The 27 January is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Ukraine and in the world. This Day was proclaimed by United Nations General Assembly resolution of 1 November 2005 (Resolution № 60/7), co-authored by 100 states, to commemorate the victims of Nazi terror during World War II. "The Holocaust, which has led to the extermination of one-third of Jews and countless victims from other minorities, will always serve all peoples with warnings of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice," it is said in a statement of the UN General Assembly.
At the State level, Ukraine joined to celebrating this international date in 2012 (Verkhovna Rada Resolution of 5 July 2011).
The date of January 27 was not chosen by chance: it was on this day in 1945 that the troops of the 1-st Ukrainian Front released the prisoners of Nazi largest death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near the Polish town of Oświęcim.
It is worth recalling that the Greek Holocaust translates as "burnt offering" and signifies the systematic persecution and extermination (genocide) of Jews by Nazi Germany and collaborators throughout 1933-1945. In the broad sense, the Holocaust is the systematic persecution and destruction of people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation or genetic type as inferior, harmful. It has been officially recognized that up to 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, from 2.2 to 2.5 million in the former Soviet Union, mainly in Ukraine. It is known that immediately after the occupation of Ukraine, the Nazis set up a wide network of ghettoes (the largest was the Lviv one), and subsequently began mass shooting the Jewish population. One of the most famous was the shootings in Babyn Yar in Kyiv, but the extermination of Ukrainian Jews was systematic and pervasive.
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Kyiv Joel Lyon, Honorary Consul of the State of Israel in the Western region of Ukraine Oleg Vishnyakov, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Jonathan Markovich, Director-General and the employees of the National Historic-Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar", Mykhaylo Gutor, Andrii Tkachuk, Volodymyr Kornelyuk, David Chubinashvili, Jewish Forum of Ukraine, Jewish Fund of Ukraine.
The exhibition was organized by National Historic-Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar", Jewish Forum of Ukraine, Jewish Fund of Ukraine.
