Between 1941 and 1944, nearly one and a half million Jews from Ukraine were murdered following the invasion

of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Only a minority of them were deported to the extermination camps. The vast majority died under the bullets of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units in the East), Waffen SS units, the German police and Eastern European collaborators.

Since 2004, The father Patrick Desbois and the association Yahad-In Unum are conducting methodical work on this still little-known part of the Holocaust: identifying and assessing all sites of exterminations of Jews perpetrated by Nazi mobile units in Ukraine during the Second World War. The exhibition organized at the Shoah Memorial from 20 June 2007 to 6 January 2008 presents this ongoing research, which, by reconstructing the processes of the assassins, leads to a better understanding of how the genocide of the Jews in Eastern Europe was implemented.

It finally becomes possible to preserve and respect the burial of the victims.