Babi Yar memorials

[1] The first draft report of the Extraordinary State Commission (Чрезвычайная Государственная Комиссия), dated December 25, 1943 was officially censored in February 1944 as follows:[2] "The Hitlerist bandits brought thousands of civilians to the corner of Melnykova and Dorohozhytska streets.

The monuments to commemorate the numerous events associated with Babi Yar tragedy include: On the night of 16 July 2006, the memorial dedicated to the Jewish victims was vandalized.

[12] A small triangular section of land in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City (a neighborhood with a large Jewish and Russian population), was named Babi Yar Triangle in 1981, and renovated in 1988.

[14] A memorial to the victims of the Babi Yar Massacre was erected in the Sydney suburb of Bondi on 28 September 2014, which has a large Russian-speaking Jewish community.

The erection of the monument was an initiative of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and its Public Affairs Director, Alexander Ryvchin, who was born in the city of Kyiv, where the massacre took place.

[15] The English portion of the inscription on the monument reads: "In memory of the Jews of Kiev, massacred at Babi Yar by the Nazis and their Ukrainian Collaborators, and in recognition of the suffering of Soviet Jewry.

In his 1961 book, Star in Eclipse: Russian Jewry Revisited, Joseph Schechtman provided an account of the Babi Yar tragedy.

A poem was written by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko; this in turn was set to music for full orchestra by world famous composer Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No.

The film explores the prelude and aftermath of the massacre using footage shot by German and Soviet troops, and was reviewed favorably by The New York Times.