The “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum has announced the opening of the mobile exhibition “Humanity Over the Abyss of Hell”. The project was implemented by the GO “Center for Memory Policy and Public History Studies ‘Mnemonica'” (Rivne).
The exhibition opening will take place:
Date: October 20
Time: 16:00
Location: 4/26 Sholom-Aleichem Street, “Menorah” Cultural and Business Center, 3rd floor, video hall of the “Memory of the Jewish People and the Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum.
For inquiries call: +38 050 452 21 63, +38 056 717 70 16.
Admission is free.
The special guest of the event is the Chairwoman of the Board and Project Manager of the NGO “Center for Memory Policy and Public History Studies ‘Mnemonica'” Dr. Kateryna Popova (online).
The press release states: “The exhibition ‘Humanity Over the Abyss of Hell’ is dedicated to a time of unprecedented bloodshed in human history, one of the most tragic chapters in human history – the Second World War. During those years, on the territory of Ukraine and Volyn in particular, a genocide of Jews and Roma was carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. The victims of the sharp escalation of interethnic relations in 1943-1944 were also Ukrainians, Poles, and Czechs.
A sinister marker of the wartime period was the crisis of humanity, and humanity found itself over an abyss of evil. In conditions of paralyzing fear, those brave individuals who valued human life above all else came to the aid of the victims of genocides and ethnic violence. Among these knights of the heart are ordinary people who dared to save Ukrainians and Jews, Poles and Czechs.
This exhibition is dedicated to the giants of spirit and humanity who, in conditions of total violence, bloodshed, and an unprecedented crisis of humanism, saved their neighbors in the territories of Western Volyn (modern Rivne and Volyn regions). Currently, in the context of the full-scale criminal war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the entire democratic world, the materials of the exposition are more relevant than ever.”
