One summer day in 1969, three schoolchildren of about 12-14 years of age, were strolling in the woods near the village of Pyatykhatky on the outskirts of the northeast-Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Suddenly they saw that the earth in several...
Here is the story of yet another barbaric crime committed by Stalin’s NKVD. On June 27, 1941, residents of Dobromyl uncovered a burial site near Salina containing the bodies of prisoners murdered by the NKVD. These were political...
From August 2 to August 4, Poshuk continued to search and excavate territories that were settled by inhabitants of the village of Velyly Shumsk. The remains of 19 more persons were exhumed… all civilians: men, women and children. The...
“From July 19 to July 21, while conducting more excavation work on the mass massacre site of civilians, which probably took place in the early years of the soviet regime, in 1919-1921, we managed to exhume the remains of 29 persons....
Major changes in political strategy swept the USSR towards the end of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937-1938, Stalin and his henchmen launched the Great Purge, a series of political repressions and persecution. It involved the purge of the...
The building was constructed in 1889-1890 at the intersection of Sapiehy (today Stepana Bandery) and Kopernika Streets according to the design of architect Jozef Kajetan Janowski. Built in Neo-Renaissance style, it was originally...
The group discovered 19 bodies in a deep pit, not far from the prison wall. Among them: three women, the rest – men. Four victims were shot in the head. According to preliminary estimates of experts, the victims were not executed at...
In the summer of 2017, while laying cables along the street, engineers stumbled upon several human remains. Pamyat employees immediately began excavations and research. According to director Vasyl Tymkiv they soon realized that they had...
According to eyewitnesses, the employees of Prykarpattyaoblenergo did not initially understand what they were looking at even though an old Jewish cemetery is located right next to the discovery site. However, local residents prevented...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
