A trio of diplomats captured the historical importance of the events sponsored by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter in September 2016 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar. “There can be no forgetting this tremendous...

Oksana Lyniv is a graduate of the Lviv Conservatory and in 2002 was the winner of the Gustav Mahler International Conductor’s Competition in Germany. She was invited to work in Germany and later was at...

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi of the University of Toronto and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter outlines the background for the program commemorating the 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The Holocaust has been embedded in...

The internationally renowned opera singer Pavlo Hunka developed the concept for the concert held at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv on 29 September 2016.  The concert started with a prayer and then progressed...

A heroic Soviet mythology informs the story of the Dynamo soccer team in German-occupied Kyiv during the Second World War. The team was celebrated in Soviet propaganda for its supposed refusal to throw a game...

Dr. Vitaliy Nakhmanovych outlines the problem: there is no will by various groups to create a common vision of Babyn Yar. Historically Babyn Yar emerged as an example of mass shootings of Kyivan Jews, and...

Volodymyr Viatrovych, the director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, outlines the events in Kyiv in the early days of the German occupation during the Second World War. The German army entered Kyiv on...