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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009160303321

Titolo

Babyn Yar : History and Memory / Paul Robert Magocsi, Vladyslav Hrynevych, Norman Naimark, Mykhailo Kalnytsky, Igor Shchupak, Karel C. Berkhoff, Vitaliy Nakhmanovych, Oleksandr Kruglov, Asia Kovrigina, Gelinada Grinchenko, Iryna Zakharchuk, Iryna Klimova, Natalia Symonenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2024

2024, c2023

ISBN

9783838279626

383827962X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (534 pages)

Disciplina

940.5318445

Soggetti

Jewish Studies

Jewish History

Genocide Studies

Holocaust Studies

Slavic Studies

Slavic History

Ukrainian Studies

Ukrainian History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1  Babyn Yar in Time and Space -- 2 On the Eve of Babyn Yar -- 3 Ukraine under Nazi Rule -- 4 Babyn Yar: the Holocaust and Other Tragedies -- 5 Executioners and Saviours at Babyn Yar -- 6 Babyn Yar after Babyn Yar -- 7 Babyn Yar in Personal Accounts -- 8  Babyn Yar in Oral History -- 9 Babyn Yar in Belles Lettres -- 10 Babyn Yar in Cinema -- 11 Babyn Yar in Sculpture and Painting -- 12 Babyn Yar in Music -- 13 Babyn Yar: A Place of Memory in Search of a Future -- In Lieu of an Afterword -- Illustration Sources and Credits -- Index -- Map 1  Babyn Yar and Surroundings, ca. 1940 -- Map 2 The Ravines -- Illustrations 1 Plates I-XXXII -- Illustrations 2 Plates XXXIII-LXIV.



Sommario/riassunto

The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar – a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits – became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust. This deadly process began in September 1941 with the murder of nearly 34,000 Jews and continued over the next several years with the shootings of tens of thousands more Jews as well as the Roma people, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian national activists, Communist party members, and ordinary residents of Kyiv taken as hostages. Bringing together leading scholars, Babyn Yar presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of the war. The book provides an overview of the geographical space of the ravine and the historical conditions in Europe and Ukraine leading up to the war. It details the mechanism by which Nazi Germany carried out the 1941 massacre and the on-going killing of Jews and non-Jews at Babyn Yar during the remaining years of the war. Drawing on depictions in personal memoirs, oral history, literary works, art, cinema, and music, the book analyses in great detail the ways in which Babyn Yar has been remembered by survivors. In doing so, Babyn Yar sheds light on one of the twentieth century’s most terrible human tragedies and the importance of preserving its memory.