the competing versions of history favored by communists, Ukrainian and Russian nationalists, and the descendants of Jews, Roma, and other victims of wartime massacres.

SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
9-29-16

Historian Timothy Snyder: Babi Yar A Tragedy For All Ukrainians

We need to remember what happened “because memory is not just about history, it is about the future."