• 29.09.2017 at 12.00 "The forty-first was then...": a meeting with poet Igor Deskin devoted to Day of memory of victims of Babiy Yar

    "At dawn on 29th September 1941 all the needy of Kiev "Shalom-aleichem" dragged themselves out on the street. Namely dragged out, because all the healthy men were mobilized in the army, those richer had a chance to evacuate. Remained only the sick, crippled, old men, women and children. Gathered in column, they marched at dawn in the direction of Syrets. "Where are you going?", "There's gunfire!" – warned them the people standing on the sidewalks. There were old men-Karaites, who spent the night in his Karaite synagogue. They preached: "Children, we're going to die, get ready. Take it bravely, as the Christ took it!" The old women went and young women taking babies in hands.

    The children went – tiny and a little older... From Babiy Yar were heard clear, measured shots from a machine gun".

    Until 30th September it was all over. According to the Waffen-SS data, in three days were killed about 35 thousand Jews. "Someone of the Waffen-SS soldiers felt unwell – they had to be “cured” on-site by vodka. Some young SS had a lapse of mind, they could not stand such an extermination. They were put in a psychiatric hospital. (From the secret report of major Hans Koch, Chairman of the Imperial Ministry of the occupied Eastern territories)".

    This is one of many stories about the events that took place in Kiev in 1941. And how many stories we know from the Internet, books or TV, and most importantly - from our wards – the victims of Nazism and the Righteous among the nations! To them, who miraculously survived and those who died, we dedicate a meeting with poet Igor Deskin.

    The meeting will begin at 12.00. We are waiting for you!

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