The Roma Youth Advocacy Agency ARKA, the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” and Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture have opened the exhibition “Invisible. Resilience: The Past and Present of Roma Communities”.

An interfaith prayer service was held at the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” on September 29, marking the 85th anniversary of the beginning of the mass shootings carried out by Nazi forces at Babyn Yar. The ceremony took place near the Menorah Monument and brought together religious leaders, representatives of Jewish communities, government officials, and members of the public.

On September 29, a commemorative ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy was held at Babyn Yar in Kyiv. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, together with diplomats and representatives of nearly 50 countries, gathered to honor the memory of those who were murdered at Babyn Yar.

Eighty-five years ago, on September 29–30, 1941, Nazi forces carried out a mass shooting of Kyiv’s Jewish population at Babyn Yar. Tens of thousands of people were murdered over the course of two days. The exact number of victims cannot be established. The massacre was one of the largest mass killings of Jews at a single site during the Holocaust.

The Youth Agency for Advocacy of Roma Culture “ARCA,” the National Historical and Memorial Preserve “Babyn Yar,” and Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Invisible. Resilience: The Past and Present of Roma,” which will take place on September 29, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. in the lobby of KNUCA at 31 Povitrianykh Syl Avenue, Kyiv.

To mark the 85th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar”, together with Ukrainian and international partners, has prepared a programme of commemorative, cultural, educational and academic events.

We invite you to take part in the forum "Memory Under Occupation: Holocaust Museums in the Conditions of War" on October 22–23, 2026. This is a joint initiative of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" and the Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror”.

Today Babyn Yar was visited by Roi Rozenblit, appointed Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine, together with his wife Dafna Rozenblit and younger son Itay.

On August 16, the Living Memory Exhibition Center hosted another screening as part of the film club within the public program SPACE OF RESEARCH. Attendees watched the documentary "Riefenstahl" by director Andres Veiel (Germany, 2024), which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

The Living Memory Exhibition Center of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” has opened the exhibition A Ukrainian-Jewish Century: Pictures and Stories from 1920 to 2025, alongside a screening and discussion of the Israeli-French animated short film Letter to a Pig, nominated for an Academy Award.