Requiem for Babi Yar

[Mentalplix]

I have to say, that is a powerful memorial. Who designed it? Anyone? Anyone?

[Bosirant]

The killing at Babi Yar went on for a long time and included over 100,000 victims, even up to150,000, including Red Army soldiers taken prisoner, many of whom were Ukrainian, and Ukrainian patriots who opposed the Nazi German occupation.

Bolshevik Russia's NKVD used this site first to kill Ukrainian patriots and others opposed to Russian Bolshevism and Stalinism--even before the Nazi Germans did-- so Babi Yar is really a place where both Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia committed genocides.

[Gino2271]

90% were there in those places murdered Roma people.

[Gino2271]

90% were there in those places murdered Roma people.

[mas343]

les allemands on fait ça !

[aponcapone]

This mument is the most beautifull i have ever seen....Im touched by it.....

[andreaandrewmilnefan]

" 'At one moment--it was just getting dark,' said Albert Hartl, 'we were driving past a long ravine. I noticed strange movements of the earth. Clumps of earth rose into the air as if by their own propulsion--and there was smoke; it was like a low-toned volcano; as if there was burning lava just beneath the earth. Blobel laughed, made a gesture with his arm pointing back along the road and ahead, all along the ravine--the ravine of Babi Yar--and said, 'Here lie my thirty-thousand Jews.' "

[paka2525]

DAMN.. WHAT HUMANS CAN DO TO EACH OTHER.. WE SHOULD CALL OURSELF ANIMALS...

[Ondrus21]

@paka2525 We shouldn't, because the animals don't do these things.

[randy95023]

They are not simply "The Six Million". They are each and everyone a Person, an individual with loves and hopes and worries and cares. Each one had a soul. Each one had someone that he or she loved and was loved. SIX MILLION is a number, but it represents so much more, so much more than a Number...

[lovesRodin]

@randy95023 Yes, Thank you. What I want the monument to get across is just exactly that- they were all just like you and me. Never should we just think of the numbers, but rather realize that each person was part of a greater whole, a family, all having daily lives that were cut short.

[heyitsmejc]

@randy95023

I couldn't have said it better. That fact that each was an individual is overwhelming to consider. 

[wmordejeza6]

watch?v=OfrymyoqHNk

[Loyalbrox]

Have you considered to erect a memorial for all the dead Ukrainian women, children and men who were starved to death by Stalin's Soviet killing machine ?

[gamayoon]

Whta is the matter of it here? Babiy Yar is a great memorial for dozens of thousands people (mostly jews) killed by germans in Kiev. And so called Golodomor is just a starvation which took place all over the country especially in south regions (not only Ukraine territory) during several years. It is different things!!

[YaVepr]

По разным подсчётам, в Бабьем Яру в 1941—1943 было расстреляно от 70 000 до 200 000 человек.

зондеркоманда 4а под командованием штандартенфюрера Пауля Блобеля при участии частей вермахта (6-й армии) и Киевского куреня украинской вспомогательной полиции.

[jamesjeffreypaul]

Where can I donate to this memorial foundation?

[lovesRodin]

Thanks for asking. I applied for a number of grants- didn't quite happen this time round. Bad economic timing. I am being sponsored by the US-Ukraine Foundation in Washington. You can contact them and ask them about donating money. In the meantime, I'm going to work on it with my own money until at which time I feel I can apply for grants again. No worries. It will get done.

Cindy Jackson, the sculptor

[jamesjeffreypaul]

Thank you so much, and best of luck!

[billyandgeorgie1508]

unimagineable terror...after years of studying the nazi system, this is something i still cannot come to terms with and doubt i ever will....

[RetroiconTV]

0:47 Is it a real picture, I dont know cause there is a Russian movie named babi yar.

[lovesRodin]

No, I am the sculptor and this is what I am proposing for the site in Kiev. I hope to be able to get a grant to help me build it.Then I hope to get permission from those I need to in Kiev. In the meantime, I will sculpt the original until I need funding to continue. The real funding is necessary for the enlargement, the casting and the installation.

[aponcapone]

@RetroiconTV no its from the film

[L0V3musicL0V3]

i like this sculpture

[empressoffrance]

The sculptures are magnificent and capture the anguish and sorrow of the people. Not many ppl know of the Holodomor. My Stepfather's family was wiped out by Stalin, he cd not speak of it, without crying, he lost 6 siblings and parents. To live with something like that in yr heart is unimaginable to me.

[paolotn]

Troppo poche le visualizzazioni di questo video. L'ignoranza dei giovani su inumane stragi come quella di Babi Yar permetteranno che accadano nuovamente?

[avginkel]

Horrible.

[domarat11111]

Look in YT genocide of Polish nation in Wolyn (1943-44).Horror! Ukrainians nazi tortured and killed 250.000polish,armenian,czech and others nations womans,childrens and old mans.

(sorry my englih is bad)

[Dadablia]

словами*

[Dadablia]

Это ребята жуть, это свами не передать.... Так НЕЛЬЗЯ!!

[dkrevs]

MANDORLA po P. Celanu V mandorli, kjer Nič kraljuje, kaj stoji v mandorli? Dvoje mandljastih oči, kraljevsko modrih. In v očeh, kaj stoji v teh očeh? Solza, solza in v njej mrtvi lesk. In ta lesk, kaj ta lesk odseva? Nebo, nebo polno pepela. Črni, zogleneli mandlji, prazne, mandljaste oči - Kaj stoji v mandorli? Kraljevska solza, ki je ni.

[Jal8919536]

What's the title of the music, please? Thanks.

[thejackal797]

The music is the Adagio, of Albinoni

[lovesRodin]

Albinini

[S1CKN355]

Albinoni

[rub3nski]

jak mozna zabic kobiete czy dziecko??trzeba byc wynaturzonym zwierzeciem!

[voshliya]

What's about this magnificient memorial?

Will it be done?

[siochanleat82]

What a magnificent memorial, terrible in its beauty, agonising in its detail. To the creator I say Bravo.

Never Forget the pit we ascended into in those sad years. Never forget the inhumanity we are capable of when we see others as different. WE ARE NOT DIFFERENT: WE ARE ALL THE SAME, WE ARE ALL SOME MOTHER'S SON, SOME FATHER'S DAUGHTER.

RIP the Innocent.