As part of the exhibition "Bakhmut. Faces of the Genocide of 1942/2022" in August 2023, the Babyn Yar National Museum hosted discussion platforms for artists, public figures, scientists, human rights activists, military personnel, educators, and government officials. This is how Babyn Yar becomes a place of memory where people come to ask questions and seek answers.

On 17 August 2023, the series of discussions began with the event "Genocide as a Crime. How to Punish the Perpetrators?" with the participation of Anton Korynevych, Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, and Yurii Belousov, Head of the Department for Supervision of Criminal Proceedings for Crimes Committed in the Context of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General's Office. The discussion focused on the importance of the inevitability of punishment for genocide and how the state of Ukraine is seeking justice in international institutions.

The discussion "Genocide as a Phenomenon. How to teach to remember?", which took place on 26 August, raised such issues as changing the educational paradigm of working with memory. Rosa Tapanova, head of the Babyn Yar National Historical Museum, Lilia Hrynevych, PhD in Pedagogy, First Vice-Rector of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Minister of Education in 2016-2019, Roman Hryshchuk, MP, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Education, Science and Innovation, Vasyl Pavlov, historian, Anatolii Podolskyi, Director of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, exchanged views on changing approaches to presenting history, how to keep the memory of the heroes and victims of the present and past alive, and how to encourage children to understand what genocide is and what history the Ukrainian people have gone through.