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The Failed Russian Project “Memorial in Babin Yar” as a Tool for Manipulating Historical Memory – Yosef Zisels, Head of the Association of Jewish Public Organizations and Communities of Ukraine

Российский проект "Мемориал в Бабином Яру" как инструмент для манипуляций с исторической памятью - Йосиф Зисельс, руководитель Ассоциации еврейских общественных организаций и общин Украины

Yosif Zisels, a well-known Ukrainian human rights activist and public figure of Jewish descent, told Ukraїner on April 29, 2025, how he opposed the project to create a memorial at Babyn Yar, initiated by Russian businessmen in 2016. This project became the cause of political disagreements and accusations of manipulating history. It is important to […]

Russian memorials did not sign the declaration joined by 32 European sites of memory associated with the crimes of Nazi Germany and its accomplices during World War II

Российские мемориалы не подписали декларацию, к которой присоединились 32 европейских места памяти, связанных с преступлениями нацистской Германии и её пособников во время Второй мировой войны

On July 15, 2026, 32 European memorial institutions preserving the memory of the crimes of Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II signed a joint declaration European Memorial Sites: Core Declaration on protecting their independence from political and budgetary pressure. Among the signatories are the memorials of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Babi Yar, Buchenwald, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, […]

In Babyn Yar, the ‘Research Space’ was launched: the memory of the Holocaust is comprehended through cinema, archives, and family stories

В Бабьем Яру запустили «Пространство исследования»: память о Холокосте осмысляют через кино, архивы и семейные истории

In the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” in Kyiv, the summer program “RESEARCH SPACE” – Ukr. (“RESEARCH SPACE”) has begun — a two-month public project dedicated to personal and family history, collective memory, the Holocaust, and the tragedy of Babyn Yar. The project officially opened on July 9, 2026, and on July 10, […]

A stamp was issued in Ukraine in honor of Rafal Lemkin, a Jewish scientist who defined the concept of “genocide” and who was the first to call the Holodomor “genocide of the Ukrainian people.”

В Украине выпустили марку в честь Рафаля Лемкина – еврейского ученого, определившего понятие "геноцида", который первым назвал Голодомор "геноцидом украинского народа" НАновости 7

Rafal Lemkin – an outstanding Jewish lawyer of Polish origin, author of the term “genocide”. Lemkin was one of the first to call the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. He is the first specialist in international law who defined the crimes of the Stalinist communist regime against […]

From the Holocaust to Russian Bombing: The Story of Elvira Borts and Her Grandson – The Defender of Azovstal – How a Jewish Family in Mariupol (Ukraine) Survived Two Genocides + Video

От Холокоста до российских бомбардировок: история Эльвиры Бортс и её внука-защитника «Азовстали» - как еврейская семья в Мариуполе (Украина) пережила два геноцида + видео

“I survived the Holocaust and then under Russian bombs. The story is repeating itself. But Ukraine must survive.” Russia follows in the footsteps of the Nazis, destroying Ukrainians just as Hitler destroyed the Jews. “We thought this would not happen again. But Russia has proven that we were mistaken.” Elvira Borts’ story was shared at […]