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

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

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

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