On the occasion of commemorating the victims who were shot in Babyn Yar, the scientific library of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs presents to the university community a book-illustrative exhibition "80 years of memory: not to be forgotten".

The exposition describes the most tragic pages of history - Babyn Yar - one of the most horrible symbols of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Babyn Yar became the site of mass shootings of civilians and Soviet prisoners of war, Jews and Roma, as well as party and Soviet activists, underground activists, members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, hostages, "saboteurs", curfew violators and others. At the end of September 1941, within two days, the Nazis shot nearly 34,000 Kyiv Jews there. By 1943, about 200,000 people had been shot.

The tragedy of Babyn Yar is honored in Ukraine at the state level and is evidence that in the collective memory of the people such sorrowful events have no statute of limitations.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi emphasizes that honoring the memory of victims of Babyn Yar and the Holocaust is a warning to humanity, and Ukrainian people will always be united in their desire to never allow any manifestations of hostility on racial or national grounds.

The University Library invites you to get acquainted with the thematic exposition.

Department of Public Relations of KhNUIA