MONUMENTS

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Across the country, from villages to the largest cities, Ukraine is filled with monuments commemorating war. These images punctuate the film.

Plane and church

Soviet soldier monument

War museum woman sword

Tanks and children

Children playing in a military museum in Kiev

 

Babi Yar girl

Babi Yar man and woman

These two statues are located at Babi Yar, 2 miles from Kiev. More than 100,000 people – Jews, Roma and Orthodox – were killed here by Germans and their Ukrainian collaborators. It was the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust.