Babyn Yar : history and memory / edited by Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi ; translation from Russian: Marco Carynnyk ; translations from Ukrainian: Marta Olynyk.

Format Book
Publication[Toronto] : Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, [2023]
Distribution[Toronto] : Univerity of Toronto Press
Descriptionxiv, 455 pages, lxiv pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Other author/creatorHrynevych, Vladyslav, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjrqxqvpRJ8wbTjHt8xJWC
Other author/creatorMagocsi, Paul R., editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrWwVbMRqR7rH38kBPxXd
Other author/creatorCarynnyk, Marco, translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtmr9RpMJMr6cjWqmj9jC
Other author/creatorOlynyk, Marta D., translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbtrcGY9xYgJDmWQQV3cP
Other author/creatorUniversity of Toronto. Chair of Ukrainian Studies, publisher.
Portion of title History and memory
Contents Preface / Norman Naimark -- Introduction / Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi / Babyn Yar in time and space / Mykhailo Kalnytskyi -- On the eve of Babyn Yar / Igor Shchupak -- Ukraine under Nazi rule / Karel C. Berkhoff -- Babyn Yar: the Holocaust and other tragedies / Vitaliy Nakhmanovych -- Executioners and saviours at Babyn Yar / Oleksandr Kruglov -- Babyn Yar after Babyn Yar / Vladyslav Hrynevych -- Babyn Yar in personal accounts / Asia Kovrigina -- Babyn Yar in oral history / Gelinada Grinchenko -- Babyan Yar in belles lettres / Iryna Zakharchuk -- Babyn Yar in cinema / Karel C. Berkhoff -- Babyn Yar in sculpture and painting / Iryna Klimova -- Babyn Yar in music / Natalia Symonenko -- Babyn Yar: a place of memory in search of a future / Vitaliy Nakhmanovych -- In lieu of an afterword / Paul Robert Magocsi.
Abstract "The twentieth century was filled with many tragedies. During the Second World War, Babyn Yar - a ravine outside Kyiv where victims were shot dead and dumped into pits - became a prominent symbol of the destruction of the European Jews during the Holocaust. This deadly process began in September 1941 with the murder of nearly 34,000 Jews and continued over the next several years with the shootings of tens of thousands more Jews as well as the Roma people, the mentally ill, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian national activists, Communist party members, and ordinary residents of Kyiv taken as hostages. Bringing together leading scholars, Babyn Yar presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most traumatic sites in the Ukrainian experience of the war.The book provides an overview of the geographical space of the ravine and the historical conditions in Europe and Ukraine leading up to the war. It details the mechanism by which Nazi Germany carried out the 1941 massacre and the on-going killing of Jews and non-Jews at Babyn Yar during the remaining years of the war. Drawing on depictions in personal memoirs, oral history, literary works, art, cinema, and music, the book analyses in great detail the ways in which Babyn Yar has been remembered by survivors. In doing so, Babyn Yar sheds light on one of the twentieth century's most terrible human tragedies and the importance of preserving its memory."-- Provided by publisher.
General noteA fully revised and expanded version of: Babyn I͡Ar : Istorii͡a i pam'i͡atʹ. Kyïv : Dukh i Litera, 2016.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageText in English; some chapters translated from the Russian and Ukrainian.
Related ItemRevision of: Babyn I͡Ar. Kyïv : Dukh i Litera, 2016
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9780772751164
ISBN0772751161 (hardcover)

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