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

from 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, German police and East European collaborators.

Since 2004, Le père Patrick Desbois and the association Yahad-In Unum are conducting methodical work on this still little-known part of the Shoah: identifying and appraising all sites where Jews were exterminated 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 methods of the assassins, leads to a better understanding of how the genocide of the Jews was implemented in Eastern Europe.

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