“Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”

“Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten”

Memorializing the Great Patriotic War at Mamayev Hill (Battle of

Stalingrad) and Babi Yar

Battle for StalingradJuly 1942-Feb. 1943

Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad)

Historical- Memorial complex dedicated to the heroes of the Stalingrad battle at Mamayev Hill.

Begun 1959, completed 1967.

Alley of the Pyramidal Poplars

“Stand to the Death”(Centerpiece of the “Square of Those Who Fought to the

Death”)

2 of 6 sculptures in the “Square of the Heroes”

Hall of the Glory of the Warrior

Center: Eternal Flame of the Unknown Soldier

Walls: military banners and inscriptions with the names

of 7,000 defenders of Stalingrad

Square of Sorrow

“The Motherland Calls”

“The Motherland Calls”

Victory Day (May 9) Celebration

2005

September 29-30, 1941: ~33,000 Jews shot and their corpses buried on site1941-1943: 70,000+ more people were executed there (mostly Jews but also Ukrainians, Gypsies, resistance fighters, etc.)

Babi Yar – a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev (now Ukraine)

Babi Yar by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1961)

Translated by Ben Okopnik

No monument stands over Babi Yar.A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone.I am afraid.Today, I am as oldAs the entire Jewish race itself. . . .

Monument opened at Babi Yar in 1976

But a memorial to whom?

Commemorative plaque:Here during 1941-43 the German-Fascist

occupiers shot more than 100,000 citizens of the city of Kiev and prisoners

of war

Draft Report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission investigating Nazi crimes in Kiev (1943) as edited by Communist Party officials

Monument to the ~100,000 Jews who perished at Babi Yar

Opened on Sept. 29, 1991(50th anniversary of the first massacre of

Jews)

Monument to 621 Ukrainian nationalists

killed by the Germans in 1942

(opened 1992)

Monuments to two Ukrainian Orthodox priests (installed 2000) and to children killed at Babi

Yar (installed 2001)