Babi Yar Commemoration Event

Location: Zoom Meeting at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86716734318 or Dial-in: (669) 900-6833, Meeting ID: 867 1673 4318

Date: Thursday, September 30, 2021

Time: 6 p.m. 

Description: The virtual 80^th Anniversary Babi Yar Commemoration Event  is also a day when 30 years ago a Memorial Dedicated to the Victims of the massacres in Babi Yar was unveiled in Plummer Park.  There are a lot of Holocaust Survivors residing in West Hollywood whose families come from that area.  Babi Yar is a large ravine on the northern edge of the city of Kiev in Ukraine, the site of a mass grave of victims, mostly Jews, killed by Nazis and their collaborators between 1941 and 1943. After the initial massacre of Jews, which numbered nearly 34,000 on September 29-30 in 1941,  Babi Yar remained in use as an execution site for more Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and for Roma (Gypsies). Soviet accounts after the war speak of 150,000 dead. The true number may never be known. Babi Yar became the symbol of the first stage of killing during the Holocaust and of the massacres by the Einsatzgruppen (German: “deployment groups”)—the mobile killing units.

Contact: Tatiana Rodzinek - trodzinek@weho.org