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On the occasion of the Babyn Yar Memorial Day, a multimedia documentary exhibition "Babyn Yar: Mirrors of Death" dedicated to the 82nd anniversary of the tragedy. It will be open to the public from 29 September 2023 to 28 October 2023.

The exhibition gives the viewer the opportunity to walk the path that the Jews of Kyiv took on their final journey on 29 September 1941. During the Second World War, about 100,000 people died in Babyn Yar: Jews, Ukrainians, Roma... But the exhibition is not only about them. In numerous mirrors, the viewer will see a reflection of the fate of the victims of the Holodomor and Mariupol, deported Crimean Tatars and shot Roma, prisoners of the Gulag, Syrets and Yahidne, prisoners of war killed in Katyn, Darnytsia and Olenivka...

The opening ceremony was attended by Rostyslav Karandeyev, Acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, Ambassador of the State of Israel, Tim Prange, Permanent Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Oleksiy Dniprov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office, Diana Popova, Director General of the Museum of the History of Kyiv, and media representatives.

Exhibition organisers: Babyn Yar National Museum, Museum of Kyiv. Museum of Kyiv, Public Committee to commemorate the victims of Babyn Yar.