On September 28, Kyiv will host the Tenth Annual Babyn Yar Memory March

On September 28, Kyiv will host the Tenth Annual Babyn Yar Memory March

On Sunday, September 28, at 12:00 PM, the Tenth Annual Babyn Yar Memory March will take place in Kyiv.

The March will begin at the square on the corner of Hlybochytska and Sichovykh Striltsiv streets, opposite the “Kyivska Rus” cinema. As every year, participants will walk to the site of the mass shootings at Babyn Yar—following the same path that, on September 29–30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews of Kyiv were forced to take before being murdered by the Nazis.

The massacre at Babyn Yar continued until the liberation of Kyiv, claiming the lives of more than 100,000 people—Jews, Roma, Ukrainians, and representatives of many other nationalities living in Ukraine.

Each year, the March brings together participants from Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Chernihiv, Bila Tserkva, Uman, Dnipro, Kharkiv, as well as international visitors, diplomats, representatives of Jewish communities, students from Ukrainian and Jewish schools, and members of the Ukrainian and international media.

What began as a personal initiative has grown into one of the largest Holocaust remembrance events in the world. In 2019, more than 1,000 people joined the March of Memory.

Organizers: Yevhen Horodetskyi – German entrepreneur, poet, and public figure, Dmytro Yurinov – event producer and coordinator at the Dobrovoz Charitable Foundation, Stella Kirtadze – marketing and public relations specialist

Program

11:30 AM – Gathering of participants at the square (corner of Hlybochytska and Sichovykh Striltsiv, opposite “Kyivska Rus”)
12:00 PM – Opening briefing by the organizers on the route and code of conduct
12:10 PM – Procession on foot to the “Menorah” monument at the Babyn Yar National Historical Memorial Preserve
1:10 PM – Memorial prayer at the Menorah, led by a rabbi invited by the organizers
1:20 PM – Closing of the March

Following the March, participants are invited to the opening of the exhibition “The State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda” at the “Living Memory” Exhibition Center of the Babyn Yar National Historical Memorial Reserve.
The exhibition is organized in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

📍 Venue: “Living Memory” Exhibition Center, 46A Yurii Illienko Street, Kyiv