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On December 12, the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations presented the concept of the Babyn Yar Memorial Center for the Holocaust. People's deputies, scholars, representatives of Jewish and Roma communities, diplomats and public activists are among the participants. After the presentation, the discussions went beyond the concept of the memorial and participants evoked the absence of a state policy in Ukraine to commemorate the victims of genocide that took place in Ukraine in the twentieth century, etc.
The concept of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial was presented to the Ukrainian government and municipal authorities in Kiev, to international organizations, in the Knesset (Parliament) of Israel; Ukrainian and foreign scientists joined the development before this one Yana Barinova .
The construction of the Memorial Center is based on respect for historical memory, knowledge of an unbreakable history and the study of its teachings
According to it The Memorial Center will mainly fulfill an educational function and not will not be "just a monument to honor the dead."
"The construction of the memorial center is based on respect for historical memory, knowledge of undistorted history and the study of its teachings.We start from the fact that the study of the past (war, Holocaust, genocide and other crimes) and spreading knowledge about them are one of the best ways to clearly bring the value of peace, "Barinova said.
A politician and Israeli public figure, a Soviet dissident Nathan Sharansky chairman of the memorial board, said in his speech: Babyn Yar is not just a place to pay tribute to hundreds of thousands of Jews killed during the Holocaust; in the future, the center should provide information on the losses suffered during the Holocaust. in Ukraine But also in all Europe.
Up to now, the latest genocides occur in different parts of the world, the total violation of human rights is "systemic, it is part of state policy", said Scharansky. As an example, he cited the imprisonment in Russia of the Ukrainian director, winner of the Sakharov International Prize – Oleg Sentsov
It is useful to disseminate information about these events in terms of study Lessons from the Past
Look at the tragedy of Babiy Yar in the context of 20th century genocides and human rights violations also recommends the Vice President of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee Georgy Logvinsky .
"Babyn Yar, among others, condemned the violation of human rights as a state policy.It should be mentioned the need not only to honor the memory of the victims of this policy, but also to disseminate information about these events in order to learn from the past.At present, if we talk about Ukraine, we are talking about the need for the state to develop a memory policy and a system of interethnic agreement on the basis of tolerance and mutual understanding ", – said the deputy.
The creation of the Memorial – the case of the state-experts
Deputy of the People, chairman of the Committee of the culture and spirituality of Ukraine Mykola Knyazhitsky remarked: the current concept of the Memorial to Babyn Yar must be changed, taking into account the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the disclosed archives of the special services on the activities of the UPA
The participation of the Ukrainian state is necessary, because among the initiators of the construction of the Memorial include representatives of the State [19659004] "The state should support the public initiative of building the memorial, as the state still has no policy of commemorating the victims of genocide and repression."
"The state should support the public initiative to build the memorial., As for Babiy Yar, the participation of the Ukrainian state is necessary, because among the initiators of the construction of the memorial, there is has state officials engaged in aggression against Ukraine, "said Knyazhitsky.
and so on. It is also interesting to work on the concept of the memorial to include specialists from the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and Soviet secret service archives open in Ukraine.
Ukrainian scholars of the genocide reported the possible influence on the concept of Russia and the lack of attention of the Ukrainian authorities.
The President of the Association of Jewish Communities (VAAD-Ukraine) Joseph Zisels in a conversation with Radio Svoboda pointed out that At Babyn Yar, the memorial should "be created by the Ukraine, not by Russian oligarchs ".
Meanwhile, the memorial's board of trustees began gathering artifacts for a future exhibition in a museum and will soon launch more than ten educational programs to study the history and teachings of the Holocaust. and educational projects initiated by the center team, said Yana Barinova.
On September 29, 2016, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Babiy Yar tragedy, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, launched the creation of the Holocaust Memorial.
Today, in the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar", monuments and memorials recall the events of the Nazi occupation of Kiev, during which people were affected by ethnicity. in an interview with Radio Liberty, director of the reserve Boris Glazunov .
A sign of Jews and Roma, OUN personalities and Soviet prisoners of war, mentally ill and curfew violators. [ad_2]
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