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The Crystal Wall of Crying, a new installation of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, symbolizes memory, pain, life, and death. — Ukrinform.
<p>“I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”</p>
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - A group of people walks slowly in silence past a stand-alone thick wall made of coal with large quartz crystals sticking out of it. People pause to touch the crystals and stand close to the 40-meter-long structure, some with eyes closed. The Crystal Wall of Crying , an interactive installation by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, was erected in Ukraine's capital to commemorate Jews killed in one of the biggest massacres of the Holocaust during World War Two. It will be officially unveiled on Wednesday evening as part of a series...
A symbolic extension of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, the art piece to be unveiled as part of a series of events marking the 80th anniversary since Nazi troops gunned down nearly 34,000 Jews at the wooded ravine of Babyn Yar
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A group of people walks slowly in silence past a stand-alone thick wall made of coal with large quartz crystals sticking out of it. People pause to touch the crystals and stand close to the 40-meter-long structure, some with eyes closed.