Past, Present, Future

Babyn Yar: Past, Present, Future collects together the research and memorialisation efforts of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center since its founding in 2016. The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center is dedicated to acquiring, studying, disseminating and preserving the history of Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv where in the last days of September in 1941, occupying Nazi forces shot 33,771 Jews in what is known today as the ‘holocaust by bullets’, and where over the following two years nearly 70,000 more people where killed. Edited by Nick Axel and Nicholas Korody, the book includes a historical overview of these events together with archival imagery collected by the foundation and other organisations in Ukraine and beyond.