"As #Russia continues to pound #Ukrainian cities, #archivists are working underground daily to rescue and record #Jewish #history—page by page, name by name. According to former Jewish Agency chairman #NatanSharansky, who today serves as chairman of the #BabynYar #Holocaust Memorial Center (#BYHMC), the effort to digitize millions of Jewish records linked to #BabiYar has become a race against time.

“There are more than 20 million #documents,” Sharansky told JNS in an interview at the #Jerusalem Media Hub on Dec. 23. “We’ve already digitized nine million—during the war, under fire.”

“These documents are in the last moments of their life,” he added. “If we don’t save them now, they will be lost forever.”

https://www.jns.org/sharansky-racing-to-rescue-babi-yars-jewish-documents-under-fire/

Today In Labor History September 29, 1941: Nazi forces, with the aid of the Ukrainian auxiliary police and local Ukrainian collaborators, began the two-day Babi Yar massacre, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It was the largest single massacre in the Holocaust up to that date, and the 3rd largest, overall, after the 1941 Odessa massacre (>50,000 victims) and Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland (> 42,000 victims). During the Nazi occupation, up to 150,000 people in total were murdered at Babi Yar.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #ukraine #nazis #fascism #antisemitism #romani #jewish #massacre #babiyar #soviet #odessa #occupation

The horrific details of #BabiYar were exposed in Anatoly Kuznetsov’s #book which he smuggled out of #Russia in 1969. Kuznetsov was a witness to the massacres at the age of 12 and kept a diary of what happened.

#Holocaust #Ukraine #Nazis

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/nazi-holocaust-literature-kyiv-babi-yar-book/672782/

From: @JNSLCT
https://mastodon.social/@JNSLCT@mastodon.social/115273368402103694

#Telegraph #UkraineTheLatest

#DavidKnowles in #BabiYar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rAGwFo9f0

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithWithUkraine

#BabiYar #Holodomor

The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, in which some 33,771 Jews were murdered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar

Some historians conclude that the famine was deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

#nazi #sovjet #warcrimes #genocide #holocaust #holodomor

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

How quickly and how easily people forget!!!

How quickly the descendants of the victims became perpetrators and genocidaires!!!!!

German soldiers rummaging through the belongings of the executed.
Kiev, Babi Yar, October 1, 1941.

#Gaza #Palestine #BabiYar #Holocaust #IsraelWarCrimes

Babi Yar, 1941.

According to various estimates, between 70,000 and 200,000 people were shot at Babi Yar between 1941 and 1943.

..............................

Nowadays, the descendants of the victims of the Nazi horror have become the perpetrators themselves by copying the Nazi practices.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #BabiYar #Holocaust

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝗺𝘀” 𝗯𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗬𝗲𝘃𝘁𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗸𝗼 -

A powerful collection of early Yevtushenko in the midst of the Cold War, from his homecoming in a rural village to his evocations on the horrors of war.

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #3words #yevgenyyevtushenko #selectedpoems #zimajunction #babiyar #sovietunion #coldwar #war #poetry

Images of war

Following the massacre of more than 33,000 Jews by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe death squad, Soviet prisoners of war cover victims’ bodies with earth from the banks of a ravine at Babi Yar in Kyiv on 1 October 1941.

Photograph: Johannes Hähle/The Centre for Spatial Technologies & Forensic Architecture

@photography
#WWII
#holocaust
#BabiYar