The massacre at Babyn Yar, also known as Babi Yar, was one of the most notorious of World War II. “I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “The narrative that is being promoted is anti-Ukrainian in nature,” Mykhailo Basarab, an historian, said of the plans for Babyn Yar. Visible inside was an historical photograph of Babyn Yar, a harrowing scene of discarded clothes of the dead. The largest pile of flowers formed beside a monument to the children killed at Babyn Yar.

Source: bd News24 October 06, 2021 07:07 UTC