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KIEV: Ukraine presented on Friday (May 14) a symbolic wooden synagogue, built as an e-book, in Babi Yar, the site of one of the greatest massacres of Jews of World War II.
On 29 and 30 September 1941, more than 33,000 men, women and young people were killed in Babi Yar Canyon on the outskirts of Kiev in one of the largest holocaust massacres. The ravine is also called Babyn Yar.
“The symbolic synagogue is a wonderful step in restoring the reminiscence of all who died here,” Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said at the ceremony.
The synagogue built through the Bathroughn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, which also plans to build a main monument on the site.
The cult position designed to open as an emerging e-book and is decorated with prayers.
“The synagogue’s eBook is decorated with motifs and prayer texts that recreate the classic interior of ancient synagogues in western Ukraine, destroyed World War II and the Holocaust,” the creators said.
“The roof of the synagogue is decorated with patterns on the map of the starry sky, which reproduces the position of the stars on September 29, 1941, the first day of mass shootings at Babyn Yar. “
The synagogue built with old oak wood recovered from abandoned buildings in Ukraine.
Currently, the Babi Yar houses a monument built by the Soviet government in 1976. He is engaged to “Soviet citizens and prisoners of war” and does not mention Jewish victims.
In 1991, a month after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Jews erected a menora-shaped sculpture nearby.
The synagogue was inaugurated when Ukraine first marked the Remembrance Day of Ukrainians who stored Jews in World War II.
“It is an example of humanity and self-sacrifice,” tweeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of Jewish descent.
“The Holocaust is a tragedy shared by all mankind. “
More than 2,600 Ukrainians have been “Righteous Among the Nations” through the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for endangering their lives by saving Jews.