Babi Yar Massacre, Ukraine, 1941

Contains history of Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado by Alan Golin Gass.

Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado was dedicated on October 2, 1983 to memorialize the September 1941 massacre of the Jews that remained in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, at a ravine called Babi Yar. The Babi Yar Park Foundation was formed under the leadership of Helen Ginsburg. Collection contains minutes, administrative papers, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, news clippings, photos, public relations materials and architectural drawings from the Babi Yar Park between 1969-2015.

This box contains information about Babi Yar Park, collected by Lillian Hoffman.

This folder contains articles about Babi Yar Park, the plight of the Soviet Jews, and Elie Wiesel.

This folder contains photocopies of news clippings from the Intermountain Jewish News and various local newspapers. Many of the articles are collages of different articles pieced together by topic.

This folder contains two (2) photographs of the sign at Babi Yar Park and seven (7) photographs of Babi Yar, Ukraine and the memorial for the people who died in the massacre.

Various materials, newspaper clippings and articles regarding the poet Yevgeny Yeutushenko. Yeutushenko was born in Siberia and became famous for his poem "Babi Yar," written in 1961. He was careful with his criticism of the Soviet Union and never ran afoul of the Soviet authorities. In his later years he taught at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa.