Protecting Memory

15. September 2019
Online exhibition

J DSC05567 — Ljubar, June 20, 2019: The memory of the destroyed Jewish communities in Ukraine returns to villages and small towns. Maia Bondarchuk, the only Jew living in the village, with a photo of her murdered grandparents, during the inauguration ceremony of the memorial site. © Foundation Monument, Photo: Anna Voitenko

I DSC05348 — Kolodjanka, 20 June 2019: Prayer of the Rabbi © Foundation Monument, Photo: Anna Voitenko

IMG-baf375315b7061b672974f2b2223f0706-V — Berdychiv, 16 September 2019: Inauguration of the open-air exhibition, Photo: Miasto Berdychiw

IMG-403da6e9a80404b6128afb12befb56f7-V — Baraschi, 17 September 2019: Locals spontaneously singing a funeral song at one of the mass graves, Photo: Anna Voitenko

IMG-c13320c7a407dfbcaaceb396a1c1139e-V — Plyskiw, 19 September 2019: lively participation at the memorial site in the village, Photo: Anna Voitenko

IMG-c701eb99c4cdb53d82884463f32944a9-V — Plyskiw, 19 September 2019: Benjamin Needleman speaks the prayer for the dead, Photo: Anna Voitenko

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Between 1941 and 1944, more than a million Jewish children, women and men were murdered in mass shootings during the German occupation of what is now Ukraine and buried in numerous pits. The international project »Protecting Memory« has set itself the goal of designing neglected and forgotten mass graves of Jews and Roma as worthy places of remembrance and information and to preserve the memory of the victims for the present and the future.

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Inauguration of the Holocaust Memorial Site near Barashi, Ukraine

The film shows impressions of the inauguration ceremony of the memorial site near Barashi, Shytomyr area, Ukraine.
In the autumn of 1941, at least 95 Jews from Barashi and the surrounding area were shot dead by German and local police officers.

Numerous residents, students, international guests and visitors commemorated the victims together on 17 September 2019. The memorial site was designed in 2019 as part of the project “Preserve Memory” funded by the Foreign Office.

A film by Anna Voitenko
Recordings: Anna Voitenko, Oleksandr Liapin
Subtitles: Kateryna Malyshevska, Dr Caroline Pearce
Image copyright Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 2020