Description of the attraction
The Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve is a world-famous place of mass executions of civilians, the most international cemetery in Ukraine. Now in the tract there are many monuments and memorials to the victims of the Holocaust and other victims of those massacres. Among them is a memorial sign - the Jewish Menorah seven-branched candlestick, installed in September 1991, to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the mass extermination of people in Babi Yar. It was installed in the place where the former Jewish cemetery was bordered by the former Kirillovsky Orthodox cemetery and one of the spurs of Babi Yar.
In 2000, near the Menorah, at the old Kirillovskoye cemetery, a cross was erected in memory of the clergy who were shot at this place in 1941. In 2001, not far from the Dorogozhichi metro station, a monument was erected to the children who were shot here. In September 2001, between st. Dorogozhitskaya and Melnikov, a memorial stone was laid in honor of the 60th anniversary of the tragedy in Babi Yar, certifying that the Heritage Community and Cultural Center was built on this site. Another reminder of the victims of Nazism was erected in 2005 near the intersection of Oranzhereinaya and Dorogozhitskaya streets. On it - a symbolic image of a concentration camp and the inscriptions "Memory for the sake of the future" and "World mutilated by Nazism."
During the occupation in Babi Yar, more than one hundred thousand Jews, Karaites, Gypsies, prisoners of war, partisans, underground fighters, members of the OUN, hostages, and the mentally ill were killed. Here, fascist punishers destroyed people on ideological and ethnic grounds. Babi Yar has a special sacred place in the tragic history of the Ukrainian capital.
